User blog comment:Guildmaster Grovyle/JLE Role Play, Winter 2015-2016/@comment-27161581-20160228012222

Inari frowns

Inari: "In the short term, yes, but how long can Princess Luna stand doing double duty, 50, 100, 1000 years? How long until Nightmare Moon returns? Without you to check her, what then? Who will be able to stand against her?"

Inari looks away, her voice is no more than a whisper, nearly impossible to hear.

Inari: "Who will want to?"

Inari's voice returns to its previous level.

Inari: "There already exist several creatures who know your identity, if any word gets back to Princess Luna, from any source other than yourself, can you even fathom the pain it would cause her? The kingdom might be able to survive losing you, but it cannot survive losing you again, She cannot survive losing you again. Will you abandon her, abandon Equestria, because you now can?"

Inari softens her tone, realizing she is growing angry that Celestia either cannot see such a thing, or is denying its very real possibility.

Inari: "That knowledge you carry, on how to banish otherworldly creatures, is not why you were sent back. There are some who still live, who could have been granted such knowledge, and had the power to see that story through. Yet here you sit. You were sent back, not because whatever creature on the other side saw fit to banish those demons, but because it wanted Princess Celestia back."

Inari glances at the Mare Do Well mask.

Inari: "Any creature can sneak through the shadows, to carry on an endless quest, but there are few who's light is not an illusion, to show what cannot be seen, to teach what cannot be taught. You are one of those few, and I beg of you, to go back to Canterlot when this is all over. It is your duty, it is your place, it is your part, and I truly fear no other will be able to play it."