Requiem [voice/action for the Straw Hats]

[letteropener]

I have waited to see if they would return, as some occasionally do, but I think any further waiting is pointless. It is my sad duty to report that as of now, I am the only specimen of ponykind remaining here.

Those of you who remember my sister or Pinkie Pie fondly... if you have any message you wish to pass to them, then I will accept them, and if it is in my power to do so, I will pass them on when I next see them.

We have seen so many go of late, and yet I truly believe they have returned home as those who come back to us have reported doing. Do not weep for your lost friends, but rejoice that you had them as friends, even if for but a short time.

Comments

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

I just don't like losing people.

[The man states with an exasperated sigh.]

[Voice]

[letteropener]

Nopony should. But there is a difference between liking it and accepting it.

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

No pony?

[Denzel voice sounds like he's blinking in confusion before sighing]

And what is the difference in that?

[Voice]

[letteropener]

After every day comes night, and autumn after every spring. There is no beginning without an ending. But though you may be sad a story must end, you still enjoyed the story, did you not?

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

That's a plain silly question I always enjoy the stories I read.

[Opps someone took that rather literally]

[Voice]

[letteropener]

Then consider yourself to be in a story... or many stories. And enjoy the telling, and the memory, even when a story ends.

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

[Denzel is quiet for a moment or two]

That makes the pain go away?

[Voice]

[letteropener]

I'm afraid not. But it will soothe it, and help you to remember that the pain is just the counterpoint to the joy.

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

Joy? Ha! What's that?

I - suppose you're right. [The man sighs as he thinks about how he doesn't allow joy in his classroom but here he's alright with. However, it was also because he couldn't get joy there either. Here it is a different story]

I wish - there was more joy.

[Voice]

[letteropener]

Joy and pain often comes in a balance. The more of one you feel, the more of the other comes your way.

[Voice]

[crackpotcrocker]

So - that means there's a lot of joy coming my way?

[Voice]

[letteropener]

Did you not have a lot of joy, from having made friends to begin with?