I am Captain Jack Sparrow, savvy?

Daybreaker flies towards her old castle, aiming to spare her daughter from the suffering she is enduring that is being caused by her taking one of the coins. She holds her sleeping daughter in her arms as she senses that it is time to raise the sun and lower the moon, and continues to fly towards the ruins even faster.

Meanwhile, at the ruined Castle of Two Sisters...

Barbossa takes the dirty goblet he found in one of the still-intact rooms and holds the bowl to his mouth, then blows out the dust inside of it. He then gazes inside the goblet then takes his handkerchief and uses it to wipe out the remnants, then tucks the handkerchief back into a pocket. Bending down to pick up the bottle sitting at his feet he discovered in the old library, he stands straight and raises his hand clutching the neck of a dust-encrusted bottle. He opens his mouth and brings his mouth down towards the cork, bites it, and then jerks it free with a pop. He then spits it out across the floor and turns his gaze back to the bottle and sighs sadly saying, "Well...here goes nothin. Let's see if I can taste this at all."

The lone pirate moves the cleaned goblet into position near the open bottle and pours some of the contents out into the goblet until it reaches half-full, then swirls the bluish glittering liquid around in it and raises the goblet's rim to his lips and takes a drink from it. He is surprised to feel a tingling sensation followed by something similar to waking up hungry in the morning and says, "Hmm...interesting. I wonder what kind of beverage this drink may be." then takes another drink from the goblet and empties it.

After finishing the bottle off, he drops it to the floor and picks up a book about magic then starts to read it to entertain himself during his time here. He then half chuckles and says, "This world sure is a lot more interesting than the other one is."

A couple of hours later, Barbossa finishes the book and sets it down when he hears hasty hoofsteps echoing down one of the corridors leading into the room. He rises to his feet and moves in front of the passage leading towards the vault, then reaches for the hilt of his sword and draws it when the steps draw nearer saying, "Who or what creature dares to tread upon these haunted halls?!?"

Daybreaker carries her sleep-spelled daughter around the corner and into the room with a sigh saying, "Relax Barbossa, it is just my daughter and me."

He then relaxes and sheathes his sword with a roll of his eyes saying, "Here I was, hoping that some poor wanderer had come here searching for treasure. What brings you back to these ruins, hmm?"

She then looks down at her daughter affectionately and says, "My daughter found a way to follow us into the vault and foolishly took one of the coins, therefore I am here to end her curse so she can enjoy life without such suffering."

Barbossa looks at the little filly and chuckles saying, "Mischievous little whelp, she is definitely Jack's daughter alright..." He then turns his eyes up to her and asks, "So how are things on board the Black Pearl with your husband and the crew?"

Daybreaker looks away in shame as a few tears roll down her face when she recalls how she set fire to many of the homes inside Manetown and chokes out, "Horrible..."

He looks at her with curiosity and asks, "Oh, do explain further please."

She begins sobbing as she starts to tell him how things started to go from bad to worse, then she continues her tale saying, "Then, after we buried my stillborn twins......I asked him to make the ponies pay for their deaths...and he agreed to it! So we sailed to Manetown and arrived in the middle of the night amidst a heavy rolling fog with a night sky having a full moon blocked by only a few clouds, then opened fire on the unused fort. Once the fort was destroyed, I-I..."

Barbossa hangs on her words, eager to hear the full story and asks, "You...what...hmm?"

Daybreaker squints her eyes closed and continues, "I asked him to have a little fun with the curious villagers..." She then sobs a bit more and resumes saying, "So he turned his cannons onto the town and began firing, I even joined in by casting a few fireballs at the panicking citizens. I watched a structure collapse and laughed at the suffering I was bringing upon my own subjects, but then I heard a small filly's cries for her mother above the screams. Something inside me couldn't tolerate it anymore so I raced toward her to silence her when I found her tugging on her dead mother's arm. I don't know why, but seeing her mother's arm tear-free and knock the filly down, then land upon her struck a chord in me once she started crying out an apology for hurting her. So I took the filly up and carried her away from the town and set her down, telling her to find a family nice enough to take her in and care for her. After that, I took off back to the ship and headed inside the cabin to get some time to myself. I was instead greeted by the sounds of soft crying coming from my daughter. After asking her what was wrong, she told me that she couldn't satisfy her hunger or thirst anymore and that she should have died a year or so ago. When I held her in my arms to comfort her, we fell asleep for a little while and I saw her rotted body in the moonlight. I went to touch her, but noticed that my own arm was rotted as well. So after I went to the mirror to look myself over, Jack told me that the moonlight reveals us for what we really are. After he showed me what he looked like in the light, I couldn't bear to deny my daughter the chance to live a happy life...so I brought her here to give her that chance at happiness."

After hearing her story, he smiles sadly and then jerks his head towards the passage behind him saying, "Oh the things we do for those we love..." then turns and starts walking down the hall, then stops after a short ways and glances back over his shoulder asking, "Well...aren't you coming?"

She quickly starts following him down the empty ruin, spying a familiar empty bottle and says absentmindedly, "I completely forgot that we kept a good stock of mana-infused liquor for when my sister and I used to try out new spells when we were younger, they can remain here though, I have no need for them anymore." then continues on down the hall.

Barbossa leads her to the vault and watches her activate a mechanism to reveal the hidden door, then enters with the key and unlocks the door for her, and stands to the side. He watches her head towards the chest and set her daughter on the floor, then stands back up to grab the ancient knife and kneels by her daughter's side.

Daybreaker then takes her daughter's hand in hers gingerly and holds her palm up saying, "I'm sorry sweety, but you may never see your father again after this night..." and runs the blade across her palm, slicing it open. She then sets the knife down and retrieves her daughter's coin and lays it in her palm, staining it with her blood before tossing it into the stone chest.

A metallic clunk is heard as the gold piece lands atop the other pieces, the blood price paid as the curse fades away from the young filly.

She watches as her daughter starts to shiver from the cold and unconsciously wrap her arms around herself, allowing her to release a sigh of relief when she looks at her own hand. Picking up the knife once more, she quickly slices her own palm open rather deeply accidentally. Unable to feel the pain as blood runs down her palm and up her forearm, distracting her for a moment before she tosses the blade into the chest and retrieves her own coin.

Barbossa watches with a nostalgic smile as he remembers when his own curse was lifted, then returns to the present as Daybreaker lays the coin in her bleeding palm and clenches it tightly, then chucks it up into the chest. He hears the coin land among the others and watches as her appearance begins to shimmer and revert to what it once was saying, "Such a beautiful thing to watch...you are back to looking like the Celestia I know."

Celestia smiles and casts a healing spell on her daughter's hand and her own, then watches as a scar forms on her own with only a small scar appearing on her daughter's and sighs sadly, saying, "It is a small blessing to be able to feel things again, the times ahead will be difficult, but at least my daughter will be able to have a happy life free from that wretched curse..." She then looks at Barbossa and says, "You could do the same as us and enjoy a peaceful life, Hector."

He chuckles and shakes his head saying, "Nay, missy. I have a destiny of me own to seek out, so I shall be upholding my deal with Jack for the time being. But feel free to stop by from time to time to keep me informed on the events of the outside world, hmm?"

She then picks up her daughter and blinks away a tear saying, "I shall do that, fare well for now until my next visit Hector." and then takes her leave of the cursed treasure.

A couple of months later, in Canterlot Castle

Summer stomps her hooves as she marches towards her mother's room, kicking the door open roughly and storms in shouting, "Wake up, mother. I am angry and demand to speak to you!"

Celestia wakes with a start at her door being kicked open, then sees her daughter standing there and takes a breath to calm herself then says, "You startled me dear, what is it you need at this hour?"

She frowns and crosses her arms saying, "Why do you keep me locked away here, I am not a criminal!!"

The mother sighs and casts a privacy barrier and then sits up in bed saying, "No you are most certainly not dear, but your father...most certainly is. Just last month he attacked and sank 20 merchant ships, leaving no one alive. If you are going to demand to see him...the answer is no."

Summer Poppet scowls at her mother and stomps her hoof saying, "I don't care, because he is my father and unlike you...I still love him! I want him to be in my life, is that too much to ask?!"

Celestia feels a pain in her heart at how she betrayed her husband and winces at the memory, then narrows her eyes at her daughter and says, "I still do love him, but as he is now...he cannot be a decent father figure for you."

She then scoffs and crosses her arms once more, then starts tapping her hoof on the floor in agitation saying with a roll of her eyes, "Stop lying already...I know you hate him, so why are you still married to him if he is such a monster?"

The princess winces as another pain hits her heart and then strengthens her resolve to be a good mother and says, "That is no concern of yours, you are still grounded for taking one of those accursed coins."

Summer glares at her mother and keeps trying to get her way and says, "I must thank you for this lovely little scar, it makes me want to be more like papa than you."

Celestia can't take any more lip from her daughter and then uses her royal voice while gesturing to the filly's room bellowing, "I'VE HAD QUITE ENOUGH OUT OF YOU TONIGHT, GO TO YOUR ROOM RIGHT NOW!"

She wilts as her desire to see her father fades away, sadness quickly taking her desire's place. Her eyes start to tear up as she sniffles and turns around, then races towards the door. She passes right through the barrier and races off towards her room as tears start streaming from her eyes thinking, 'My mother has never, ever, used the royal voice on me...'

The princess collapses into her pillow, sobbing as she leaves the barrier up at how things have came to be this way between her daughter and her. She looks at the scar on her hand and clenches her fist thinking, 'Would things have been better if I hadn't removed her curse while she was asleep?' and cries herself to sleep.

Several years later, at the port city of Van Hoover...

After her newest flagship has been finally finished called the Sunrise, the largest ship to have ever been built having 62 six-pound cannons on four lower decks, Celestia sighs at knowing that in spite of her repeated attempts to get her husband to stop attacking merchant ships and port towns...she will have to stop him herself. She stands upon the aft deck and looks at the captain of the ship, then orders him to set sail for the recent spotting of the Black Pearl.

It takes the Sunrise a couple of months to travel to the last known position when a scout comes back, then stops to salute Celestia saying, "Your Highness, the Black Pearl has been spotted a hundred miles away to the East. They are currently on a course that seems to be heading to this very ship."

Celestia sighs and says, "Thank you for your report, soldier. Please return to your post." then looks to the captain and says, "Adjust course to pursue, Captain Hoofington."

As the ship continues on its course, the princess can't help but dread this inevitable confrontation necessary to protect her citizens from the Black Pearl's cursed crew and thinks, 'My daughter will definitely be unhappy about me putting her father in chains and seizing his ship, I just hope that she can forgive me someday...'

A few hours pass as two ships appear within sight of each other, both continuing on their course to engage each other in an unavoidable battle in which there can only be one victor.

The captain looks at Princess Celestia and salutes her, then politely asks, "Forgive me Your Highness, but I do not think that you should remain on this ship while she engages with the pirate ship...you could be injured. Can you keep us safe from the air?"

She nods her head with a smile and says, "Thank you for being so considerate, I shall do just that." then takes off into the air, a hundred feet above the ship as the Black Pearl starts turning to their starboard as her ship starts turning to port. She watches the two ships as both their gunports open up and the cannons are rolled out, then begin to fire at each other.

As a few cries of pain are heard, cannons continue to fire on both ships in a contest of survival when the Sunrise's main and aft masts crack and topple to the port side.

Jack gazes upon the crippled man-of-war with pity and says, "How sad it is when a ship sails on her maiden voyage and sinks on it..." He then looks to his crew and shouts, "Load the burning, heavy shot!"

Celestia watches with astonishment at how poorly her ship is damaging the Black Pearl, then watches curiously as the Pearl's cannons are pulled back, then rolled back out to fire upon the crippled Sunrise once more and begins to cast a spell to protect her crew from the attack. Unfortunately, she is too late to cast it as the Black Pearl fires her cannons. She watches as time seems to slow down as the cannons continue to fire off individually, launching out a projectile that starts burning when the cannon is fired. She watches as the projectile strikes the side of the ship and punches right through the wood, then disappears as minutes seem to pass when a low crackling starts to fill the air.

The low crackling gets louder as it seems to get even faster when a reddish glow begins to emanate from the open gunports, revealing its source when fire slowly rushes out of every open gunport.

The princess watches as her eyes take in the sight of her flagship exploding in agonizingly slow motion as every board around the ship's middle begins to bulge outward. The boards around the middle of the ship transform into splinters that are driven away in several different directions as the remains of the deck collapse into the lower decks while the ship slowly starts breaking in half and starts slipping below the water's surface.

Time resumes as a large boom sounds out through the air, showering the nearby area with deadly wooden shrapnel as the gutted ship splits in half and each portion manages to remain floating for a few seconds while burning wildly.

Celestia's vision becomes red as she watches her first warship become nothing more than burning debris floating on the water and snaps her vision to the cause of it...Jack Sparrow and his beloved Black Pearl. She then glares at him in a rage and uses her royal voice to shout, "CAPTAIN JACK SPARROW, YOU HAVE TAKEN MY SUBJECTS FROM ME FOR THE LAST TIME!!! EVERYTHING AND EVERYPONY YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH IS RUINED...NOW YOU SHALL BE PUNISHED FOR IT!!!" She then charges up a spell she hasn't used in a long time and continues shouting, "DISAPPEAR FROM MY LIFE AND SINK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEAS WITH YOUR BELOVED PEARL YOU MONSTER!!" She then fires her spell at the ship, causing it to glow with a sickly green aura as she then finishes shouting, "I BANISH YOU FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!"

Jack stands on the bow, watching the ship as it starts to glow and slowly drifts forward, the Black Pearl's bow slowly dipping down towards the sea and pulls out his necklace they got at their wedding and winds it up while looking at his wife saying, "Sticks and stones love...did you know that I finally finished putting words to this song that means so much to us both? Allow me to sing it to you..."

He smiles as he begins walking slowly towards the helm and starts singing along with the music box, "Brave and bold, like a ship at sea, you saw me, and restored to me... Hope and love, oh please grant me, a new life, with you now... Troubles come, and they all shall go, I shall face the foes, or be the foe... Through long years, I shall be with you, our love won't ever die... Come, my love, our life at sea waits, by my side, til forevermore... Through the screams, to eternity, I claim the sins, as mine... Hear our song, and think of me, when dangerous, times seem to come... You shall know, that I will be there, I'll always be, inside... Cursed and dark, may I have become, evil still, but maintain hope... Wounds I caused, may sometime mend, but you shall, always be." He pauses a moment as he starts going up the stairs then continues singing a little slower while holding the rail with his free hand, "Brave and bold, like a ship at sea, you saw me, and restored to me... Hope and love, oh please grant me, a new life, with you now..." at the final note, he clicks the locket shut and tucks it inside his shirt and takes hold of the wheel with one hand, and grabs his hat with his right hand and flourishes a bow to her saying, "Happy Anniversary, Your Highness! Or rather...Pirate Princess Celestia!" He then returns the hat to his head and calls up to her as he feels his feet getting wet, "Remember this day as the day you almost..." but is cut off by the sea completely engulfing his head and groans saying, "I never get to finish saying that..." then turns towards the wheel and takes it with both hands as he starts to feel drowsy wondering, 'I wonder how long I shall be gone for...' as his eyes drift shut while his ship continues gliding toward the ocean floor.

Celestia's red haze and rage dissipate as she recalls what he sang to her in great detail as his ship slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, causing her wings to flutter for a brief moment and lose some altitude when her eyes start to tear up uncontrollably. She wipes her eyes free of the tears, but they keep coming as she starts sobbing and looks down at the sea where the Black Pearl was, seeing the dull glow fade away completely. The knowledge that she just banished her own husband hits her hard, causing her to nearly fall from the sky as she just wants to curl up and cry for her loss. Instead, she turns around and looks for any survivors of her flagship, finding only the captain still alive and pulls him out of the water.

It is a long flight back to Van Hoover while carrying him and trying not to plummet into the ocean from her seemingly endless tears still flowing down her face when she arrives back in the port and lays him on the ground shouting, "This brave pony captain needs aid right now!"

A doctor and nurse rush up to start looking at the soaking-wet captain as the doctor looks up and asks, "What happened to the Sunrise and her crew, Your Highness?"

The princess starts to openly cry in front of a crowd and gets herself under enough control to sob out, "T-The evil has been vanquished at a great price...I am sad to say that the Sunrise and her crew have been lost, claimed in the battle against the Black Pearl. I must take my leave and rest in Canterlot for a while before I start to repair the damage done by the Black Pearl's wicked reign over the Equestrian seas."

They both bow to her in respect as she quickly turns away, still sobbing, and flies towards Canterlot as the nurse looks at the doctor and says, "Way to go you idiot, you made the princess fly away crying."

The doctor looks at the nurse and shakes his head with wide eyes saying, "No I didn't, she was already upset over what happened with the fight against the evil Black Pearl and her captain."

A few hours later, in Canterlot Castle

Celestia makes her way through the castle, ignoring the guards questions if she is alright and heads for the doors to her room. She then hastily throws them open and closes them behind her, rushing towards her bed and falls upon it. Managing to use some strength to crawl up onto her bed further, then clutches a pillow to her chest as she casts a quick privacy barrier before letting herself cry out over having to banish her husband.

Summer Poppet pokes her head out of her room after having heard her mother's sobbing and seizes the opportunity to finally try to get her way and see her father, then grabs the book she was reading along with the gorgon eye she found hidden away in the castle's secret vault and heads to her mother's room with a grin on her face thinking, 'Thanks for helping me come up with this idea Lizzie.'

Elizabeth crosses her arms and asks, 'You are not really going to use the spell...are you?'

The 17-year-old filly scoffs mentally and says, 'Of course I am not, I just want to...encourage my mother into letting me see our father. I have no desire to turn myself into an object for birds to perch on and crap all over...'

Elizabeth sighs with relief and says, 'Well that is very good to hear, I was actually worried that you intended to use it.'

Summer pushes one of the doors to her mother's room open to see her crying into her pillow uncontrollably and closes the door behind her with a smirk and walks into her mother's privacy barrier saying, "Mother, you and I need to have a talk..."

The princess sobs and hears her daughter speaking to her and looks at her out of the corner of her eye and weakly says, "Can it please wait until tomorrow...my dear?"

She presses her advantage and says, "No mother, it cannot. I want you to let me see my father, right now...or else I will punish you."

Celestia sobs and clutches the pillow closer to her head and mumbles into it, "I'm...sorry......but it is impossible."

Summer raises one eyebrow questioningly and says, "I'm sorry, what did you just say? I can't understand mumble."

In a fit of grief, she lifts her head from the pillow and cries out, "I said I'm sorry but it is impossible!"

The filly looks at her mother's tear-stained face and her red eyes and then narrows her eyes at her and asks, "Why? Why is it impossible?" She then thinks for a moment before she asks with a little anger in her voice, "What. Did. You. Do?"

Princess Celestia turns away weakly and looks at the wall shamefully like a filly caught with her hand in the cookie jar and chokes out, "F-Forgive me...please."

Summer Poppet gets a little madder and then shouts back at her in the royal voice demanding her answer, "TELL ME! TELL ME WHAT YOU DID RIGHT NOW!"

The princess quakes at the volume her daughter put into the royal voice and hiccup-sobs saying, "I...I banished him from Equestria."

The daughter's vision starts to turn red as she glares at her mother and screams in the royal voice, "YOU DID WHAT!?!" and clenches her hands around the objects she holds as her arms tremble with anger.

Princess Celestia turns back toward her daughter and tries to curl up on herself as she then says, "But-but I had no choice after he destroyed my ship and killed nearly the entire crew of the Sunrise, otherwise I would have arrested him and put him into the dungeon so you could visit him while keeping the Black Pearl in our custody."

Summer Poppet's vision zones in on her mother and bellows at her full strength, "HOW DARE YOU! THAT IS FATHER'S SHIP, NOT OURS AND YOU KNOW IT! BRING HIM BACK RIGHT THIS INSTANT!"

She looks down at the pillow with sorrowful eyes and shakes her head slowly, saying, "I cannot, it is too late because the spell I used to banish him cannot be undone by me, him, you, or anypony else. I am sorry, please forgive me for wanting you to have a happy life without the curse making you suffer."

The filly's vision returns to normal as her rage instantly dissipates when something snaps inside of her, leaving her somewhat calmer as she then looks at her with disdain and turns away saying, "Very well then, you have chosen your own punishment." and walks quickly out of the room with one place in mind to enact her punishment.

Princess Celestia reaches weakly for her daughter as she exits the room, not liking what she said and tries to get off the bed. Her hooves feel like spaghetti under her as she tries to rush to catch her daughter, her own body seeming to be unwilling to cooperate with her as she stumbles and falls a few times.

Summer Poppet stands by an empty marble column just across the Canterlot Gardens from the statue of Discord as she waits for her mother to catch up when she sees her tumble out of the glass panel double doors and weakly scramble towards her on her hands and knees with tears streaming down her face.

The princess tries to stand and run to her daughter saying in a pleading manner, "Please, do anything to punish me...just don't run away from me!"

The filly climbs onto the short column as her mother gets closer to her and stands on the column, holding the book open while holding the eye in her other hand about shoulder level and then looks down at her mother over the top of the book saying with a grim resolve in her voice, "I intend to punish you, but I am not running away from you. I intend to have you look at me every day of your entire eternal life and remember what you have done to deserve this. I shall return when my father does..." She then closes her eyes for a moment and channels all her magic into a single spell and then chants, "Lapis immortalis transformatio, fatum patris." then crushes the gorgon eye and holds her hand in a tight fist as she feels the spell cast itself, sending a tingling feeling throughout her whole body as an invisible wind picks up and causes her long mane and tail to blow in the breeze, and her cloak to flutter behind her.

Princess Celestia looks on in dread as she recognizes the book her daughter is holding when she looks back at her daughter as it slowly begins to turn to stone, starting from her hooves and moving up her body when her daughter keeps her eyes closed and addresses her saying, "I utterly despise how you took my father from me...now suffer for your crime..." then adds one more word with particularly strong venom in it saying, "Mother" then smiles ever so slightly and opens her eyes and looks at her just before they too turn into lifeless stone.

The princess looks up at her daughter as the spell finishes transforming her into a statue, then lets herself crumble into a heap and openly starts sobbing at what her daughter has done to punish her. Her quiet sobs slowly devolve into uncontrolled crying, then slowly into all-out wailing as she loses all composure and frantically claws at the statue, screaming out, "NOOOOO!!!! NOT MY BABY GIRL...PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS SWEETHEART, I'M SORRY!!!"

One of the maids comes out to investigate the noise and spots Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria, dragging her bloody fingers against a stone statue and wailing out in complete misery. Deciding that this is completely not within her ability to handle, she goes to inform the princess's assistant to inform her of the development.

Swift Quill is in Princess Celestia's study when there is a knock at the door and says with a sigh, "What is it now, did the twins start a fire in the guard's latrine again?"

The maid enters and clears her voice, but manages to calmly say, "Uhm...I went to investigate some noise in the Canterlot Statue Gardens, and I found Princess Celestia kneeling in front of one of the statues...wailing and crying out while dragging her bloody fingers all over it. She seems to be extremely upset about something, which I am not qualified to deal with."

The assistant gasps and rushes past the maid saying, "Quick, go get a few things to tend to her wounds while I get her back to her room!" then quickly races to where the princess is at, finding her still wailing and clawing weakly at the statue. She then gets up behind her and strikes her in the back of the neck to knock her out.

After carrying Princess Celestia back to her room and tying her hands and hooves so she can't fight against her, she sets a nullifying ring on her horn and begins to dab a wet cloth across her forehead to fight against the fever she has.

It takes a full year for Celestia to somewhat recover her sanity as she looks around the room drowsily and asking, "Wha...What is going on? Swift Quill, are you there?"

Swift Quill sits beside her bed and takes her hand and says, "I'm right here, Your Highness. Are you feeling any better?"

The princess tries to sit up, but her aching body insists that she lay down and groans saying, "What happened, why am I so sore?"

The assistant looks at her with a sad look in her eye and says, "You first suffered from a mental breakdown, which was compounded by what the doctors that have been sworn to secrecy are calling, 'The Broken Heart Syndrome.' Basically what happened was that you suffered such a severe emotional trauma that your body and mind just totally broke down and caused you to act like you just watched your soulmate die." She then takes a breath and asks, "Now I don't want you to push yourself too hard or go through that again, but could you tell me what might have caused it?"

Princess Celestia shakes and sobs as she remembers what happened and sighs saying, "I was left no choice but to banish my husband Jack Sparrow after the Sunrise was sunk and most of her crew were killed, then to make it all worse...I told my daughter and she punished me by turning herself into that statue that I was trying to change back into her..." she then places both of her hands over her eyes and rolls over onto her side and then curls up on herself like a foal would and begins sobbing over how utterly alone she feels.

Without saying a word, Swift Quill leans over and crawls onto the bed, then wraps her arms around the grieving princess.