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"It's wrong," Jackie said, staring down at the little strip of cloth and plastic levitating in Ezri's magic. Two more sat beside her on the bathroom counter, each one with two dark lines in the white fabric. "It has to be wrong. It's obviously, stupidly wrong."Ezri levitated the last test down beside the others. She was currently taller than Jackie, or at least this version of her was, with reddish fur and a greenish mane. She was a unicorn currently, though since she was also a male now that wasn't the…-
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About one hour before Event...First Lieutenant Oscar Reyes stood on the edge of the loading gantry of the Albatross Semiautonomous Heavy Carrier. The sun had set less than an hour ago, leaving enough of a glow for him to still see some of the vastly expanded mine infrastructure. What had been only a few dozen slowly rusting buildings a few years ago had changed enormously since he'd started making these runs. Well over a billion dollars had been spent here in almost total secrecy, as it had in dozens of…
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"Why did we have to go so far, Paladin Forge?" Meadow Sweet pressed her head up against the window of the Skimmer, watching the ocean blast by below them. She had seen so many incredible things over the last few months, the least of which had been her initial recovery. Much of those early months had passed in a blur of travel, spent in one of Athena's Skimmers.The craft was barely large enough for four ponies, though this one contained only two. Herself, and Night Forge.Forge sat at the controls in the…
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Whitewater was burning. She could still smell the smoke, and other smells she only knew from the time her father had taken her to the county fair. Homestead had warned her then that many visited the market--and so she hadn't vomited when she smelled it. She would've done so now, except that her body lacked the strength. Meadow Sweet was dying. This did not bother her much--not after what she had seen.They had come from the sea. Fish that walked, fish that fought with spears and swords and set fire to every…
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Kira arrived in Las Plumas on the last train that day, packed in with hundreds of other ponies. She probably should’ve realized something was wrong from how many were dressed in costumes: bright red dresses, masks of bone, and every monstrous and mythical creature that had ever been speculated or imagined. Some were even fictional. She’d planned to make things easy for herself by blending in with the locals, making casual conversation on the way to her destination, and learning everything she needed to…
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Kira floated in the water, surrounded by her torn and broken dive equipment. A regulator hose belched bubbles weakly up into the water, and scraps of her ripped BCD formed a diffuse cloud. Black blood floated in the water not far from her, a strange amoeba that undulated and drifted. Somehow, she’d managed to fire her speargun despite having stumps for hands. It hadn’t made a difference. She was still dead.But I’m still here.This must be what people always meant when they spoke about an out-of-body…
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Oracle stepped through the portal. The ground was no longer rocking back and forth, but quite stable under his hooves. Though it looked like metal, it was soft enough that it didn’t hurt to walk on. Archive and the others followed, and the portal vanished. It was replaced with a huge window, several stories wide and tall, that gave them a spectacular view of the ships below. They looked so small down there, so weak. What had seemed like an unstoppable armada now seemed less so.Hours passed. There was a…
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Oracle felt a strange metal floor under his hooves, and smiled slightly at the clacking sound it made as he walked. Of course, the main reason he looked down was the terror he felt every time he looked up. If he did, even for a second, he was forced to see where Archive had taken him.The ground shook beneath him anyway, listing back and forth as it flew. It had no wings to carry it, not like a pegasus or a bird, yet it seemed to hold its own weight in the air without trouble. How it could do so, he…
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"You must describe it to me exactly, Alicorn," Winding Wheel said, his voice absolutely calm. Calmer than he thought he would've felt at his own execution. Calmer than he had any right to be, really. "Exactly what you want to see. The event in as much detail as you know it, with as much of the background as you can. I must construct a temporal sympathy as you might create a spatial sympathy for a teleport."He rested at the table he had used for the majority of his visions, constructed only a decade ago.…
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Winding Wheel heard his front bell ring with a familiar high-pitched tinkling, and he looked up from his work. Many tools hung in the air around him, a tiny mallet, a screwdriver, a chisel as fine as a hair. He lowered them with reluctance, replacing each in their assigned place. "One moment!" His voice rasped when he shouted, and when he rose, his joints cracked like the sinue was going to tear right off his bones. It didn't, though he knew that day would come soon. How many predictions did Wheel have…
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