Verve's Final Chapter: A Warm Hearth (6.7k Characters)

I'm less than happy to admit that the story is finally over. There's nowhere else to go. The final chapter, no longer left to the stars - but here, uploaded, written, softly edited, and complete with fitting music and pictures of Vee.

I'm sorry it took so long. I always get this... severe melancholy, as a story comes to an end. I hate it when it happens; it hurts my soul, it really does.

I'd love to just... write on forever. And ever. But I'd become a burnt out mess again, and I should be focusing on my real novel, but... it's hard.

I like Verve. I'll miss it. Thank you for being patient.

Comments

[driel]

When reading a good story Ive always found that getting to the end feels a little like loosing a new a friend. It makes sense an author would feel similar when completing a story, and probably much more so. Hopefully the feeling of accomplishment helps offset that some.

[Pumpkin Pony]

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You think it would, but instead, it's inspired me to start working on a prequel to Inertia! A short one, I'm hoping.

"The College of Pointed Hats" is Vee's origin story, several hundred years ago. I'm shooting for just ten chapters, and writing at my own casual pace. It's as close to accurate to the lore I came up with on Verve, with a few offsets here and there to account for Vee's memory not being the best after 700 years.

But I'm still thinking of post Verve. Not as a slice of life, but just... what the ponies did after. And it leads me to thoughts of mortality, and the story ending with their deaths - I don't like it.

It fills me with a strong sense of loneliness.