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// Epilogue:  The Last Report 
// Story: The Darkest Part of the Day 
// by ChaoticHarmony 
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Dear Princesses Celestia and Luna,


Today I have a very important lesson on the Magic of Friendship.  I learned this lesson personally, and at great cost to myself and my friends.  The lesson I speak of is that friendship doesn’t last forever.  Nothing does.  You see, when somepony else says “best friends forever”, they don’t really mean it.  Everypony will drift from their friends eventually.  It’s only how the world works.  I can’t believe I didn’t see it sooner.  They always hated me, it’s only natural to put on a nice face.  I just wish I saw it sooner.  Friendship will fade into nothingness like your day does to the night.  It has to end eventually, just like the day does to make way for the darkness.


-Your faithful Student
Twilight Sparkle



Celestia stroked the purple mare curled up at her side as she read the letter.  She read over the tear drop stained letter again and again, her own tears beginning to add to the paper.  "Oh Twilight..."  Celestia kept stroking the motionless mare at her side, feeling the softness of her coat and mane.  The five ponies present in the room also wept.  They sat in a semi-circle around their friend, tears dripping onto the floor beneath them.

"Princess, what.... what happened?"  Rainbow Dash asked her with an unsteady voice.

"Twilight here exhausted herself coming here." Celestia replied with a soft voice.  "She pushed herself too hard.  She knew that she wouldn't make it here alive, being weak with her sadness, but she came never the less."  The sadness in her own voice was mimicked in the other five's gasps.  Sadness gripped them all.  

"Why... why did she think we hated her?"  Fluttershy asked with a voice barely more than a whisper.

"I think that somepony who wanted to get back at her for something must have done it.  I can recognize a hate-spell.  The pony's magic who cast it is unfamiliar to me though, but that is of no importance right now."  Celestia made to continue, but her words were choked off with a sob.  She bent her head down to the purple form and kissed it softly on the head.

"Good bye Twilight Sparkle."