A Life Lived in Hundreds

by Botched Lobotomy

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‘You’re sure it’s not too much to ask,’ Smith said. ‘We can always go find an inn, or something.’ She turned to Twilight, who shook her head. Oops.
‘No, no, of course not!’ Apple Rose waved the idea away. ‘It’s just, I only have one room spare! So I’m afraid you’ll have to share.’
As it happened, the other reason Apple Rose was so jumpy woke them in the middle of the night with crying.
‘You can’t⁠—you mustn’t tell⁠—he’s just a neighbour’s foal...’ Apple Rose, unmarried, looked utterly defeated.
New life, Bright Mac: Twilight examined him with something approaching awe.

Comments

[Bicyclette]

and Twilight achieves enlightenment! it's funny how everything knits together for her at the same point it does for the reader. also fun that Twilight is so disciplined in avoiding anything that might be a time paradox by sticking within the privacy of the Apple Family.

and this is a payoff to the thread of Apple Rose's unhappy love life that has been popping up throughout the story, argh, so good.