@to-be-united-in-harmony | cont.
There was no way you could’ve anticipated Cozy turning out to be that kind of pony… nobody could.
What happened during that time happened… She was stopped by me, I am namely responsible for her being sent to Tartarus. Pains to say that if I wasn’t as merciful, then I would had to unfortunately eliminate her. She attempted to disrupt the balance of Equestria by draining her of all the magic and tried to send it to another world…
That would have had serious repercussions to the natural order of the world, and even if she was a filly at the time, I would’ve had to do what was the right thing in order to maintain the balance, as much as it would’ve pained me to do that.
Her being sent to Tartarus… she was able to get off easy that way and still live.
But that has all passed for some time. You can still open your heart to your pupils, while still guide them with certainty. You care about the well-being of those you taught under your wing, just as much as I care about your well-being as my Bearer of Magic… as my living incarnation of harmony.
Harmony’s words had always been a balm to her heart, and yet this time
she couldn’t shake that feeling of guilt and pain. A foal was in Tartarus
because Twilight hadn’t noticed, hadn’t seen Cozy Glow’s intentions.
She was miserable, and her visit to the Forest was an attempt to try and
ease her heart. Alas, grief gripped her chest with iron claws.
That was why, perhaps, she had nearly missed Harmony’s last words, a
lead nearly buried.
“...Living incarnation?” she whispered. She had heard that group of
students who had entered the roots of the Tree, heard the tale, their vision
of---of herself. But it hadn’t sunk in, her mind hadn’t yet processed or even
tried to figure out why.