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Hayden had once struggled to fly. When she was new to Equestria and still adjusting to the body Luna had imagined for her, she had tripped on her own hooves and tumbled from the air if she thought too much about her flight.Princess Luna did not have any of those weaknesses. The princess had the magic of all the tribes, and more experience than ponies got in their long lifetimes.Hayden borrowed all of that experience now, tearing through the air so fast it seemed like the world around her was stretched and…-
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Jamie knew what to expect—she’d given to the Arcanum Well enough times to know that every vision came with a sacrifice. What price could possibly be worth what she would receive in exchange?Suddenly she was on two feet again, her body lengthy and stretched. She’d been living in space for long enough to start to feel it, her limbs lengthened such that that she experienced a few moments of disorientation. How was she supposed to walk around with two legs again? Far off in the corner, an air-recycler…-
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Summer had long suspected that breaching the control room would be the beginning and the end of their escape attempt. After all, how hard could it be to switch on the experiment? She still had her instructions bouncing around in her mind, the same ones she’d used on that first night. Nothing could dust the cobwebs out of her memory quite like a little life-and-death terror.The control room showed her the error of that assumption in the first few moments. There were a dozen different computers up here,…-
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Kyle felt the gnawing sense that something was wrong the longer she waited. Now she had the word of Akiko, but how much had that even meant so far? Was she just wrong about the way she thought the magic would work? Or lying to get us to cooperate?Just so long as they stay away from Fay, it will be fine. It's probably my turn to get blasted with some strange magic anyway.She wasn't wrong to expect them to come through the office. Akiko stepped through the open doorway, a heavy case under one arm. She…-
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She hurried from the apartment after that, barely even stopping to think about what to bring with her as she tossed it into a pack. Her last few days made decreasing sense the more she thought about it. Was it really a good idea to hide from the ponies by remaining in plain sight? By being close to them, she would invite more attention than if she hid in her room and did nothing.Too late now. I could've got her to leave me alone before."You won't need much," Rainbow said, waving a dismissive hoof. "Looks…-
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The crew was back by nightfall, wandering back in a few groups. At least the ones who left, anyway. Kaelynn had denied Ryan's request to come with him.For once, he hadn't been insistent, giving her some time to herself. Kaelynn visited her old water prison, floating along in the surface, skimming her book for useful songs. But mostly she was waiting for the return trip.Blake and Vesper made it back first, smelling like fried food and looking like they'd been walking through the city taking all sorts of…-
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Silver could only watch helplessly as he was dragged up into another world. He mentally screamed, struggling desperately to channel his magic and escape. But he could no more do that than anything else. The area in front of him was clear, but that was all.Whatever terrible spell the bodyguards of Rockshanks had used, it didn’t even have the decency of killing him. He was forced to watch as the metal ramp gave way to stone, then at last the thin veneer of wood. The unicorns didn’t keep levitating…-
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Dear Diary,Today was my first day living in Alexandria. Not Paris, Illinois, the perfectly acceptable name for a perfectly unimportant town in the middle of nowhere that didn’t need another name. If I didn’t know why they’d picked it, it might not annoy me so much.But it’s whatever, I can live with that. In a few years we’ll have attracted so many ponies that our original population is just a blip, and no one will remember where the name came from. They’ll think it was for the library. God I…-
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Amie dreaded the return to the Elders' chamber.Not because she didn't want to see Wes again—rather, a persistent level of dread remained in the back of her mind, whispering of all the terrible things that must have happened to him while she was gone and unable to help. If any harm came to him, she would have to live with the guilt.She owed Wes her protection more than any other bug in her care. But her new powers didn't care how much she wanted to protect him, she still couldn't feel his thoughts, or see…-
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Excavate, find whatever else might be buried here. 53% Twilight stood at the edge of the chasm, staring down at oblivion. Her own hooves were stained, her body was weak and there were multiple small wounds on her body, all from the excavation.The prospector was a mining ship, and so it contained several large diggers. Twilight didn’t know how to operate them, but Pinkie did, and so it fell to her and Fluttershy to go through what she turned up. And whenever radar indicated there might be something ahead,…-
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