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Ryan could've stayed with his friends while they asked around the city, gathering all the information they could on Kaelynn's disappearance. That was probably the smarter play, considering how little they knew. Maybe each of them was a target, and the deceptive note was a multilayered lie, meant to lull them into underestimating their enemy. Maybe they would get picked off one by one.All that might be true, but he just couldn't bring himself to care. His own selfish eagerness to see Earth again might just…-
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Kaelynn swam endless circles around her prison. She searched the rock in every corner, checked every seal, and ran her hooves along every scratch and deformation in the carving. Finding her way out wouldn't be that different to getting into one of the places her group liked to film: even an attentive and responsible government body could only leave so much to defend a place. Static defenses were a monument to the hubris of man.But the one who made these defenses wasn't a man by either definition. It seemed…
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Vesper was in no hurry to leave the old mine—in terms of places to fly, it was about perfect. Not blinding, like the outside could be during full sun. Most of the cavern was swallowed in total darkness, but occasionally shafts of light pierced through the crystal walls from distant openings. There were magical lanterns too, but that was exactly where she shouldn't go. If a tour finds us down here, they might up their security.Maybe she should talk to Pale Light about the Worldgate they'd found—some…
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Blake slept uneasily his first night as a human being in months. He told himself it was just the product of having his body switched around again—after all, he had plenty of time to adjust to one only to have another take its place. It would pass, and eventually what was proper would become dominant again. It was only a matter of time.He would never admit that he was relieved when he finally heard the roosters from outside, and the sign that it was time to return to Equestria. It's probably just that we…
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Of all the dangerous things Blake had watched his friends do, none gave him more anxiety than watching them go out and interact with other human beings.When it came to climbing something, picking a lock, or navigating an old building, Blake had little to fear. His friends were all good at what they did. He had no reason to doubt they would succeed, given their skill and the research they'd already done on the various sites they visited.But as soon as other human beings got involved, suddenly all certainty…
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Kaelynn tried to focus on the water around her. There was another creature here, one that was bigger than she was. That explained why she'd never smelled this particular scent before—that was a male seapony. Ryan could copy her, but he hadn't been able to create anything truly new. Yet for his size, the moonlight did a poor job illuminating him. Or maybe it was just that her eyes were slow to adjust. And apparently his weren't, because nothing had actually touched her yet."Who are you?" she asked. Well,…
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It was easily the worst hike of Jordan's life. Wearing "shoes" that were really just a few pieces of wood wrapped around his feet with strips of ripped shirt certainly didn't help. There was no trail either, just mud and hillside with briars and thorns. Before they even started he was already shivering with cold, thanks to the water in the Worldgate. By the time they got anywhere near the bottom, he'd acquired a handful of brand-new blisters.He moved roughly beside Galena the whole way down, traveling…
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Ryan emptied everything he could onto an ancient bench, arranging the relics of Earth that had survived passage through Equestria. He hadn't brought much, considering the length of the trip so far. At least the whole thing had been wrapped firmly in a dry sack, so his passport and stuff had survived. More important than that, of course, was the phone, his voice recorder, and its spare batteries. That machine took so little power that he could probably keep his journal for months more without needing to…
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Kaelynn was... somewhere. Nowhere she wanted to be, nowhere she ever planned to visit. But it wasn't like she'd been given a choice.She spent an eternity of bumping and jostling around, with the voices of other creatures practically right outside. How many of those others might be able to rescue her, if only they had any idea what was happening? Could she somehow sing them a message?She tried a few tunes, but nothing was louder than the sound of jostling around her.At least her kidnapper had packed her jar…
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Vesper was the first to pass through the Worldgate. This was a fitting reward, since she had been the one to track this one down. With several maps and some educated guesses from a book on the subject, maybe. But if it got them back to Earth, it still counted.By now she was more than prepared for the rush of water and sudden moment of painful transition. She was even expecting the stretching that came when her bat body became something that wasn't a bat anymore. But the water wasn't usually that deep, and…
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