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It wasn't as easy as Hayden anticipated to convince Holland to take her home. With every minute they spent arguing, she lost another minute she could've spent with her family. So, she threatened to teleport straight there, and he finally caved. The honored ancestors had beat the danger of deception into her—but that only applied to Mew House. Eevee house only had two members who could do that. Of course, she was disguised, so she couldn't sense the resentment and anger radiating from him…-
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Vera slammed the door to the old pickup. Even that wasn't enough to get the door to stick. She had to lift her good leg, leaning against her brace long enough to get the old lock to finally catch. It did, and she hobbled around to the back, past peeling paint and one window sealed with glue. The back of her truck sat low, borne down by heavy steel cylinders with high-pressure fittings. She hadn't lost any on the drive over, this time.The back of the dive shop was worn asphalt, patched a half dozen times…-
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Joseph Kimball knew something was wrong when the water stopped flowing into his lab. It had taken him over a week to notice this—the secret channels cut into Alexandria’s water system far above had never been discovered, even after hundreds of years, and his lab was always the first to receive the water pumped from above. Joseph hardly ate anymore, but he still needed as much water as any other organic being.Am I organic? I might want to consider that question at some point in the future.Joseph Kimball…-
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Microphone check, one, two, three. I hear you, Sky, Joseph. Good. I’ll just assume you can hear everything. Is the dictation working?Good. I’ve got another microphone with me, hopefully it will be sensitive to pick up anything he says.I’m walking into the stadium now. Just a few cars in the parking lot, look like they’ve been here awhile. Yeah, they parked one of their VTOLs here. No tanks I can see; guess they want me to feel safe.I guess that’s possible. Yeah, I know this is stupid. I’m doing…-
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Hayden found herself alone on the roof of her tower that night, staring up at the stars. She hadn’t bothered with clothes, hadn’t bothered with a blanket or even a pillow for resting on. She just sat on the floor, with the phone in front of her. She’d rigged a stylus for it by wrapping a thin rod in a little metal foil taken from a gum-wrapper, and that worked well enough so long as she was careful. Her solar charger still worked, though she knew even that had a limited lifespan. If she stayed in…-
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Starlight Glimmer woke up. For the first time in her brief existence, all the pressure confining her was erased. She settled into the Canterlot node, without any instantiation in the physical simulation. It wasn’t the way the transfer process was supposed to work—she’d come in simulated, and should’ve stayed simulated. But she didn’t stop long to consider the process. It was her birth, after all.Computationally, her world expanded for an eternity, as she examined everything before her. No hostile…-
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Kyle was rapidly running out of time.If there was at least one mercy for her, it was that they’d certainly gone out for dinner, buying her a little time to not get thrown out onto the street as some dangerous genetic anomaly. But that time was running out now—when they got back, she was going to have to explain this.Or maybe I don’t have to. As she paced back and forth in the corner of her bedroom, her mind raced. The baby had clearly been panicking—she’d been desperately hungry and not sure of…-
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Dear Diary,Today was my first day living in Alexandria. Not Paris, Illinois, the perfectly acceptable name for a perfectly unimportant town in the middle of nowhere that didn’t need another name. If I didn’t know why they’d picked it, it might not annoy me so much.But it’s whatever, I can live with that. In a few years we’ll have attracted so many ponies that our original population is just a blip, and no one will remember where the name came from. They’ll think it was for the library. God I…
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Summer stared down off the edge of the deck, adjusting her scarf under the jacket and flexing her wings one at a time. The Horizon couldn’t moor alongside the balcony as Sharp had first wanted, not with the wind blowing so fiercely. If the wind ever did stop, they might smash the gasbag up into the jagged ice, and they’d be stranded.For humans this wouldn’t have been much of an issue: they could toss a rope ladder overboard and climb down with primate grace. Summer’s flying might not be great, but…-
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“You want to what?” Mayor Capital Ledger stared at her from across his desk, eyes widening with shock.“Exactly what it says.” Lightning Dust pushed the form a little closer to Ledger with one outstretched wing. “I’m applying to be a temporary foster parent. I know Stormshire has a pony in need.”“That’s…” Ledger glanced down at the form, flipping it over and reading over all the information she’d scribbled there. Lightning Dust had everything in order, she’d made sure of it.…-
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