Endgame: Part 2

[letsplayamod]

The week goes on. A small miracle, how quiet it is. With no motives or attacks to speak of, you can breathe a sigh of relief even when a tension gripes the air. So few of you now, what exactly would you do were Typhon to return and decide the game was over? Was Athena always going to be out of reach? And what exactly did she want you to find in the center of this mountain temple, anyway?

Questions abound, and no answers.

...Until this morning. The sky itself is clear with very few clouds, but something still falls into your home. Not "physically," though, it's more of a feeling. The sensation of some great power entering this space. Everyone will notice it, and the way it passes by, sinking beneath the floors - all the way to the bottom level.

And there it ends up, waiting for someone brave enough to investigate.

Comments

[sweetsynergy]

[Looks at Luna.]

[Looks down at her own thoroughly covered body.]

...would, uh. Do you feel it. When they show up.

[raisethemoon]

Oh - well, there is a flash of light! But other species in my world do not get them.

[ She wasn't thinking that Vanity might have actually been marked! ]

In any case, let us see what happens. [ She moves to touch the wall with her horn. ]

[sweetsynergy]

[She is now being forced to consider how much light her suit would actually block.]

...What if someone changes their mind about- what, their passion?

[let's focus on that, that's definitely less worrying except for how it isn't]

[raisethemoon]

It is more likely that they may go many years without getting a mark at all. That is far less common in these days, I hear! It has always been encouraged for foals to try their hoof at as many things as they might, but access to such activities is far easier now. In any case - they are often open to interpretation.

[ Maybe Fluttershy could've changed careers to being an entomologist or something, who knows ]

[sweetsynergy]

Makes. Makes sense...

[does it though]

[letsplayamod]

[Luna's horn touches the wall and, for a moment before the soft golden light happens, she hears a gentle, magical hum.]

Goddess of Dusk, do you feel seen and accepted?

[raisethemoon]

[ Hm. Luna contemplates the question silently, eyes closed. Does she have to speak out loud? If she chooses not to, isn't that something of an answer all by itself? ]

...I know that I am accepted here, but I have my doubts that they truly see and understand what I have done.

[ Everyone was so casual about it. It felt wrong. ]

[letsplayamod]

[Whatever is here silently listens, the magical hum low and steady from her hoofs to the tip of her horn.

The response comes with no sound bit with a strong sense of understanding.]

Living with responsibility for actions of the past, especially ones those we care for cannot fully understand, can be the heaviest burden of all to carry, Goddess of Dusk Princess Luna.

[The golden light returns, briefly illuminating the wall in front of her and when it fades it reveals a shining golden half-moon, surrounded by glittering gold stars.

Another section deactivates.]