#earlyequestria

Ash: Cute eyes are not a legal defense.

Powerful tactic, though.

Almost worked for three seconds.

Ash: Some questions are not looking for an answer.

They are looking for a softer version of the truth.

Ash: Lapiz mattered.

That part was real.

Doesn’t mean it was clean. Doesn’t mean it was simple. Doesn’t mean I knew how to explain it without making it sound prettier than it was.

I was stuck somewhere I did not belong, changed by something I did not ask for, and lonely enough to make bad answers sound reasonable.

So when people asked, I said ‘we’ll see.’

Wasn’t honest enough.

Wasn’t cruel enough either.

Just messy.

Eventually, we saw.

Then that chapter closed.”