Sixth Smile | [Action]

[brokethefourthwall]

[It's been about a week since Applejack has gone home, and Pinkie Pie has finally decided to show her face again. She's looking a bit different than she normally does, however. Her iconic cotton candy mane has fallen limp, lifeless, swaying hopelessly in the breeze as she shuffles aimlessly around the village.

She can't begin to process the idea that her friends aren't coming back. They didn't find a way home. Someone sent them away from her. And worse, if they do find a way back, they won't even remember being here in the first place. The surprise parties, the adventures, none of it mattered because no one who leaves will ever even know it happened. If that's true, then what's the point of doing anything at all?

She sighs to herself, staring down at her hooves.]

(Responses will be coming from nomorepoof.)

Comments

[geniustheveil]

Are you feeling sick? [After all, 'Pinkie Pie' and 'sad' aren't the words that immediately go together in someone's mind.]

[nomorepoof]

Sick in my heart, maybe. Yeah...

[She sighs to herself.]

[geniustheveil]

[Oh. Oh. Some of the others had mentioned Pinkie Pie was taking it hard. And Ami definitely understands as the realization snaps into place.]

If you'd like to talk about it, I'll listen to you. I feel like I can sort of understand, a little.

[nomorepoof]

I wish I knew what to say...

[geniustheveil]

[What would she want to hear if, say, Rei were to go home tomorrow, right after so many others have?]

I know it doesn't really help to say you'll see them again. You're missing them now. And you know your world is safer for them, but you still want to be with them. I know that, too.

But we want our friends to be proud of us, don't we? So we have to stay strong even when we feel like that. We have to think about seeing them again instead of missing them now.

[nomorepoof]

But I'm strong because of my friends, and they're all going back home, or going to other worlds and forgetting about me! I don't know how... to be strong with that happening...

[geniustheveil]

[Ami shakes her head.]

Even if you can't be with them right now, you can be thinking of them. I'm sure they're thinking of you, too. You can be with them that way.

[nomorepoof]

It's just not the same... I'm thinking about them all the time, but it doesn't make me miss them any less.

[geniustheveil]

[She knows. Oh, she knows. And that's precisely why she's sympathetic to Pinkie's plight.]

How about writing to them? You might not be able to send it to them, but at least it's a way to share your thoughts. You could write in the journal, or get a paper one.