- One step
- Two
- Three steps
- One more and I'm there.
- Time stops
- What if you died right now.
- All the exertion and the blows to your head brought you to a peak.
- And this step plunges you over it.
- The last thing you see is the world turning blue, then black.
- And now you are here.
- Here at this place of limbo.
- Waiting to die.
- Because you aren't dead yet, oh no.
- It's never that simple with you.
- While you fell over the world goes on.
- Applejack and Fluttershy brought you to Twilight.
- They were actually really concerned.
- Apparently you made more of an impression than you realized.
- Twilight didn't know what to think of you, or what you are.
- So she wrote to Celestia.
- And she came.
- She knew.
- But she had no way to send you back.
- It wasn't her magic that brought you here.
- But she wanted to send you back so badly.
- Too much of a risk, she said to Twilight.
- But there was nothing Celestia could do.
- So here you are.
- Hooked up to nothing but magic.
- Keeping you alive.
- And so you grow old.
- Stuck here.
- Oh, sure they visit you from time to time, usually twice a year.
- But they dwindle.
- The visits, the time spent watching you.
- Hoping you would wake up.
- Quietly hoping you would wake up while they watch.
- But you never do.
- Time flows, again.
- Why.
- Why.
- Why.
- WHY.
- WHY IS IT BACK.
- THIS CURSED THOUGHT.
- Curse this speeding mind.
- These racing thoughts.
- Faster than perception.
- Whole lives lost in the blink of my eye.
- For what purpose?
- To show me the worst possible reality?
- Or the most probable.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- I thought they were gone.
- Why is it back.
- "Um, what're yer doin?"
- That accent brings me to my senses.
- And I find myself on my knees.
- My chin is wet.
- My eyes are blurry, but it doesn't matter because all I see is green with two pillars of yellow rising up out of my sight.
- And I realize it has been a few good seconds.
- I try to stand.
- But the world spins under my hips, keeping me locked to the earth for a few moments more.
- So I look up at her.
- She is sitting, head back, eyes locked with mine.
- Here, on the ground, we see eye to eye.
- She is still afraid of me.
- Am I truly a monster?
- Something to be feared?
- You know the answer to that one.
- You wouldn't even have taken the trip if you didn't.
- You know you are a monster.
- You should have walked off that cliff when you had the chance.
- Useless.
- Waste.
- Kill yourse...
- "Fluttershy?"
- She squeaks.
- "Can I have a hug?"
- "..."
- Nothing.
- All she does is look at me with fear.
- I am a monster.
- "I'm sorry."
- Monster.
- I can't look at her anymore.
- I don't want her to see me lose my hope.
- I don't want her to see me cry.
- "I'm sorr"
- And she hugged me.

