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// Epilouge: And now? 
// Story: Dream Whisper 
// by Dream Whisper 
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I must admit, Celestia has done a really nice job when rebuilding Canterlot. That was the first thought I had, when entering it. She had used her magic to split the black stone into parts. These were then used to build houses everywhere in Equestria. Canterlot however, has been majestically rebuilt with its original materials. It looks almost the same, except for the roll of honor, made from the black stone. It was called obsidian, I think. Every city now has a roll of honor for all those, who died because of the effects of the black crystal heart. It is strange to see the causality of events afterwards. 

Many things just become clearer: The crystal heart seems to have been stored on the dream side since the first reign of Sombra or even before. That is, why it was neither ever found, nor vanished with the kingdom. Over time, it had infected ponies like Princess Luna with hatred, and turned her into Nightmare Moon, who then had been banished by Princess Celestia. After the banishment, the heart had been calm for thousands of years, but then it returned. When the time was right and the stars helped with the escape of Nighmare Moon, it seemed as if the black crystal heart had also awoken, bringing forth creatures of evil again and again and again. Discord, Queen Chrysalis, the Wendigoes, Timberwolfes and lastly the return of King Sombra, with whom also the whole Kingdom came back. I am not saying, they were all the products of the black crystal heart, but they had probably been agitated by it.

Luckily, Sombra never had enough control over the Crystal Empire to get to the black crystal heart again, or I could only imagine, how strong it or he could have become. Would we have been able to still free the Crystal Empire? 
The whole time, there had been hatred coming from it, only to creep into ponies and destroy our harmony. With the escape of Nightmare Moon, it seemed as if the black crystal heart had gained momentum, maybe because of the fear and anger caused by the event. The time periods between new catastrophes had dramatically declined. The return of Dream Cry and Discord together was one of the two highest peaks of the black crystal heart's power. The other one was reached, when Celestia was infected and a shadow demon actually leaked through into reality, probably taking Dream Whisper as a host or as a medium of transportation.

I think Dream Whisper took a big part in all of these events. Without her, we would have probably needed years to find out, how to enter the dream world, if we had found it out in these troublesome times at all. She has made a lot of mistakes – Getting Luna killed, bringing Dream Cry back, getting us into trouble with that shadow being and a bunch of more stuff - But in the end, I think you could consider her a heroine. 
I still wonder sometimes, how she felt after being in my foalhood. I have mixed feelings about her. On the one side, she is a strange pony, a dangerous pony, very introverted but in a different way to Flutterhsy. On the other side, she is a heroine and in a way, she saved me from my re-occurring nightmares of my foalhood in magic kindergarten. She saved all of us from our nightmares, without questioning our ideals, even though she had seen what Celestia had done. I chill ran down my spine, when I thought about what had happened to Celestia. Nopony had been save. 

After the last battle, we have not been able to return into the dream world yet. Princess Luna is probably the closest pony to finding out the secrets with her research. We can only guess, that Dream Whisper has won the battle... or maybe in some years, some decades, some centuries the last fragments will gather enough power again to try to turn the world evil. That is, why we need the most accurate descriptions of these events. I wonder if in thousand years, there will be a pony just like me, reading old tales and facing new enemies. Maybe they would read my own books about the history of this new era.

I arrive at the Canterlot castle a little bit late for the meeting, but as a Princess, I should be allowed to have some time for myself. The meeting has been invoked by Princess Luna, maybe something about the coming Nightmare Night, maybe even new results from her research. I go straight to the throne room, why waste time? It was actually quite unusual to have the meetings here, so maybe I could actually hope for new results to add to my book. I have not tried to enter this world of dreams myself yet, however, when I get my hooves on some free time, I could at least try it. 
The door was thrown open in front of me. 
"I have found her. She was inside a dream, which I had just visited.” 
A pony was lying right there on the floor. It took me a moment to recognize her; Dream Whisper. 







DISCORD BONUS: YOU ARE NOW AWARE OF YOUR BREATHING