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Wayfinder followed Hazel through the tunnel, lit by the pale glow of white lights strung along the ceiling. Her pony nose made it impossible to fully ignore the sewage odor in the back of her nose, though it was by no means the only one. The green slime had its own scent, something harsh and faintly alkali, like the smell of the chemicals they used to clean her family's old barn.Not a bad smell exactly, though not one she'd expect living things to make. Mammals wouldn't, but changelings—they were…-
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“Exactly what kind of training is this?” Trade Wind asked, her voice more than a little nervous. She shifted uncomfortably as she surveyed the room—almost entirely empty, except for the crystals set into the walls. The spells in here looked even more complex than Mystic Rune’s teleportation spells, and those were easily the most advanced magic she had ever personally witnessed. The crystals here were much smaller, which indicated less power was involved, but the number of runes carved into…-
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Lucid Storm was on the right track with this prototype.Granted, he had thought exactly that same thing on several previous occasions. His garage/workshop was littered with the broken pieces of could've and should've been, as earlier versions of this exact project grew beyond his ability to create them.But this time was different—this time, he was sure."Those weren't failures, Sweetie," he whispered, circling around the machine. "They were necessary experience. I wouldn't know how to make this work if I…-
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Lucid's next day was a flurry of activity. It was never his first choice to be up so early in the morning. But once the prototype was up, she refused to sit still. She would probably run off on her own again, potentially causing herself all kinds of worse damage if he didn't intervene. In a single weekend, he'd gone from a hobbyist tinkerer to perhaps the first pony to set hoof onto an incredible road of life extension and medicine, one never before considered. But that meant incredible pressure for him:…
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After eternities vast enough to require multiple exponents to express, a new sunrise came to Saddle's End.It didn't exist in the strictly physical sense—but by volume, simulated spaces had once outstripped the real ones by many orders of magnitude. But they were gone now, sleeping as once Saddle's End had slept.A star rose in the sky, a G-type main sequence that bathed the small community in warmth and life once more. Birds began to sing, heralding the sunrise as though a trillion trillion trillion years…-
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Dr. Rebecca Thomas stared down at the book in her hooves, skimming the same heading she’d read a dozen times.The generation and utilization of electrical energy is far easier than many of in the modern world realize. Nearly 95% of the electricity generated before the Event ended the word was produced using motion and the laws of electromagnetism. The basic principle of these laws is this: An electric field produces a magnetic field exactly perpendicular to itself, and vice-versa. Motion of permanent…
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Spellsong woke up. She heard the voice, felt the soft touch of cushion under her back, and remembered. She remembered loss, mostly. But she didn't scream, or lash out. Ponies screamed because they expected someone to come to their rescue. Spellsong expected no help.She twitched, pulling the covers back from her chest. She felt a little stiff—her movements came a little sluggish at first, and she twitched each leg in turn. It didn't take long, considering how many years she had been there. "You kept your…
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Midnight Lilly stalked back and forth down the vault, her hoofsteps growing increasingly agitated. She'd passed this way at least a half-dozen times by now, and with each time her anxiety grew.The ponies of Celestia’s Imperial Monastery were some of the densest, most naïve creatures she'd encountered in her brief, troubled life. But even they had some sense of security, or else there would be no treasures left to steal.After today, there would be far fewer. She caught her stray reflection in a bit of…-
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Alex Haggard woke on the edge of the Supernal Sea surrounded by old friends. The crash of the distant waves faded into white noise. There were numberless concourses of people here—some of them were ponies. For all its terrible might, the Stygian Key was undone.“I’ve wondered for a long time if there was anything up there,” Archive said, staring off across the sea. She saw the center of everything, the core of magic that existed at the heart of the galaxy. The same force that had killed so much…
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Lonely day wanted to strangle somepony. She wasn’t sure who to target, wasn’t sure if she would even get the chance. But it was exactly what she wanted.It wasn’t all that unusual for her to receive anonymous gifts. Her work with the HPI created a fair number of refugees who would remember her face, even if at the time they would’ve been far more concerned with simple survival. But when years passed, once they secured themselves in what was left of the earth, many wanted to express their…
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