Lyra Heartstrings gave everything to see the USS Celestial finished in time to escape. Against all odds, Equestria is ready to send out this evacuation ship, and preserve the legacy of their species. Lyra has one last day to visit her homeworld, before everything she ever loved is erased from the universe forever.

She should have just enough time to bring flowers.

Cover by Zutcha.

This story was written over the course of two hours for the Everfree Northwest Iron Author, where it placed third. The prompt for the contest was Smile, Gubernatorial, and Weasel. There were many awesome entries, many already posted here on Fimfiction.

This story is presented without my usual editing pass to preserve it in the format it appeared for the contest. I did manually fix the italics headers, which were not correct in the contest entry. While writing the story, I had all of two minutes to get it edited and submitted to the website, which was not enough to fix all that formatting stuff.

The ending wasn't quite what I wanted, I ran out of time before reaching the payoff I imagined emotionally, and I had to settle for something that wasn't quite as strong. Even so, I feel like it's wrong to revise. This is the story I entered, and I believe it stands as is.