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The next few hours were simultaneously tense and uneventful for Hayden. He showered away the grime of his brief encounter on the street, scrubbing his cuts until they were clean. He tried, anyway. But under the dried blood he found only smooth skin, not even a stray splinter from the old dock. He felt a little better when he was clean and dressed. Nothing he owned hadn't been worn by at least two siblings before him—but at least it was intact, and any tears would be mended as soon as he…-
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When Jacob emerged from "Avery's" room, he was leading the little pony along. She followed stiffly behind, hooves clopping on cement. Even halfway to melting into one himself, Jacob still marveled at just how little ponies seemed in person. At least Equestria wasn't lying with the name they chose for their "propaganda."Their little meeting had been adjourned for the healing magic, but even without saying anything his return attracted attention. "You're back, Jacob?""Yeah." He stopped near the center of the…-
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Make Plans to Train the Pegasai 60%Roberts was not, as it happened, "just overreacting."At least not in the sense that he might be expressing a few minutes of discomfort that quickly settled to something calmer when he had a chance to think.She found someone waiting for her at her quarters when she got back: a griffin wearing a suit jacket and a red tie. Way took one glance down the hall, then pushed Hazel away from the entrance, back into the stairwell. "Hide, now."She looked pleading, but only for a…-
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Dear Journal,I’m writing this from the hospital. Wait, what? Yeah, I am. Sky’s here, and Joseph's just down the hall keeping the generator running. I’ve told them both I’ll be fine sleeping here alone, but Cloudy Skies doesn’t think I should be alone. Not sure what she’s worried about; nothing feels broken, and the burns aren’t that bad. Really only cost me my eyelashes and a little fur. I could do with less of both anyway.You … I told you … No Sky, I get it. I should’ve listened. He…-
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Red knew nothing more important than his duty. Function was purpose, and purpose was all that mattered.Centre was not the place of much labor anymore, not as it had once been. He remembered the very moment of transition, though it had been long ago. For years he had lived among others who were like him. They did things, they said things, and they wanted things... but he had understood little of it.But Red knew some things, even then. He knew that he wanted to be useful. That was how he had come to be here,…-
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Hayden knew in that instant why the child had seemed so familiar. She'd never known Cody this young, much as she'd never seen Sierra before she settled. But now that she was exposed, no doubt remained. "No way that's real." Julian turned towards the noise, the same as so many others. He could barely wait two seconds before a half-dozen soldiers appeared from nowhere, rushing to separate them from the intrusion. More precisely, the guards of Mew House took hold of Julian, pulling…
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Tracy stumbled through the inner door. Everwake shoved down his throat didn't have quite the same effect as carefully managed doses. The magic was still there, still enough to keep him awake. But now all those nights without sleep loomed behind him like a pallet of bricks. But he couldn't sleep now. Tracy would have to face the goodbye to his world with barely enough strength to walk. He managed that at least, making his slow way into the living room.For the second time in a year, he found a princess…-
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Vera pulled into her old house on the edge of downtown St. Agnes about an hour later. She rumbled to a stop in the old garage, smelling of biodiesel and rust. She kicked the service bay door open with a boot, and it wasn't long before one of St. Agnes's citizens came rumbling in on a tractor, engine choking and sputtering to a halt.She worked for the next few hours, fighting away her pain with a hard diet of sweaty labor. Keeping her hands busy helped banish the pain of betrayal, at least until the sun…-
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Hayden landed in the grass, surrounded by... basically nothing. A short circle of low moss and comfortable green extended beneath her, with much taller reeds not far away. Those formed an obstructing barrier like walls. Nothing that would stop her from walking of course, though at least it gave her privacy. She couldn't hear any other voices, not the servants or the conversation of many watching pokémon—but she could feel their minds, almost all in the same direction, off on her right. At a guess,…
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Lyra was somewhere warm. She had a cloak now, wrapped tight around her bare skin. The mud was mercifully gone, scrubbed raw in freezing water. Strange perfume seasoned her skin, though she couldn't say exactly where it had come from.At least they hadn't left her out in the open. Tucked inside one of the oversized pavilions, she no longer felt quite so overwhelmed. Whatever she had seen outside, at least in here the world made sense.They let her keep her magical tool. She still had the little obsidian…-
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