//------------------------------// // Water-child Flame :: Derpy Hooves // Story: Silver Words on Burned Pages // by Silver Thread //------------------------------// Soft do hooves trod cloud-cover Damp beneath these shards that carry Click the ice but never wary As the feather never falls Memories adrift A mind in flurry, memories Swarm around her soul; she sees These things she'd once forgotten A mare in only age Infinite in broken wisdom Feathers singed by judging glares Smashed; she is eternal Born in error, always seen Try to change what she has been She shall never alter ways In the eyes of early days She, the child flame Born mistake and now beloved We're her children, all be-gloved With a purposed heart All our eyes upon her Hers to one way and to that The silent mare that hides within Our all-connecting truth