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For the palace of the princess, Canterlot Castle wasn’t much of what she’d expected. It was really just a large room, with an elegant chair on one end and a few seats for witnesses along the wall. Sunset walked in at the back of the group, keeping her head down. I can see why the Princess is renovating. The throne room she’s building is way more impressive than this.The trip into Canterlot had been uneventful, painfully so. She couldn’t have said which train Flash Sentry had ridden in, but she…-
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“I don’t suppose you were listening to my father’s opponent?” Velar asked, his voice every bit as sarcastic as his mother’s had been. “Lord Gabriel represented everything hostile to your nation. He would have seen Accipio prepare boats full of soldiers instead of refugees. He would probably have seen us invade the volcano too, once the eruption is over!”“What is your name?” Gaius asked, before the pony could respond to Velar’s question.“Starlight Glimmer,” she snapped at him.…-
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James Irwin knew something was wrong from her very first breath. Knew it from the strange numbness in her limbs, the unusual roominess of the bioreactor’s gestation pod, from how furry she felt. She ignored the instinct to panic, still buried deep inside despite her lifetime of training.Whatever it is, it’s okay, James told herself. I would not be waking up if there were any critical errors with my body. Implanting the mind is always the last step. This was obviously intentional… for some…-
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It took a few more weeks, as it turned out. Summer was just about halfway over when she got to make her first trip across Ponyville—a walk all the way to the Apple family farm. That would be good enough—it wasn't like she visited Scootaloo at her home very much anyway.That trip wasn't made during the cover of night, keeping her from being accidentally seen. It was her first time out in the open. "Are you sure you're ready?" Rarity asked, lingering near the back-door of her store. "It could be…-
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Star Orchid had never flown before. It wasn’t just that she was a bit of a homebody, never venturing too far from the capital district and all the ponies who lived there—though that was certainly the case. It was, rather, that almost no one flew unless they’d done something wrong. Flying meant you had somewhere to go, and there was nowhere to go from Concord that wasn’t worse.Now she perched near the bow of the little transport cruiser, feeling the deck rumble and shake as they moved. A thick cloud…-
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Lyra did not like to dream. When she slept, the blood returned—the screams. Time mattered little in the domain of memory.In her mind, she still craved. She still tasted the sickly sweet of blood, dribbled out just fast enough to keep her obedient. The strange power of that blood left her body unscarred by all she suffered under the old dockyard. But the damage to her mind—that healed slower.When those wounds were still fresh, she dreamed only of need, of terrible things those horrors demanded of her.…-
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Hayden had hurt before. He'd spent his entire life essentially on his own on the streets of Sunyshore. That meant plenty of little fights with other kids, it meant falling off things he tried to climb, or tripping off a pier into the ocean. Mostly it meant bruises and cuts in the constant pressure of street war between the sailor kids and the townies. Other kids could be vicious and cruel, but none of them had ever hurt him like his new sensei. Should he feel better that she wasn't trying to…-
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The StarIf this had been a physical place, it was possible that the transition to below-ground would’ve killed her. All that wood and glass and debris tumbling down would certainly not have held their shape, and would’ve served only like the stones in a rock-polisher, but with their bodies.But though the others didn’t believe her, Jackie was convinced she was dreaming… or at least that she was in the Dreamlands. Dreaming was impossible for someone with no more physical body.Jackie didn’t get…-
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Hayden barely registered his next few hours. The servants didn't leave him to his own devices this time—they had him washed and scrubbed clean, dressed in fresh clothes, then under the harsh white light of a doctor's inspection. But whatever they were hoping for, they must not have found it. There was nothing left to bandage, or any bruises. There was no visual sign at all that he'd nearly fallen off a cliff. "We have new instructions not to allow you beyond the grounds until…
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The WorldHer journey wasn’t over yet. Jackie did not return to the engine room, and the corpse of the second part of her that had given itself for her mission to continue. Maybe they were dreams, and she wouldn’t stay dead for long. But if she broke up into smaller parts and drifted in the Dreamlands, Jackie would probably not discover anyway. She had information—what she was looking for could be found on the island in the center of the world. She’d come this far—she was going to sail the rest of…
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