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// Dishonor 
// Story: Words Unspoken 
// by wille179 
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Gilda to Rainbow Dash:


You don't know how much your friendship with me was worth. You don't know how much it cost me.
I hope you never find out.
You're my best friend, even if we haven't really talked in forever.
Even if our last meeting was a flop, I... like you. As a friend.
Dweeb.






There was something to be said about those griffins that lived among ponies. Among those that did, it was a testament to their willpower. To be able to resist the temptation, knowing that your friends and neighbors were literally some of the sweetest, juiciest cuts of meat on the planet, to be able to bear the scorn of being a carnivore in a land of herbivores who were not above making their opinions known, one had to be amazingly tough. But, to those griffins who did not live among ponies, the vast majority, those who did were considered social deviants. To be a pony-lover was, in their eyes, the same as a pony having relations with a salad.

On a different note, one particular griffin hen had what could be considered the most intricate case of artificial dissociative identity disorder ever. Born and raised Giordana Leonetti, daughter to the crime boss "Big Lion" Leonetti, she was raised a canary in a gilded cage, ready to sing at her father's notice. A quiet girl, she always did what she was told, or else. Giordana, as it turned out, was also one of the most skilled improvisational actors of her generation.

Grizelda, or "Gilda," no surname, was her greatest masterpiece. Conjured at a whim, she donned the mask the day she ran away from home. Within two weeks, she had dyed her fur, conjured a complex and unverifiable back-story, and got a home at Cloudsdale Public Orphanage. Gilda was everything Giordana had wanted to be, but was not. Brash, bold, and athletic, Gilda became fast friends with Rainbow Dash. In fact, their relationship was so solid that in time, it was Gilda that was the true personality and the "little dweeb" that was Giordana became the discarded mask.

Three years went by and her "family" found her and brought her back. Easily disguising herself as Giordana, Gilda bode her time until escape was hers. Six years later, she found her chance to escape.

Thus Gilda found herself in Ponyville once more, only to be humiliated by Pinkie Pie. The part of her that she had inherited from her father, Gilda's/Giordana's pride and arrogance, was infuriated at the embarrassment, so much so that she had not cooled down by the time her guards found her. And, for the first time ever, Gilda and Giordana broke character, admitting to being a pony-lover.

Her father, who's pride was twice Gilda's and Giordana's, combined, believed that any humiliation his "family" suffered reflected worse on him. He would not stand for that.

Thus, it was Gilda, not Girodana, who marched into her other's father's office for the last time, head held high.