Author's Note: This story is a sort of spinoff story from Melancholy Days, itself a sequel to What Separates. Neither story is required reading for this one (the prologue covers any relevant details, though it also spoils details from Melancholy Days).
Four hundred years ago the city of Canterlot was nearly destroyed, saved only by the self-sacrifice of a Royal Guard named Prideheart. But he suffered physically and emotionally for his heroism. Furious with Princess Celestia for having failed to defend the ponies of Canterlot like she had promised, and decrying magic itself, he took those he loved most with him into voluntary exile.
Afterward, he was forgotten almost completely. In some ways even by those who had departed with him.
Where the broken hero eventually went, and what became of him, was a mystery to those few who still cared. 'Time heals all wounds,' they say, but do wounds in time change the soul in turn?
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Prologue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
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Chapter 1: A Joy Shared [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 26th, 2017
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Chapter 2: Not Prisoners of Fate [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 22nd, 2017
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Chapter 3: Courage is Fire [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 24th, 2017
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Chapter 4: The Best Defense [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 3rd, 2017
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Chapter 5: To Light a Candle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Apr 5th, 2017
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Chapter 6: Cast the First Stone [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 13th, 2017
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Chapter 7: For the Hardest Victory [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Mar 14th, 2016
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Chapter 8: He Who Fights [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 12th, 2016
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Chapter 9: From Out That Shadow [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 16th, 2017
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Chapter 10: Heroes May Not Be Braver [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 11th, 2016
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Chapter 11: Preparing to Fail [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jul 15th, 2016
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Chapter 12: The Course of True Love [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Aug 14th, 2016
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Chapter 13: The Flesh is Weak [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 16th, 2016
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Chapter 14: The Last Full Measure [Part 1] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
May 30th, 2017
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Chapter 14: The Last Full Measure [Part 2] [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 5th, 2017
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Epilogue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jun 5th, 2017
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