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"Did you honestly think you could get away, kitten?" Korina asked, drifting through the entrance towards her. "I know humans have trouble conceptualizing the future, but come on. Even if I gave you a week head start, I would be there the instant I stopped waiting." There was a flash of bright light from where she floated, and a faint glow across the tent. Suddenly she was on the other end, still baring down on Lane with no less malicious an expression on her face. "Just like that.…-
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“Do we really just… follow some stranger?” I asked, staring down through the empty tunnel where the bird had vanished seconds before. It seemed incredibly stupid to me—we didn’t even know this creature’s name, we knew nothing except that he didn’t seem to want us in one of the buildings, and yet here we were considering following him. True, he didn’t have skulls or anything hanging from his saddlebags, but I hadn’t so much as seen his face. I looked up at the sky, but couldn’t make out…-
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Ocellus took no joy in deceiving others.There were many—mostly ponies who had been harmed in the ill-fated Canterlot invasion—who still thought that changelings were creatures born of deceit, with no desire towards honesty. She had grown all her life hearing the whispers of her own inherent, irresistible corruption.Even in the era of spaceflight, she knew there were still some creatures back home who would always see her that way. It would take generations for those old views of changelings as…-
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Jackie couldn’t even guess how big this castle really was. At first she’d thought she’d been taken to a separate section, with a single impressive tower to dominate the whole skyline. But one hallway led to another, and soon she found her mental map of the place had dissolved into complete chaos. There were many corridors, each one leading to some new wonder. The princesses of Equestria had obviously saved the most impressive views for themselves.But eventually they passed guards dressed in simple…-
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Ocellus couldn’t have said if she did the right thing. It didn’t help being able to sense the creatures that had thought of her with kindness turn to anger and disgust. They probably wouldn’t be able to look at her again without thinking of what they’d seen her do to Marie.Maybe her own friends wouldn’t forget either. Maybe they shouldn’t.Maybe she hadn’t saved all of Equestria this time, but that didn’t matter. She had saved a single life, and that was almost as important. What would…-
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The spell was, in fact, still going.Lotus felt it, though she couldn't exactly describe what she was feeling, or how. The spell wasn’t drawing power from her anymore, the same way it took active concentration to hold something up in the air. That wasn't a good thing—a spell that she wasn't actively casting was a spell that she had no way to stop."It shouldn't be!" She stood up, stumbling away from his camera. The little toy woodpecker toppled off the side, clattering against the floor. Lotus recoiled,…-
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There was nothing particularly dignified about being walked home by a princess. Twilight Sparkle made polite conversation the rest of the way back, her tone so aggressively boring that not even a cart full of nitroglycerin would've been agitated by it. Everyone who saw them turned to stare, looking from him to the Alicorn and back again.It didn't matter if they didn't say anything. He could see the suspicion, and could imagine the whispers even if they weren't out loud.Thankfully the indignity went only so…-
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Quinn found a fully automatic door waiting at the upper balcony, made of a sturdy-looking metal. Lights came on as he approached, and a camera followed his movements, pivoting as his antennae twitched. A second later there was a click, and a tiny metal compartment opened beside the door. A voice echoed through speakers there, slightly distorted by the volume and their low quality. "Place the inhibitor around your neck. It will make a sound when it is working correctly." "Inhibitor."…-
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Hayden had hurt before. He'd spent his entire life essentially on his own on the streets of Sunyshore. That meant plenty of little fights with other kids, it meant falling off things he tried to climb, or tripping off a pier into the ocean. Mostly it meant bruises and cuts in the constant pressure of street war between the sailor kids and the townies. Other kids could be vicious and cruel, but none of them had ever hurt him like his new sensei. Should he feel better that she wasn't trying to…-
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They walked for hours, long enough that the ground became rockier and the trees scarcer. Amie wasn’t sure Tailslide would have been able to keep going, except that they found a road. That made their progress less direct, but the grade much more manageable.He might be an alien horse-thing, but Tailslide soon reminded her of one of her boys—unwilling to admit when he was in too much pain to continue and needed a break.Fortunately for him, she could read his emotions, and knew exactly when to stop. She…-
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