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They dressed together in their shared suite, tucked away in the Sanctum. They weren't the only ones living there full time—Izzy also had her bedroom inside, along with Reagan and Akiko. Other mages might be there on a given day, depending on whatever was happening in Awakened politics.The local Free Council had fewer qualms about formal vestments and robes than the Atlantean orders, but some rituals were sacred enough that even the Libertines imitated a little of the pomp and circumstance. That meant a…-
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Felicity wasn't in any particular hurry to make it to the entrance.It wasn't just that they swam through a graveyard of the creatures she had killed to defend herself, though their alien corpses certainly didn't help anything. It wasn’t even the cold and the ice. There was something else on the surface, something clear and strange that didn't quite mix with the ocean.Water, she realized. I'm looking at actual water. There wasn't much of it—anything that separated would freeze almost instantly at these…-
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Lane realized she was being watched not even halfway to the cabin. She saw more than one set of little eyes poking up at her from between the flowers—but she didn't think much of it. She couldn't think of anything beside her burden, or else risk dropping the delicate human she carried. No matter how much she might want to stop, she just couldn't. Elisa was shivering constantly now, which Lane recognized dimly as the first symptoms of hypothermia. Soon her shivering would stop, then they…-
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It was a good thing for everyone that Ocellus had seen the capabilities of humans and warned her friends—otherwise, she was sure that at least one of them would’ve reacted violently to the “tests” the humans had in mind. What she’d imagined as some questions and maybe an essay actually involved more of what she’d done when she impersonated Marie—lots of moving from machine to machine, along with a few long metal needles to take some of her blood and more of her dignity. All the while there…-
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Lotus stared up through the broken wreckage of one window. She was still trapped somewhere in her truck, its body now crumpled and crushed beyond recognition. She'd been thrown from her seat, though by some miracle that hadn't meant shattering her whole body through the windshield.Sound rang through her ears, and her mind struggled to focus. Everything warped and melted, with only brief moments of clarity. A stone pony towered above; its glowing eyes fixed on her."Not... sure what I expected when we got to…-
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Quinn's plan took a lot of time, but what was time to a Celebi? It wasn't as though he had to worry about missing deadlines or failing to defend his thesis. His whole civilization didn't exist yet. None of them would be born for a very, very long time. The worst part wasn't finding food, or shelter from the near-constant rain. It wasn't even occasionally dealing with the territorial wild Pokémon. Lucky for him, most Pokémon had no interest in fighting. They seemed able to sense…-
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Hayden couldn't hold still so easily in the air, not with the wind buffeting her to either side. Even on a relatively calm day, the clouds beneath her began to drift, taking her with them. She'd be riding them wherever they went, with very little ability to resist. Liz tucked up against her dress again, though this time it was more than just being shy. What would happen if the little mew got caught up in a gust of wind and blown away? They could think of few more painful ways to die. Her dress…-
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The base gym was far more impressive than any of the facilities at Stella Lacus. There was all the standard weights and gym equipment off to one side, albeit in shapes that fit pony bodies better. There was a pool, a huge rock wall, and plenty of obstacles. They weren’t as difficult as Stella Lacus’s rope course. But campers were primates with opposable thumbs, not horses with flat stumps. How could they be expected to climb over such steep slopes, or swing over perilous drops to foam below?Somehow,…-
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Twilight Sparkle circled her workbench, occasionally leaning in close to prod at a gear or fiddle with the wires leading to a thaumic crystal. Her creation remained dutifully still, perched on a pedestal that would act as its home and repair station.It was about the size of Owlicious, and based on a similar avian body-plan. A probe meant to travel through a Worldgate would certainly encounter rough terrain, and couldn’t rely on something as feeble as wheels or a single rotor like Tank’s flight-harness.…-
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“I’m not sure how long this works!” Jackie called, without even stopping to look over her shoulder. “But we need to move, right now!”There was now a solid wall of bodies in front of them, with thick brown smoke congealed around it like mortar. But even looking at it from a distance, Jackie could see that the Federation marine had been right. It wasn’t going to last long—the wind was blowing and soon it would be gone. They couldn’t just wait here for the entire city to march into it.Jackie…-
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