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// Epilogue 
// Story: In the Pale Moonlight 
// by ScottTrek 
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Seven battered and bruise figures stumbled out the Nightmares castle, the ancient edifice already starting to crumble.


Around them snow began to drift in on the wind as the time bubble that had held the land as it had once been so long ago began to dissipate.


The snow did not truly lie where it fell however. For rising up over the western mountains, for the first time in any of their kinds histories, the sun began to rise.


Its brilliant light was clear and crisp, no longer a burning maw that burned the lands, and as the light struck the flurries of snow its split into a thousand tiny rainbows.


It was the most wondrous thing they had ever seen.


So caught up in the moment and blinded by shimmering air, they did not see the tiny figure crawling from a snowdrift until they were right on top of it.


She looked up at them, peering cautiously up through her long pink mane and the white wings still huddled protectively in front of her face.


Ember pushed aside the exhaustion forcing herself to smile at this new alicorn reassuringly.


The filly frowned in guileless confusion. "Where's Luna?"