SingForTheMoon> Please Moonlight, tell me I'm something more than this. Tell me how to make us shine again. I don't want to lose you too!
Moonlight_Ballad> You've already immortalized me, silly ponysoul. You'll never lose me. Even if our story ends, we'll always have our memories.
SingForTheMoon> You're right, and we still have a bit of the story left to write. If these are to be our final chapters, then let us make them the best ones yet.
SingForTheMoon> Why do we love so strongly, Moonlight? Even our friendships feel so much more love than they should. Why are we so easy to hurt? Are we so love starved?
- Moonlight_Ballad chuckles.
Moonlight_Ballad> We're bards. I think it comes with the territory.
- SingForTheMoon stands up and nods.
SingForTheMoon> Then go back to your home, Bard of Equestria. I will, to mine. If we must be remembered for one thing, then let it be that we loved with all our hearts, and with no reservation.
- Moonlight_Ballad starts to step through his portal.
SingForTheMoon> Oh, and Moonlight?
- Moonlight_Ballad turns back.
Moonlight_Ballad> hm?
SingForTheMoon> Lay off the wine.
- Moonlight_Ballad grins and steps through his portal, into the Loft.
- SingForTheMoon turns and looks out over Equestria one last time. He smiles weakly, wiping the last of the tears from his eyes.
SingForTheMoon> If only...
- SingForTheMoon steps through his portal.
(( The two portals shrink into tiny dots of light, and vanish. ))
...An introspection, from a while back. It feels more appropriate than ever to me, these days. Lately it really does feel to me as if I am living the final chapters of Moonlight's story. We have played our part on the stage, told our story, and now we must give way to others, so that they may tell theirs. However, the memories of these tales, I will cherish for all time, and when I finally make the time, they will be added to the collection of stories I have made.
I suppose from perspective, I have reached the climax of Moonlight's story. He's now happily married to Lyra, in what I feel was my last great RP contribution to Lunas Loft. I would sincerely hope that it's something I could be remembered for. I tried so hard to make it so. So many in our RP group contributed something to that event. It brought us together. But, what now?
What now?... that is the question on so many minds. So many ponysouls feared that the wedding was one of the things holding the group together. Once it ended what would happen then? Well, it ended, and the Loft is alive and well. In fact, I have never seen it so active. I'm happy for this fact. The dream will live on, just not necessarily with me being part of it. Once you reach the summit, the climax, where else can you go? Moonlight is diminishing. He's little more than a background character anymore. There just isn't really a place for an ordinary pony in all the insane, god-modded, grimdark, and otherwise extra ordinary RP that goes on, nowadays. I don't intend to ask the others to stop. They have just as much right to enjoy their own stories.
And of the neighsaying? I suppose a lot of it has become self-fulfilling prophecy. Complaints and worries from residents, of the Loft dying out, so what happens... they make their own channels and in turn create that which they have feared. I will not leave the Loft. Even if Moonlight's story eventually ends, I will remain ever loyal to my promise to help run it, even if I am no longer part of its story. The endgame is already written. Lyra and Moonlight got their fairy tale wedding, now all that remains is the happy ending. I would like to hope that there is still some opportunity remaining for them both; that, as I hoped... these final chapters would still be our greatest.
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