Never time for goodbye

You never have time to say goodbye when loved ones pass away. It can happen in a heartbeat, without warning or rhyme or reason. Untold thousands of ponies learned this lesson after the Battle of Pastern Vale, but few lost more or felt that loss so keenly as Tilter Gallant. Every title she’d ever earned was stripped away, her father’s House cast to ruin, friends slain for one cause or the other. But she would have gladly given all that and more to bring back her brother. Just for a minute. One minute to say goodbye.

All because they chose the losing side.

_{September 2, 2013}