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She could see through the eyes of the first drone as it died. She could feel its pain, however shallow and insignificant such creatures were capable of feeling pain. It wasn’t intelligent—none of her new drones were, and so there was no terrible mourning to be had. Every drone asleep in her hive woke at once, hurrying to the armory as those patrolling the outside retreated through the burrows.She got her first glimpse of the attackers—more drones, though they obviously belonged to a different swarm.…-
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Harlequin was small. The hive where she had grown was a strange place, with hallways that moved, doors that opened and closed and strange rules of magic she had been too young to understand. Like all the smallest bugs, she spent most of her time in the cracks and crevices, crawling along the ceilings and feeding on love the adults brought them.“It seems like, maybe there might be a better way,” said a voice from far below. Harlequin hadn’t known it then, but now she recognized the throne room. The…-
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Iron Feather wasn't sure how to feel about his rescuer. On one hoof, she was certainly the reason he hadn't died. His memory of the night before was not clear, but the injuries on his back were obvious enough about the consequences. A break that severe was enough to bleed him to death. Leaving him exposed to the elements—and capture—with such a serious wound was a death sentence.But at the same time, he could see when a pony wasn't all there. He didn't have to guess, it was obvious that Kirin worked…-
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Side paths, slower but stealthy. 76%Wayfinder led them silently into the Overgrowth.At first there was nothing to impede their path, or anything to suggest they ventured anywhere more interesting than an abandoned town somewhere. If there was any significant detail about the place, it was how quickly the effects of the place's namesake took hold.Grass cracked through even tiny cracks in the pavement, with vines creeping up and covering any surface tall enough to support them. Wildflowers of numberless…-
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Mira reached the sleeping display, where flowers were arranged against the bed of the Wakeless Mare. Shame about ruining all this—but she had eaten them when she first woke. Maybe the worshiper’s offerings would amount to something after all.Mira shoved it all onto the floor, clearing the table down to the cloth. She spread the diagram there on the table, unrolling it beside the charcoal and starting to sketch.“Did you have to ruin the whole thing? I don’t remember how it was arranged…”Mira…-
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Orson wouldn’t have called himself tech-ignorant, but even so he felt with each passing second that he must be doing something wrong. The glasses settled onto his face, then each glove resting securely in place. It felt more like he was about to go for a long bike-ride, except the rest of his clothes didn’t match.“I must’ve done something wrong,” he muttered, mostly to himself. He should’ve just waited for Kit like he’d promised, and she would be able to make all of it work without too much…-
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They were all there, the day they had the vote. Everyone but Alex, unconscious as she was in a hospital bed. There were no more attempted suicides; not now that the shock of having Odium gone for good was finally over. That left Alexandria with a problem, of course. What could they do with a dozen ponies that had tried to take over? Moriah participated in several of the proposals that were made, just as all of them did. Rather than keep all of them locked up in little cells during the week or so it took…-
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Quinn flew into the dark, faster than he'd ever flown in his life. Not that that was saying much; he'd only been able to fly for two days, and still didn't feel like he knew what he was doing. Purpose drove him, a life that would be lost if he could not repair the damage he had done. One day I'll see the readings, and I'll know what went wrong. If anything failed in that accelerator, it should've been with a whimper. If he'd died alone, that would be one thing—why was…-
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Lotus had been on extended camping trips before. Or more accurately, Eric had. He had always enjoyed a chance to be in nature and get away from the stress of a modern life. Getting out into the wild meant there was no one around to judge, no one whose standards he could fail to meet. Lotus could enjoy many of those same things. There was no fear of neighbors noticing her through an accidental gap in the blinds. If the police or some shady government organizations were going to find her, they would have a…
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It happened less than two hours later. Twilight and her friends weren’t anywhere close to being done being amazed by impossible-seeming structures that the Compact had built, at least not until they saw the council chamber.It seemed to be suspended in space itself, below the massive chunk of not-planet and yet not quite severed from it. The chamber itself was easily as large as all Canterlot Castle, with shimmering protective fields that they were told were not magic.“Magic lets you do some things we…-
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