He sat on the ground of the balcony. His long hair covered most of his face, his head down, tears running down his cheeks, the silence only interrupted by quiet sobs. How he wanted to yell until his throat breaks, hit everything before him, blame everything that happened to him on the ponies.

And yet no voice came out of his mouth. His hands stayed rested on his tights. And no matter how angry or mad he was right now, he just couldn’t say even a bad word about Princess Celestia, or anypony else. Not after all that kindness, they showed him. He couldn’t even think about some conspiracy, that they just want to keep him here, it just seemed impossible.

When Princess Celestia told him, that they cannot send him home and then explained that it was because they cannot open a portal to a magicless world without endangering the magicless world. If magic would get there, the effects would be similar to a nuclear catastrophe, or even worse. That made Lazlo panic a bit, because if he got here, that means, a portal was opened and the place he was last would be like Chernobyl and most of his friends were there too. Luckily Celestia did calm him down, that since they didn’t find any trace of magic in his world, that means, he managed to get here, without any of the worlds being affected, which also meant that they had no idea, how he ended up here, or what exactly happened.

After the shocking news, Celestia offered him to stay at the castle tonight and that there were a few things, they needed to do tomorrow. Some of his friends wanted to stay with him, but Celestia told them, that it would be better if they leave him for tonight, go back to Ponyville and she will send him back later. Reluctantly they agreed. They said goodbye to him, some even hugged him, but he was just standing there, looking down silently. Finally, as they left, he began to walk back with the princess, who personally escorted him to one of the guestrooms and told him that if he needs anything, a guard will be at his door, just tell him and he will help him out. Then left him, because she knew, that what he really needed now was some alone time.

He didn’t even look around in the room. Just stood there, near the door, where the princess left him. After several minutes he began walking forward until he reached the other end of the room where a door led out to the balcony. He went out and as he reached the railing, looking down he could see all the way down to the mountain base. For a moment he considered jumping and ending his life, but he did not move. He did not feel like committing suicide. He felt nothing. Like his own soul left him, if he had one, to begin with. Like if all his brain stopped working except the vital functions.

He did not remember when did he sit down on the cold stone and got into his current position. Suddenly he heard it again. Music. A sad piano tune was heard. He stood up and began looking around. He could not locate the source but he did see several royal guards on the castle ground with their heads slowly leaning from side to side. All of them had their mount moving indicating that they were singing for the tune but Lazlo did not understand anything. To him, it was like a typical crowd murmur. But a sudden urge stuck him and he began singing.

[Lazlo]
Please sing me a beautiful lullaby,
About a love life, I wanted in my life,
How I wasn’t a bad person, nor was I good,
And no one can be more alone

Momentarily forgetting all the sadness he felt, he slapped his left hand to his mouth. He began hearing the guard murmuring again but he didn’t care about them right now. He wanted to escape from whatever this was. He thought that maybe if he run from this place, it will go away just like earlier this evening. However, this time he couldn’t move. Not on his own will at least. He walked back to the railing and put his hands on it. Looking up to the clear night sky, he began to sing once more but this time he wasn’t singing alone.

[Lazlo and a female voice]
Please sing me a beautiful lullaby,
About a loved life, I wanted till I die,
How I wasn’t a bad person, nor was I good,
And no one can be more alone,
Not a single soul can be more alone

As he got back the full control of his own body, not ignoring the other voice, he heard singing which was actually quite close to him, looking at his left he was startled a little when he noticed that a pony was standing there. A pony with a dark blue coat, wings tucked to the side, horn with a black tiara behind it, wings tucked to the sides. Her mane and tail were like the night sky filled with stars waving constantly, just like Princess Celestia’s. She also wore a dark chest piece with an image of a moon in the middle and also had silver horseshoes on her hooves. Looking into her cyan eyes, he knew that this mare here is Princess Luna, the younger sister of Celestia, who was imprisoned in the moon for a thousand years and who was saved by Twilight and her friends.

“Princess Luna.” he nodded his head towards her as a small bow but then his eyes went back, looking at what was before him.

“Lazlo Kis.” her voice was deeper than the average and had a tone that made it sound like something ancient was talking, which, considering her age wasn’t a surprise. Celestia’s voice sounded similar in that case, but while hers gave the impression of a kind old lady who showed motherly love and had every time she talked it gave the feeling that no matter what, everything will be alright, Luna’s was more mysterious and a little supernatural too. “It is a great pleasure of meeting with thou in this realm at last. I enjoyed our discussion in thy dreams.”

“What?” that kicked him out of his lethargy for a moment.

“Don’t thou remember?” she asked just as confused as the human. “We visited thou in thy dream. We talked.” still no sign of remembering, or even understanding. “We are capable of entering to the dream of another. We told thee, before our banishment we used this power to spy on our enemies and those who were suspicious of trying to ruin the unified Equestria. Now other nations are more open to cooperating than attacking and the ponies aren’t trying to overthrow our rule because our sister made sure to show them that living in peace and harmony is a happier life and tries to help as many ponies as possible. But we were still unsure what we can do to be our sister’s equal. Not many to do at night when most are asleep. We hath joined to our sister to some of the afternoon duties for we had been sleeping in the morning but that is not enough. But when our sister returned from Ponyville with the idea you gave her and we hath tried and the ponies did thank us for helping and some even showed up at our court to tell us personally, we knew we hath found the royal duty that would finally put us next to our sister. And it is thou, who made that possible. We will be forever grateful for it and in thy debt. Now please talk to us about this problem let us help thee to accept thy fate on it let us repay part of our debt this night.”

“I’m not in a talking mood.” Lazlo simply said after listening to the princess’ monologue.

“We understand and yet we still insist. Our sister did the same when we arrived back at first after we were cleansed. Please, tell us anything thou wishes in any way, we will not take any offense thou have our word as a Princess of Equestria.” Luna insisted.

“And what should I tell you?” he snapped. “How alone I feel? I just fucking sang it and I don’t even know how or why or what was that at all? Or how sorry I feel for myself? How I just want to be angry and blame someone for it but can’t because I don’t even know who is responsible for all of this if there is anyone for that matter?! Humans are a species that needs company, even the most introverted ones no matter how hard they try to deny it! But here, I’m the only one. And yes, I’ve come to accept you as persons but you still remind me of the horses of my world and they’re not sapient. So many things similar here, yet so many are different. And I don’t know how long can I go on without loosing my mind if I haven’t already...” his voice became quieter with each sentence. “I just... I just want to go home... I don’t want to live here...”

He heard a few steps, in the corner of his eye, he saw the princess coming a little closer to him.

“When we spoke in thy dreams, thou has told us that we have been given a second chance and how it was very rare, especially in a position we were and how grateful should we feel. Thou has told us that if we were given an opportunity then we shall take it and make the best of it. I cannot forgive myself for what we did but our sister could and we could become the Princess of the Night once more. And then thou have given us an advice for how we can come out of our sister’s shadow. And we have took the opportunity. Our situation is not the same but we can understand thy loneliness for we felt similar for
many years. Thou has mentioned that there are many similarities between this world and the one thou has come from. Concentrate on those to help accepting thy situation. We believe in thee and we are sure that thou will find thy place here just like thou did in your world. Equestria has became a prosperous and beautiful country during my sister’s reign and we promised her that we will help her to continue this noble cause in our own way and we know thou will be doing the same. Thou has a wonderful opportunity here so took it like we did.”

As she finished she placed her wing on the man’s shoulder and kept it there for a few seconds. She saw a few tears rolling down on his cheek but he did not give any reaction to what she said. She wanted to say more when finally she noticed a small nod from him. She retacted her wing.

“We will let thy rest for the night and make sure thou will not suffer from any nightmare for it is our duty now thanks to thee. Our sister also wishes to see thou in the morning and invited thee for breakfast. A servant will come to wake thou up before that. Have a pleasant night and we wish thee the best.”

She walked back into the room then out of the door on the other side. Lazlo heard her speaking with someone but didn’t pay attention to it as it faded away quickly as she moved further away from the door. He was alone once more. He stood there on the balcony for a little more before making his way back to the room. He didn’t remove any of his clothes, just simply collapsed on the bed and quietly cried himself to sleep.

Author's Note

Alright, so this was shorter, I know but I hope you still liked it despite the cringy old English. I also hope you liked that little song and don’t worry, there will be some explanation about how does it work. (spoiler: don’t expect much)

Anyway, since I’m not sure if I can come up with the next chapter this year (I’ll have a few free days though, so there is a slight chance but no promises) I wish you happy holidays and have fun, enjoy yourselves, etc. And let’s hope the next year will be better than this one was.

Until next time!