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Life aboard the Magna Vale was as far from perfect as Lilac could imagine.She woke every day the same way, to an early morning bell from Keen Focus. Before she could even get out of her room, they spent over an hour staring at a stupid mirror, giving her all kinds of instructions for cosmetics she would never wear. Lilac learned the difference between foundation and blush and eyeliner and a dozen other things she hadn't even suspected in her real world, let alone this strange realm of magic and horses.…-
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Ryan watched the stony wasteland retreat behind them, with only the faint red flicker of embers as any sign of their near-immolationHe hadn't yet returned to his own body. He could've at any moment—yet he couldn't close his eyes without remembering the flames blasting up against him. Would Blake do that again? He might not need to sleep much, but Ryan was near to exhaustion. Surviving our escape burned almost all the magic I had.Ryan hadn't felt so hungry since his first moments awake.That alone was a…-
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She wanted to tell them everything. From the vast distances they'd crossed to the incredible discoveries they'd made along the way. The transformations they had been through, the homeworld they had visited, and the strange mechanical minds they had befriended. Computer didn't stop her—she was as free to share information as to give her ship commands. Her concerns were entirely practical in nature.Emperor Grant Septimus Aurelius was on his way, and even Lyra knew little about what that might mean. She…-
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Twilight could've spent months tinkering with this new transformation spell and the strange species that was its result. Ideally her dimensional piercing equipment would be outfitted with something like what Clover had done to the mirror portal, but more versatile, converting all who set hoof through it into the dominant species of the world they visited. Such a conversion might even fool native spellcasters, at least long enough to learn as much as they wanted and get home.But there would be no chance for…-
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Go to the Bioinformatics Building (75%)Elliot swerved away from the edge of campus and the broken police checkpoint. It was tempting to speed away from school and not look back. Sam couldn’t know what they did; she still thought she had caught this infection at work.She didn’t know about Dr. Zalenka, she hadn’t seen the photos in his diary. But Ruby had.If we ever want to reverse this, we need to know what this disease is and how it works. That meant Dr. Zalenka’s notebook, but it also meant…-
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It was everything Bit had hoped to achieve. The tower was lit, its systems each returned to life. She even had the voice of Crimson, recreated from ancient recordings. Even the shock of seeing an old enemy recreated in those same systems was worth it if only to hear him again.But she hadn't brought the power back to listen to old recordings, she deserved the real thing. Bit searched through the tower, combing every room for signs of other visitors who had disturbed the interior. Obviously Crimson's return…-
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Twilight Sparkle had been working tirelessly. It wasn’t just that their last visit had been so fruitless, though that was certainly part of it. Seeing that alien world, one apparently accustomed to frequent visits—it meant they were close. In the uncountable billions of possible variations, they’d hit a world that other explorers had visited first. That made it a significant signpost, one that promised compatible conditions for life all around it. She spent days making every possible fine variation…
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They had their first death the next day.Jackie had known something awful just like that could happen—that somepony would be stupid and avoid her instructions and pay the price. Sydney wasn’t just empty land, it was the site of a terrible battle. She fully expected some of the wreckage of that ancient conflict to linger on, ready to rip its claws up through history and tear apart the unwary.She made her way to the edge of the crater, where someone had dragged out the body. A bat had been electrocuted,…-
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Of course, it wasn’t as simple as just pretending that nothing had ever happened. While Jackie took special joy in imagining the displeasure of the ponies back in Mundi, she couldn’t quite act like nothing had happened. Her average citizen would just take her at her word—practically worshiped the ground she walked on—but not all were so compliant.Hat Trick found her near the end of the party, holding a tablet computer and looking agitated. She hadn’t been on the viewing balcony, but she was here…
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Where once the deer had risen up in rage around Jackie, fighting even as they died by the thousands—the death of Ankaa brought a near-instantaneous end. She listened to the veritable stampede of animals away from her, entire tents trampled as they fled.There were many other warriors in many other camps, and it would take a long time for news of her victory to spread. But these at least would be fighting no longer. They didn’t know yet, but if they ran far enough, their children would thank her.In…
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