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[Khenal]

'Is she implying...?'

My expression hardens as I look her in the eyes.

"Take care moving any other captives, Willow.  'Unfortunate accidents' are unbecoming."

I stand to leave the office.

"Come with me then, Willow.  I want you with me while I see to this Diomedian's... misery."

[Dsarker]

"I should have been there... I don't know how you can even bring yourself to call me your daughter anymore...I don't deserve it."

[Omegaxis]

Gray looks to the side and notices two Spears on the ground. He walks over to the Spears and stares at them. "Are these mine? They look familiar..." Gray looks around and sees another pony "Who is that...?"

[Telgin]

The three continue to hold each other, repeatedly reassuring one another with nuzzles and reminders of how much each loved and missed the others.  Finally, Kris manages to compose herself enough to ask,  "...mom... if you've really been here all along... why did you wait until now?  I mean, to talk to me?"

She hesitates in guilt.  There was no particularly good reason.  "I was afraid of what might happen."  She nervously looks off in the direction of Friesden before returning her attention to Kris.  "I... was afraid you'd... you'd..."

Kris cocks her head.  What, kill herself?  It was true that she felt like dying the day that her mother did, but she'd never really considered killing herself.  "...mom... to know that you're okay... that's all I could have ever wanted."  She smiles and gives her mother another squeeze before backing out of the hug.  Her eyes move between her two deceased parents, then to her grandparents standing off next to Friesden.  "I guess it's true, what they say.  You really are in a better place, aren't you?"

Falcata and Estoc exchange uneasy glances.  "Actually, honey... that's something I wanted to talk to you about," Falcata says, fiddling with the key dangling from her neck.  "I... I haven't faced Luna yet."  She again gives Estoc a worried glance.  "But... she's sent for me... I can't put it off much longer..."

"That... what does that mean, exactly?" Kris asks.

Her mother shakes her head and continues to jostle the key nervously.  "I really don't know."  She lays a hoof on Kris' withers.  "...but I might not be able to see you again... I just don't know..."

Kris lowers her head, and her ears droop slightly.  She'd just been reunited with her mother and father, and now she was finding out she might not see them again.  Not until she died herself, anyway.  Or maybe never?  What was the afterlife really like?  "I... understand.  Seeing you again, even once... that's more than I could have hoped for."

[Impending Doom]

Starkey kisses Friesden on the forehead.

"No, little one... you are the only pony who deserves it."

[Dsarker]

"But...I should have helped you..."

[Telgin]

Kris frowns a bit as she overhears Starkey and Friesden conversing.  She really felt like she should have done more herself... but she didn't want to upset the mood any.  This might be the last time she saw any of them.  To have this last chance... she didn't want to spoil it.  She looks over to Starkey and Otik.  "Um... grandpa, grandma... are you leaving too?  Did Luna send for you too?"

[Impending Doom]

"No, Kris. Too many ponies still need us here. We'll both be stayin' f'r a long time."

[Dsarker]

"Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-you'll be staying? C-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-can I talk to you each day? I don't deserve it...but please?"

[Impending Doom]

"Well... I should hate to be too much of a burden..."

Starkey looks to Venture.

[Khenal]

Venture puts a hoof to her chin, thinking.  Luna would come to get them eventually, but surely there was no harm in letting Friesden see her parents until then?

"It's a fairly simple spell, I'd be happy to cast it for you, Friesden."  She says, smiling at her friend.

[Dsarker]

"R-r-r-r-r-r-r-really? T-t-t-t-thank you, thank you, thank you, thank all of you, you're too good to me, thank you!"

[Omegaxis]

Gray stumbles into the town Kris is in dehydrated and injured. He stumbles into a random house "Help me..." Gray mutters before he is rendered unconscious.

[Telgin]

Kris smiles a bit.  Well, that was good news.  Even if Luna wouldn't let her keep her mother and father, she could still see her grandparents.  She gives Starkey and Otik each as strong a hug as she could with her injured hoof and says, "Thank you... I'm so glad to see both of you two again... and that you're okay."  As okay as you could be when you were dead, but at least they weren't in pain.  Were they...?

The four deceased ponies remain with Friesden and Kris until the wee hours in the morning, talking with their loved ones about everything they could think of.  Eventually Friesden and Kris begin to succumb to the rigors of a mortal body and grow drowsy.  It won't be long before they drift to sleep, and the spell that lets them see and interact with the dead breaks.

All the while, Falcata continuously fiddles with the key hanging from her neck, and by the time the two are nearly asleep, her expression is that of somepony who would be facing execution.  She continues to look at the door of the hospital, wondering how much longer she could put this off... was putting it off making things worse?

[Omegaxis]

Gray wakes up in the hospital. "Where?" Gray sees the doctors and realizes he's in the hospital. he sees his gash patched up and his wing healed. "How?" Gray sees Kris outside and thinks 'Whoa whos that...'