Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot

by Equimorto


Crystal

"This doesn't feel right. None of this."
"No one said it was supposed to feel right."
"No one told me it would be like this. No one warned me."
"I don't think they knew either."
"I... Do you see that house, there? The one that's broken in half?"
"Yeah."
"Someone lived there. I don't know who it was, but I must have seen them. I passed there almost every day. And now it's... Now it's this. Do you understand what it's like? Can you imagine what it would be like if it was your home? This place wasn't supposed to be used for this."
"I'm not sure I can. I've seen what happened in Canterlot, but that wasn't this, and it happened to all of Equestria. I did have to move back then but... Well, you live on a mountain, you sort of take landslides for a granted possibility, that wasn't that different in the end. It was, I mean, it was bad, but... Sorry."
"I've lived here. I've lived here all my life. This isn't supposed to be happening. These streets were not meant for ponies to fight on them."
"None of us expected this would happen. All we can do now is our best."
"Our best won't fix this. Any of it. It won't fix it now that it's happening."
"It won't. And it won't fix the memory. But we can't go back. It's everything we can do and the least we can do to go on."
"Ponies lived here. I'm glad they're not here to see this right now. I can't think about the future right now. I can't focus on anything that isn't the present. Do you hear it too? Do you see it too?"
"I do. And I can't imagine what it would be like if this was my home."
"Why? What's the point of all this? Why here? I don't want to be here, but there's nowhere I would rather be right now. No one should have to see this but I refuse to look away."
"I don't think anyone was prepared for this. I don't think anyone could know. Now all we can do is our best."
"It won't be enough. This is not right. None of this."