Atelophobia
Chapter 8: Love and Song in Victory's Clarity
Previous Chapter Next Chapterdoors fling open and she smiles
with a cry if her success
her greatest fear alleviated
and her friends to carry her up again
an adventure under wraps
reduced to one checked box
on just another list
in the mind of twilight sparkle
who finally passed her test
and there She is
all that doubt you can dismiss
with a voice like a song
and Her eyes so blue
visible because She lifts Her hoof
of pure white
to place under twilight's chin
so that their eyes could meet
and She could tell her
of approval
and passed tests
and twilight sparkle feels a click
in a heart like clockwork
and knows
she loves Rarity
Rarity is Perfect
and twilight loves Perfect
in any possible way
and the world around them
six ponies, one dragon
feels like it is singing
with the success of twilight sparkle
She Knows Not That Light Only Blinds
where something like stars dance around them
twilight sparkle and Her, the Sun Goddess
stand and almost float
in something like pure magic
as memories like check boxes on some Grand Plan
float on by
and Celestia talks with the passion of any ballad
of how proud She is
and twilight thinks she might die at those words
if she hasn't already
she worked hard, Celestia says
she used skills, not for herself
(the thought makes twilight cringe)
but for everypony else
she bettered equestria
not herself
twilight sparkle does not like to be selfish
because She says she should not be
and so it is
and twilight sparkle feels her own magic
and something much, much more
transform her
and make her almost-anew
and alter her
and everything twilight cannot fathom
(not that she would ever acknowledge that)
on her blind walk to
what she thinks is destiny
or has to be
where light shines everywhere
and cloaks her
(she feels that it illuminates instead of blinds, after all, it is the dark that blinds, not the light)
because when she looks around
at the ground of ponyville
She is bowing too
and twilight
is (almost) in Her image