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Mira hesitated at the threshold, waiting for Kallisto to let her in. But no matter how much she wanted her old teacher to still be healthy enough for that, the reality underneath was obviously different. No hooves sounded on the floor, and the door didn’t swing open.Finally Mira could bear the wait no longer and she surged forward, ears flattening and wings lifting vertically behind her. “Kallisto?” she asked. But she didn’t have far to look. Kallisto was in her bed.She was the oldest bat Mira had…-
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Firefly landed atop the cloud, feet from the unconscious form of a creature she had never seen before.After what she had just suffered through, Firefly was hardly in good shape herself. She felt as though her whole body was covered in unseen burns, leaving patches of feathers and fur gray and colorless. Mentally she wasn't in much better condition, after witnessing the first death of her lifetime, then almost being murdered herself.Her last few hours had been so confusing in fact that she was barely even…-
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Jackie’s memories of the Supernal did not prepare her to return to it. It was a land of strange laws, a realm that wasn’t quite physical and not quite simulated either.But she perceived it much as the other Alicorns described it—as an ancient city, ruins in a desert of white sand that cascaded down into an endless abyss. There on the edge of infinity, annihilation was always within reach, while the power to redefine reality itself was also close enough to grasp.Others had reached it beyond the…-
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Catlin woke to agony.Her whole body ached, with a pain that suffused every limb and joint. Despite all the battles she'd fought, and all the frames that had been destroyed under her control, she rarely felt real pain.Like all Tenno, her body was supposed to be safe, sometimes a whole system away from the site of battle. She'd gambled closer proximity to the invasion fleet, trusting to her greater ability to make combat decisions to carry the Origin System to victory.She'd lost.Something splashed her,…-
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Secretary Keen Ardor stared openly at her reply, unblinking. Finally he levitated something from a pocket—a tiny pad of paper and a pencil. It was no thaumic recorder, but it seemed effective enough at the same purpose. "How much of that is euphemism?" he asked. "The cold bit first. You don't require warmth?" He shivered as he said it, brushing a few faint wisps of snow from his mane."I barely feel it," she said. "I can be harmed by temperatures, but only in the swift transition between great cold and…-
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I had a few days to prepare, rushing around the city to arrange my affairs. Needless to say, the dean of Twilight’s own school was more than accepting of my absence under the circumstances, and wished me good luck. I didn’t really own much, so it wasn’t hard to gather all I had into a single set of saddlebags to wear up to the dock.Canterlot’s drydock has remained an important place for innovation ever since the Migration War, with much of it sealed from civilian ponies like me. Not that Canterlot…-
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Shiloh was not awake enough to fully listen or even fully appreciate everything she was hearing. The castle was well-defended, and getting inside would require a careful effort even from such powerful legendaries. Team Plasma had legendaries of their own, and they would be expecting an attack. It meant incredible coordination, from a group of legendary Pokémon and their allies all working together. All to get Lane over to the artifact, where she could do some psychic-Pokémon thing that would infect each…-
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Lane fell. She hurt everywhere—burns down her back, fur singed from blows that would’ve taken a human being and vaporized them instantly. But the deeper pain didn't come from any Pokémon attack, that would all heal. There was agony that went deeper, of factors beyond her control, and mistakes she should've seen coming. Somewhere safe. Maybe Korina will notice. The familiar warmth and humidity of the jungle was waiting below—and the Nursery, she would find healing supplies. She wasn't…
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Firefly didn't usually take the stairs up to her apartment anymore. It wasn't just that the climb was long and inconvenient, though it certainly was. But the instant she learned how to fly, why would she ever waste her time trudging up step after step.She had a painful reminder of just how miserable that process could be, now that she had heavy bags weighing her down.There was simply no chance she could fly with that much weight. As she got higher in her building, even the apartment seemed to struggle to…-
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Twenty minutes later, the automaton in the room with her finally stood, this time without flopping around. At her instruction it walked slowly from one end of the room to the other, an even-more accurate mirror than what it had been before. Not only did the automaton look exactly like her, but it also moved like her too, its back legs swaying exactly as hers did, occasionally shaking its mane in precisely the same configuration. Did I give it too much of myself? But that was an organic way of…
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