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Lane had probably spent more time imagining how mew lived than any human alive. Even before he’d got his hands on the Celadon University genetic report, he’d imagined a tropical habitat for the Pokémon. He pictured soft nests high in the trees, hunting using their powers and raising young under the moonlight. It was obvious they could fly, so maybe they spent most of their time up near the clouds, playing and watching the stars. The ruins of an ancient city seemed determined to prove him wrong.…-
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Lane landed with a splash, sending warm water cascading away from him in all directions. He sank, and for a few terrible seconds it felt like he was going to keep sinking. Even if it was too dark to see, he could feel Mew hovering over him, and he kicked towards her. He broke the water a second later, coughing and spluttering. “Are… you… trying to drown me?” A soft amber glow sprung up just beside the water, suddenly illuminating the room. He swam towards the edge, getting a good look around. It…
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Lane stared back at Mew, expecting her to vanish any moment. His whole life he’d been searching for her, ignoring the chorus of voices insisting that he was doomed to fail. But something about her smile was no longer reassuring. Her teeth were small—there was nothing overtly intimidating about her, really. She could’ve perched on his hand without too much difficulty, if she was anything as light as she looked. “Not many humans come out this way,” Mew went on, circling slowly around him. She…
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Things were supposed to go easy for Lane once he reached the expedition’s destination. A few cameras, a few hours watching covertly from the underbrush, and Mew would be there. If he was very lucky, he’d get to meet her, and learn why mew were so hard to find. There was just one problem: that didn’t happen. Not to say his next few days didn’t go well. Spending time alone with Elisa was always fun, and without Dominic around she could be as overt as she wanted without getting embarrassed. It…
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An adventure through the untamed jungles of Cayari sounded exciting and wonderful in the abstract—until Lane actually had to do it. Within the first kilometer, he’d discovered his urban shoes did him little good against the mud, and within two he found that drinking water through a filter-canteen didn’t actually make it taste good. Elisa followed along beside him, her absurd stuffed-Pokémon now positioned securely atop her backpack, which combined with her jacket made it look almost like a…
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Lane had been looking for hours. Turning back to the convention had been an easy choice at first—all the data in the world about legendary Pokémon assembled into one place, obviously the answers would be here. But while there were whole sections about the climate instability caused by some recent disaster or another, and even some credibility given to an absurd region worshiping a goat-thing and some egg, Mew was almost deliberately absent. After an hour of finding nothing and ignoring texts from his…
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The Annual Gathering of Legendary and Mythical Pokémon Researchers was everything that Lane could’ve imagined and more. Saffron’s convention center was packed to the brim with scientific teams from all over the world. Today there would be lectures and panels and corporate sponsors gathering all that was known about these incredible Pokémon. He reached down, pulling his attendee badge out from the mew hoodie he wore, flashing it at the security guards as he approached. A thick crowd of other…
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But the end was not what Princess Luna expected. A night stretched long, delaying the sunrise well past its appointed time. But before it could stretch beyond the first day, it was already over.The end was not the extinction of Equestria by freezing death, taking even Luna's beloved bats with her. It came, rather, in the arrival of another mare.Princess Celestia came in light. Compared to the two pale figures in that lonely crater, her body burned like a star, flame that made no smoke. No heat to sweep…-
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One step forward and Mira was nowhere. No light, no darkness... endless, featureless oblivion, boundary. No beginning, no middle, and no end. All was alike within the void.Yet she remembered. Purpose—she was trying to get somewhere. If she couldn't, bats a lifetime away might never have their second chance.She assumed, anyway. It had been so very long since she saw any on the outside for herself. But she heard stories, and knew how desperate for survival they were.Purpose moved her through that…
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It wasn't easy to save a princess and her people at the same time. But Mira, fortunately, was not alone. The bats of Legacy were not all equally united in their labor, but they were at least on the same side. There was no fear of an Equestrian army crushing them with the Astral Sea swirling and Equestria bereft of skilled dreamwalkers of its own. The unicorn imitation could get them only so close.The resources available to Mira's mission ebbed and flowed as the years passed. Greater sometimes, when the…
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