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Hayden was in no rush to return to the ground, not after what she had just been through. She caught Liz out of the air in an embrace. It didn’t matter that she felt no cold or wind—her pain went deeper than that. She rocked slowly back and forth in the air, body wracked with sobs. Even so, no tears lingered on her face. They struck her skin, then hissed and steamed away to nothing. She couldn’t even have that comfort. The sky darkened. Clouds shifted, and the wind rose, but the scent of smoke…-
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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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Two months ago, Silver Star had been starving in the muddiest alleys of Moonrise, barely able to make quota for long enough to earn the smallest food rewards the foreman offered. Now he stepped in the Lunar Palace, a place that even the greatest ponies in Moonrise only ever saw in portrait and tapestry.If it wasn’t for his time in Vanaheimr, he might’ve lost concentration and dropped the air-shield, though for nearly the opposite reason. He imagined a palace of opulence beyond imagination, and at least…-
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Summer Ray wasn’t sure she could survive the shock if the Horizon wasn’t waiting for them. But this time at least, she wouldn’t have to find out. They didn’t have to reach the clearing for her to see the low hump of the balloon, with a thin layer of ice and snow condensed along its upper surface. The balloon sagged a little, as though it had lost some of its gas during their time away. But it was still here.That said, it did look as though the last ones to use it were the raiding party sent to…-
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Kyle was in a daze. For a moment, she'd almost had what she had wanted since this nightmare began. It was so close, close enough to force her up against thoughts she'd rather keep buried. Then came the screams to snatch away her victory. There was a second experiment? She'd fallen for the same stupid trick twice. Almost as though briefly restoring her humanity had been an inconvenience to get her away from Fay.You better not have hurt them...Of course, it wasn't the child she heard screaming. This voice…-
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Hayden could feel her world crumbling around her. Victory had been almost inside their grasp, and now she could feel it slipping away.“Can we stop the ritual?” she asked, painfully conscious of the war drums echoing from all sides now. Even from the north, though she couldn’t be sure how the griffons might’ve got themselves around that far. “I’d like to get my bats on their hooves again. We can’t have most of our soldiers unconscious.”Avalon shook his head, not even looking up from his…-
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Jamie drew in gasping, desperate breaths, before finally flopping onto her back. She lay limply in the room of utter blackness. He lied to me. Flurry’s death was in there all along. It was there for the same reason all of Flurry Heart’s memories were in the Well. She was the Well, somehow. Solar Lens appeared in the doorway in a single flash of magic, looking in at her. “Well, Lady Jamie. Did you learn what you were looking for?”She rolled onto her legs, tucking her tail in embarrassment. That…-
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It took over a week for Firefly to hear from the members of the expedition again. They didn't visit, but instead their communication came in a letter she found waiting on her balcony by morning. She tried not to feel too much resentment that they didn't bother talking to her in person. The letter obviously hadn't been written by Rainbow, judging by the precise hoofwriting on stationary paper from a library she'd never heard of. "Miss Firefly,I have some dark news to share with you. I would ordinarily not…-
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Amie followed Albrecht long enough to see where he was headed, and to confirm her suspicions: the cabin he shared with his wife. The lights outside that cabin were still on, shining out at the darkened camp all around it. Stranger still, Amie was positive she saw a pair of patrolling guards circling the building. They each wore one of the camp's many target-shooting .22 rifles.If this were her body, she could think of several ways she could try to get past them, and confront Albrecht alone. She couldn't…-
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Neither. Twilight has to know what's in that building 58% We’re not ready for this. Applejack’s health is failing, Pinkie Pie is on the edge of a breakdown, and Fluttershy is two steps from trying to override my command authority. What her crew really needed was six months of shore leave. A little farming duty in the morning, and hobby projects the rest of the day. Equestria’s destruction, if it were really imminent, would not hinge on six months when the trip was forty years.“Node.” Twilight…-
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