Writings and Stories

[Kaltes-Herzeleid]

Five Years, Forever, Future
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Nightmare Rarity's hooves traversed across the stone surface of the bridge with regal precision. The kind that stemmed from countless years of life. Not a single wasted movement, not a muscle or limb moved more than it had to. My hand rested on a shoulder, the appendage instinctively seeking her out. Fur black as a radiant space.

"I'm sorry I wasn't able to get a gift for you this year."

"I think the pleasure of my lover's company shall suffice." She respond with wit, eying me from her peripheral with a sharp toothed smile. A smile so big I could see the corners of her eyes crinkle.

I smiled back at her, comfortably.

"Five years."

"Five years," she echoed in a serene sense of beauteous wonder and satisfaction. "The first five years of eternity."

I ran my hand up and down her back as we crossed the patch of grass that stopped at the lip of the bridge itself and we came upon a cliff.

"What sort of bridge ends in a cliff?"

Nightmare shrugged. Not in a manner that suggested the absence of an answer, but as a revelation in the absence of meaning the answer had. We looked out over the expanse of lake water below that stretched out from the monolith rocks reaching up beneath the cliff's brief end.

The water stretched onwards to the land beyond. Treetops protruding from a gray blanket of indifferent fog that had seeped through the forest. Stakes in the earth waving leafy flags to declare their existence.

"So, what shall we do now?"

"You trust my judgment?" I knew the answer before the thought even finished shooting from my brain to my lips.

"Of course," I watched her speak those words before she kissed me. A quick, strong kiss. The wind blew her purple mane about me and sheltered us from the world. My hands cupped her face, thumb running over her lips as she pulled away. Her bright tongue swiped over them and flicked its way over the skin of my thumb.

"We fly."

Again she smiled. No indication nor word was required for me to mount up on her back, knees clenching with sufficient enough strength as my arms found purchase around her chest. I wondered if she could feel my heart beating from my chest and to her back. I felt hers.

"Hold on."

In one profound leap we arched through the undisturbed air like a conjoined pair of pitched stones. The hair of her tail trailing behind her akin to a comet that held within it a shifting galaxy. The water closer and closer before in a single shifting burst we soared straight. Black hooves skimmed the surface and water misted about in dancing slashes of white. I could not stop smiling. She laughed.

We journeyed upward higher and higher. Stars in our wake. Some of them became one with the water. Horn first we pierced the fog. A supernova of sapphire expanding all throughout its form and faceless mass, stretching on in seconds of eternity in the forest as the fog died.

Neither of us looked down after that. My face nestled against her neck. The warmth. The absolute reality of her. In turn she felt me.

"The first five years of eternity." Our lives had met and neither of us had been the same since. It could be no other way.

It is quite a joyous thing. To look forward to the future with happiness and even greater the knowledge that you will always be loved. The future is weaved in the present and the present is love and so shall the future be love. I heard her breathe. An airy declaration of contentment.

I had no need to speak my thoughts.

She knew.