“My father was innocent.” The mare said.

She was telling the truth. He indeed was innocent. In fact, the culprit would confess his crime just a few days later.

“I don’t want much. I know you can’t bring him back to me. I don’t even want an apology. I just want to know why.” The mare asked.

Celestia kept listening, but didn’t say a word.

“I’m not sure if you can tell me why, but I don’t know who else to ask.”

And still Celestia kept on listening.

“I guess you must find my pleas absurd, or ridicule, but it’s very important for me. I just don’t understand anymore why it had to happen that way. Why it had to happen at all. Why she did nothing to help me. Why she didn't receive me.”

And again, Celestia let her talk.

“I guess I came to you because for a thousand years you were the only princess in Equestria, the only one to look over us, and you always took a good care of us. I guess I just trust you more than any other princesses. More than anypony in all of Equestria.”

The silence that ensued felt almost healing. It was feeling like the mare and Celestia were sharing an invisible bond in the mare’s sadness and despair. It felt great to be able to speak like that, to say what had to be said, to know a good ear is listening to you.

And then, as the soft silence had finished enveloping the mare with its gentle and caring caress, Celestia asked:

“Who are you again?”

THE END

Author's Note

Okay, I guess I should explain.
First, I'm very proud of how this story turned out. God I love it. Don't care how badly written it is. The challenge was enormous from my point of view and I didn't do too bad of a job for once.

Second, to give some explanations:

While Twilight's parents are basically non-characters in canon, it still gave me an easy hook to build off of and provided an instant reason for Twilight and her friends to be personally concerned about his fate.

This comes from anowack's interview I just read a few hours ago:
Anowack's interview
And yes, that is why I put a link to his story in the description.

It felt funny to see how right he was that we, as readers, wouldn't have felt even remotely concerned about the fate of an original character that was just introduced there in his story, in contrast to how much we begin to feel concerned when this original character becomes Twilight's father.
I felt insulted, not because it's insulting (far from it, Anowack did it completely right), but because it shows something true about the human mind and my personal way to see the world. To sum it up: I don't know that person, so I don't care."

I decided to explore the concept to one of its extreme, by making the reader not care whatsoever. And I took back a concept from my list of stories I wish I could write with the whole "nothing happens" idea.

Also, thanks to prilla 111 for the music playlist.

Now, due to how I "sold" that story, nobody will read it, and the few that would will find it confusing or badly written, they will be right and who cares?
Right?
This is also the reason why I didn't use that story to try the "posting chapters one after the other" thing. The ending would just be way too frustrating for anybody who would had read it that way.

God I need to go to sleep...