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// 434 Drabble, "little exchange" (not a chapter) 
// Story: PONY POV SERIES SEASON 8: FINALE! 
// by Alex Warlorn 
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"Miss Tiara, you have a visitor," Star Shine called.

"I'll see them," she said in her room. She knew Star Shine wouldn't let anypony through Diamond didn't want to see. 

She looked up at the clop of hooves.

"Howdy, Diamond Tiara," said Applejack to the wheelchair-bound filly. "Ah thought ya outta know somethin'. Ya know that world where Apple Bloom was the lonely spoiled filly Discord took advantage of instead of you?"

"How'd you know about that?" Tiara hissed. 

"Pinkie Pie and Ah remember the world gettin' messed up by you and Discord's cousins. And ya think Apple Bloom WOULDN'T tell me all she went through if she could? In case yah forgot, last she saw meh, Ah held off old Grim and Dark so she and her friends could save yah… Ah didn't even know if she figured out Ah won until after."

"And you still fought so hard to save me from myself."

"Ah've seen myself as a Nightmare, and my friend turned into one; not lettin' anypony suffer through that. And the Riches are us Apples' friends, 'course Ah was gonna fight tah save their youngin'! And Apple Bloom wanted ta save ya, so of course Ah was gonna help her. And because it was the right thing to do! And Ah wouldn't be able tah look mahself in the mirror knowin' Ah didn't do the right thing then! But that ain't the point right now. The point is... Apple Bloom lost her piece of Truth. Ah didn't. Ah took a look in the mirror, and Ah saw... they saved their Apple Bloom, the Elements of Harmony of that world saved'er too!" 

"Of course they did. There's also a world where they failed too! A world for every possibility, remember?"

"And we decided which one we live in! Every choice we make is the one WE made. Ah chose tah come home tah Ponyville, Orangejack chose tah stay in Manehatten, that don't mean it didn't matter... It means it matters MORE. Every choice we make decides where this world heads, even the little ones. Even if the thing that MAKE us choose ain't something we have a say in, how we choose after IS ours. Ah'm sure somewhere in the multiverse there's a meh who went down a bad path when ma and pa passed... and it's MAH choice that ain't me. Just like it's our choice yer still here and their choice Apple Bloom is. Ain't it a good thing tah know? That a happy endin' ain't impossible?" 

I let out a breath. "... I guess it is."