‘Dodge City! It was my birthplace to the Road family. A family so acute with the natural magic of agriculture and livestock, that they managed to bring back the city from being overrun with ghosts. I had hoped to die there, but I guess the hoof dealt to me by the fates, has deemed me unworthy.

Unworthy of the blood that coursed through my veins, or the name given to me by a family known for great feats. No, I was never worthy of those gifts, gifts bestowed upon my soul by the creator. For I squandered it with my eagerness to join the royal guard, the same royal guard that spat in my face. A face that only sought after a genuine life for himself, and to prove that an earth pony could indeed be entrusted with the protection of the princess, that belonged to the sun.

A sun so dim, that it clouded the pony's judgment. I endured its dull golden glow, I endured that flickering beam of sunlight. I sacrificed my flesh to appease the god of a burning star, a star so hot it melted my coat and sense of self away from its holdings. I did all of that and more, and what was I rewarded with? An empty death!

A death hollowed out from the grasp of the bony one, enrobed in black… That is all I can see now, a fatal darkness that enshrouds my snout. A snout that feels ever far-flung from its resting place. My body feels that I am covered in verglas as I drift further into the current of a cosmic ocean.

Where is this current taking me? I dare not dream, but I do know that it is taking me away from you. The only pony that chose to befriend me, chose to befriend an earth pony with a coat that seemed to ooze out mire, or so the other ponies in the barracks claimed. You didn’t see the colour of my coat to be the embodiment of filth. You said, “That is the coat of a thoroughbred. A coat so arresting, it captured your heart.” I asked what you meant by that claim, and you smiled and shrugged it off, as though it was nothing important…

Berry, I- I miss you so much. I just wish I could hug you again even if it was to be our final time. That too, is not fated for me. I am made unworthy yet again by the fates, unworthy to be hugged one last time by my adopted brother…

Why is it, when I am in my time of need? Sorrow is all that I can feel? It freezes my heart knowing I am no longer able to commune with him. I just want him back, I want mama back. I don’t want to be in the cold darkness any longer. Let me leave this ocean, and pull me back to the world. I can not stand the perforce, bestowed upon me by the fates…

Please, whoever it be that rules this realm. I ask you, may I be sent back?’

Author's Note

This is Rocky Road speaking.