A King's Vanity

“Seems I was right about love… complete, utter bullshit meant for the blind and needy” I spit at the floor tiles.

“Frostbite” Cadance whimpers and walks to me but I hold up a hoof making her stop dead in her tracks.

“I’ve wasted enough energy talking to your sadist king while your sister-in-law went on a scavenger hunt, but somehow she forgot about a trap that would alert his royal highness that she found his precious jewel, so he flew towards his prize while the baby dragon assistant fell to his death and at the last second your husband threw you into their path saving both Spike AND the city showing everyone just how loved they are while I was left in the snow… seems fitting if you ask me, the white stallion with fake wings unworthy to see what he would look like crystallized.”

“But-”

“Enough! It's not like anything I say even matters, you're just going to forget everything I tell you and go back to being surrounded by what I never deserved while I fade from existence, guess I’ll sleep in the dungeon till Twilight says we’ll leave-” I turn towards the six “-and I don’t want to hear another FUCKING word about love or sit through any bullshit lectures…only I’m forced to defend Equestria and after I’m done defending it, I go back to the same shithole bar, order the same shit drink and wait till the drink kills me”

I open the doors and allow the mass swarm of Chrystal ponies to flood into the room, despite the protests of Shining, Twilight, and Cadance over the ponies’ cheering; I make my way to the train station, lie down on a bench, put my sun glasses back on and drift into a dreamless sleep.