There once lived twin sisters, they did everything together and they loved each other above all else, it was a pure love, and all was right with the world.
The siblings would often spend their days frolicking in the Everfree forest discovering places and finding new caves to play in.
One day, no different than any other, the sisters were discovering the forest as usual and they stumbled upon a new discovery.
It was a cave, one that had never been before; it was as if the ground gave birth to it overnight.
“Come on! Let’s go in!” said the first sister
But the second sister knew that some things should be left alone, everything has a place, and that was one place they did not belong to.
“No, let’s leave, this is not the place for us, the gods will punish us if we enter”
The second sister feverishly tried to warn her sibling, but it was too late, she was already inside.
All it took was a slip of fate and the curious sister fell beneath the ground and into the darkness.
The careful sister called out to her twin
“Please, come back”
But all she could hear was her own words being thrown back at her by the darkness, and so the sister ran to town begging for a benevolent heart to help her.
Luckily for the sister, the town’s blacksmith’s apprentice was out on errands and heard her calls for help, at once he rushed with her into the forest with a newly bought rope and dove right into the ground’s gullet and saved the careless sister.
The careless sister, barely alive looked up at her saviour who acted on compassion.
She thought it was love that spoke for his actions, but sadly the colt had no interest in her, he had a heart of a blacksmith, not a colt.
Days passed tediously as one sister grew apart from the other, trying to win over a heart of a blacksmith, forged of cold indifference and as her body healed, her heart did not.
The careful sister continued to call out to her sibling
“Please, come back”
Only to once again hear her own words being thrown back at her by the darkness of her sister’s heart.
Days changed to months and months into years, each year the careful sister’s heart being bitten by frost of loneliness more and more
Until one day…
The careful sister called out to the apprentice for help, her sister had once again fallen into the cave.
The apprentice once again rushed with the sister to the cave.
The sister was careful that day; for her sister was out of town on errands.
The careful sister waited for the right moment, the sister was careful.
The rope was cut.
The apprentice was no more.
The careful sister came back home as if nothing had happened and patiently awaited her sister’s warm embrace when she arrives.
All was fine with the world once again.
Or so the careful sister thought but when her sister came home all she wanted was the blacksmith’s heart still and rushed into town not being able to wait a moment longer.
The careless sister had come to meet her unwilling partner but he was nowhere to be seen, he was no more.
She called out to him.
“Please… come back”
“He went with you, to help your sister out of the cave, don’t you remember?” a villager replied.
The sister was careless, expecting a warm embrace, she was met with her sister’s fury, she knew what had happened, the careless sister enraged at her sibling and determined to rescue her loved one, rushed to the cave, followed by the careful sister who feverishly tried to warn her sibling, but it was too late, she was already inside.
All it took was a slip of fate and the careless sister fell beneath the ground and into the darkness.
The careful sister called out to her twin
“Please, come back”
But all she could hear was her own words being thrown back at her by the darkness and so the sister mustered all her courage and came into the cave but her sister had disappeared, she was no more and the cave was empty except for a small puddle of water on the ground.
The sister approached and looked at the puddle.
“Please, come back, I’m sorry”
But all she could see was her twin sister in the puddle silently spelling out the same words
“Please, come back, I’m sorry”
The sister waited in the cave day and night and cried until the day she died, her tears feeding the puddle as it grew and grew until one day, there was nopony left but an empty pool of tears.
Such is the legend of the mirror pool.