Spirit Waker

Drowning. Sinking.

There is nothing but me here. There is nothing but shadows here. There is nothing but pain here. There is nothing but memories here. There is nothing but her. Only her. I am nothing.

I. Am. Nothing.

I'm so scared. I'm alone. Why am I alone? Why were they so alone? They only knew fear with only false love. This loneliness feels even greater now.

The castle. It was all the castle's fault. They shouldn't have done that to themselves. They should've lived closer together. They should've made time. They could've made time. They knew what it meant to only have each other. Yet...

No... Maybe I don't understand. Maybe I never understood anything. Maybe that's why I'm here and she's.... gone.

But hope did come. Look past the past. Look toward the more recent memories. She loved and laughed. She stood for what she believed was right. Doesn't that count for something?

Maybe... Then why am I here? I feel so trapped here... I feel like I'm suffocating in her memories.

Than let me help. I've known her longer than you have. The two of us can shift through her memories easier. I know what it's like to be left in the dark. To be left alone with no one else to be with. I won't let that happen to you. I'll be your friend. And you'll be mine.

Friend... she didn't make too many of those growing up, did she? Luna was always the easier one to approach. Do you think she envies her?

Perhaps.

You won't leave me alone here, right? I feel like I've been here forever. With no end in sight of what I see. What I learn. There are so many names running through my head, I doubt I'll remember them all.

Of course. I doubt I could leave if I wanted to. I'll happily stay by your side and we'll figure this out, together. I...

The strange voice. The entity seems to stop. Something grows in this space. Something massive.

And then, she's gone. No...

Replaced.

Ah... I had wondered what had become of you. I suppose you would wind up being lost somewhere deep within my own mind. Or I suppose... Our conjoined minds. I felt Twilight's presence before, but not as strong as this. She even forced her way into my form. I know I should be proud of her, but all of my emotions feel... muted.

Why are we like this? Why are you like this?

Time can do a lot to someone. But from looking through your own time, you and yours certainly don't have as much as we did. You would have died in another, what, sixty seventy years? Meanwhile, time would continue on with or without you there.

But you were dead too! So it's not like you had forever to live...

That, is where you may be wrong. I thought that when I died, I would be gone forever. But I continued living even after death. And apparently, others have as well. We managed to pick up Twilight at some point, which means my sister could be somewhere as well. Trapped in that eternal limbo state. I'll find her-

No, you won't. Not while you're here. You should work with us.

Working together has shown me weakness. I don't need a weakness. A crutch. I need power. I need to right every wrong and repay my pain tenfold to those that have done this.

You're psychotic.

... Perhaps. Then again, You really don't know anything. You're still sifting through my memories when I merely took minutes for yours. You'll be trapped here for years. Hopefully long enough for you to become one. I already have enough to deal with. I'll have to wrestle control back out of Twilight's hands and teach her a thing called time and place.

She's right you know. I can tell she's more powerful than you.

Mayhaps. But everyone slips.

The two forces look towards the window of the present. The first slips away into memories once more, while the other watches the world outside through eyes no longer hers.