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// Epilogue: A Date Without a Name 
// Story: A Nation Divided... 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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Epilogue: A Date Without a Name

“I’m so glad that we could talk together again,” Ruby said.

“Yes, and this time very casually, remember last time?” Orion said.

“How could I ever forget?” Ruby said with a slight smile thinking about how very awkward it was, but at least she had learned some things that they shared between them, like that their favorite color was blue 
for example.

“At least this time is much better,” he said, “So very much so that I want to tell you something, and it’s something that has been on my mind for quite some time now, and it’s something very important that you should probably know by now, it’s just that I have been putting it off for far too long now.”

“And what do you have to say exactly?” Ruby said.

“It’s about my thoughts and feelings and ideas, you see you know that I like you, I have for a while now, but I think that now it might be, may be, no, is more, I just don’t like you, I love you Ruby, and this is very serious now.”

“But how, why?” she said with some slight confusion in her voice.

“I don’t know when or where or why exactly, but I do love you.”

“But why tell me this now, and how do I know that this is real and true?”

“You don’t, you just have to trust me and your feelings, but it is real and true, I can promise you that if you feel the exact same way about me, but if you still don’t believe me, I’ll tell you my real true name, it’s Orion.”

“It is? Wait, what?” Ruby said with shock and surprise.

“Yes, I have no name not a real or true one, so I made one up, and it’s one that you and every pony else knew from the very start, I just let others think that it’s not my real true name, except for Luna and a few others of course.”

“That’s very clever, wise, and smart of you,” she said.

“Yes, it is, but now that you know how do you feel about me?”

“The same way,” she said, “I think that I love you too.”

“Really?” Orion said with some slight surprise and shock.

“Of course, you’re a handsome stallion, how could I not fall in love with you?”

And with that said Ruby leaned in and kissed him very gently.

And as they kissed both smiled, for now all was really truly well, but they would soon discover that life would only get better for both of them now.