Old Wounds

by Sylpheed Dashstep


Interlude: Shadow Journal: Entry #2

I never really was one for keeping dates in timelines, but I guess I had better give a reference as to where I'm writing about.
August 2nd, 20XX
Subject Alex Pearsons has been stuck in a timeloop for the past thirty years. For him it comes in five year cycles and it changes his age each time the loop resets as well as takes away his memory. Now there's only one thing keeping him in the loop, Anna Malyk. She's seen me. When she was born.
Now I guess I have something to explain. I'm the...I guess you could call me the Angel of Life and Death for each timeline. I am there when a filly is born, and I"m there when somepony dies, waiting to lead them to the Afterlife.
Now Anna was special as soon as she was born. She could see from the start. The first thing she saw was me. My eyes and hers locked. Now they say that the eyes can show a lot about a pony. My eyes showed my world.
It's a dark and dreary place made of shadows and darkness with no light or warmth anywhere. Just darkness. And she saw that. And I can't just remove her from the timeline, that would cause a ripple effect, potentially causing the whole structure of the timelines to collapse.
Now, if there were no one left to hold onto her, then I could just take her out of the timelines. So I went for the people who cared for her. I got all of them. All except Alex. That one little thorn in my side.
I can't kill him. No matter how hard I try, I could smash him to bits, Slice him into little cubes, but the timeline reverses back to before I made a move to hurt him. So I set up a plan. I've tried to get him to let her go. But it never works. He keeps holding on till the end. And the timeline resets, sending us all back.

I just...I have to do something.

But what...