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// Prologue: Vermilion’s Letter 
// Story: The World is Filled with Monsters 
// by Cold in Gardez 
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Dear Princess Celestia,

Your sister told me once that you read every letter you receive. I don’t know how that’s possible, as every foal I meet seems to have written you at some point. Perhaps, gifted as you are with agelessness, these letters accumulate in your study and, in the fullness of time, you will happen across this missive. I wonder if you will still remember us then.

There was a time when I believed that character was destiny, and this filled me with hope. For we were heroes, and the destiny of heroes is greatness. I thought it was our fate to save the world.

I have drunk now from the cup of heroes, princess. It is bitter and tastes of poison.

Please let me be a hero no longer.