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"Your delay will not bring rescue. The royal guard all perished.""Against my wishes," he grumbled. "I ordered them to surrender to you. But they haven't listened to me since Equestria..." He sighed, straightening in bed. "I offer you an exchange. I will disable the defenses of this tower for twenty minutes. You will let the apprentices and slaves leave. I will remain in this bed, and employ none of my magic to defend myself. You may come and execute me, and nopony else needs to die."There was a little…-
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Jackie had traveled beyond physical space—up above the Dreamlands into the astral, and across distant shores to the supernal. The trip had not made her into one of the semi-divine Alicorns as it transformed so many others who took it, but that didn’t mean she had been unaffected.As she had done during her trip out to the seapony colony, Jackie could change her form. It was simple enough magic—making herself into different characters was one of the most basic lessons of dreamcrafting. All she really…-
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The Equestria had no shuttles and fighters like the carriers did. It was instead its own lander, with a horn section meant to detach from the newly rebuilt carrier section, packed with living space and support systems. So it was that the Horn of Celestia finally made its return to Equestria, separating from the carrier group and descending on the peak near to Canterlot. Part of Lyra wanted to bring it down right in the city—but that desire collided sharply with common sense. Air traffic over Canterlot…-
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“So that’s the message,” Twilight finished, after having explained everything. They would’ve ordinarily had a meeting like this in the dining room, but the risk of being overheard was too great right now. So they stood on the bridge instead, looking down at the translation and Twilight’s notes.Life is not advised, the message said. You must change into constancy. We will perform it.“So that’s her plan to convince us?” Applejack asked, her tone doubting. “Come up with some new way to read…-
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Jacob hurried into the open door just behind Harley, carrying the still-unconscious pony in his arms. Despite being much closer to her size than he had been before, he had little enough trouble lifting her weight. How crazy will it be to actually be that small? The drive hadn’t changed him that he knew, though sometimes he woke up in the morning with a horrible impression that the world had grown even bigger during his sleep. At least compared to his friends, that change seemed to be in his…-
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Mira reached the sleeping display, where flowers were arranged against the bed of the Wakeless Mare. Shame about ruining all this—but she had eaten them when she first woke. Maybe the worshiper’s offerings would amount to something after all.Mira shoved it all onto the floor, clearing the table down to the cloth. She spread the diagram there on the table, unrolling it beside the charcoal and starting to sketch.“Did you have to ruin the whole thing? I don’t remember how it was arranged…”Mira…-
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“Lyra?” Rose stopped in the doorway, eyes widening in surprise. Of all the creatures to visit early in the morning, she hadn’t expected one least likely to be awake. “You’re, uh… here early.”“Yeah, I know.” She grinned, shifting under the weight of heavy saddlebags. Well, heavy to a unicorn. Rose could’ve managed those and a few sacks of cement and still had enough energy to run. “Your roommate should be expecting me. Tracy, I think is how you say it?”Rose nodded, glancing over her…-
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“Do you know why you still stand on this mountain, and the others have been swept from off its face?” Tempest advanced through the field of the dead, surrounded by the again-lifeless zombies. She barely even seemed to glance at Bonnie, though she was still there, her wrists and ankles bound by thick cords.She shouldn't be able to see all this magic. This disbelief should've unraveled those zombies. They still fought.That last, strongest protection against the mages Bonnie fought had finally failed her.…-
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It was hard to tell time when you were a plant. Felicity never would've guessed before, had no context and comprehension for the level of complexity needed to exist as a non-animal creature. At least during her journey across the ocean, she had the steady rising and falling of the sun to keep her grounded in at least the day. With a little mental math, she could keep track of the months of her travel. But even during her trip, nothing she'd done had felt much like she was traveling for an extended period.…-
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Their advance had not liberated Ponyville, despite using its train station. As Golden Wind led his small group through the town, ponies remained in their hovels, watching through windows with huddled, defeated expressions. But the attack had done its work. No security checkpoints stood in their way—not after their walls were broken down and their gates were crushed by advancing hooves. He turned and saw several burly, furred ogres, who were now bound by rope, their weapons and armor taken from them and…-
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