Fair.

Cadence floated in the darkness, stars danced wildly around her for a time, but then faded.

Drifting, Cadence felt so alone.

her mirror image appeared before her, “Ignis was right you know.”

“About what?”

“for us to become a monster, it’s inevitable.”

“It doesn’t have to be, I still believe that, I’ll never turn into what he did.”

“that’s true…” her mirror disappeared and spoke from behind her “you became something much worse.”

Cadence turned round in shock, “what do you mean?”

“Ignis went mad sure, he longed for destruction and killed many, even causing suffering. But you, you are the one who turned your own friend into that, your not only mad, you are spreading it.”

Cadence didn’t know how to respond, “when did I become this way…”

“you were always this way Cadence, you just used to be better at hiding it.”

–

Cadence drifted alone in the void for some time, struggling to come to terms with the monster she seemed to have become.

“It’s not your fault you know.” her reflection said from below, as if rippling across the surface of a black sea. “you might have stood a chance if she hadn’t abandoned you.”

“…Doll.”

“It was bad enough for her to have died, but if she didn’t its a cut much worse. You had no choice but to hide in the madness, to wrap its blanket tighter around you to shield from the world, and now she is going to kill you.”

“She wouldn’t!”

“and you know that how? You don’t even know her anymore Cadence, are you sure you even did before? She was always so quiet. And all those times she ran away, trying on different personalities like they were clothes… did she ever take you with her?”

“She never did actually open up to me…”

“she is a stranger Cadence, deal with her as such!” the mirror faded.

“I guess I will, my heart is already too broken, and I think my mind will go the same way,” Cadence drifted higher, “after all, it’s inevitable.”