Promotion

"You are forgiven"

Dry Boy's eyes flashed open and breath pushed into his lungs like a breached door as he gasped and clutched to it like a prepared meal after a long journey. He was laying on his back, and above him, he saw the broken branch that he hanged himself on. The thick branch was rested at his side, and the rope was neatly rolled beside him also.

"The branch broke, so I removed it from on top of you and I rolled the rope neatly beside the branch" Said a voice.

Dry Boy had to get up because of the snow blocking his side view. He got up and shook all the snow off of him. He cracked his back, and he twisted his sides. Dry Boy felt like a new pony, after receiving a new breathe that he had long missed, he turned back into the new Dry Boy after that breathe. "Forgive me for what?" Dry Boy turned and saw a farmer holding a walking stick, wearing a plaid shirt underneath overalls and a tan cowboy hat. The pony faced away from him, looking to the hills but from the back of his head his hair sparkled like the galaxies and was white as wool.

"For breaking my tree" The pony had a very calm tone to his voice, pleasurable and desirable like the sweet juice from a fruit of life.

Dry Boy looked up to the broken branch again "How long was I up there?"

"Not long, but not too short. At a perfect moment of time you hung there, and at a perfect height you descended to not be fatally harmed. I watched the whole thing, from the beginning to the end"

"Oh you did? But, ugh, I don't see any houses near by"

"I live near by. I'm always at reach in places like these"

"You must travel these open fields a lot then, I'm assuming"

"You speak correctly. I have been wandering the fields for trees that bore fruit, then I found the tree from where you hanged and the branch from where you hanged was broken off because you fell"

Dry Boy was about to say something but the pony interrupted him with the answer to the statement Dry Boy was about to make.

"Winter just recently, started. There are certainly still fruits on the tree, but the fruits are horrible and rotten"

Dry Boy looked closely and did see a few fruits and indeed they were rotten. "What are you, on retirement or something?"

The farmer laughed "What is age?"

Dry Boy chuckled and for a moment of silence he thought of what to say. "Ugh... so, did you also hear what I said before trying to hang myself?"

"Yes, from beginning to end and as I said before, you are forgiven"

Dry Boy then looked at him funny, and he asked the farmer "Ugh, who are you?"

The farmer sighed "Dry Boy, have I been with you all your life, from your lowest to your highest, from the day I named you to the day you named yourself, from the day I adopted you to the day you left me to the day you came back to me, from the day you were born to the day that you will die, and yet you still ask me 'Who are you?'. Am I not the One who told you that you will be shot hundreds of times and never die, but you will be shot once and only faint and wake up as a hero of war, and it was so? Did I not tell you that ponies will tremble before your presence in battle, and when you were in battle even your own comrades trembled because I dwelt in you? You know me, then you forget me, then you know me again, then you forget me again, but this time you shall remember me and know me forever"

By these words, Dry Boy began to be shaken and his heart skipped a beat, and a totally different expression developed on his face while a single tear crawled out of his eye and started to stream down his cheek. Dry Boy was dumbfounded and could barely utter the word "L-Lord?"

The farmer turned and His face shined as bright as the sun. His face shined so bright that Dry Boy fell flat on his tummy and his face was buried into the snow because he could not bare to look at the Creator's awesome countenance. The Creator spoke again with His eternally galactic water-like voice "Dry Boy, you are my child. I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be not afraid, for I will give you rest where ever you go and I shall be there with you and for you forever and ever. Be not afraid, for you shall see the face of God and live."

Dry Boy slowly lifted up his face, now filled with tears, and he saw the Lord in His glory. His eyes burned like fire, completely white and spotless fur, white as wool hair that waved and sparkled and shined like galaxies, hoofs like bronze glowing gloriously as if they were in a furnace, and he had two cutiemarks, on one side he had "Alpha" and the other "Omega" Dry Boy, feeling the extremity of His magic that was aired around Him, he could not stop weeping and crying with a loud voice "Lord, Lord, OH MY LORD!" and Dry Boy felt the Magic from the Creator captivate him to say "Long have I mercilessly beaten you and have pierced you, yet You have shown me everlasting mercy. Long have I shown you a brutal hatred, yet You have shown me an eternal love"

And the Creator said to him "Dry Boy, rise up and sit with me and look at the hills with me"

So Dry Boy lifted himself up and sat beside the Creator. He hardly looked to the hills, he looked back at the hills then back at the Creator but he mostly stared up to the Creator with a tearing smile.

"Dry Boy, you see the hills are covered with a smooth blanket of snow"

Dry Boy looked to the hills again "Yes, they are"

"Do you remember the time period when you graduated elementary school yet hadn't entered high school yet and you asked me to make your first kiss be your wife's kiss?"

"Yes, I do"

"I was ready to keep my promise, but you were still not ready. Continually, you asked 'Lord, give me this mare' or 'Lord, give me that mare' yet I did not give you any because you were not ready and also I was keeping my side of the promise. However, when the temptress came you abandoned me. Continually, you moaned about your loneliness, but did not think that if I gave you a mare as a partner, you would leave me lonely. Continually, I told you not to worry about it because my timing is perfect yet you followed your own desires and destroyed what I had built you up to be, my child. Because you defiled your face with many ponys' lips, I purified it with a righteous flame, for I burst my magic through your horn and caused the flames to engulf you and cleanse the filthiness from it, to burn off the impurities. Now that the week is over though, and you have returned to me, you will see what I meant by what I said long ago 'My timing is perfect' and you will finally understand. The sin that troubled you all those years, and that internally destroyed you will finally be diminished. You will grow higher than you have ever reached before. I will make you into a Prince."

"Lord, I don't even have a running car anymore yet you're telling me I will be made into a Prince, how will this thing happen?"

"You know we face the south, right?"

"Yes"

"Look at the hills, they are covered with a smooth blanket of snow. Flowers cannot grow underneath the snow, but when spring time comes, the snow melts and the water causes the flowers to spring up and during the summer the land is overflown with a garden. There is a special one whom I have prepared for you beyond the hills. She is far more precious than jewels. She is as beautiful as the plains of the arctic snow, her eyes are as wondrous as the depths of the night sky, her hair waves like the raging sea, her curves are like the bending of space and her breasts are as large as your face"

"Lord, I already got out of a failed relationship that I caused to be destroyed. How could I behave myself around a mare like that if I couldn't even behave myself around Mariam?"

"She is full of much more wisdom than Mariam she opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue, she is much more disciplined, and much more elegant than any other mare you have ever heard of. She surpasses all other mares and being around her will not be like being around Mariam or any other mare. She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from afar. It will be like the great polar bear's first face to the summer sun"

Dry Boy marveled at the sayings of this Great Almighty Being, and he eventually stopped crying. Dry Boy remembered and repeated the words the Creator told him back in the Caneighdian war, "The polar bear does not go sun bathing when summer comes, but goes in search for food, making use of its precious time"

"When you meet her, you will not be there to waste time, but to work. She will also be the one I use to take you away from the curse of the evil one. The curse will be taken away by the dabbing of the flames of the eternal everlasting passions that do not pass, but is never ending; patient and kind, not envious nor brags in pride of its chattels, that is not rude, selfish or easily angered but easily understanding and easily satisfied in the ways of the truthful light that will never be put out. And when you receive your first true kiss, you will be a complete creation, such as she is"

Dry Boy snuffled "Y'know, I always thought I was just providing those ponies with comfort back in the high school days"

"Oh my son, it is good that you seek to comfort others but there are levels of comfort that no other deserves, because for that level of comfort only one is worthy of feeling and I will set you in her bed, and you shall comfort each other"

"Just as long as I am where you want me to be, I am happy"

"Dry Boy, look at the hills. Look beyond the hills. Look at what awaits for you at the end of the climb. I send you back to Equestria . Go to Canterlot, and into the royal palace and look for employment. There you will find your delight, there you will find your crown." Suddenly, the snow around the bright One began to levitate into the air, encircling Him. "I go now to my dwelling place, you must also go to the safe haven I have prepared for you"

Dry Boy leaped down onto the ground and hugged His forelegs until a storm of snow built up around Him and blew around him intensely like a tornado. Dry Boy looked up, and through the thinness of the snow he could still see the glow of the Creator. The snow eventually grew too thick that his eyes were blinded and he had to put his face down with his eyes sealed shut. After five seconds the snow descended back onto the ground and Dry Boy could see again. Only this time, he found himself hugging the tree and he looked and saw the branch of which he hanged himself on replaced and a pare, perfectly ripe and green, hanging off of it. An overflowing glow of magic embraced his spirit and made him feel rejuvenated and he heard a whisper saying "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser"  and he realized why he hugged the vine-covered tree and he cried on that tree saying: "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you"