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Vesper sailed through strange skies. This time it wasn't just her mind that flew, released from physical bonds into the dreaming, but her body too, tucked away in one of the private quarters of the Bright Hawk. Shame the others overruled her suggestion to give it a different name. But while the others wiled away their nights confined to their own dreams; Vesper was learning. She'd learned a great deal during the last few weeks, while her friends with more useful skills spent their time rebuilding the…-
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What was it supposed to feel like to become captain of a ship? Blake stood on the high deck, just beside the helm. They'd stripped away much of the pirate's handiwork—he didn't need or want a ship with a cabinet carved into the shape of a nude, supplicating horse-creature, and they'd sanded away all the images of skulls and severed heads and other imposing imagery.Really, he was just glad that nobody had brought up his failure in booking this ship when a simple trip up here would've revealed exactly what…
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Journal,Lot to catch up on. Sorry I haven't had the time to dictate any of this. You'd think that even seeing Kaelynn, I'd still have time, since only one of us sleeps. But one of the biggest advantages to being a hideous freak is the productivity—while everyone but Jordan sleeps, I can keep working on the Bright Hawk.I really don't care that technically there's no time pressure. We're already declared dead. The search parties would've given up on finding us by now. Hopefully they didn't find an evil…
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Of course there was no telling for certain just how long they might be waiting for their friends to return. According to the locals, the Worldgate was so unsafe that a whole team had gone through it and never returned. Maybe planning for what to do once they had everyone back was a fool's task—maybe Vesper and Blake were the only ones left.There was little to do while they waited, other than traveling briefly down to the ferry station to use the bits to arrange transportation back to Equestria for the…
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Jordan was getting good at this dream stuff. By now she knew what to expect when she became aware of the specific actions of her unconscious self—no sooner did she see the misty skies and feel the strange currents on her wings than she would dive, cutting purposefully through the fog until she found the steps. She took them two or three at a time, hurrying forward through the part of the sleeping world she understood. She could even open the Doors to Deeper Slumber on her own. Even so, she was relieved…
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Dear Journal,Going under the sea for the portal home tomorrow. Will be with Kaelynn the whole time. See if I can find one of the locals to copy, looking like her would waste the chance. Friendzone? Nozone. Predictions not good for this crossing. Just like the one in that old city, some locals went through and haven't come back. Though at least this one was a few years ago, so maybe they just got unlucky. I'll pretend to sleep and hide from nightmares of waking up on Everest tomorrow. God that would…
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Kaelynn was in no hurry to leave the water behind. For the first (and probably, only) time, her body felt like no disadvantage, but uniquely enabled her to enjoy the world she'd been placed in. But it was getting dark—by the time she had a clear view of the water's surface, she could see only darkness above.So as much as she would've rather spent the time exploring Seaquestria, returning to her friends was more important. She couldn't just send a message back—they'd been caught by enough police in…
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Kaelynn might have a queen waiting for her, but she still didn't take the most direct route. Rivulet and the naval intelligence birds hadn't been lying—there really was a city down here. It was far better to visit in person than anything she'd ever dreamed up watching Little Mermaid as a kid.The city itself wasn't built directly onto the seafloor. To reach it, they had to pass through lava-tubes that permeated the structure of the island, before emerging in a brilliant bioluminescent glow. Structures had…
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If only other universes had cell coverage, Kaelynn could've told the others what was really going on. Though then again, she'd never held a dive radio that didn't rely on some on-site infrastructure. So even on Earth, she'd probably be stuck just telling the others after it was over.No sooner were the others walked away than the naval officer doing her interview was replaced with someone else. This creature seemed older, more seasoned somehow. More important?"Word is already spreading of a seapony who…
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This was nothing new for Jordan.When his favorite (and really, only) hobby involved traveling all over the world to film, explore, and generally poke around in places he wasn't supposed to be, the police getting involved was an inevitability. Part of the way his friends picked their next destination came down to local laws and likely punishments if they got caught.The hippogriffs were friendlier than any visit to the police he'd experienced before. Instead of bright lights and little food, they spoke in a…
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