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// Chapter 1 
// Story: Lucia di Lammermoor 
// by cierragp 
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She feet strangely calm, her turbulent feelings dimming as he wrapped her in a soft embrace, the horrors she had witnessed fading from her gaze, as she allowed herself to soften in the presence of love. 
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Lucia Fluttershy, known mostly as Fluttershy, hid in the abandoned attic in her - no her brother's - manor, curled up next to Discord, and both shivered in the cold winds. It was the only place where her brother wouldn't look for her - who thought a mare who loathed and shivered at her own shadow would be able to stay in the dusty, dim attic laced with spiderwebs? 

Certainly not Zephyr. Conniving as he was, he could not tell when his unhappy, sullen, soon-to-be wife ran off with another stallion. She was unhappy and upset, and her rage was something to be feared.

And the only reason Zephyr loathed Discord - loathed her love for him, and loathed his being with every fiber of his - was that he saved Rainbow Dash from a certain doom with Zephyr. Zephyr's affections for her were quite questionable. 

Fluttershy loathed her brother too - loathed his lack of empathy, compassion, and utter idiocracy, yet he still dictated what she did. She hated it, but she didn't have much of a say. He had plenty of things he could take from her, and yet she couldn't bear to lose them. 

But for now she should've savored his embrace. She knew how little time she had, and she didn't want to waste it. Her brother was more suspicious than ever, and she didn't want to suffer his wrath. More so, she didn't want Discord to face the same things she had faced everyday - his anger, his drinking problems, and the constant cloud of smoke that followed him loyally. 

She curled up, willing her dress to be thicker and willing Discord's coat to be warmer. The attic was cold.