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// (prequel) The Black Light 
// Story: Missing the Light 
// by Amiss 
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The shrill scream of an alarm
Awakes me from my sleep
I look on to my right
For the source of that loud beep

Immediately caught off guard
As my eyes are met with smoke
I could hear the sounds of voices
That couldn't hear me as I spoke

I squinted and looked around me
To just find dark stone walls
My hooves felt the ground warming
As my chokes silenced my calls

I pushed through the black
To be met by iron bars
Then I just remembered
That fateful night beneath the stars

I had been with my family
On that wretched day
When I wanted to surprise them
And for that I would pay

I had brought them home
Left them waiting outside
If I had just not done that
Then they would not have died

As they were there waiting
A thief came up from behind
In anger he killed them
When no values he could find

I came outside to see
Him kill my wife and kid
Blinded by my anger
My sorrow was well hid

He started moving at me
A knife in his orange glow
My heart started burning
What happened next I don't quite know

The final thing I think of
As the smoke suffocates me
Was lying on a hospital bed
Where I could hear but could not see

Somepony was talking
Somepony spreading lies
They said I had killed my kin
But I was mute despite my tries

The story that I know
That the Thief had spread around
Was that he "saw me do the murder"
So he struck me to the ground

I had gone to court
The judge ignored my plea
I was sentenced to death
And that Bastard's running free

Now I am stuck here
Hooves boiling against the iron gate
My eyes to dry to open
And see my oncoming fate

I feel fire lick my mane
As their image infects my mind
I struggle out "I'm sorry"
Being the only words I find

Now numb instead of pain
As flames crawl up my back
The feeling pulled away from me
As my thoughts begin to lack

The heat of the fire
Turned to an icy cold
My brain begins to lighten
As memories escape its hold

I am feeling quite confused
As I look around
For there's a street before me
And a strange glow upon the ground

Curious I move closer
An image crosses my brain
It's of some mare and filly
And brings with it great pain

I stop and begin to wonder
Who those ponies could be
But am startled by the strange glow
Ceasing to be before me

I ignore this strange happening
As the thought leaves my mind
I shrug it off and wander away
So purpose I can find

My hooves click on the sidewalk
As ponies hurry by
I am trotting along so effortlessly
As though I haven't got to try...