Broken Love

About five years after Sage had moved away from us, an old problem had come back. The dead bully. Although I had killed him a long time ago, and the cops had no leads at the time, modern magic had gotten better, and some hot shot officer who was originally on the case decided to reopen it after a new spell was perfected.

The spell was one of many revolving around death and corpses. Some morgue worker living in a mining town had been experimenting and had perfected many a spell related to necromancy. This spell in particular allowed someone to look through the eyes of a dead pony, and experience their final hours. And the cop had used it in the Ponyville Cemetery, on the very bully who tormented my son.

And obviously, the last thing he saw was a very angry me.

So the police knocked on my door. And there's only two reasons for police knocking on your door in a small town. Either you're in trouble, or they think you know something.

So when I looked through the peephole and saw four angry police officers, I knew I had to run.

I grabbed some food, and put it in my saddlebag. I sprinted up the stairs to my bedroom and scrawled a note only Egas would understand. It said to meet me where we spent our first anniversary, on a ledge on a nearby mountain.

I used my horn to open the upstairs window and slipped out. The officers below had broken down the door and were searching the house. I slid down the rafters and fell to the street, flexing my changeling wings out of the false body for the first time in twenty years. It looked so strange, a white unicorn suddenly growing dark butterfly - looking wings.

I took flight and went towards the mountain. I needed to hide from the police.

I landed on the ledge and found a small cave, big enough for a few ponies. I threw down my saddlebag and used it like a pillow. Now I just had to wait for Egas to show up.

I waited until nightfall. I saw the officers search the town of Ponyville from my perch. They knocked on doors, flashed searchlights, and sent squads of pegasi to do fly - by's over the town to locate me. They never realized I had escaped a long time ago.

Eventually I started to doubt Egas would ever come. From what the officers had most likely told him, he wouldn't want to. But like anyone would, I sugar - coated my doubts with hope. I kept telling myself that he couldn't slip out due to constant surveillance.

But near midnight I hear leaves being crunched under hooves and peered out of my cave to see Egas searching the ledge.

"Psst!" I whispered. "In here!"

He walked into the cave and muttered something under his breath, and then his horn illuminated.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He immediately interrogated.

"Why would I?" I said. "I love you Egas, but how could I have known that you would forgive such horrid acts?"

"Because I often fantasized doing what you did. Being a strong parent. Taking in violence as an option."

"Not openly."

There was a silence as he thought.

"You're right." He exclaimed. "Neither of us could have known what the other was thinking."

"So where do we go from here?" I asked him.

He sighed and said: "I... I don't know. I'll pack our things, and call for a carriage from Canterlot. The news hasn't reached there yet. We can go somewhere and start over."

"And what of Sage?" I said.

"He has his own life now Emmije." He said. "He'll be in college for years, and I'm sure after that he'll start a family."

"No loose ends." I said. "And a start from scratch."

Egas left the cave and went back home under the cover of night. Pegasi stopped patrolling the skies and the searchlights died down. This would be old news by tomorrow. And we could start over again.

Or so I hoped.