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Never time for goodbye
You never have time to say goodbye when loved ones pass away. It can happen in a heartbeat, without warning or rhyme or reason. Untold thousands of ponies learned this lesson after the Battle of Pastern Vale, but few lost more or felt that loss so keenly as Tilter Gallant. Every title she’d ever earned was stripped away, her father’s House cast to ruin, friends slain for one cause or the other. But she would have gladly given all that and more to bring back her brother. Just for a minute. One minute to say goodbye.
All because they chose the losing side.
You never have time to say goodbye when loved ones pass away. It can happen in a heartbeat, without warning or rhyme or reason. Untold thousands of ponies learned this lesson after the Battle of Pastern Vale, but few lost more or felt that loss so keenly as Tilter Gallant. Every title she’d ever earned was stripped away, her father’s House cast to ruin, friends slain for one cause or the other. But she would have gladly given all that and more to bring back her brother. Just for a minute. One minute to say goodbye.
All because they chose the losing side.
September 2, 2013
Disregard the “F” quote below. I was trying to quote this.
Wisdom-Thumbs here. The name “Pastern Vale” was chosen to resemble Passchendaele. I based the battle itself on the Battle of Stoke Field (final battle of the English Civil War, 1487) and the Battle of Bosworth Field (1485). Bosworth saw one of the earliest uses of a field cannon in battle, and Stoke Field saw extensive use of handguns by German mercenaries. Both battles were especially tragic.
Stoke Field had “the Red Gutter,” where most of the retreating Yorkists were slaughtered. That gave me the idea for “the Bloody Pasture,” and for Red Pommel. Before that, Bosworth was the battle where King Richard III charged King Henry Tudor and nearly reached him, even unhorsing the finest jousting knight in England (with a broken lance!), only for Richard to die anyway.
The leader of the Equestrian rebels performed a similar charge at the Bloody Pasture, with similar results. It ended in war spells, and the leader’s body was never found.
Ok. I’m crying.