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“That wasn’t so bad, was it?” Alex called back, grinning too broadly. “Under five hours! We’re making better and better time every time we come down here!” She parked the car the same place they always did, in front of a fancy bank building that became their city headquarters whenever they visited St. Louis.The ponies in the backseat, Adrian included, groaned loudly, and stumbled over each other to get to the outside. There were four of them in the back of the tiny sedan, and while it wasn’t…-
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Dinner in Alexandria was a community affair. Everypony took breakfast and lunch on the go, often using prepackaged pre-Event food. But no matter what you were doing, no matter where you were, you always came for dinner.It probably helped that the group was so small; it helped that there was more than one pony who enjoyed cooking, as well as more than one who enjoyed gardening. Adrian was neither, which meant he got all the reward without any of the effort. Well, effort cooking anyway. Just because he…
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Adrian hadn’t had this much fun since the Event. This said a great deal, since Adrian was a pony whose whole life was a never-ending search for adventure. He couldn’t sit still for more than a few minutes before his hooves started to tap and his wings started twitching, and he knew he had to get out and do something. Behind the wheel of a huge truck, hauling a freakin’ house behind him, Adrian could feel like he was doing something. Metal groaned every time he turned or hit a bump; inside,…
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It wasn't hard to arrange a private meeting with Alex. She's not the mayor anymore, even if she remains active in public life. I sent ahead and she set aside the entire afternoon to talk to me. It wasn't difficult, since she lives just across the street from my mother's house. Even after all these years, the founders have remained close together.We chat for over an hour before I bring up the subject of my investigations. I want an accurate history of Alexandria, one ponies will be able to read and know how…-
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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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Dear Diary,Today was the official founding of our colony! It’s gonna be a bumpy next few years, but there’s no reason at all we shouldn’t be able to make it. We’ve got lots of talented ponies, and no reason we couldn’t start attracting more.Today was inventmediaory day. If we were going to live here for the rest of forever and transform this place into a city, we would need to know exactly what we have to work with. Separated our little group into parties of two, and we each went out in a…
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August 12, 2015Dear Diary,We’re here. After another long day of travel, we're finally here.It's a good thing the cars on the road at the time apparently didn't stick around, because otherwise driving here with trucks and buses might be impossible (guess we could still off-road, but that sounds like it would take forever). Roads are all clear. Well, there's litter, rubber bits, maybe a few tiny branches that've blown into the roads, but nothing that makes driving too hard. Probably won't stay this way. I…
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August 11, 2015Dear Diary,I was worried that travel might’ve been difficult, since now a full three months have gone by, but I’m happy to say things have been relatively simple so far. As we got further north, we left the temperature extremes of the south, and diesel fuel here seems to be in good shape (we’re still on borrowed time, but at least we’ve got a little left). That meant we did things pretty much the same these last few days. Cloudy woke up earliest, did her animal stuff, loaded ‘em…
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Dear Diary,I wish the Equestrian Princess had given me another one of those memory crystals, so I could show you the feeling of being back on Earth. Equestria was a beautiful place. I’ve never seen grass so green, or water so clear. I’ve never met ponies so friendly and kind. Luna said there were humans from Earth who stayed behind. I can’t really blame them.Not me, though. Even with the haze of LA’s ruined corpse in the distance, even the scorching desert heat cannot make home seem less sweet.…
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Luna seems to sense your feelings, because again she avoids looking at you. Can she read your thoughts? You choose to proceed on the assumption that she can’t, lest you be paralyzed and unable to act. Only a flame of white-hot anger for your vanished brothers and sisters enables you the courage to speak with such confidence to a being obviously vastly beyond your power and intelligence. If Luna wanted, you know the magic she wields could sweep you away like dew before the sun. You don’t care. If you…
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