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“Velvet…”
 
The alicorn stallion could hear someone calling his name as he slowly came to. A bright white light pierced through his fluttering eyelids, the air smelled stale, and he could hear beeping.
 
“Please,” the voice came again as something warm gripped his hoof. “Please come back to us.”
 
Flurry! Velvet’s eyes shot open. Despite how dizzy and disoriented he felt, he soon realized that he was alive after all, in a hospital room with his closest friend by his side.
 
“Velvet!” Flurry looked up in tearful shock. “Oh, thank Gaia!”
 
It was Flurry Heart all right. Her telltale sleepy eyes from being constantly busy were 10 times heavier from her stress, and her mane was messy and made entirely of split ends. High-strung Flurry. He knew he was in the hospital and he knew what he had done, he just…needed a second. So he just blinked at her
 
“Do you know where you are?” She asked frantically. “You lost so much blood. If you can’t speak, blink twice if you can understand me.”
 
After a few seconds of knife-cutting tense silence he sighed, a sigh that was so loud in Flurry’s head she felt it might shatter her eardrums. But it meant he could verbalize!
 
“I know where I am, I know what happened. I’m…still here.”
 
Flurry said nothing at first, instead engulfing him in a hug. She was shaking and choked up as she spoke.
 
“Oh Velvet, we almost lost you.”
 
He hugged her back but it wasn’t tight at all, he was like a stuffed animal whose hooves were held together by velcro. He wanted her to feel his warmth and comfort, he wanted her to feel loved. To know he was there.
 
But he couldn’t keep lying to her.
 
“I can’t do it Flurry. I’m a failure and I’m…I’m not ready! I can’t rule a kingdom, I can’t even rule my own mind.”
 
He spoke too fast and got himself out of breath, wheezing softly.
 
“I..I…I…too much”
 
Flurry gripped him a little tighter. “You’re not a failure Velvet, it breaks my heart that you think that. But…oh my, it is too much. None of us are ready.”
 
He let out a soft chuckle as his tears started dripping down Flurry’s back like a clogged faucet, then they flowed, and suddenly he was sobbing all over her and talking in between. It was all so messed up. It was all too much.
 
“You’d think, for ponies who ruled for thousands of years, or in your case at least 35, they’d…they’d have~~”
 
He went quiet and sucked in his snot.
 
“-taught us better.”
 
Flurry’s body heaved as her own tears flowed. “We’re so unprepared for this. It’s so hard, we outlived everyone we loved, and now…we’re suddenly ruling a kingdom. We had no time, no help…it’s too much for anyone to handle.”
 
They seemed to be on the same page but neither of them were really getting anywhere.
 
“You’re not handling it so well yourself, you know. I may have-“
 
He stopped himself.
 
“-but at least I go outside once in a while. You’re gonna end up like me, Flurs.”
 
Flurry stopped, pondering for a moment.
 
“I really do need to get help,” she uttered, shakily.
 
All his life, he was quiet, indecisive, a crybaby, et cetera. He needed to do something now. Not fail at something for once. So he pushed Flurry off of him and looked her in the eyes.
 
“You’re going to see a darn shrink~~” even in his epiphany he couldn’t bring himself to curse “-and I’m going to…well I don’t know yet, but I’ll do something!”
 
“You’re right, I am going to see a darn shrink.” Flurry let out a chuckle. “We’ll get through this, Velvet. Together.”
 
He smiled softly, let his head fall back into the hospital pillow, and gently closed his eyes.
 
“Go home and take a shower, your mane looks awful.”

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