Heartless Vriska wrote:Butterfly Kisses wrote:I felt your butterfly kisses shining over me.
My butterfly kisses mean so much to me.
I promise that I shall never let go.
My butterfly kisses, I love you so.
Oh, my butterfly kisses on the cold stormy nights.
Oh, my butterfly kisses feel like home.
Your butterfly kisses warm me to the core,
and our butterfly kisses will last on and on for eternity.
Butterfly sighed softly as she opened her pale, faded eyes. She had had the dream again. The one where she flew. The one where her mother had kissed her forehead just so slightly, that it made her feel as thin as air. But she always woke up. Never to fly. Never to be free. Butterfly thought that was her fate. To never be free, stuck on the ground as a clumsy caterpillar.
She stood, leaving her bed like she did everyday. She felt as if she were stuck in a rut, always doing the same actions. Kinda like a robot. Butterfly glanced at her reflection, tilting her head. She wasn't the prettiest pony to ever live, but she wasn't the ugliest- That was what other ponies thought, but due to her low self-esteem, she believed herself to not even be a caterpillar, but a hideous larva that would never even become a moth. She'd be left for the birds, so what? It's not like it mattered, right?
Oh, well. Butterfly thought to herself as she walked outside her home in Ponyville. A few drops of water hit her nose, and she scowled.
Really? Rain? She almost exclaimed aloud.
Pegasi already have wings to make me envy them, but now they tease me with bad weather. Butterfly told herself as she trotted towards her art studio as the rain started to pour harder.
Upon entering her studio, Butterfly let out a sigh of relief, now smiling. A few winged insects of beauty and flight greeted her with soft kisses, and she smiled wider. This was the closest thing she had to being free. Her talent was being able to speak to butterflies, and she was filled with the tiniest bit of hope that she could be free this way.
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Okay," Butterfly murmured, opening a new canvass. "
Loki and Sareel, work on Juniper Berry's order. She wants a double cross finish, okay?" She received two tiny nods, only taking a moment to call over Neutas and Brei, the monarchs. "
We need to start finishing up the Premiere piece for Veronica's fashion show." Butterfly grinned, knowing exactly what to create.
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Neutas, you work on the details, and Brei, you work on the larger portions." Butterfly had just gotten the words out, and the two butterflies fluttered off, dipping their legs into paint. She sighed softly, heading off to the back room, an lay down in a hammock. Eventually, the rocking motion put Butterfly to sleep, the darkness taking her back to the windy beach with her mother.
The breeze tangled sand into her already messy mane. Her mother kissed her forehead lightly, and a childish, carefree giggle escaped her. "I love you, mommy." She had said, giving her mother a tiny shoulder nudge. Her mother laughed, gazing out into the misty sunset. "Little Butterfly, you won't fly too far away, will you?" She had asked her daughter with a nuzzle. Butterfly shook her head, giggling like a child should. "Never. I'll always be your butterfly!"
She started to be lifted off her feet, a gust of wind carrying her over the ocean. Butterfly thought it was fun at first, and kept flying, laughing along the way. However, upon further notice, Butterfly could no longer see her beloved mother, and started to plummet to the dark, deep, deceiving ocean.A moan escaped Butterfly, her eyes slowly opening. She scrambled to her hooves, muttering to herself.
I fell out of the hammock, didn't I? She asked herself, leaving the back room. She trudged on ahead, but skidded to a halt, sighing softly as she gazed at her butterflies' work. The painting made Butterfly giggle for the first time in years. "
If only it were true," She sighed, gazing longingly at the gorgeous wings on the familiar pony. She sighed once more, leaving the art shop with a higher spirit than before.
The painting was of her and her mother, both with butterfly wings as they flew towards the sunset over the ocean.