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Felicity understood on an emotional level that Harmony shouldn’t be able to act with a grudge. The program was a shallow copy of something far greater, but still it should be governed by the real Harmony’s rules. After defying Harmony’s instructions, it felt like the machine was ignoring her. In an instant she went from the constant questions and pressures of the machine to dead silence, broken only by mechanical-sounding translations. But Felicity didn’t complain, or make any visible sign that she…-
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Golden Wind had never seen real war before—unless the occasional rewatch of Gladiator or Hurt Locker counted. Perhaps it was inevitable that his next few days would feel like preparing for a championship game instead of a battle. But even in the most intense games, no opponent he'd ever faced had actually wanted to kill him. No matter what the ponies said to the contrary, no matter how barbaric they claimed it would be for one warrior to kill another in battle, Golden knew the truth. He'd felt it in the…-
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Elisa was right to be worried about the trip. The primary threat came not from the wild Pokémon that separated them from the middle of Mt. Union— with the altitude rising and less available to eat, there were far fewer gigantic predators and dangerous fully evolved dragons. Mostly they saw birds and rodents, with an occasional brave deerling somehow scaling the slope not far away. This was actually an opportunity for Lane, who floated over to the little green Pokémon, ignoring her friends'…-
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Gabriella obviously wasn’t from any of the clans of birds who ruled the Republic now, or even the empire at the time of the Migration War. I might not have an exhaustive knowledge, but I had a fair idea about the distinct physical patterns. This bird was indeed one of the Equestrian variety, with feathers in a simple pidgeon gray.“I had a visit from Dawn yesterday,” she said, glaring down at me with an expression I couldn’t quite read. “She told me you might be coming.” She looked me up and…-
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Marie wondered if her future self might’ve wished for better chosen first encounters with magic. Nearly dying in a dirty cave hadn’t been great, and now there was a freezing cold muddy pond. At least whatever strange property kept the night from getting dark worked underwater too, though it didn’t let her see through mud and slime as well as simple darkness.Once Silverstream was satisfied with their catch, she returned them to the surface, with another surge of magic much like the first. Marie’s…-
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Eric had broken his leg once. Those memories of pain were some of his first, when he was too small to understand the world and his sister could still walk. Being bitten by a wolf of wood and fury wasn't quite as bad, but it was definitely similar. But there could be no trip to a hospital for skilled doctors to tend to her wounds—instead, she had to make do with the best ministrations a horse could provide.She could do worse than Iron Feather to look after her. The stallion seemed to know what to do—how…-
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Sweet Sauce wasn't sure how long he waited in that little prison room. It would have been easier if he thought the weight of punishment was coming to crash down on his shoulders for his crime—at least an execution would mean an end to this.But what was a pony supposed to do when he didn't have an identity anymore? He had come clean to every creature willing to listen to him, and still they rejected him.There was even a part—albeit a small one—that was forced to confront a terrifying possibility; what…-
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"I know what would do this," said a voice, from not far away. Quinn turned to look, staring through the broken trees and dead branches. A shadow lingered in the trees, floating at about his head level. Not alive, though not dead. Sable, eyes smoldering. "I remember the discussion, before my family and I became... what we are." Quinn floated closer, approaching the ghost. There was something fitting about the shadowy Pokémon in this place of death. Yet despite the name and nature of the…-
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Hayden wanted to rush through everything, but her new hair made that task incredibly difficult. After a brief rinse, Eleanor whipped the towel off of her and sent her straight back. "Maybe with an inch of guy's hair you could get away with that. You're a disaster. You need to soap everywhere, then I want you to use like... a ton of conditioner. I should smell it so strong my eyes water. Got it?" She did. The second time Hayden stood in the steamy water until it actually started to make…-
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Amie did not expect a response from camp. Her brother slept, and she couldn’t, so what more was there to do but drain her battery while poking at the intranet. She knew better than to expect it to keep working much past line-of-sight to the mountain. Once she reached Agate, she would have to come back this way every time she wanted to send messages to her kids.If the mountain didn’t have guards, I might try to get them out. But we can’t all feed on the emotions of one bug, or they wouldn’t be…-
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