Twilight,
It unfortunately does get worse from there. I know it wouldn’t be fair to you (and it certainly wouldn’t be fair to the countless casualties of the next hundred and fifty years) to sugarcoat this fact.
Just to prep you for what’s ahead, there’s going to be two globe-spanning wars, an attempted genocide, a nearly half-century arms race that could have spelled the literal end of the world, groups of people fighting and dying for their basic human rights, and honestly just a slew of other things that I can hardly fit in this letter.
If your next question is how are things today for my world, all I can truly say at that point is better. Better than they were before, but still a long ways to go from ideal.
I’m certain the textbooks can clue you in on all of this better than I could, but our cultural climate that stemmed from the parts of our history you still have yet to read are precisely why I’m wary about sharing your existence with others of my kind. I can hope in the hopefully-near future, we’ll have matured as a species to be welcome you ponies as warmly as we’ve welcomed each other, and ultimately, I’d like to think most humans are just like me and want to make peace and friendship, but it’s clearly not a risk I’m willing to take just yet.
If this letter scared you at all, you’re more than welcome to stop where you are and save yourself something far more horrifying than Stephen King could pen up.
I don’t mean to scare you, especially out of our writing to each other, but I feel that, as your friend, and as a somewhat ambassador to my kind, I owe you as much of the truth as you’re willing to handle.
I really do hope to continue writing to you, Twilight, and I hope you can forgive me if this letter or anything else you read that I’ve sent hurts you. Please know I’d never want that for you.
Sincerely,
Toby
P. S. I was just about to put this letter in an envelope when I stopped and thought I could end it on a more positive, so I’ll let the words of another do that instead (and you’ll learn about him soon enough down the road too).
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it—always."
— Mahatma Gandhi