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It was a rough night. Not just for Amie—compared to most of the other campers, she was coping fantastically well. With almost everyone sleeping together in the same room, she heard everything. She couldn’t sleep. From the number of other voices, from the people shifting around in the dark, she wasn’t the only one. How could anyone possibly get comfortable in a body that just didn’t make sense? No matter how she tossed and turned, the body never felt like hers. She was imprisoned in a cell that…-
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Ryan emptied everything he could onto an ancient bench, arranging the relics of Earth that had survived passage through Equestria. He hadn't brought much, considering the length of the trip so far. At least the whole thing had been wrapped firmly in a dry sack, so his passport and stuff had survived. More important than that, of course, was the phone, his voice recorder, and its spare batteries. That machine took so little power that he could probably keep his journal for months more without needing to…-
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Roseluck was by no means a sheltered pony. Technically speaking, she'd spent most of her life that way, protected from all harm in the safety of Celestia's kingdom. But since the return of Nightmare Moon, Roseluck had become brave enough to face the threats around her.Then she stepped into another world, and all her confidence melted, like a bouquet left out in the sun for a week. For a few terrible moments, she was frozen in place, feeling stretched and deformed by Discord's Worldgate. None of her limbs…-
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Harlequin couldn’t leave that hidden vault fast enough for her liking. Even as she hurried up the service stairwell and out onto Canterlot’s streets, she imagined she could still feel the eyes of Prince Blueblood watching the back of her head, just daring her to make a mistake.If I can do this, I’ll be able to set the other bugs free. Or free to come back to us. They won’t have to starve.She didn’t need to be told to hurry, or to treat the mission as urgently as she could. She couldn’t imagine…-
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Mira was born to rule.She thought of it while begging for grain on the side of the road. She reminded herself when scavenging through the middenheap for scraps of moldy bread. She dreamed of it while catching moths during the deepest darkness of the night, collecting all into her basket.Only when it was filled could she fly home, watchful every second of her flight in case a particularly cruel pegasus was following her. It wouldn’t be the first time. Being small and pathetic sometimes helped ponies feel…-
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Hayden tossed and turned in his basement bedroom, alone in the dark. Every child spent their later years dreaming about this moment, when they finally got to come into their own and grow up for real. Most families threw parties for their kids when they settled, which usually marked the passage from childhood into their teenage years. He still remembered Ellie's party two years ago. Mom and Dad had done several extra projects for a few bakers in town, so they could get enough food for all the kids…-
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Chapter 15It was a good thing that Sigil had come during the night. Even in Equestria Jackie found the day was difficult for her, particularly without caffeine. Canterlot had coffee, but it didn’t have energy drinks, and that was critical.At least Sigil was willing to wait a few minutes while they got ready. They hadn’t been told anything, hadn’t been anywhere near the palace again since Jackie’s treatment. “I thought we would have another week,” Harley said, emerging from the bathroom in her…-
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A queen? Amie turned over the word, baffled. But she said nothing, just closed both of her wings and waited. The last thing she wanted to do to a group of armed, frightened people was give them a reason to fear her. Another reason, anyway."I sensed strange emanations from her," Pachu'a shot back, defiant. "But nothing like this. It must be a change. We see history unfold before our eyes—the emergence of the Queen of all their tribe. And we are the first bugs to witness her. We may be recorded in that…
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“It’s not true,” Princess Luna declared, for perhaps the hundredth time in five minutes. It was just the three of them in the Icefalls planning room, her and Hayden and Nightbreeze. Well, them and the guards waiting by the door.The charts were still here, the model updated to reflect recent changes. Only the secret drydock for the Excellus was missing. “They’re trying to trick us into letting them into the city before Celestia arrives. They want to fight us from behind our own…-
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Every trip into the Cumulus Maze was a new mystery, taking her somewhere that ponies hadn't seen for years, or maybe even centuries. Sometimes that meant unknown dangers, left behind in an age when the ponies still fought wars against each other. Sometimes that just meant getting crushed under collapsing cloud structures, trapped until her dad could come around to dig her out.Rarest of all, sometimes it meant finding treasures from the past, things her father could sell to interested buyers in museums and…-
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