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// Epilogue 
// Story: Of Flame and Shadow 
// by Garuda IV 
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		Far, far away, two powerful beings resided. One was a scaleless female serpentine dragon, her light-tan skin and hair appearing as though it were shifting like sand. The other was a scaleless male serpentine dragon as well, his skin and hair appearing as though it were made up of galaxies, nebulas, and the darkness of space. From their place there, the two watched as Dark and Twilight held their newborn filly, Eventide. Smiling at the heartwarming scene, the female coiled up as she rested against the other's side.

"I really am happy for them, Locus," she sighed blissfully.

"As am I, Tempus. After everything that he's been though, the young stallion deserves this," he agreed.

Tempus nodded and frowned. "What he didn't deserve was for what happened to his brother."

"I know," Locus sighed. "But it's thanks to him that we now know where Nil has hidden himself all these millennia."

"To think he was hiding all the way over there in that one. For a creature that was knocking on Nocturne's doorstep, he was able to get quite far."

Locus nodded darkly. "He may have escaped once, but he won't be so lucky a second time."

"But can we really rely on just Dark?" Tempus questioned. "I know that he'll become incredibly powerful in time, even by our standards, but it's going to take more than that to stop Nil for good."

"I agree. Which is why when the time is right, Dark will battle Nil..."

With a wave of Locus' claw, two more images appeared. One showing a stallion sealed in a floating red crystal tied down to the ground by golden chains, the other of a human male teenager, breathing peacefully as he sat at the bottom of a large swimming pool.

"... and he won't be going alone."