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Sunset Shimmer was a wiser mare.In terms of subjective time, she had spent decades, years spent cramped in identical benches in identical classrooms, with the same handful of teachers. She had discovered on her second class that the teachers weren't smart enough to tell if she was paying attention to them, and they'd never move on until she responded to their questions and took their tests.Thus, with a few mental tricks she'd learned from Celestia, Sunset could ignore the mental compulsion trying to force…-
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Sunset staggered from the room, feeling as though she’d been physically beaten. There had been no violence in the history class, or at least no violence inflicted on her. She had gone into the class wondering how she would be able to tell if the king had sanitized his history or not. As she stumbled from the room, she no longer had to wonder. She no longer let herself mingle with the crowd of builders, instead jerking herself away, backing up until she was against the wall, before turning and running…
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"Computer... simulation..." Sunset Shimmer repeated, her mouth working but no more words coming out. Thanks to her English class, she now knew each of those words. But to hear them put together, to combine them with everything she had just seen... "Then we need to end it," she said. "I want to be out in the real world. How can I leave?"Jackie laughed, but there was no amusement in her voice. Nothing but bitterness and an old anger gone cold. "Leave? How would we do that? Someone turns off the Infinite…
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"So let's start at the start," Jackie began, pacing a small circle around Sunset and looking her over. Her expression was tough to read, though she seemed to be searching for something. Whatever it was, apparently she didn't find it, because she quickly relaxed.The others all backed away, retreating towards the statue of King Richard. Then, like three of the most skilled unicorns Sunset had ever seen, each of them produced a chair of some kind from open air. The short one named Bree produced a squishy sack…
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Sunset stared at the wall in her latest in a series of dull physics classes. The lecturer droned on, as he had done for what felt like years. Sitting in these rooms did strange things to her concentration, forcing her to remain on task and improving her memory such that she never forgot a lesson.Yet in spite of all the pressure in the back of her mind, trying to nudge her thoughts back to the board and the n-body simulation techniques she was learning, Sunset found she no longer cared.“Excuse me,” she…
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Sunset Shimmer took the polished metal knob in one of her paws, half expecting the door to be as locked as any of the others she had tried. It twisted easily and she strode into the empty classroom.Well, almost empty. There was a single row of desks inside, and an instructor standing by a chalkboard. The woman seemed to come to life as Sunset entered, her head twisting around and a practiced smile on her face.She looked a little different than the other builders Sunset had seen so far, at least by physical…
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Sunset shifted.The feeling had no correlation with anything she had ever experienced before. The world seemed to sweep out from under her, and for a moment it was as though she couldn’t think. Her mind was frozen, detached from her body and anything other than the strange numbness.The horrible moment passed, and the world came into focus around her. She spent several seconds standing in place and panting, overwhelmed. It was the worst teleport she could remember. Worse than the first one she’d ever…
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Sunset did not dream, not exactly. What Sunset did see she had great difficulty even classifying into the world she knew. It wasn’t a dream, and yet she wasn’t quite awake. Something moved around her in an indeterminate gray space without end or beginning.Could this be the Void Starswirl had spoken of in his treatise on the intersection of related worlds? She couldn’t ask any of the natives, because she couldn’t ever see them. Perception would come as a general sense of observation, but by the time…
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Sunset paced through her room for the thousandth time, eying everything she had prepared. It looked as though someone had accidentally let a small tornado into the cramped space—the contents of every drawer and every shelf had been dumped onto the ground, so thick she couldn’t see the carpet.Being Celestia’s personal apprentice could have brought luxury, if Sunset Shimmer was another kind of pony. But Sunset wasn’t the sort of pony who had taken the position on political appointment. Sunset Shimmer…
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Lonely Day took her first breath. For a long time that was all she did, feeling the heat in her veins again, the steady beat of her heart. Sensations she had had for so much of her existence she’d never even considered them, but now… after only a short time as something else, she understood a little of her friends’ anger at being revived undead.On the ground in front of her was all that was left of her struggle against Charybdis. The Key made from Mordite hadn’t remained—on a planet filled with…-
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