>>35033981>You roll your eyes, scoffing, ignoring the tear crawling down your cheek. “You make a whole story about me, this horrible monster who tried to rape you out of nowhere, all because you don’t want to be revealed as the cheating fucking whore you are. You’re sick, Cadance. You’re so fucking wrong.”
>“Anon, you don’t understand,” says Cadance. >Her voice has been calm, not rising at all. >But it is solemn. >It is not proud, not victimized— it is a professional’s voice, the speech of someone keener than others. >She walks with a slow, melancholic confidence up against the bars. >“The Crystal Empire’s renaissance is due to Shining Armor and I’s love for each other. If it wasn’t for our marriage, the love the crystal ponies believe we share, then it would never have become the power it is today. If word got out that my love for Shiny was fake, that I was truly in love with the alien guest Princess Celestia put under our watch, the entire empire would fall apart, just like it was when the Empire first reappeared: powerless, hopeless, decayed. If I didn’t act like you were raping me, then—!”“You could have handled it hundreds of other ways,” you say tersely at her. “Do you know what they’ve done to me because of you? They’ve beaten me, tortured me, paraded me around the empire for people to throw shit at me, call me a monster, a rapist, a creature with no love in his heart. They haven’t torn my skin off. But it’ll get there. I know it will.”
>“No,” says Cadance. “I made sure they won’t. Nothing that will lead to suffering such as that. But you’ll suffer as you are forever, I’m afraid. I’m sorry.”>You sigh, drawing your eyes away from her. >It hurts too much to look at her. “You did this to me. You ruined everything. I finally had a life I was happy with. I had friends. I had a castle. I had you…God, I loved you so much…”
>“And I love you too, Anon, I just—” 