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// Goodbye For Good? 
// Story: For My Final Trick 
// by TheEveryDaySparkle 
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	A single mare walked along the path that led into and throughout ponyville. Her white and baby blue mane fell into her face and covered up her purple eyes, which were holding back tears. Her steps wobbled a bit as she trembled lightly, nearly falling due to the awkward movement of her sky blue hooves, which matched her coat. She looked around at all the happy, smiling faces, the roaming and laughing ponies, and the bustling town itself, and sighed.

Even among all this cheer and goodwill, she was not happy. It was beautiful, yes, and it made her feel good inside,  but she was not happy.

In fact, all the goodness around her did was make her even more sad, because she knew that she would not be able to see it after today.

After the incident with Twilight Sparkle and the amulet, Trixie returned home, defeated and with her pride broken into a million pieces. She had lost to her in the most humiliating way possible. Morally.

Not only had she gotten so jealous of her rival that she resorted to using dark magic, but she put a lot of ponies, including herself, in danger doing it.

Ever since then, she never left her home. She stayed inside her wagon, where she lived on the outskirts of ponyville.

Every day she woke up clutching her bed sheets, sweating and crying and screaming. She had started having nightmares of what she could do to ponyville, and eventually all of Equestria, if she let her petty jealousy get in the way like that again.

Every night she cried some more, thinking of what she did to her fellow ponies and how they all hated her for it.

Even after gaining her first ever friend in Starlight Glimmer, she was still sad.

The nightmares never stopped, and even though Starlight was her friend, she couldn't just burden her with her problems like that. That would be insensitive and rude, in her opinion.

After all the pain and suffering she herself endured from her own actions, she was sick of it all. She didn't want to hurt anymore, to feel sad and to know that she, because of some stupid rivalry that she herself started, could have caused a lot more pain than she did.

She knew she deserved it, but she wondered just how long Luna would punish her, making her relive every humiliating and painful moment of that day. 

She was conducting her business at one of the shops in ponyville, as was usual whenever she ran out of food in her wagon. When she was done, and the clerk was paid, she immediately turned in the opposite direction and made her way back home.

She had been looking back over the town and its residents in order to make a decision. Would she leave ponyville, or not?

After remembering all of that, and seeing that not a single pony greeted her throughout her trip, she decided.

"I'm going to leave." She said out loud once she was inside her wagon. She began to pack her things.