Letters From the Path of Loss

by Tavi n Scratch

20th, Seven Months and One Week After Death

Dear Rainbow Dash,

I saw her today, for the first time in a long time I saw my wife. She was just as beautiful as I remember. I saw her at the market, she was looking at Rose’s stall, smelling the lovely flowers. I felt so much right then, at that moment. My world froze as I gazed towards the mare I had so longed to see. I just stopped, being too flabbergasted to even think.

As I stared, she turned around, greeted me with a simple “Hey Twi” and kept on going. I was stunned, the first time I’ve seen her in a little over seven months and all she says was hey. I was in shock. When I regained my composure I looked around but she was nowhere in sight. Immediately, I began to search around Ponyville.

After hours of looking, I had no luck. I decided to ask around. I went to the Carousel Boutique and asked Rarity if she’d seen Rainbow lately. It’s funny, you would’ve thought I had three heads by the look she gave me. I asked her what was wrong and she just shook her head and went back into the store. When I asked Fluttershy and Pinkie they had almost the same reaction. I think something’s up with them.

I was wondering on the outskirts of Ponyville, near the cemetery, when I ran into Applejack. I asked her if she’d seen Dash today. She said yes and just gestured toward the graveyard. I walked around the creepy area, stepping around the tombstones. When I looked around I didn’t see Rainbow, I guess she must’ve left since Applejack was here. It’s weird that those two met here, Dash usually hates places like this.

After wandering around a bit more, I saw a willow tree near one edge of the graveyard and made my way over to it. The tree was very much like the one in our field, and underneath it sat a solitary grave stone. I tried to read the words but they were too worn to make out. For some reason I felt a connection to this gravestone, to this small corner of the graveyard, to the tree that hung above me. This felt like the place we would’ve wanted to be buried. I stared at the stone for a while longer, staring at the faded words and trying to make sense of them. I gave up after a while when I noticed it was getting dark.

I walked home and sat down and started this letter. Today has been crazy, I just wish I could have found her. I’ll keep looking tomorrow.

I’m truly curious who that tombstone belonged to, because that’s where Rainbow and I had agreed to be buried, next to each other beneath that tree.

I’ll talk to you later,

Twilight

Comments

[Ferrix]

This is becoming painful to read.

[Kodeake]

So the personallities of 'her wife' and Rainbow have been split in her mind, and she's no longer writing for her dead wife, rather for Rainbow, whom she has not seen in a long time... funny how the mind works.

[Noravea]

I'm sorry, but this story is absolutely beautiful. There is only one other TwiDash fic that made me this sad, and it was pretty much the opposite, Twilight dies and Rainbow copes, but it has a semi-happy ending.

[Biker_Dash]

This is so very sad... Rarely do I read stories with such short chapters, but something drew me to this one.

[Tavi n Scratch]

2255096 What was it called?

[Noravea]

2255374

Wow, I feel like an idiot.

Kudos then, you've probably made me feel every emotion I can think of through these fics.

[darkcloud64]

You fix this u fix this now!

[Timelord12]

What the hell. No, seriously, what the hell? Twilight is going insane from grief, i can understand that, as i have gone through the stages, but never like this.