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// Epiloge: Dinky's Terrifing Question 
// Story: Doctor Derpy; an Odd Love 
// by shimmer_rose_006 
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	Years later, Dinky had grown up to be a nice and very smart filly, much to her absent father's prediction. Out of all the unicorns in her class, she was the most powerful, yet she still didn't have her cutie mark. As she grew, however, she became more and more suspicious. She wanted to know who her father was, and she wanted to know now. As Derpy was watering the flowers, Dinky and her friend Pipsqueak walked into her garden.

"Oh! Hello kids, want a muffin?" Derpy said as they entered the dining room. 

"Sure! Id love a muffin, Ms. Hooves! Thanks!" 

"Sure mom" Dinky said slately. 

"Oh? Is something wrong, Dinky?" 

"Yeah, is something wrong Dink?" Dinky looked away from her concerned mom and friend. She whipped around so fast that her horn hit the muffins her mother was holding and flung them across the room. 

"YES THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG! I WANT TO KNOW NOW!!!!!!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Her mother and best friend looked super shocked at that. 

"Now come down my muffin, please dont be like this." 

"I'LL ACT HOWEVER I WANT MOM! I WANT ANSWERS ABOUT MY FATHER! WHO WAS HE! STOP KEEPING IT FROM ME!" At this point, she had started crying while saying this. 

Derpy gasped. "Honey, your father is a brilliant stallion who travels the stars. You knew him once. But that's all I can say." Dinky inhaled a very sad breath. 

"ALL YOU CAN SAY? ALL YOU CAN SAY!? MOM! I KNOW YOU KNOW MORE, I KNOW THAT!!!" 

"I promised." Dinky looked confused. 

"You...what!?" Derpy looked at her daughter, her eyes falling normal. 

"I promised your father to keep him a secret from you. I'm sorry, but I can't tell you. It's for your own good." Dinky started to cry again, this time not of sadness, but of sorrow. The other two embraced her as hardly as they could. 

"I'm sorry, I've got to go!"

Dinky galloped out of her house and out to the White Tail woods next door. She sat on a bench crying and planning. "What are you planning?" Pipsqueak asked, as if he knew what she was thinking. 

"Oh...hi Pip. Just doing some thinking."

" About what?" Dinky hopped off the bench, Pip not far behind. 

"Im gonna find out who my father is, if it's the last thing I do!"