183 - You'll Find Your Place
"You look like you're considering something." Luna looked down to Silver, still perched on his bed with him. She tapped at the bed softly. "A curious material. Some day perhaps you will share a tale of it and your world of origin."
Silver quirked a little smile. Of course Luna would be curious about a foam mattress. "It's about what the zebra said. He mentioned I had to exist for Fate, and even gave a reason, but I thought Fate and the thing pushing me around were the same thing."
"Is it not?"
"I don't think it is." Silver spread his wings. "I think The Text enjoyed giving these to me, and watching me deal with the aftermath, but didn't really bother with or consider the consequences, beyond watching me cope."
Luna reached out and brushed one of the wings. "You seem to be coping well. Sister was concerned you were hiding from your responsibilities at first, but you turned around and started embracing what you've become. Your taking time to deal with the noble ponies was especially surprising. You're not very like them."
"No, I'm not." Silver perked his ears. "I'm not terribly social, despite evidence to the contrary. In a large group, I didn't know what to do other than concentrating on not looking stupid. I think I crowed about myself too often..."
Luna wobbled a hoof. "You are hardly the only pony who fears such things. Try to find merit in others around you and speak of them. Few have difficulties getting along with a pony 'crowing' about others. Tell me more of this 'Text'."
Silver drew a slow breath, then realized who he was sharing space and time with. "I'm sorry."
"For?"
"How we ended up." He gave a little smile. "I'd say I want to be friends, the best of friends... but I fear it would sound hollow."
Luna leaned in suddenly and kissed him on the end of the nose. "I have patience."
Silver blinked at that, then it came to him with a shiver. "You wouldn't!"
"Wouldn't what? It is a simple fact." Luna waved it off. "Princess Fast Change will not stand in my way. I will do nothing at all. Time, of all things, is on my side."
Silver recoiled in growing horror. "I don't want to lose her, either of them!"
"You are an alicorn. I can't imagine you won't tether yourself to some facet of the world, just as my sister and I have done. You will persist through the ages. Your family... They will not." She let out a small breath. "You asked before... We have both had foals, lovers, families... They're gone. Gone, never to ret--"
"No!" Silver scrambled to his hooves, trembling with the fear of death looming before him. He felt old. He felt terribly old, even if the problem was the exact opposite. He'd outlive every person he cared for. There was a time where he would have laughed at the idea. He had few he cared for deeply, so he thought he'd just watch the world change around him. Let him live a thousand years, a million, a billion years!
The idea felt so different then...
Luna's wing gently brushed over his tear-stained cheek. "It is not that time yet. Enjoy your family. Live well and love deeply."
The deeper he loved, the more it would hurt. The more... He sank to his belly, feeling alone, so very alone. Luna did not abandon him to his growing nightmare. "You will never be truly alone. Please, it was ill of us to speak of it so flippantly. Today can't be recaptured, so make the most of it that you will. Hold them close and fiercely, even if you fear that eventual pain. You will hate yourself if you hold back. Know, without doubt, that you gave it everything for every moment you could."
Silver took a slow and trembling breath. "R-right, of course..." He had to be strong. He spread his wings slowly and looked at them. He was a prince... "How long do ponies live?" Time was strange in Equestria. How old was Granny Smith? Though earth ponies may live longer than pegasi or unicorns. He didn't know for sure.
Luna put a hoof to her chin. "That is very variable, depending on the pony and tribe. Pegasi tend to be the shortest lived with their fast metaboli--"
Silver sank, defeated. His love had to be a pegasus. All he could do for the moment was weep with terror and lament the future before him.
Luna was gone. Everything was gone. Was he dreaming? He was. Silver sat up, wiping the tears from his eyes and looking around with growing confusion. If that was his dream, why was--
Words appeared.
Are you that sad?
"Yes. Why shouldn't I be?" It was the Text. It made sense enough. "Isn't this what you wanted?"
Isn't this what you wanted?
"I was just fine being a unicorn."
You had a good chance of outliving her either way. She is a warrior. She'd rather throw herself on a sword than die frail and weak.
Silver cringed at the mental image that evoked, even if it was accompanied by a sudden wet noise. He glanced to see Night impaled, but it was already fading. "She doesn't have to go that way."
No human, or pony, has to walk the path before them. The path exists, but it is by your own hooves that you walk it. You walked this path to where you are.
Silver pinned his ears back. He had walked the steps to alicornhood. He was one. His own hooves had brought him there. An idea tickled at him and his mouth worked without words a moment before he croaked it out, "What if they joined me?"
Where there is a need, a princess is made to meet it. Do you truly want this?
What sort of world would suddenly need the two of them ascended? Silver shuddered softly as different disasters that only they could solve rose from the ether. "C-can I think about it?"
If I could stop you from thinking, it would be far more predictable, and boring. Think.
"Are you Fate?"
I lay paths, only you can walk them.
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The only comfort I can offer silver is, consider a nice hot cup of tea. truely consider it, with human knowledge, and Pinkie happily bouncing by.
Hopefully his mind will rebell and render him unconcious before he becomes irepperably insane, leaving him with the discomforting idea that though he may be immoral as an alicorn, its still as nothing compare to Pinkie unleashed and The All.
outlive every he - outlive everypony he
where he laughed - where he would have laughed
And idea tickled - An idea tickled
*****
Good heavens that plunged into the deep and dark very quickly. Great writing!
The gravity of his ascension has dawned in full, though Night is already walking a path that could lead easily to an early death or a very long and interesting life. As a reader I can only be patient and see what unfolds and what hints I can tease out of the text; that's text with a lowercase 't' just to be clear.
Odd that Luna disappeared. Was she shut out? Was she ever really there?
7255173 Typos fixed and dismissed from the Text's presence. What of his words, do you think?
I kinda of feel like something with Night ascending has been hinted at what with the idea of a lunar royal being discussed with Luna and Night Wing. Good chapter. We already know who the text is, Its David Silver torturing another version of himself. Thank you multiverse.
7255259 i think theres a very real chance of Night one day dying, one was or another, and the dream showing itself in reality again but with certain places swapped.
i like to think of the text as a doorman right now. he opens them you walk it.
fate is a long and tired word. is it fate if you chose a door? you flip a coin and it lands a certain way and you go through the door, is it fate? you flip coin, lands, choose opposite door, is it fate then? fate,destiny..feh with the text to reset you when he/she/it/them find it appealing what can you do.
but with this chapter it nice to see the text around again. also i see many paths here..one that could lead to him giving up alicornhood for some reason. his loved ones becoming alicorns. staying on the path he is now.
Is it harder to die or to live? Maybe the worst of it is when you've already made the choice?
Text... That was deep real deep
This Fate and Text are an odd couple. The Text (otherwise known as Choice) laying paths for mortals and Fate turning right back around to hide them so mortals go down a nice singular predestined route. I can almost see these two going at it. Fate railroading Equestria to the point that the Text can stand no more and starts grabbing humans through the veil just to confound Fate. Apparently it wasn't until Silver rolled along that Fate was managing to deal with these "hiccups" to it's perfect little universe, then... Bam! Now we have a new unaccounted for alicorn, a new changeling Queen, a small crowd of humans, and Fate running around like a chicken without its head trying to find proper "destinies" for them all.
Pretty sure the Text chose humans for a reason, heh heh.
Night Watch and Samantha would bout hate being Alicorn to love and lose is painful but to love and live a full life is a gift.
7255540 It's all going according to plan.
I can see that the text is finally making an appearance in the story. Did the text poled him from his dream with Luna? I wonder how Luna will react to this? How does Luna know that he will tether himself to this universe? He may choose not to tether himself to this world to acquire immortality. He may choose to live a normal life span so he may die with his loved ones.Time will tell.
Keep up the good work you're doing on the story and I look forward to seeing the next chapter.
P.S. I wish you could make bigger chapters.
Dragonfox
In all honesty I believe that the Text might be just the embodiment of choice itself cause no matter what he always speaks In a riddle that hints on a different outcome or path and that you would have to cross them or choose to cross them
I have a feeling the text is discord, or something that is mortal in the sense it can be killed, not some embodiment of choice because embodiments don't have feelings and wouldn't care if something was 'boring' but instead would say something like "I can't stop you from thinking, for you have free will. Use it." Anyone think the same or am I a wolf among sheep?
7255173 Was just wondering what Luna would think about being kicked out of her dream realm. Slightly miffed would probably be an understatement.
7255259
The words of the DM/GM to the player. What I hear is "You made your own decisions on every step of this path, so if you're unhappy about where it has taken you and where it could lead then maybe you need to first change yourself."
On one hand it would get Night Wing off his back, on the other it's fairly selfish...
Keep going! ;)
7256725 What would?
7257131 pretty f-ing deep man
7257131 ascending Night Watch.
And I see paths, the twists and turns. I can see the beginning, middle but the end is always blurry.
I've never really understood how agelessness is ever a bad thing.
If it were that bad, suicide is always an option.
Sure, immortality is eternal suffering eventually. But as long as you're not actually immortal, you always have the option of finding some way to kill yourself.
And here is the problem. She may ascend, but what about Samantha? What about his foals? His future foals? What kind of hellhole world should become to require more and more princesses? Is it even something you have a right to decide for someone else? Immortality is amazing, but it's a terrible curse after all.
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It might not be an option for alicorn tethered to a domain unless that domain stop existing. For example if Celestia's domain is their Sun then she may die with it, but it doesn't seems like Luna will die if the moon got destroyed since she controls stars as well... Jeez, she may have to see universe almost to the very end. Starswirl on the other hoof may exist forever. Literally to the end of time.
Also, it's not the case here, but if you won't get immunity to all kinds of diseases and parasites with immortality any kind of it will eventually turn into a horrible nightmare. Especially literal immortality.