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A Song For Cocklebur
Cocklebur Note was the luckiest and the unluckiest pony in Equestria. After years of practice, she wrote a song so sweet it could almost make you forget to breathe.
After two local ponies asphyxiated, the village council ordered her to give up music forever.
One night, she vanished.
She awoke in a castle's highest tower, secret prisoner of a blonde pegasus prince, who desired fame as a songwriter. After three months, she wrote a song for him.
I shine like the sun, I fly like a bird,
I travel all over the world.My feathers are bright, I gleam in the light
My power can grant nearly any desire.In all of the city, my home is the first
and the last touched by light of the sun and the moon.Gold thieves broke into the tower, freeing Cocklebur. Years later, the Singing Bandit finished making the prince a pauper.
Author's Notes
1. I think every proper riddle has at least one proper answer.
2. I wrote all or practically all of this story by October 31st. Thereafter just I sat on it for a while. So any accidental similarities after that point are at worst [specifically, a rhyme used in a lyric] just ambient cliche unoriginality, with no particular person at fault. Sorry about that.
3. A few hours before the Nov. 21st deadline, I made minor edits for formatting, and to this Author's Note.