Chapter 2: Death is the Worst Fate
A few weeks have past in which I have visited the dream world only to get not so great results from my brother, every time I enter he cries his eyes out. I guess I have to understand he just lost a family member, and the kids bullying him at school doesn’t make it any better. But I’m here to make sure he can get everything he needs to be stable.
Although the more that I’ve been in this dream realm is the more often I don’t get to see Luna, it’s sad to think that all the real interaction I get with somepony while I’m dead. She apparently has some new work outside of the dream realm she needs to take care of. I understand though she being a princess and all, but I’ve been in this dream realm for quite some time. All of the other dreams I’ve been in where somepony is depressed because of bullies, someone dying, something dying, or losing something overall just seems to be the unhappiness in Equestria.
I sat here thinking for most of the time since the surface of the “Moon” was not much to discover, I couldn't think up anything into existence since I’m not in an actual dream. I was explained to by Luna that this is in fact called the dream realm, but it acts as a hub to access all other dreams from.
The two things I think about are: What if I was still alive, or What is going on in the realm of the living? It’s a tough process to piece together the thoughts of ponies dreaming.
In the middle of making my own autobiography in my head Luna had returned from working, she always seem exhausted after returning from the realm of the living. This time she seemed in a hurry as if something bad had happened, she turned in my direction and started to gallop toward me. She didn’t stop to catch her breath, and started speaking.
“I need you to immediately go to the dream of several ponies consecutively, something really bad happened in the real world and this will require a lot of effort to bring out of the depths it’s already reached.”
I did what she had asked, not making a single comment, and was glad to go into another dream all the sitting around doing nothing was quite boring. When I had gotten into the dream I had noticed something new the pony was not simply crying, but was shackled to the ground, had a dim but glossy coat and had a big grin upon it’s face. I walked in her general direction, and said “what’s wrong? Why are you shackled? Why is your coat so dim?”
She turned to me, and looked into my eyes and started to open her mouth to speak until a distant laugh came from an unknown direction. I turned around to see the contents of what she was overall dreaming, and I saw something I had only heard of the Crystal Empire. The castle rose very high, and in a second a flash of light blinded me. The moment I finally gained my vision back I noticed the frost landscape around which the castle once stood, the Crystal Empire had just vanished.
Now I understand why this situation is so urgent, these ponies have now lost their homes, their families, and their friends. I rose from where I had fell down to my knees. I turned to the pony laying in her arms, and thought for a few seconds. What am I supposed to do in such a situation, it’s not like everyday during this “job” I have to deal with somepony literally losing everything all at once. It must be terrible, I stopped in the train of thought I had. The only other thing I could think about that was just about as same situation that everypony losing the Crystal Empire was that dying you lose everything you were and are, along with everything you have all at once. I don’t know necessarily how I started to deal with death, I think I was just too focused on keeping others happy that I really didn’t think about how sad it was that I had died. Yes I did visit my family every night in their dreams, but it’s basically like being an image of yourself to them, but you know you aren’t. I turned away from the sobbing pony, and left that dream realm only to find sometime for myself. Nothing in the current moment would stop me from thinking about death itself being the worst thing that could happen to anypony. So I went on, and thought.