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// Waiting Time #2 
// Story: Sweetie Belle's Short Stories 
// by SweetAI Belle 
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The last "waiting time" story was rather silly, Sweetie Belle thought to herself. Maybe I should write something more serious?





He stood there, at the end. The wind whipped at his beard as the ticks of his watch slowed. Hoofsteps came from behind. He knew who it must be.

"Your majesty?"

And she was there next to him, aged but still regal, even with nothing left to reign over.

"It is time?"

He nodded at the watch. "Almost."

"It was a good world, wasn't it? I did as best I could."

"It was a universe, like any, with a beginning and an end. Everything must eventually pass."

"So many good places, good times, good ponies, and now it's down to just this. And my sister—"

The sand blew more fiercely.

"Yes, there were good times, but to have them, there must be this, to complete things. It's almost done."

"One last time?"

He nodded.

As the watch ground to a halt, she lowered the sun, for the last time ever.