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The SunThe longhouse didn’t look like a longhouse on the inside. A younger Jackie—so long ago that she could barely even remember being that person—would’ve loved it.The entire structure was bright pink and lace, with artificial elegance dripping from every corner. There was no sign of the salvaged look of the village outside—it was the Lolita’s wet dream.Except that ponies all around her weren’t dressed the part. There were dozens of posing dummies around the edge of the room, each one…-
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Try to Sneak Past (48%)There were ways to deal with someone watching the entrance. But if they hurt someone, there would be more investigation into their presence. The only safe way to get in was to become unnoticed. And if something life-threatening happened to some random guard just doing his job, Wayfinder wouldn't forgive herself."The point of these guys is keeping people in," she whispered. "They're trying to keep the infection from spreading. If infected people are going inside the lockup, I don't…-
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Iris Vale waited nervously in a distant corner of the dark sanctum, ears poised for motion down the hall. The sisterhood's healing salves had done their work, for her and the other members who survived the impact. But there were nearly a dozen of their number who had not survived. It didn't matter how powerful the healing magic they summoned—a corpse was a corpse. You could make it move again if you wanted, but that didn't make it alive."They're children," said a sister beside Iris, her voice…-
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"So, you realize this is a bad idea," Alex said, her voice exasperated. "Like, maybe the dumbest idea ever."Richard had spent his whole life hearing ponies talk about how important Alex had been as mayor of Alexandria. He found it a little hard to believe now that she was working behind the desk at a pharmacy, shorter than he was, and probably younger too. But she also happened to be working the hospital pharmacy, and so there would be no way to buy what he wanted without getting her approval.Richard…-
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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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The safehouse wasn't just a safehouse, but an armory. Harley led them to a closed door that looked like all the other bedrooms, and unlocked it with her Unity ID card.The room practically hummed with magic. Harley stopped in the doorway, glaring back at Jackie and the others. "The rest of you stay out. This room is hot.""This is horse shit, Harley.""You should've seen how we got out of Unity," Jacob muttered.She ignored him. "Why the hell can't I come with you? You're taking a known traitor and a unicorn…-
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Hey sis, you still up? It took him several hours to send the text. But after a long shower, an unhealthy meal of too much comfort food, and a few minutes quiet meditation he found the evidence and memories of his adventure remained. Maybe the girl’s appearance could be rationalized away, maybe even her behavior. Her voice had been different, so there was that. But nothing he could come up with could explain the twisted stick of polished wood that still made his fingers tingle every time he touched it.…
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There was much to say to Scootaloo—many words to exchange, friendship to renew, and tears to be shed. Sweetie told her as little as she could about the events of her escape, painful as they were to contemplate. She was grateful that so few memories of that experience survived—all she really had to know was that it was difficult and painful.But that conversation was the easy one—the one that would've happened to any two friends reuniting after a difficult experience. The much harder part was what…-
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“You can’t have enjoyed that,” Tune said, her voice as cheerful as it was mocking. “I saw your face while you ate that slug. You almost puked!”Nathan wasn’t sure if what Tune was saying was even true—in the last decade, he’d stopped carrying a phone, replacing it with a simple pair of glasses that did everything without making him look like a tool. The frames were simple plastic, so they didn’t sap heat away from his skin in the frigid cold outside.Cold that challenged the very definition…-
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No matter how hard she tried, Rose could never figure out how time moved so fast once her duties at the flower stand ended for the year. Well, "ended" was subjective, since they still served breakfast, along with opening briefly for Hearth’s Warming when the time came. But without their own greenhouse, even earth pony magic couldn't keep flowers alive when the first winter frost came.That meant everything they did sell either came from hardier species they could grow outside, sometimes even with snow all…-
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