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// Epilogue: Greater Heights 
// Story: Just As I Once Was 
// by Matthias Ramsey 
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Sweetie Belle stood on the balcony with her sister and master, newly acquired wings folded close to her sides. Though she had mended her horn long ago, she still wore bandages on it so she would never forget why she had to mend it.
Rarity dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief. "Sweetie Belle, I...there are no words to describe how proud I am of you. Why, it seems like just last week I was here watching Twilight go through the same thing."
Sweetie Belle sighed. "Yeah, but...now I just feel...sad."
"Sad? How come?"
"My training is complete. I...I don't know what to do with myself now."
Twilight laughed lightly. "Oh, Sweetie...though you may be done training, you are never done learning."
"What do you mean?"
"All I've taught you is what I know. That is by no means all the knowledge in the world." Twilight made a sweeping gesture with her horn at the horizon outside. "Explore the world. The quest for knowledge is never complete. You have wings now. You can both literally and figuratively soar to greater heights. Who knows, maybe one day, your students will know all there is to know. You will always be a student-a student of the world-until you literally know it all. I myself know that I will not complete that goal, but who knows, maybe you or your students will."

And so, Sweetie Belle, with a newfound appetite for learning and and unquenchable thirst for knowledge, set out to travel that which her master sought: all of the knowledge the world had to offer.
Who knows, maybe one day her time as a student will truly end. But until then, there is always something new to learn. Always so much left to know.


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