The Citadel

by Rametep

The epilogue

Previous Chapter

Flurry Heart was sitting in her bed and looking out of the window at the snow gently falling. It had been a few weeks since she came home and collapsed on the floor. She didn't remember what happened after that but she was told that she had been rushed to the hospital to get her injuries treated. Unsurprisingly she had been in a pretty bad shape and would most likely not have made it if she was left without medical care. Apparently she had a broken wing, three broken ribs a fracture in her leg a minor internal bleeding several wounds that needed stitching and a concussion. Plus several other minor cuts and bruises. With a list like that one could think that she had been run over by a train. But that was just her physical injuries, her mental trauma was an other story. She had trouble sleeping and often woke up covered in sweat from a nightmare. During daytime she preferred to not be alone and had either her mother of father keeping her company whenever they where free. But still she couldn't shake the feeling that she had lost some part of herself in the other world.

Flurry lay her head back down on her pillow with a soft sigh, her parents had been really worried about her disappearance. Apparently she had been gone for over three weeks which didn't make sense to her, she couldn't have been over there for more then two days tops. Time must have been moving differently in that hellhole it was the only explanation she had. The entire city had been on lockdown once her absence was known and multiple search parties had been sent out into the wilderness to look for her. After two weeks of searching with nothing to show for it even outside the empire they had started to fear the worst. She turned her head to look back out of the window, focusing on the snowflakes gave her a little peace of mind. Security had been heavily increased around her, but who could blame her parents for that after what she had told them what happened to her. Wards had been placed on the castle for magical protection and there where always at least two guards near her at any given time.

There was a soft knock on the door which brought her mind back to the present, the door slowly opened revealing her mother holding a trey with some soup and bread.

"Are you awake sweetheart, I brought you some lunch." she said carefully as she entered.

"Yes I'm awake" Flurry said giving her mother a small smile.

Cadance walked up to the bed and set the trey down on a table next to it before sitting herself in a chair.

"So how are you feeling today, any pain?" she asked.

"Mostly just tired." she replied.

"Still having nightmares?"

"Sometimes, but mostly I'm just scared that whenever I go to sleep I will wake up in that world again." Flurry said as she sat up to get some food.

Cadance helped her to sit up even if she didn't need to but Flurry let her do it anyway because it was nice to be taken care of.

"Your father has been exchanging letters with Twilight to figure out how this all happened in the first place, and see if we can prevent it from happening again." her mother said as she lifted a spoon of soup towards Flurry.

"If anyone could figure it out its her, I know she will stop at nothing before she finds an answer." she continued.

Flurry swallowed the soup before answering "Yes she always manage to find a solution to problems somehow." she let out a small laugh.

"But I'm just happy to be home again." she said looking at her mother with a smile.

"And so am I sweetheart." Cadance returned the smile.

"I love you mom."

"I love you too Flurry Heart."

The end.


Author's Note

Well that was that, I want to thank everyone that took the time to read my fic and I hope you enjoyed it.

Here is some more music to end it with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UviAw7x5xqc