The price of your mistake is the lives of others.
Author's Note
Incomplete sketch for your reading.
Even after 3 rereadings, I still feel that I made a lot of mistakes in how best to express my thought.
The price of your mistake is the lives of others.
"You bitches will answer for everything! I'll fucking find everyone!"– threats and curses echoed in one of the many many parts of the Canterlot Castle.
"Let's run faster!" – somewhere far from the place where I am hiding, screams were heard. My heart squeezed hard again from understanding what is happening now.
"Gotcha, niggers!" – and I heard the sounds of broken bones and falling bodies. The sounds of battle began to be heard. Still, he caught up with them. I decided to distract myself from all this horror and just wait out a couple of minutes, singing various children's songs in my head.
"Huh... He's walking far away now – you can't hear the sounds of his walking at all." – I still uttered a few words from myself, after half an hour of running from an angry man. She didn't know what news had been brought to him, what had made him fiercer than manticore, but if she survived, she would remember this day forever. I've been so tired in the last ten or fifteen minutes of hiding in an empty one-and-a-half meter high barrel, which I had to personally deliver to a person's office, but I understand that if I get out, I will surely die.
"He's still in this wing..." – unexpectedly for me, next to me, right behind the wall of the barrel, I heard a quiet rustle of words. I screamed out of surprise and tried to break out of the barrel.
"SHUT UP, YOU FOOL!" – they abruptly took me out of the barrel and gagged me, I started trying to escape, but I got hit in the stomach. – "Shut up, you stupid bitch, until the human found us." – I was abruptly but quietly put on the floor and I realized that in front of me was one of the guards of the Princess of the Moon, whom a man caught up with a couple of minutes ago.
"I answer in advance – I do not know why the Commissar is in such a mood, I just barely escaped from him myself, having lost two..." – there was no fear in his voice, but there was a lot of tension and apprehension, most likely caused by finding a person in this part of the castle, although his human footsteps could not be heard.
"We need to wait for the Princesses..." – I barely mumbled to him, since this batpony has not removed his hoof from my mouth and I still have a lot of stomach pain, I hope that the blow did not even partially hit my uterus – I wanted to have foals with my husband.
"We won't wait for them..." – the batpony guardsman said sullenly, because he knew the truth.
"But why?" – I didn't understand anything at all right now. How I want to cry. – "Shouldn't someone have come to our aid already in such a time?.." – my voice sounded so plaintive that I didn't even realize at first that it was my voice.
"We were that help..." – my eyes widened at the moment from the horror of understanding that we are unlikely to get out of here in the near future.
"You've been a bad help, Lieutenant." – Celestia, no. It was his voice. The man abruptly and noiselessly came around the corner. HOW COULD HE COME UP SO QUIETLY!? I didn't see his first moves, but I knew he was already swinging for a punch. Batponi immediately threw me towards the far doors when he tried to block the blow himself.
"Sto..." – and while I was flying for a couple of seconds from a powerful thestral throw, I heard someone's head was punched with something obviously heavy. From the realization of this, fear shackled my movements, and I continued to lie on the floor, landing very close to the doors to another section of the castle, and being sideways with my back to the human.
"It's getting late, Lieutenant." – the man's voice was without obvious emotions, simple, with barely expressed fatigue and pity for batponi. I shrank from fear and tried to look like a dead pony.
"Hmm. It looks like the same barrel I asked you to bring." – I heard him take batponi by the hooves and drag him somewhere to the side. – "Can I put him in here? I don't need her anyway, thanks to both of them. And yet he almost won our first fight." – by the sounds that came to me, he dragged him now in my direction. I'm sweating.
"Yeah, it's a pity that I blew off half of your head. It turned out ugly on my part. But they did something ugly in my direction, too." – and then I heard him, obviously, completely lift the batpony and put it in the very barrel in which I was hiding a few minutes ago. – "And here's the lid from the barrel." – he lifted the lid of the barrel and walked slowly to the barrel itself, I realized this, guided by the sounds that I heard. – "Smells good by the way. It's even a pity to waste such a product with such a cedar natural smell..." – I barely heard how he probably sniffed the lid of the barrel. – "Good, I have to catch other fuckers, and then pay a "Courtesy Visit" to someone in return." – for the entire crosswalk–hall, it was heard how the man closed the barrel with a lid. – "Which way to go?.." – and at that moment I felt my heart break with fear – he went in my direction.
"Don't think I'm stupid and blind, bitch." – after these words, I felt the strongest and most painful blow in my entire life. I flew off about a meter with a scream, he kicked me with his foot. The blow landed in the center of my back. I do not know why I did not faint from that pain, but I know that nothing good awaits me further. A burning and unbearable pain swept through my entire body. It even hurt to keep my eyes open. And he came up to me with a slow gait, twisting some kind of thing in his hand by the sounds of twisting in his hands, I began to cry.
"In vain, of course, they did it. Moreover, in my good side." – the man sat down next to me and began to stroke me arbitrarily, in various places. The pain went away a little from his stroking, but fear and horror only gained momentum. – "Stop crying if this is an attempt to soften me." – he stopped his recent actions and stood up. – "I warned them both, but they didn't listen to me. And initially they didn't care about my words, as you can see today and already feel it yourself in the end..." – the man interrupted his speech for a second. – "Do you know what one of them said behind my back after I warned them about their adventure and the possible consequences?" – I did not know and did not understand why to say it, but with the last willpower I nodded and he continued. – "Great." – and immediately there was some kind of explosion, as if someone was shooting from an arquebus. – "Is it not enough for you?" – and immediately there was a second shot. And only now I realized that it was a shot from a commissioner's personal weapon and he shot at the one who fell dead from the second shot. – "I guess Captain Armor has nothing to do at all, since the officers of the guard cannot block an ordinary pistol bullet with magic." – I heard a contemptuous sigh from him.
"So." – the man went to the opposite door of this hall, apparently deciding to approach the corpse of the guardsman of Princess Celestia. – "One of them said: "Don't worry, Sister, he is kind and reasonable, he will understand and forgive if it doesn't work out.". Fucking whores of a thousand years of practice!" – I heard him clearly hit the corpse of a guardspony with all his strength. – "Do you hear the bitches?! I know that you can hear me and see me! Fucking carrion!" – from these words, whole herds of goosebumps ran through me. – "Do you think that I don't know you and your world so much that I can't distinguish an ordinary magic storage device from an observation ball!?" – and as soon as the person uttered the last word, something magical exploded not far to the side where the person was standing. I was concussed even from this distance. Now I didn't understand where I was and in what condition. I didn't even understand if the Heavenly Flower–that is, me-was bleeding from the internal bleeding. The only thought (and the only thing I can do in principle now) that I have now is: "It turns out that all these deaths and torments are because of the Princesses and their stupid adventure?..".
***
"This is a complete, unconditional failure..." – only a minute later, after they blew up the magic ball for reconnaissance (but it was the younger sister who did it, since the elder of the sisters was incapacitated for decision-making), Princess Luna expressed her position in such a voice that if there was a normal peaceful situation now, her sister, Princess Seletia, would be in complete shock, without the right to rehabilitation.
"He's right." – the younger sister said in a completely emotionless voice. – "You lied to me, Celestia." – but despite everything that was now in the soul and mind of the Princess of the Night, she never shifted her gaze and head from another observation ball, through which they saw and heard everything that was in another part of the castle, where a man was raging. It's their fault.
Right now, the two Main Rulers of Equestria were in a special small hall-a room designed to use rare and expensive magical artifacts for surveillance and reconnaissance. This place was created later after the complete construction of the castle. When Starswirl died, Celestia lost all the power of knowledge and magical power that he represented, even despite the many manuscripts and manuscripts he left behind, and when she heard about the unthinkable artifacts through which one can follow, she ordered to rebuild part of the castle. The room was rarely used, very much. But it has been used twice in the last year. And both times were failures. One is worse than the other.
"I hope you understand that I will not cover you now?" – despite the questionability of the message, these words denoted the actual component. – "If my example was not enough for you, and also, I think, an example with him, then I hope that an example with yourself will finally teach you something." – not wanting to stay in the same room with her sister anymore and lose her guard, at the request of her sister, Princess Luna raises part of her the body rises from a sitting position and stands up completely, leaving a beautiful seat cushion with silvered threads alone, and goes to the exit.
"You made a mistake. With me. Then with him. Then with me soon." – standing near the exit door, the Princess decided to speak out, but not completely, in a cold voice. – "And these are the cases that I know about." – at the same second, the speaker's head abruptly darted to the right side, and from the long and elegant horn of the Princess of the Moon, the magic of the elements of earth and fire breaks down – magma melted to the limit that was launched into one of the columns and walls of the room, and after that, to take a convulsive breath. – "But the most important thing is that you do not learn from your own mistakes, but you think that this will not happen next time or you will be understood and forgiven..." – having leveled her breathing, the younger of the sisters leaves the room, leaving Princess Celestia alone.
Princess Celestia herself was in a terrible spiritual situation by pony standards. But after her sister's words, she was only able to understand for a second that the situation that had been with her younger sister for more than a thousand years (how she felt after realizing what she had done with her sister) was just a trifle with what was happening to her now, and this only worsened her mental situation. She made a mistake. Like then. And this "When" was far from one, not two, and not three times.
"Sister is right. He was right, too." – the eldest of the sisters announced her decision in her thoughts. She is the cause of troubles. She didn't keep track of her sister when she had to. Then Starswirl and other cases. And now – what we have created, even though a man warned us, and later with the man himself…
Princess Celestia did not cry, did not sob, not a single tear was dropped from her eyes on her fur on her cheeks, she was motionless in everything, she was like a marble statue. The eldest of the sisters was sitting on her beautiful pillow with gilded threads with her eyes open, looking away from the ball-an artifact for espionage – she could not stand what a person was doing through her fault, although she had done many such deeds many times and was the main reason for such cases that the person on her background was practically virginal According to Princess Celestia herself, this is how it is, although it is not entirely true. She was tearing up. Even half an hour after the sister left, the eldest of the sisters did not make a single movement. She looked like a frozen statue of realizing her mistakes when it was too late to fix anything.
The only soap, for many hours, that was felt in a special observation room, where the Solar Princess sits motionless for more than a day, was incredible for most creatures that knew about the Princess. Anyone who dared to come here after the departure of the youngest of the sisters would absolutely hear these words continuously: "I lost myself. I was defeated by myself. I have lost everything...", but at the same time I would notice that no one speaks, and the words sound with a certain force in any part of the hall…
