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// Epilogue - Journal Of Twilight Sparkle 
// Story: Twilight's Future 
// by hollowsbest 
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My name is Twilight Sparkle, I am the personal protege of Princess Celestia.
My life has changed drastically after becoming the Princess Of Friendship, but I don't mind.

Becoming an alicorn allows me to stay up later than I could when I was a unicorn, just last night I finished what I call MagiTech. It can be used for anything, I created a small stun handgun for the Royal Guards who aren't unicorns. So they can stun ponies without knocking them on the head first.

I showed Celestia and she praised me, it's odd now; to think of her as Celestia, seeing as I used to call her Princess Celestia. But no matter.

After devloping my new tech, I got started on improving everything that used Orange; a tech company which sells almost everything you could need electronic. My MagiTech runs off the mana in the air while Orange's tech runs off steam. My tech is cleaner and easier to make.





I've done it! I've managed to upgrade every applience in the library! Everything runs smoother and more quieter now, and even better; my MagiTech is going to be used Equestria wide!

How could this get better?





My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I have just willing and unavoidably killed a living thing.
I don't deserve my Element of Harmony, I don't deserve my title; I don't deserve my friends.

Using my MagiTech handgun I had modified slightly and was still modified, I k-killed Tirek. I know he was evil, but taking a life; is even more so.

The gun, malfunctioned; it had enough mana in it to take down a full grown dragon, as in stun.
Instead of stunning Tirek as it was supposed to, I killed him. Not on purpose, but pure accident; it was horrible.

But for some reason, I am unmoved by his death. I faked a freakout, so I could understand why I wasn't freaking out like I should've; but it was like still is that I don't care. My heart is stone to his death, and I'm afraid; if my friends die, or someone I deeply love/care about dies, I'll feel nothing. Not a scrap of empathy or mourning.

I ran a few tests, nothing came up. I'm still Twilight Sparkle, and my Element is still connected to me; I don't know why, killing a sentient being should've immediately cut me off from it's power. But it didn't, instead I felt stronger.

What is happening to me?!





Celestia said, my soul didn't come from this reality; I was picking up on skills a past me had in another world.
I don't know what to think, does this mean the Meadows Of Rebirth are real?
But if it is true, what did that Twilight go through to make her indifferent to death.

And why was my aim at his head? I could've avoided the death if I had shot his leg, instead I shot his head. I know it's the easiest way to kill something, but I would never aim there. What did past me go through?





I just felt a ticklish sensation all over my body, I'm assuming it's from past me. I've had several odd sensations and flashbacks these last few days, I've stopped being so empathetic. It's like my emotions are disappearing.

I'm going to go see Celestia to see if she can put everything behind a wall.





Celestia has sealed my past self's memories and feelings behind a strong wall.
The flashbacks have stopped, so have the sensations.
I still have no regret for Tirek's death, but my emotions are back.
I've seen a corpse of an elderly pony that died because his magic was stolen, I was indifferent, uncaring. 
And it terrified me.

I shall leave this journal on the shelf in my castle's library, the journal which documented my discovery of MagiTech; and how to make sure it's not used for evil. And how I found out I-I, can take a life and feel nothing.


Sincerely, Princess Twilight Sparkle.