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Mira stumbled to her hooves, shaking herself back to wakefulness as energetically as she could.Maybe a little too energetically, because Pixie's claws dug into her back, before she went spiraling off her shoulders to the floor, yowling in protest."They can't be here already... I had... scouts. There were bats watching. We should have known a day before they got here."Her memory returned sluggishly at first, but clearer as she spent more time in the waking world. She gave the bats one night to prepare to…-
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Lilac wished that Saffron would be anywhere but here right now. There was good reason she hadn't gone out into the Grove, despite her promises and the growing cost waiting to be imposed against her if she refused.To face this fairy would be to meet the one who knew what she had done. His words would bring her just condemnation. But what he said now, if true, would be even more painful."All this time you lived with the Lightless Star," Saffron continued. "Did you ever believe what they told you? Their story…-
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Bit went with Keen up into "Revolution Square." But of all the old parts of the city, she'd never been inside the subway station, so she didn't know what had changed. The crystal dome ceiling looked intact, though she doubted the old one had so many red banners. Zircon's city colors had been silver and blue before, and she couldn't see those anywhere.Just through the doors waited soldiers in black armor, the kind made of complex interlocking metal rings. All painted black, though the cloth underneath was…-
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Pinkie Pie bounced her way through the party with one of the biggest smiles she'd ever worn. She had to keep smiling, couldn't let herself stop for even a second. Almost nopony here was smiling, so she had to bring enough happiness to fill the whole farmhouse. It was an exhausting job. Particularly when she didn't feel like smiling herself.Maud had insisted Pinkie needed to decorate “like a going away party.” For the first time in her life, Pinkie Pie had been the one to ask for permission to use…-
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It took twenty minutes or so to clear a large enough swathe of the library that he had room to work, hanging sterile sheets and turning reading tables into operating tables. He had the help of all his “guards” except Abrams, who kept his distance and watched everything he did with passionless eyes. Oliver had never seen eyes like that before, not in the week or so the immigrants had been in Alexandria. Why had it only happened now?Oliver felt the solution must be in whatever had happened once Adrian…-
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Vesper hadn't been there for most of the inspection. It wasn't that she didn't want to be around whenever the ship was doing interesting things—every chance to meet ponies in person was interesting!But after everyone had recovered, she needed time to rest. Even her interest in Blake needed to take a brief backseat. For once, she slept without trying to dream, sprawled awkwardly over the edge of her bed.But when she did finally wake from her dreamless sleep, it was to his voice, and a quiet rapping of…-
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A little while later.Vesper stared across a vast gulf, hovering in the air on a pair of membranous wings. Before her was a terrible vortex of stormy sky, where gale winds lifted chunks of rock as big as houses and flung them like toys. The desert landscape beneath it was scoured clean, with huge gaps and craters that suggested a sustained bombardment. Vesper adjusted the goggles over her eyes, keeping out the moisture as best she could.The wind howled, but she kept herself still in the air. At least around…
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Behind her, Alex’s friends made their way into the library. First came Joseph. One of his legs looked broken, and he had burns up and down his side. Yet his face made no sign he registered the pain. His steps were rigid and mechanical. Moriah came behind him, moving forward with great resistance in every step, as though she were battling an army of invisible ghosts. She dragged Alex’s saddle bags behind her along the ground, though she looked very much like she didn’t want to. Behind them were…
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Quinn found a fully automatic door waiting at the upper balcony, made of a sturdy-looking metal. Lights came on as he approached, and a camera followed his movements, pivoting as his antennae twitched. A second later there was a click, and a tiny metal compartment opened beside the door. A voice echoed through speakers there, slightly distorted by the volume and their low quality. "Place the inhibitor around your neck. It will make a sound when it is working correctly." "Inhibitor."…-
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Lotus couldn't see out the window, so she had no way of knowing exactly where Gus decided to stop. Not until he gave the command, and she took her leg off the pedal. He switched off the engine, plunging them back into the silence. A few seconds later the lights went off too, and they were cast into near-total darkness.Lotus didn't try to say anything, didn't even move—anything might make her think about what she'd lost. What you took away. This wasn't an accident. You knew the risks, you took them…-
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