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Her two campers stared back, as relieved as they were confused. Not that Beth and Rick didn't want to leave. They had already done it once, and neither wanted to return. They hadn't said so, but Amie could... feel it. How did I not notice this when I was still living in camp? How has no one noticed?"Can you do that?" Rick asked. "I thought you said ponies wanted to kill us. If they caught us, they'd... they'd think we were invaders, and they were justified.""They would," she said, rising from her hooves.…-
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Gina had never seen the palace in greater disarray. A full detachment of soldiers seemed to be martialing outside, with birds doning old uniforms, testing swords and securing armor. She took her delegation past the prelude to war, up to the throne where Gaius sat already armored.The metal he wore reflected the light like oil under moonlight, turning his outline into a dark suggestion of a bird more than the real thing. A massive warhammer sat on the ground beside the throne, as though he were ready to…-
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Dear Journal,You know that old saying “be careful what you wish for?” I do. Maybe I should’ve tried to listen better. It seemed like the worst thing that could happen was being alone forever. I still think that. It’s just… that idea’s being tested now. I'm sure part of it just comes from being with someone new. You spend tons of time alone and you get to thinking that's the only way life ought to be. Then you add in somebody new, and they expect something completely different. It's an…-
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143#E14C years later…The train from R'lyeh was always an uncomfortable experience, but more so for the creatures who didn’t make many trips. Most of the ride was spent in relative comfort, passing shallower settlements along the shoreline and the light-water fish who lived there. “We could still get off at Cliffside Shoal,” Cascade said, settling into the seat beside her with a tray of seaweed-wrapped fish rolls. “We could wait until next year. Nopony says it has to be now.”Arcane Song pulled…-
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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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Hayden woke to the sound of war. Cannons rumbled, ponies shouted and galloped through the halls. My city still stands.She rose from the cot, glancing over her shoulder. There were stitches in her leg, flesh ragged but clean. No infection yet.Hayden could see one of the doctors rushing over to her. Probably to demand that she go back to bed. Hayden ignored the shouts, and vanished past the guards. Her legs didn’t give out beneath her, and that would have to be enough. Icefalls depends on me.She stepped…-
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School kept on. Orson found that the next few weeks went easier than he would’ve expected, despite his far less disciplined use of time. It wasn’t like he’d stopped studying and forgotten about class completely or anything. But when his whole life had been studying before, he had been expecting the world to end as soon as he stopped.It didn’t. Besides, it wasn’t like he had to make it through much more. This was the end of his undergrad, and the first step on a long, long road to working in…-
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They didn’t make it far from the courtroom, just out into an adjoining hall before their escort of night-guards finally came to a stop. Rose was waiting in the only uncomfortable-looking chair, and her simple presence was enough to fill Tracy with relief. We can go back to normal after this.His friends were totally silent, occasionally glancing back at Shane, but never saying anything.But Rose was rarely quiet for long, even now. “How’d it go? Princess Luna didn’t banish you or throw you in the…-
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Bed was a strange thing for a Pokémon. Lane hadn’t been aware enough to notice on her first night, when her mind was still utterly unable to process what had happened to her body. There was no such mercy on her second night. “This way, kitten,” Korina prompted, forcing her to fly the whole way. If Lane’s tail even dragged beneath her, the big mew shoved her up against the ceiling, so fast she was dazed momentarily by the impact. “Our nest is here, in case you forgot.” “I didn’t,” she…-
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“Excuse us?”The voice was so timid that Catlin almost missed it. One of the ponies, approaching her from the little camp. They’d barely made it a hundred steps from the side of the derelict before they reached it, a clustered supply depot of a half dozen tents and crude wooden sheds. The camp strengthened her comparison between these aliens and the Ostrons of Cetus, with their reliance on ancient techniques for survival. They had once burned an actual fire here, with cookpots and everything.Catlin…-
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