I will never forget our first meeting in Cloudsdale. It was my parent's idea, and well, they said I had to, and even that seemed cloaked in an enigma. And I had been through so much lately, and so much was still going on for me. Still, I walked through the door of your house, just down the avenue from my parent's. It was pretty dark inside, and I had to stop and let my eyes adjust at first. But your soft-spoken manner, your kind and quiet explanation; I wasn't scared or apprehensive at all. As you told me your story, the details didn't seem too significant, except you were from that strange world I had just left. But your scope thing... You had watched us, you watched me, during some of the most harrowing hours of my life. I was impressed. And you were recording... me... I remember thinking why in Equestria would anypony want to do that... But the most important... I felt the deepening tug of a kindred spirit... My recent yet full committment to true friendship... I knew I had found another... I left, but guessed I might be back...
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I will never forget hearing you call out my name that morning... Buried in an utterly strange world, millions of miles away from my Equestria, for all I knew. I also knew inside that I had been viciously and brutally abused, even though I remembered nothing. And I knew the monsters were now trying to kill me... I felt so horribly, so utterly alone... I felt completely abandoned; and in a way I can't explain, I was sure that what had happened to me would keep me abandoned forever. I was sure no stallion would ever want me, or even try to help me, and that right now, nopony even could. I knew I was doomed that morning, so hopelessly and terrifyingly on my own... Then you came... And the monsters ran quickly away... I also feared you at first, until I heard your voice... Wait... A kindred spirit? A true friend? Here? Now? How in Equestria? Head pounding, still I ran... Safe, I knew, in your strong arms... All I could do was cry... And I know now you spent years tirelessly working on that scope thing. I am pretty sure you never suspected it would be the singular means allowing you to be there when I needed you most. And I only found out later the steep and terrible price you had already paid that night, to even be able to be there, and snatch me away from death, it seemed. After such vicious abuse, I just could not understand your deepening committment to me...
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I will never forget gliding along the freeway in your big, soft car. The monsters had taken me far away and done terrible things to me... You were driving me back home, back to my amazing new friends. I was so broken inside, you could have told me to do anything, and I would have done it. I was sure every stallion in Equestria would have only disgust for me now. But you... I had never felt so cherished as I did that day... You treated me like I was precious, like I was valuable. I so desparately needed that, on that day especially. Honestly, I was still oblivious to most of the hazards of this strange, new world. But you went so far out of your way to protect me, to care for me, to teach me... You provided for me... It was like your strong arms surrounded me and protected me that whole time. I really needed that... And you showed me I could write! I loved reading, but you gave me a small writing task, and I just soared with it. On that day, of all days, you showed me I could still fly. So much hurt, but you gave me hope...
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I will never forget that morning, waking up after a terrible dream, with you quickly and lovingly at my side. I couldn't leave you, not now, not any more. That vivid dream showed what we surmised was the future of Equestria. The lessons were tough, and the condition of Equestria was tragic, even though we were mostly able to rebuild in my dream. But you were there... And I felt so acutely, wrapped up deep inside that dream, that I desparately needed you... In that dream, we were married, and that just made waking up hard. But I had seen... I had seen what life with you would be like. I would never want anything, anypony else... And the next week we spent together writing, almost around the clock... I wanted that to never end...
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I will never forget the day I saw your pure, kind and loving heart, from the inside... My Twin and I both; the most amazing thing was so horribly twisted and abused. We were both so broken inside. We were sure we were cast off forever. Even with your increasing presence in my life, that nagging dread, it was consuming both of us. Through the Group Link, we saw... We saw deep inside you... We both saw how deeply and genuinely you cherished me... We simply could not deny what was before our very eyes. That dread was banished. We really could, still, be cherished. We could both live on...
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I will never forget, and I still cry when I remember this... Less than two minutes after being thrust into Equestria Past... We had rescued our Princesses, as foals, from certain and immanent death, and we were quickly soaring high and away... Well, at first, all we knew is we had rescued two precious foals from hungry Cougars. You jumped so quickly into the task of caring for, and protecting all of us, our new family. You so quickly embraced me as your Mare. And as mothering grew rapidly inside me, your strong arms sheltered, cared for, and provided for the two most important foals in all Equestria, to us, right then. Your wise forethought kept us all safe and so comfortable. You always seemed to know the right, the best thing to do. And towards the end, we found out who our girls were, and that was both amazing and hard at the same time. And as I faced the blinding pain of having to give our girls away, you were right there, holding me close, and loving me every way you possibly could...
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I will never forget the day I got you back. Well I was responsible for you forgetting everything, forgetting me... Coming back from the Past was hard enough, we both hurt so much, but I hurt the least next to you, and I know you felt the same way... We didn't ask for that Fury Boil, but we saw it in time because we were hurting so much, and out for a walk. And it seemed so unfair that you were the only one that got hurt, and that I did it... And I know it was an accident, but to lose the very one I needed and wanted so desparately; that was so very hard... I cried a lot. I ran away, and came back... I waited... I decided I would wait forever. And ALL this... Every passing moment shouted out how desparately I needed you... I cried out to true friend a lot because every day was it's own painful nightmare... But then, to hear your voice again... I... Pain... Love... I was just overwhelmed... I could have cried in your arms all day...
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I will never forget our first night by the moonlight. Since I was younger, I wanted to feel like a princess, just like everypony else, I think. And I wonder if, deep inside, that was my only goal with the relationships I (rather unsuccessfully) pursued with other stallions. And I know a lot of other phillies told me stallions are only after one thing. Maybe that is true in a lot of cases. But you, my Stallion... What the monsters did to me, that erased my desires for years. You patiently waited for me. Even after I got my desires back, it was so clear that having a foal would not be a good idea, for one reason or another. You took care of me, even though there was really nothing in it for you... I still don't understand that... So many ponies in Equestria are just after a feeling they really like, and I guess, they are content to get it after 15 minutes maybe, then be on their way... You made me feel so cherished first; you loved me so deeply first... And yes, I really like that feeling, but only with you, and only because you so clearly put me first. I really am your Mare, but only because you have so completely become my frue friend above everything else. And the needs of other ponies... You quickly set our time aside for that as true friends should. I really enjoy our time at the lake. But I also enjoy waking up next to such a deep, true, loyal and loving friend...
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I will never forget you rescuing me from that jail cell; well, the first time, I guess... Star Dusk wasn't very nice to me, and I kept telling her that I couldn't do what she wanted because I was your Mare. I guess this made her very mad, and she beat me up really bad with that heavy stick thing, then told me repeatedly that you wouldn't ever want me again. As bad as my head and face hurt when she was done, I knew she was right... And when you didn't come... I think, inside, I just collapsed, and gave up... I stopped eating, and didn't even move any more. I couldn't even cry any more either. I was pretty sure what Star Dusk said was right, that you would never come back, that you didn't care any more, that I had lost you... Death seemed welcome to me at that point, I just didn't care if I died... But then you came... I was so far gone, I really didn't even know you were right next to me, hugging me, at first. But I heard your name, and just started talking. It was very slow, but finally... I sensed your presence, I recognized your voice... I felt so weak inside, but I wanted you so bad. I fought hard to come back. We cried together a long time, and that still wasn't enough. I guess I was hurt pretty bad inside, but you stayed with me, you cried with me... You told me you would always want me. I think I really needed to hear that...
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I will never forget you bringing me that book, up in Cloudsdale that day. Only I had no clue it was you, or who you even were. They have books in Cloudsdale, but the material used; those books need to be made a lot differently. Otherwise... Growing up, I spent a lot of time at the Cloudsdale Library. I loved reading... But why did some dumb Pegasus try to bring me an earth-bound book anyway? ...and on that day, of all days? I was so fed up... I had no friends; my abrasive self-centeredness had pretty much pushed everypony away, even my sister Fluttershy. That alone really hurt... Maybe it didn't show, not any more by then, but I loved my sister a lot, and running her off... Falling down, off the clouds, up-side-down... Well, it's very difficult for even a good flyer to get out of that. Such a fall was my plan, and I had no intention of preventing gravity from doing it's work. I wanted to curl up into a ball and just fall... Like I said, I was so fed up with, well, everything. Everything hurt. I was done. When you walked up behind me, I refused to give you the time of day, and hoped inside that you would quickly leave. But when you didn't... And when you started trying to work a large, earth-bound book from your sack... Boy that was dumb, I thought. You managed to get it out, but it fell quickly through the clouds and was gone. Well, I was hoping you would be too, but I simply could not ignore that falling book... I helped it survive the fall, then stared at it for a minute after I shrugged it off my back into the grass. I put it into my own book bag, then flew quickly back up to Cloudsdale. You were gone, just like I had hoped earlier. I flew lazily back down, found a nice spot in the meadow, laid down on my belly, and opened up my new book. Why would some dumb Pegasus want me to have this? I started reading... ...about my Princess, Princess Twilight, and the amazing things true friendship accomplished in she and her friend's lives. Wait... Thinking about others? Depending on and even helping others? Seriously? Putting others first? That was so vastly different than what my life had become. I could not stop reading. I desperately wanted what I was reading about... I was quickly crying... Because of that book... I would never be the same...
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I will never forget waking up in your arms after that long, terrible night. The same two monsters took me... again... The first time, I didn't remember anything. I just drank that soda, then I quickly passed out. But not this time... They burst into the ladies' room at the Cakes. "We finally get our little cutie back!" they kept saying over and over again. One of them pointed a gun at me. I was very scared. "If you scream, I will kill you" he said. They tried to get me to drink some soda, but I knew what that would do. Most of it ended up all over me. Then I watched in horror through the mirror as the monster behind me lifted his arm high, and brought that gun down hard on my neck. I was sure I was dead. I started to scream, then everything went black... And when I woke up, I did scream... I kept screaming... It was very dark... And I felt someone else holding me -- I screamed louder. But you... You said the only thing that could have allowed me to make sense out of where I was right now... "Summer, please come back..." It was you... I knew right away; you are the only one who has ever said that to me... It was you... I knew I was safe, in your arms... Screaming changed to hysterical crying as I clung tightly to you. You had rescued me again. I cried buckets in your arms... I didn't ever want to leave your side...
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I will never forget kicking you across 'our room' in the Audience Hall, buried deep in Equestria Past. I guess me losing my memory; well, the Portal, maybe true friend, I was pulled out from under that huge cube of obsidian and put back in Canterlot. Dark Melvain throught I was dead, but so did you. But somehow you found me, and put up with me having no recollection for weeks... But your hand under my wing... I know it was an accident, but I knew in my soul that only one stallion was ever allowed to do that. Well, that's why I remembered... Part-way through my kick I realized what I was doing, and froze my legs. That didn't stop you from flying across the small room though, and into the wall. I turned into a people right away, and ran to your side. I heard my sister Fluttershy begin to cry hysterically; she realized I had remembered. But I knelt next to you and pulled your head and shoulders into my lap while I quickly swam through the last few weeks, so amazed... I quickly realized Cel had set out on a hopeless mission to confront that beast alone, but you... I had to make sure you were ok first. I asked if anything was broken, you replied "not any more", then smiled... Your smile... I melted... We cried together... I hugged my sister, then we flew out to the Bastion and rescued Cel. But I will always be your mare, and yours alone...
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I will never forget our last time at the lake by the moonlight in the future. Dreaming about the future is one thing, but to actually live that through... We helped Equestria get put back together, and a lot of amazing things happened. But, towards the end, everything was just slowly getting harder. We increasingly had less to do, and nowhere to go. We felt absolutely abandoned, after helping everypony else restart their lives. It was like we realized more and more that this was not our future, well not yet anyway. Auguring loss... You would think we would be used to that. That night, and it really was the night before we left the future, you played with me. We played together. Yes, we ended up on the far side of the lake, and that was just amazing. But running around Ponyville chasing each other, rolling around in the grass together, looking into your eyes... The inevitable was coming, but you helped me relax a few hours before it came crashing down.
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This morning... I woke up... ...next to you... It was just one morning of many, but I relish each and every one. I have no idea where, or even when we are right now, but I am next to you. That is all that really matters to me. You are my home. You are my world.
I love you so much...