It was a beautiful mourning in Ponyville. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, it was beautiful. Sure, Owlyiches was dead, but pshhh. Twilight woke up, did boring morning things, dug Owlyiches’ grave with a spade when she could’ve easily done it with magic to show how much she cared about her, called the mane characters, and waited for them all to arrive. One by one, they arrove. It was all very tedious. Well, not one by one, there were a couple pairs.

“Now þat we are all congregated here,” spoketh, “nuntiis vos narrare possum.”

“quid?” Lyra said. “Literally nopony speaks Latin, Twilight. And what’s so important and/or dramatic you needed to tell us in pony, anyway?”

“Sorry. What I got you here to tell you is... well....”

“It’s hard to take your ellipses seriously,” Rainbow said.

“Owlyiches is dead.”

“What?!” everyone said in offputting unison.

“But we loved ‘er!” Applejack said.

“scio. sed—”

“Seriously, cut it out with the Latin,” Lyra said.

“Sorry, I’ll stop. She choked on a bone last... er... day/night transition period.”

“Sunset?” Octavia said.

“That’s it, sunset. So back on topic, Owlyiches is dead. I just thought you should all know.”

“That’s so sad,” Applejack said as if everyone else in the room needed to be told.

“Well, she’s in a better place now,” Apple Bloom went for the religious angle.

“She never got a chance to do what she loved,” Lyra said, even though helping Twilight was what she loved.

“I never knew her, but I’ll be generically hearing about a death sad,” Octavia said.

“That’s terrible,” Rainbow said in a similar manner to Applejack.

“Red eight, standing by,” Pinkie Pie, behind the counter of Sugarcube Corner, said for no apparent reason.

“I’m gladepressed you’re as sad about this as I am,” Twilight said, even though she was clearly the saddest one there by cheek wetness. No one said anything. “I should probably hold a wake or something.”

“Ah’ll get Pinkie Pah to help ya,” Applejack said.

No one said anything.

“You can go if you have things to do,” Twilight said.

“kk,” everyone else said.

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