Space + Bugs

Epilogue

Love Bite stood on the memorial graveyard, looking up the anonymous grave for those that had perished during the battle for Sarizia. If she just closed her eyes, she could remember being a filly in this very same place. It once had been a beautiful park, her parents used to bring her here on sunny days for picnics, her father would teach her how to fly and her mother would teach her magic.

All around, flashing high-rises towered over her and the neon lights from nearby shops drowned the light of the stars. In the years since the battle, Sarizia had been recovered from the Changelings, it was growing once again.

After the confrontation on the command bridge, they had been taken in by the Tarkus defense forces, luckily the Equestrian Defense was more than happy to settle everything quickly and bury any notion that one of his officers had been using dark magic.

They had spent a couple of weeks of resting and recovering from their ordeal while they waited for the Errant Venture to finish repairs.

It had been on their last day on Tarkus that Love Bite told Josh that she now knew where she wanted to go. She wanted to go to Sarizia, she needed to see the planet so she finally say goodbye, so she could be free to move on with her own life.

She deposited the flowers in front of the memorial.

“I’m sorry it took so long,” she whispered. “It took me a while, but I’m finally free. Things have been getting better for me, my wounds are healing and I even got a job as a security officer on a spaceship.”

Love Bite glanced back at Sinclair and Velvet, they were waiting for her a few steps back.

“I found love too, in a way I didn’t expected,” she chuckled. “I’ll try to visit again, but it’ll be a while, the Society already has a new mission to us.”

Love Bite raised herself, said a last goodbye and turned away. Josh and Velvet followed her, she looked from one to the other with a silent smile.

Her future looked just right.