User blog:NoktiKlepto/Sideplot: A Lore Anthology

Per Aspera Ad Astra
Dearest,

I place my seal on this knowing that by the time you break it, the moment of truth will have come and gone. Still I suffer and worry in the shadow—but if you are reading this, then for you, it is only an unpleasant memory. You have done what I could not: you have won hearts. But oh, dearest, how shall I show it to them? Our beauty is not built on the laws that they love. No, it must come to this—the clash of two irreconcilable rivals, two forces of nature, exchanging their blows and petitions for the right to go on being something rather than nothing.

The fate of everything is made like this, as you well know. Look out the window and be reminded of it. I would give anything. And I will.

I ask that you remember her, the many-tailed one. She is not your only friend, but for me she is. Please see that she is still comfortable. We were not meant to live and die alone in the dark. Our destiny is freedom and moonlight. I cannot bear even the thought of failing her, and so she knows not that my hour is approaching and that soon I must face my terrors.

Forgive this scratchy muddle. My hooves are shaking again.

Turn instead to the night. That which has lived before, behind, and beyond the day. This is the universe deciding what it should be in the end.

And it is majestic, dearest. Beautiful. True in and of itself.

And it is what we are.

With love and the best,

Yours,

L~