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// The Lonely Night 
// Story: Aurum's Tears~ A Tale of Adventure 
// by Spartan146 
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Chapter 3: Lonely Night

Aurum lay there, alone. He was cold and the symbol on the wall was gone, yet Luna left the screen behind for him to watch. He just lay there and watched, and waited. The night was proving to be a long one. He slowly felt himself slip away into sleep, watching the screen, and waiting.

Aurum awoke, still in the Disharmony. He felt dead, and very cold. He looked to the screen and he could see his pony body shifting as if slowly coming to life. He could not move anything below his shoulders. His final human hours were upon him, and he could feel it. He was sweating all over, yet he wasn’t hot, just very, very cold.

An hour later Aurum’s soul began to leave his human self. It parted slowly and painfully. It began as intense heat in his toes. The pain then spread to his feet and it became a pulsing sore pain. Once the pain climbed above his ankles his toes went numb and the pain shifted to bitter cold as if he was freezing to death. Eventually the pain reached his belly; it was absolute hunger and fatigue. Once it finally hit his head it became a migraine; a searing, stirring pain. He looked to the screen one last time, he screamed as a beautiful array of crimson and gold flashed over the eastern mountains.