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Roseluck should not have been excited about traveling to another world. It was dangerous—a kind of danger that couldn't be easily explained or predicted. She did not understand the place Tracy came from, and she couldn't possibly comprehend all the strange things that happened there. It was the kind of place she should continue to avoid no matter what.Yet from the very instant Tracy told her about the "holiday party" happening at his work, she found the excitement almost impossible to resist. It wasn't…-
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Sweetie paced around her virtual workspace, squinting down at the pony projected there. Many blocks of data floated in the air before her, connecting in a strange weave of interleaving lines, connections, and pulsing shapes. Every now and then she lit up her horn, slicing through something, or reconnecting something to another area.Behind the projection she had a large display, far larger than anything even Rarity could afford in the real world. On it was another mental pattern, one exceptionally familiar…-
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Sweetie Belle dragged her hooves through Carousel Boutique. It didn't matter how long it had been since she'd woken to the smell of steaming hotcakes. She could drench them with syrup, and tell her big sister about the plans for her next adventure this lazy summer day.Rarity wasn't in the kitchen, though. Her sister had more important things to do. Sweetie passed the pantry without a second glance. She didn't feel much like breakfast anyway.Sand and bits of broken glass rubbed painfully against her hooves…-
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Elliot drove to the diner.He felt a lot better with a heroic dose of cold medicine in his system, reducing his temperature and banishing the sniffles and occasional coughs. He left a brief note to Ruby, explaining that she might have to wait until the end of his shift if she wanted the car.He felt better, but not so much better that he could endure the significant physical strain of a bike across town.Driving through Aurora felt... different, somehow. A strange dread followed him, like knowing he had left…-
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The next few hours passed about how Elliot expected. After heat-treatment in the sacrificial toaster-oven, he went out to make purchases of supplies around town, always getting the maximum possible change for each transaction. If he had to spend some of the money anyway, he went shopping as though he was about to go on a long camping trip. Plenty of cans and non-perishables, a new camp stove, some fuel.Incidentally, many of the same things he might need if they were about to disappear into the Rockies for…
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Tell Her Everything (56%)Elliot shook his head once. "Listen, I know you've got important studying to do. But I have something here I think you should see. Got a minute?""A minute," she repeated, holding the notebook up in one hand. She squinted down at the writing on the front page. "Dr. Zalenka, huh? Didn't know you by that name."Elliot snatched the notebook out of her fingers, twisting around her to lean against the wall. "Before you look, you need to know how I got it. Then maybe you can make more…
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Elliot glanced nervously in both directions, just to be sure there was no one watching. There were a handful of small cars on the road now, and there would be more with every minute. As Aurora woke, so too did its residents. Within the hour, there would be dozens of people moving in either direction, making anything even remotely like stealth completely impossible.The best place to read would be home, obviously. But if he didn't know what was inside, he couldn't bring it back to Ruby's apartment! His…
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It was another late shift.Many of Elliot's coworkers loathed the overnight, with its long stretches of nothing broken only rarely by the occasional trucker or weirdo. Far from avoiding it, Elliot often volunteered.There was something honest about only a few tables at a time, delivering bizarre orders to those customers who rolled in when honest folk were asleep. Overnights were the shift for long conversations, for wild tangents and getting on a first-name basis with the regulars.Ruby wasn't as fond of…
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Play it safe, take her time to learn the ropes and follow legal channels to get her friends released. (45%)Of course, Wayfinder wasn't going to reject any option given to her. She wanted to know what Hazel might be thinking, even if she was a half-starved adolescent who had spent most of the pandemic hiding in a trap house.She closed the laptop, then tucked it under the covers of her bed for good measure. "What plan do you have in mind?"The result was impressive—impressive enough that she swore,…
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Wayfinder emerged into the blinding light of full day, her body crushed briefly by the Colorado heat. She lingered in the doorway a second while she adjusted. My fur is getting a little long, maybe I should get a trimmer.Getting shoved in a basement might not be the most dignified place to be, but it did have its advantages: the underground stayed much cooler than the surface. Something touched lightly to her rear as she emerged from the doorway. Way didn't look back to see if she'd decided to wear the…
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