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Lilac woke in darkness. She wasn’t sure exactly how long she had been there, only that her body ached, and she couldn’t see anything. She barely understood how she’d gotten there—an attack in the dark, Risk screaming, then something grabbing her. She had been awake enough to struggle for a few minutes, squirming in the bag.Until the pony carrying her explained that they were thousands of feet up, and they would drop her if she kept fighting. Lilac abandoned her design in that moment, conserving her…-
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Tailslide did not run when he saw the true state of Amie's body. Maybe it was his feelings for her—or maybe it was his experience with the royal guard, imparting an unusual tolerance for biology. Either way, he remained by her side through the subsequent days.Amie didn't rely on loyal campers to help construct the nest, as much as she believed she could trust them. There was enough to do to build the upper levels of her little colony to keep them all busy, and potentially very little time to do it. But…-
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O̡̱̝̝̗͢͞P̧̧̪̤̣̬̦̦͍͕̰̲̰̜̲̯͠E̴̛͟҉̬̖͎̰̳̖̦͙͕̣͓̠̥̟̞̱̪͍̖Ǹ̢̡͇̰͉͉̹̗͚̦͉̰̙̻͘ ̷̤̺͈̘̲̣̝̱̙̀͟͜͠T̢̢͔͖̬̻̰͈̠͘͠͝H̸̷̰̹̺̪̗̫̖͔̫̘͟E̸̪̫͎̺͉̱̦̞͖̥͘͢͞͠ͅ ̝͈̬͙̬͓̮̞̣͚͉̪̱̯̝̲̖͔̟̕͜D͞҉̬̠̯͖̝̠̻͜Ǫ̵̴̴̙͓̰͖̹͝Ò͈̥͕͕̯̟̘̤̀́͝R͏̲̺̪̖̭͓̭̜̱̮̻̖͜ͅ ∞%Whatever part of herself might’ve been able to resist, it evidently wasn’t strong enough to resist whatever was…-
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Firefly froze, utterly still in the dark space. Shapes moved through the room, silent in the night. But one of her wings was up, uncovered in the comfort of the castle. She felt the air playing against her feathers. With no windows open and the air perfectly still, she could feel it all so clearly.There were two creatures in the room, adult sized and moving quickly. She saw them only as thick shadows against the faint light from behind. Firefly felt rooted to her bed, suddenly overcome with fright. Who…
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"Where is the other one?" Red Sky asked, his voice even more annoyed and obnoxious than he sounded last time. There were a dozen different ponies waiting in the room with him, so the pony could be only so sharp with her. This would probably just mean worse food tomorrow, or maybe a longer delay until they got the next page of the songbook.She swam in a slow loop, barely even seeing the different ponies out there. She could just go back the way she came. But Red Sky kept track of how many times they failed…-
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Amie woke to uncomfortable pressure against her real body, jostling her back to reality. She blinked, then opened one eye. A bug stood nearby, bouncing with nervous energy. It took her a moment more to recover—back to her bloated body, and the cramps that came from a long time holding still."What is it?""Food's here!" he said. "I mean... the hunters' food got here. And there's a horse with them. Wants to see you.""Pegasus?" she suggested. "Stallion? Big wings? Tailslide."The bug nodded. "Said you would…
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Wake sunset after the prosthetics are implanted. 83% “And you don’t know of anything in the medical database that might explain it?” Twilight asked, exasperated. She was in the medical bay, beside the still-healing Sunset and Applejack’s empty bed. Several days had passed since she made the decision not to force Sunset to wake.Is there anything about twilight’s condition in the database? Critical no. Fluttershy gazed at her from across the table, shaking her head sadly. “I searched the whole…
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Charlie watched her father fight for his life, powerless to do a thing to help.She'd seen accidents before—in a life long ago, she'd been walking when a drunk driver went straight into a tree. She'd been the one to call emergency services—and the one at the scene when they cut the poor man out, and tried in vain to save him.Perhaps there was something analogous here, in the way Septum had willingly made an oath with evil to make himself vulnerable in the first place. But Firefly wasn't in any place to…
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Ryan was doing pretty good at this spy stuff.Yeah, she didn't know exactly how unicorns acted some of the time, and that meant a few awkward looks. Her ability to imitate their magic to move objects around was obviously weaker than it should've been, judging by the way people stared. She didn't do it for very long at a time, and things got even better.But as eager as she was to charge right into the mansion and look for Kaelynn, she had to resist the urge. Getting dragged out by the guards and thrown onto…
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Albrecht’s words hit her harder than any attack could've. From the instant she'd decided to move against him, she imagined all the terrible ways for it to end. She had suffered sieges, poisonings, campers armed with sharp sticks rushing in under some hideous threat.Instead, the old camp director stood right in front of her, helpless. Maybe he had a radio in that bag, but he wouldn't reach it before Amie did. Fortunate for him that she wasn't the bug he claimed her to be. "Surrender," she repeated.…
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