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05 Butterflies [Audio]

Guys...I-I think...I think Rarity's gone...a-at least...one of them is, anyway...

I-I...I can't find her...a-and when I tried calling her scroll, I...I-I didn't get anything...

She's gone...

[But please, someone tell her that she's wrong.]

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Maybe a little. Dunno what I'd do if I saw her again, though.

[Another headshake.]

I mean, on one hand, she saved my life... probably in more ways than one. On the other, she mired me a hell of a lot deeper in th'damn religious dogma that kept me hating myself most of my life.

[At that, Flare tilts her head, eyes going from that hairpin down to the rest of Fluttershy as she thinks about it.]

I guess part of the reason I keep wanting t'ask if you guys are related is... well. She was quiet, like you, but she wasn't really... timid. She knew what she wanted, she knew how to look out for herself, and even if it was a faith that didn't work with how I saw myself, she had faith, she had a reason to keep giving 100% each and every day.

Mm...she sounds like she was really important to you in a lot of ways...

Do we...remind you a lot of her?

[Flare nods her head again.]

Lose the wings, change the mark, [...grow a spine...] and you're a dead ringer for her.

O-Oh...

[Sure, knowing different versions of herself was perfectly normal. But a whole different pony that seemed so similar? That was strange.]

W-Well, I...I hope you, uh...I hope you find her someday...

I-If, uh...that's what you want, I mean...

[Flare shakes her head, giving a slight smile.]

Don't sweat it, Fluttershy. If it happens, it happens, if it doesn't, it doesn't. I found something more important during my time in this Equestria anyway.

[Two somethings, actually - Harvey and her own Reason. And the latter, Cálice could never take away from her.]

And even if I said her way of thinking didn't work with me, there was still a nugget of truth that was in there, one that should be shared. Everything happens for a reason. It might not be part of some Celestial design, but things always happen for a reason, and it's our job - yours, mine, everypony else's - to find that reason.

[Fluttershy perks up a little at that. That's something she's told herself, as well...ever since being in the Digital World, she always believed that things happened for a reason.

And hearing someone else say so helped her believe that again.]

Right...

[Flare sees her perk up again, and smiles a bit wider herself. That was the kind of emotion she wanted to see in the other mare. Faith. Hope. Perseverance.]

Even painful moments can be teachable lessons, or... like in this case, a reminder that we need something to hold us up, keep us going. That we need to earn happiness, not just have it handed to us.

[She nodded.] Mm...a-and even if we forget that sometimes...that's why we need others...to help remind us...

Thank you.

[And with that, Flare scoops Fluttershy into another hug.]

It's fine. I just did what any pony would do.

[She smiles, returning the hug.] Still...I really do appreciate it.

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