Scroll Forty Seven

[huffythedragon]

[Spike knows he's behind on asking this question. Maybe it's because he's been afraid of what he'll find out. But he knows eventually, he HAS to know, just in case he has to apologise.

...But boy, does he hope it's not bad]

I uh... I was wondering if anypony saw me during that feast of fools thing. Not...me-me, but the mirror version of me? I don't remember anything form that whole mess and I kinda was to know what the other-me did.

And be super sorry if I...he did anything to upset anypony.

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[bronwe]

Anypony?

[huffythedragon]

Yes, anypony. It's uh...the term we use.

[bronwe]

Are you a pony? [ He feels a little crazy asking this, but he's met the purple one! ]

[huffythedragon]

Oh no, I'm a dragon.

[Long pause] I was adopted.

[bronwe]

[ GASP, DRAGON. ]

Adopted by ponies?

[huffythedragon]

[THE WORST THING]

Uh huh. Twilight hatched my egg.

[bronwe]

How can a pony hatch a dragon egg? [ Not that he knows anything about dragon eggs... ]

[huffythedragon]

Oh, she's a unicorn, with very powerful magic.

[bronwe]

Is she like a mother to you?

[huffythedragon]

More like a sister, really.

NO THAT ICON

[bronwe]

And you are... kind to her, of course? [ Or did he burn her to a crisp... ]

YES THAT ICON FOREVER

[huffythedragon]

[He sounds confused] Of course I am, I love her. Why wouldn't I be kind?

[bronwe]

Perhaps I've heard only the terrible stories about dragons.

[whathedoves]

I suspect - hope, more like - there were enough of us in that situation that we might have some leeway on the forgiveness front, her.

You aren't responsible to any tomfoolery another version of yourself might have gotten up to while you were gone.

[huffythedragon]

I really hope you're right, man. I mean...nopony should me made to feel bad, and I wouldn't want to have my friend being hurt by other-me.

[whathedoves]

You've apologized, at least! Isn't that already a lot of good faith for something you didn't cause yourself?

I feel bad about it, too.

But I fear this may be, quite literally, out of our hands.

[huffythedragon]

I guess so...

Like everything else in this castle.

[whathedoves]

Oh, non non non, friend, we can't be defeatist like that!

Our free will cannot be taken away from us, after all, hm? Not entirely. We will always make our choices.

Like now -- you've chosen to reach out and apologize. That was all you.

[huffythedragon]

...

Hey. I guess you're right.

[whathedoves]

Certainly I've had a great deal of time to think about it.

But I think this was something you already knew. You just needed to be given a little push out of the nest, as it were.

[huffythedragon]

Errr the nest.

...Right.

[whathedoves]

Is that not an idiom shared between species?

Out of the ... cave, then?

[huffythedragon]

I didn't grow up in a cave...

[whathedoves]

...


No, why would you have? Most humans haven't, even!

Should I just say house? It loses some of that unique charm if I do.

[huffythedragon]

I grew up in a library.