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The flames burned high over Hono that night. Hono wasn't just a village built on discipline, friendship, and cooperation—it depended on those things to continue to exist. It took only one soul to lose control of their anger, just once. If the residents couldn't get things under control almost instantly, they probably never would.That night, they didn't. Blue flames turned orange as the town's largest structures caught fire, and its ancient trees burned. Hono survived a war, survived the return of the…-
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The further Magpie led him; the more impressed Silver became. It wasn’t just that she knew where to take him to avoid exposing them to the hundreds of ponies working in the skytowers, but also the simple reality that she had made it so far entirely on her own. Magpie was half the size of a modern stallion, and made sounds like glass whenever she moved. He wouldn’t have imagined something like her even could hide.She clearly hadn’t snuck past every obstacle—outside his cell was a hallway, and at the…-
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If Lotus's nighttime arrival in Equestria gave her a false impression of how different it could be from Earth, her first hoofsteps into Hono restored some of that initial sense of wonder.Its many houses and buildings were constructed in a rough semicircle around a large central square, stretching from one side of the village to the other. Though very few were built to any sane engineering standard she had ever seen. Most of those were in the center of the village, where a large wooden temple and various…
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Iron Feather escorted her downstairs, though not exactly straight to bed. As soon as they were out of Twilight's presence, both of them relaxed. Iron slid the spear back into its holster."I tried to keep up with what you two were doing, but..." He looked away. "Couldn't really follow it. Magic is one of those gifts you either have or you don't—and that's before it had anything to do with me. When it's my mate, and my foal involved with the spell." Lotus stopped on the ramp. One section of the huge castle…
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In her youth, Alex had read about the meetings of the “Big Three” during the second world war, as they made sweeping plans to end the Axis powers, plans that would have consequences stretching long past their own lifetimes. Yet now, as she sat in the cargo area aboard a loaned HPI Hummingbird, she imagined she knew a little of what those men might’ve felt.There were no nations at stake; all of those were already gone. Alex was no Alicorn, she couldn’t imagine the scales of time the Equestrian…-
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The night passed without much incident. Captain Lodestone didn’t try anything with her, and she managed to resist whatever instinctive part of herself wanted to get closer to him in return. The only strange thing about the experience was her dreams, which seemed quite unfamiliar to her. She’d never seen so many ponies in armor in her life. But Hayden dismissed it as a dream brought on by her work, and woke at first light along with the captain.He filled their canteens by squeezing out the cloud, before…-
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Lotus lay beneath a field of soft grass. They surrounded her in all directions, nearly up to her shoulders in places. She found the contact strangely soothing against her coat, gently cool after the desperate pressure of their flight from the mine and battle with Searing Gale. In all that time—from the moment of her frightening accident to the transformation that followed and her desperation to master her new powers—she never dared to hope this moment would actually come.But here she lay, surrounded by…
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"If we go back, we should go to Denver" 47%Wayfinder could see good reasons to consider both kinds of destinations, either somewhere remote and rural, or going back to her home. If it weren't for Sunburst, she probably would've suggested the former. Her own hometown would've made a good fit in that regard, far enough away that it would be safe from the worst of what happened in the city.But Sunburst knew things. She had felt his confidence just being near him. But that would probably not be a very…-
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If only Magpie still had her shadowstep abilities, and all the other magic Nightmare had once granted her, the infiltration probably would’ve been easy. Unfortunately, it also would’ve been quite a bit more lethal, since a single failure would likely result in the city trying to kill her. A flexible plastic tunnel now connected the teleport platform to Vanaheimr’s entrance, which had been moved so that it was only a dozen or so paces away. For magical reasons she wasn’t qualified to understand, it…
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Complete the Overgrowth Spell (93%)"I want to complete that vaccine as much as you do, Ruby," Wayfinder began. "But the whole point of involving Sunburst in the magical aspects of this government is that he actually knows this stuff. It's his magic, and I promised I would help with it. We'll have to gather more when this is finished."Ruby's ears angled inward, and her tail flicked sharply from side to side. She glanced between the two of them, as though she might start shouting. Then she sighed, slumping…
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