We had quietly shoved our way out of that freezing jail cell on the first not quite freezing day, well night of spring. We flew to our sanctuary, right into other's reeling pain... From there we slipped to the Portal and went to the Past, and ended up helping Cel again. Well, Princess Celestia; maybe we can call her Cel in the Past, I don't know. But Cel tried to help us, and she gave us a cherished small statue of her beloved sister, whom she had to banish away for a long time... When we came back from the Past; we had been gone from Equestria present mere seconds. But that statue of Lu that Cel thought would help... It didn't come with us. I guess the portal didn't allow that... But we were surrounded by younger friends who stood to lose a lot of we just stood there. We immediately went through the Portal to the Equestria Girls world.
After more reeling pain there, our younger friends in the Equestria Girls world also worked with our younger friends in Equestria... Our amazing neighber Dawn, well her daughter Camille was a natural born... well she could do amazing sculptures in snow. With a little coaxing and the right tools in Shysage's storage unit, this cute, talented pony Camille, as a people, exactly reproduced the statue that Cel had tried to give us in the past. While our younger friends helped Camille get back to Dawn (in Equestria), Shysage added the final touch, the dark blue paint that exactly matched Princess Luna's dark blue pony coat color. We hoped this would help whatever was going on. Cel in the Past thought it might... In the process of doing that, Principal Celestia accosted us, locked Shysage up in that storage unit, and sent me to Canterlot, alone, with the statue. This made no sense to me; that is where Shysage and I would have gone, anyway.
Aside from guards who refused to protect me from each other, we learned that a vile liar of a Unicorn stallion had told Princess Celestia that Shysage and I, we had stolen her cherished Princess Luna statue... Cel evidently believed him, and that... Princess Luna quickly retrieved the real princess Luna statue from her closet, and that should have fixed everything, but it just seemed to leave everything horribly broken... Shysage and I just left... We flew back to our tree sanctuary, cried with some of our friends, family, then they left...
I think the weather didn't like us either. And we were so far beyond crying any more... And my sister Fluttershy's suggestion that everything would be ok... Well, everything just hurt... But our first night after everything, well, exploded... We were back at our tree sanctuary. We weren't in that freezing jail cell, but it was quickly getting very cold. Maybe winter wasn't quite done yet... And we had a hard time finding a not so freezing spot. We asked our daughter Ariel if she wanted to go and spend the night with Shyna at Fluttershy's Cottage. They were such close friends, like adopted sisters. Ariel cried, but felt that was best. We hugged, then she was gone. She surely knew the way. And the guards wouldn't arrest her on sight, as far as we knew.
That first night there was horrible, and very cold. It was windy, and we found that maybe our jail cell of forgetting had afforded a certain amount of shielding from the wind. Shysage had me curl up next to one of the trees on the side away from the wind, and he curled himself around me. That kept me warm, but he was cold all night. Shysage was protecting his Mare... I love him so... At least it was sunny and clear the next day, and the first warm spot of direct sunlight couldn't happen soon enough, but it did. On the top of that little hill, directly in the middle of that large ring of huge trees... The sun wasn't mad at us, at least. Shysage tried to say something, and ended up just crying quietly. But I felt what he... Abandoned... Even after that horrible lie was shown for what it was... We were still abandoned... Abandoned by our precious friends... Abandoned by most of our family... Abandoned by Equestria it seemed... This gnawing heartbreak followed us everywhere, just like that same doleful tune(1)...
But a few days later... After a few more windy, freezing cold nights, it seemed like winter was mostly done. One morning, Shysage and I walked carefully, slowly towards Ponyville, but far around to the east. We stopped in that meadow to the east that we used to... I had changed into my phantom pony (dark blue and no Cutie Mark) form to try to... well, we still really didn't know anything... We laid down side by side on that hill, and just sat there in stunned silence, looking out across the meadow like we had so many times... Maybe we should just let somepony important throw us back into jail and die there. We were alive now, but with no friends... That realization did make us both cry for a little while. Then we were cried out again, I guess...
But we came back because I wanted to at least try to thank Camille for her unique artistic abilities, and using them to try to help Shysage and I. I wanted to thank Dawn especially for letting her daughter actually come to the Equestria Girls world. My daughter, alone, lost in the Equestria Girls world... That would absolutely decimate me... Leaving Shysage right there on that little hill, I walked slowly to Dawn's house. Why was this so hard... Well, I remember Shysage chasing me down this same road, on the way to the lake so we could... That happened a few times... Not any more, I guess... I had to stop that thought...
The guard outside the Canterlot Recorder's residence eyed me suspiciously as I knocked on Dawn's door. I was dark blue, and Dawn didn't know who I was, so I asked quietly if we could go inside. Once there, I changed back into my white and gold, and I cried loudly for a while with Dawn and Camille... Well, if the guard heard that (which he probably did) let him report three crying mares to his superiors... Whatever... Friendship is magic, and somehow, someone had let that be horribly broken. Well, I was pretty sure we could thank that liar Unicorn stallion in Canterlot for this. He hated Shysage and I, not because of who we were, but for what Shysage and I have chosen to stand for... This was all so wrong, for us to have to still have to tip-toe around... I was there for hours, crying with our amazing neighbor Dawn and her little treasure Camille. Shysage just waited patiently on that small hill in the east meadow, although I did hope that the Portal wouldn't suddenly take him off to the Past. That had happened before...
I love Shysage so much... Without him near, I absolutely WOULD be abandoned...