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// April 2020: Let it fall, let it fall. (Prompt: So Long and Goodnight) 
// Story: Fluttercheer's "Everypony is important." Flashfic Anthology 
// by Fluttercheer 
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The yellow filly, sitting on the roof of her house, looked at the sky. It wasn't the real sky, but that didn't matter. The stars and the sun weren't real, either, just glowing machines constructed by Sombra Corporation. Which also didn't matter. Nothing mattered anymore. Because the stars, the sun and the sky, they all came falling down on them.
And maybe that was for the best. They were poor, starving throughout the year and freezing in Winter. There was no perspective, nor hope. She did not mourn her fate.
“Let it fall, let it fall, we are small, so let it fall,” the filly sang quietly.
And in the last few seconds, as the plate was close to end the pain, she looked at the crying ponies below her. Their faces were so different than hers.
Her heart stung only for a moment. “So Long and Goodnight, Sector 7.”