open Casual stroll

Sapphire sighed to herself in relief. It was nice to hear she was okay. Nodding at the general. "Let's get to business then, whatever it may be now." She turned away, starting to walk out of the area. Astral walked aside Sapphire, thoughts now crossing her mind as she saw something up with Sapphire's mane, of all things to notice. She chuckled to herself. "Huh?" Sapphire looked back to her for a moment. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, just thought of something." Astral didn't want Sapphire to worry about anything. She figured it was only the air flow that caused her mane to move weirdly. Or it was magic, she wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. "What's the plan now, general?" She asked, looking to Tidal Wave.

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Warlock was barely affected by this, his expression showed his lack of surprise, he knew full well that this amount of chains was necessary to hold him back. For all they knew he could cause the room to explode around him. But it wouldn't be possible, since there was an anti magic metal near him. "I was trapped in stone for hundreds of years, this isn't excessive, since I can actually move this time." He said, chuckling to himself. "A pony who's done what I have would certainly deserve this amount of chains, right?" He asked, desiring a bit of honesty to the question.

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"Thank you, for reminding me. Even while able to read minds. I forget that you're, not experienced." He said, pulling out a book that just happened to say 'Magic for dummies' on the cover. "This covers how to control auras. Since you know that the one colored brown is yours, it'll be easier for you." Iron found himself hoping the spell wasn't wrong about which aura was Chow's, as he left the book on top of the one Chow practiced on.

Sekel · July 11, 2018

@Blitz Boom, @Lloyd

KARMIC FATE

"You're ... unhinged," Karmic said slowly, tilting her head at the sight of the crazy pony. She had opted to stay behind Zhu while he spoke with whatever it was and was a bit concerned for his well-being for the first time since they met. The pony in question looked and even acted like nothing could go wrong and was expecting an answer to some sort of question. "Oh, um, I'm Karmic Fate. I have some sort of ... something in my mind. I don't exactly know what it is but by all accounts it's acting like a changeling would. This goo in my mind calls itself 'Atzy'."

'Oh how kind of you to introduce me,' Atzy echoed sarcastically within Karmic's head.

@Blitz Boom, @Seamore Sandwich, @Moonlit

WATTS MECHANO

"Thank you so much," Watts said gratefully and wobbled over to the pony before standing still. She wasn't the best when it came to transportation but for whatever reason, her wings had failed her on this day so she was kinda forced to take the train. Not to mention the object she was looking for would have weighed her down anyway. "Can you show me where it is? And if it's close by? Please?"

AURORA LIGHTS

"Something else? Whatever do you mean?" Aurora asked with an-all-too-wide grin. She hoped she hadn't been caught out by whatever this fishy Pegasus was and hoped that none of the princesses were around to catch her.

FanOfManyShows · July 11, 2018

@Dji

He chuckled a little. "Well it is a bit of a walk. But your motion sickness should subside on the way there." He turned to Canterlot. "And yes, I could take you there." He said, motioning with his hoof for her to follow him. If he was lucky, Crystal would be there on the way, where the inciting incident would begin. He smiled as he looked away from them, this was going to go perfectly.

Pr0m4NV14 · July 11, 2018

"He's a stupid blank flank because he doesn't have his cutie mark yet!" The small filly chimed in.

Mike was confused.

"Blank flank wha-" He questioned before getting cut off by the second filly.

"You're one too? Wow, what an idiot!" Laughed the filly, and the two spat out more insults at Mike. The bully's divirted attention allowed the younger colt to get away.

"Well, I must be going." Said Mike, before bolting away to Sorrow with a distressed look on his face.

EQ_Theta · July 11, 2018

@Blitz Boom

"I think we can pick up the pace. Today wasn't that bad and we could take advantage of being ahead of schedule to make up for any unforeseen delays along the way."

"I'll stay up and watch for the sunrise, Rosa," the longma hybrid replied. "You don't have to take a shift for night watch."

Lin nodded at Sen's response and added her own, well aware that she could just as easily be able to set a watch for the evenings ahead if they need to leave early. At the first sign of sunrise, she'd be able to get the word out to both of them that it was time to leave. It is an unforeseen benefit of being unable to sleep but she'll take it, albeit begrudgingly. Just seeing Sen sleep already makes her jealous but she wouldn't let it drive her to insanity. Maybe she might ask Omen about how she manages when they meet again.

"I suppose now might be a good time for me to answer those questions about Omen, huh?" Sen, having remembered this previous exchange earlier, nonchalantly brought it up again, much to Lin's surprise. She was a little wary about the topic suspecting Sen might have revealed more than what both were comfortable with sharing.

You what?! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?

I wasn't sure how much I could tell. Look, you are better at being choosy about what you can answer; you can back me up here.

The two whispered for a while longer before turning back to Rosa, with Lin initiating the conversation.

"Since Sen already said it, what would you like to know?"

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Moonlit · July 11, 2018

@Blitz Boom The Wolf says nothing, and stays slumped on the ground. He opens an eye then slowly nods. "Grogar, when Tembalon fell"

@Seamore Sandwich @Dji Serenade looks at her, then slowly nods before whispering "You smell like an apex predator, but I imagine spending time in the Everfree does that to one"

Rising Dusk · July 12, 2018

Rising Dusk didn't have even a brief moment to get a word in before the young filly's mind, mouth and body started moving a million miles an hour. He did manage to at least raise his hoof as if to speak before Blitz was off to gather snacks for a trip that hadn't even really been planned, and wouldn't be anything they'd try to do in just the first few days. She was gone though, off to be distracted by whatever might fill her mind at any moment in time.

The stallion sighed and then looked over from where he stood to watch the two mechanical spiders become engrossed in a conversation. He couldn't make horns or tails about it, she he just went about look around the workshop while he waited for Molotov to finish with his morning bath. That of course was before Carmen went about skittering around the much large spider until plopping down on one of the benches, and for lack of a better word, broke into his creator's locked draw. Approaching the smaller spider, he didn't have any reason to believe Carmen would do something to wrong his creator, but watching her break into the drawer did seem a little off to him.

When the drawer was pulled out though by the larger spider and the contents of the drawer presented to him, he perked his eyebrow. Both spiders were giving him indications to take the sixty page file. Igniting his horn, he levitated the file away from Carmen. It was still against his better judgement on this, considering it was in a locked drawer, but the sisters did seem rather insistent.

"What have we here?"

He inquired as each of the sixty pages came spilling out of the file folder and circled around him like some large Rolodex. They spun around him as he filled his flash memory with the contents of the pages. Some would turn over, others would swap places. In a matter of seconds, Rising Dusk had the sixty pages organized and in order. They continued to circle around him as he read them, memorizing them. They were fascinating, still a mess in both hoof writing, at least his hoped it was hoof writing because this would otherwise be absolutely terrible horn writing. This would be quite useful in understanding the spiders a bit better. Wouldn't be perfect of course, not having the practice Molotov had.

After a few minutes, the pages collages back into a single stack and then back into the folder. Levitating it back to Carmen to be put away.

"Very interesting. I wonder why he locked it away."

Blitz Boom · July 12, 2018

@Rising Dusk

Both spiders looked on with interest as Dusky speed-read through the files he had been presented with. The two of them could do much the same, but they had advanced, mechanical brains that could scan their hard drives. Meat were less reliable, but this pony could apparently do the same as them, at least in this regard. It was fascinating to them.

"Take plans. Hide again."

Carmen's way of speaking would be textbook in this case. The thing had been made with her in mind mostly, and she worked primarily on simple phrases and general descriptions rather than full on sentences and specifics. Of course, some nuances were there, but the fact that she called the files *plans* instead should show that this were the only word she had for a collection of papers in this place.

Carmen were guided over by Felicia once again, though the large spiderbot kept her eyes on the officer, preparing to make her own experiment to see how much of the papers he understood. She didn't doubt his logical reasoning would make filling in the blanks that the papers couldn't help him with - because she had developed on the language herself, outside of Molotov's knowledge - somewhat trivial, but they'd see. An experiment were in order to be sure. If nothing else, Dusky should get the general gist of things at least, as the words Felicia had added were mainly to make completed sentences, instead of the choppy way Carmen spoke.

"He hides them from the small one. She is dangerous to leave alone with important things.

Do you understand, interloper?"

It was both in regards to the language in general, and the answer to his question about the files. It really shouldn't be too surprising that Blitz had something to do with it, considering her scattered mind and fondness for explosives. Any exposed paper could easily be set ablaze if Molotov didn't watch out, and as messy as these papers were, they were still his guide to the mechanical language the two spiders used. In case something happened to him, or his memory got wiped, the two spiderbots wouldn't be left without a method of communicating.

Of course, he didn't expect them to team up to pick the lock and just get it out, but what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him.

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@Pr0m4NV14

"You managed to get them away from the little one at least, but man, those foals were some mean spirited little things."

Sorrow had been bullied quite a lot when she were smaller for reasons more partaking to her own cutie mark than anything - a skull with a candle in one eye - but at least where she grew up, the ponies around had the respect of her family and their legacy to tell their own foals to not be like that when they were caught. It had been way worse far, far back in their generations, before her family had been able to get a foothold, but those days were thankfully over. Now they all had a nice little town they tended to raise their foals in when they got them, and then the ones who liked to live there could stay. It might be that only the mares in their family had their abilities with spirits, but the stallions were just as loved, and actually tended to live there more than the mares. Three of the current distant cousins and such were the caretakers under Sorrow's grandmothers vigil in fact.

She really should remember to go home and visit one of these days. She missed Grandma Bones.

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"Nothing interesting have gone on for me for 300 years, and today is no different. Even here, in the middle of the first pony settlement that grazes my paws, I find myself nearly bored to sleep."

Enzo let out a sigh, and felt his ears go down a little more. He might be quite a bit larger than most of these, and quite intimidating when he had to, in parts because of size and the bone ornaments he wore, but he honestly didn't feel like trying to make a scene right now. Short term enjoyment for moaning and complaints later. What was the point?

His thoughts once again fled to the wish of a great, fluffy pillow for him to lay upon, along with a fish freshly caught from the ocean, but returned to this small equine that wanted to talk to him. A spot of light entertainment in a desert of boredom and stagnation, which he knew others of his kind would scoff at, but he cared little for them. Not like anyone had ever come looking for him, so what their opinion were meant very little to him right now. Frankly he were more interested in dreaming of simple joys in life and seeing what would come of this minor conversation.

"And what of you, small equine? What troubles your heart, and comes to mind as you are faced with a sphinx? I would usually demand answered riddles for help, but in this spot of boredom, I find myself wanting to ignore the rules for a time, if it means an escape from this dreadful, sleep-inducing purgatory."

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"I'm thinking that we take the time before our target gets on with it to have a snack. I got a craving for some BBQ sauce and hayburgers."

It wasn't something she had a lot of at the sea, the sauce, so she took her chance when in town to get a snack involving a good, spicy addition to a fine enough treat. There was a great place in Canterlot she knew she could get it, but of course, work came first, so in case something happened with Zhu, that would have to take precedence.

Glancing over, she noticed that the gatekeeper hadn't said a word to what they were going on with, and actively either just listened in, or ignored them. His mostly covered face were focused on Void solely right now, so his ears might be too, though if by choice or not, Tidal appreciated somepony who knew when to not stick his muzzle into things that was none of his business. Or at least not openly so.

"You're still keeping track of him, right?"

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"Even with what you've done, using this much of the anti-magic metal to keep you chained up like this... It just seems to go a little far. And what about your comfort level?"

Hogweed didn't like being in situations like this, were a more harsher mind would be well equipped to handle what happened to Warlock. She weren't an officer sending ponies into war, she were a medic who had been given a rank because she kept order and efficiency when they were working on their wounded guards and prisoners. Her mindset were more set on helping than punishing, even if she knew what had to be done sometimes.

"Comfort? Lady, he hurt guards, who cares about his comfort?"

"Yeah. The chains and clasps aren't big, so it doesn't matter, but he's just a monster."

"He destroyed several walls and a ton of equipment."

"That we have to fix since he hurt Benny's hands."

"And lots of guards are everywhere, getting patched up from his attack."

"Yeah, let him rot. Away with the key an-"

"Enough!"

The twins stopped dead in their rant, as Hogweed rose her voice and approached them with a pretty angry look in her eyes.

"Warlock is a prisoner of Equestria, not Neighpoon, and he will be treated with the same standards we give every other inmate, regardless of how dangerous they are. He can be contained, and he will be helped, not left in a hole until he's forgotten about. Your job here is over, get back to your forge, now!"

Hogweed had a few breaking points, mainly centered around mistreatment of others, as she were a medical doctor. These two suggesting that Warlock be left to rot and that they should throw the keys away, were a deplorable suggestion that she wouldn't allow here. Warlock had just as much of a right to be treated and helped as anypony else, regardless of what he had done, and she were going to make sure that he got the help he needed.

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@Lucid_Nightlight @EQ_Theta @Storm Shine

"Alright, I'll have a go. But fair warning here, if this book ends up having teeth, I'm mounting it on the wall like a boar head."

It might sound silly in most situations, but Chow had gotten to the point where everything involving these witches were basically loopy and weird. Books with teeth, gas, protective wards, or a freaking pie getting shoved in the face of whoever opened it, wouldn't be out of the question when it came to them.

Iron might be reading his thoughts about now and getting the gist of slight paranoia mixed with sarcasm that were building up around this, but eh, let him have a glance. Chow's head were ful of flashbacks and memories of his time growing up in a griffon town, and that were pretty weird when he just told ponies about it. He could imagine it would be pretty odd to see for yourself too. Long as it didn't involve the part where Emerald had taken him over originally. That wasn't really a good point in his life, and something which he still found difficult to even try to talk about. Getting banished and being forced to live in this equine world instead was tough, even if you'd think he, as a pony, would fit in better here.

"Alright, let's open and see. If it's safe, I'm just gonna go into the corner and nerd out with it for a bit."

A close grip was held in the spear piece he had in his hoof, as he prepared for something wonky. Then he opened the book.

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"Awh, it's adorable. Let's call it Jeremy."

Anomaly snapped her tail, and suddenly had a rabbit in her grip, that she were moving towards the strange creature, before she remembered that they had the animal lover nearby, and let the thing go instead. The rabbit promptly ran away too, not wanting to take chances here, even if it had no idea what was going on.

Afterwards, she tried summoning a fish instead, lightly roasted, with pecan nuts and a light licorice sauce.

What? She were allowed to be fancy too sometimes.

"Hi little friend. Want a snack?"

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@Lloyd @Dji

"Unhinged? It depends on the eyes that sees. When Atzy eventually takes you over, I think I'd listen to her opinion instead. One being in a vessel to another."

It was no surprise that Karmic didn't see things her way. Emerald didn't think anypony really could understand what it was like to have to tag along in bodies instead of having their own, unless they were a parasite themselves. Atzy seemed like one, though the details on that were unknown to Emerald. She just knew that something were tagging along in that pony as well.

"You can chose to connect later. I have brought something which needs your attention, Emerald."

It were odd how this serpanther knew her, but for the time being, she'd have some lenience. He did provide her with a usable body after all.

She grabbed what hehad offered her, and opened the bag, drawing out a familiar-looking gem. The light from it sprung in Emerald's eyes, and her expression became shocked.

"The Element of Deceit..."

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@Dji @Seamore Sandwich @Moonlit

"Hey, you two."

Last would walk in about this point, and interrupt whatever they were yapping on about. Whatever it were, she frankly didn't care, long as they weren't fighting.

"Princess Celestia would like to meet the two students of Princess Twilight. Stop bickering and follow me to her."

Her open eye added a silent *And don't mess it up* hard look to the sentence. She couldn't risk that the princess might hear them, so she wouldn't go into further details for now. Frankly, what she had said should be enough anyway, so it should only be an issue if they were bad actors.

The princesses would remain in the room, and stay hidden for the time being.

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@Dji @Seamore Sandwich

"I worry for that pony. With her injuries, she should maintain bed rest, not strain herself to such limits."

Whilst she waited for the students to show with interest, Celestia still gave worried glances towards the mare who had just before been close to spitting blood. She had heard some of these Shrine Maidens from Luna, and seen some wander among the guards in Canterlot, but this were her first interaction with one, and Last seemed far too intense. It was admirable in a way, but she did not like to think that anypony would go to such lengths to appease a duty, when it could go so wrong.

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@Moonlit

"I will take that as a yes."

Briar knew of a salve that might help the painful areas that the wolf would have, and he did see some bushes of the things he needed around, yet it ere not nearly enough. Thankfully, he could remedy that.

Using his vine, he pulled several of the bushes up from the ground, and smashed the roots into smaller bits, that he then planted over a larger area. Afterwards, Briar took his vine to his muzzle, and bit down. Not too deep, but enough for the lavender-colored liquid that made for his kind's blood to flow out in drops, if he put a little pressure on. Painful, but necessary.

He'd go on to *water* the roots, and seeing them go through rapid growth spurts as things went on. It would take him a little time to get this right, but hopefully the wolf would be okay for that long.

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@EQ_Theta

"I want to know what she is. She may look like a pony, but every evidence so far seem to suggest that she is not. Including what little you told me of this *Mother* figure."

Several questions were in his mind, but this were the most pressing of them all to Rosa. At least it were when the topic had been said to involve answering questions about Omen.

"Is she a young creation too, or is there an issue which causes her to interact and react to things the way that she does? She reminds me more of a foal than a mare in her behavior."

The true answer that Sen and Lin should have some idea about by now - 3015 years since Discord made her, and an unknown number before that - would end up being a surprise, if he were given it, even if he attempted to keep an open mind on this. Considering Omen came from another world, he didn't expect everything to be easy to grasp in a small box, but even thinking on things broadly, accepting that Omen were ancient were going to come out of nowhere.

Afterwards, he expected some questions to come his way, but it were a give and take that he would have to accept. The longma siblings seemed okay for the time being, so perhaps they would not attempt to drive him away if they knew some of the truth about him, yet they'd see. Perhaps they would be slower with asking questions, and do that one of the following days instead. He had not been around them long enough to be sure about how they'd react to things.

They had clearly not been around him for long enough either, since they thought the whispering were enough to make sure he could not hear them. He were a bat pony, and his kind had rather sensitive ears. If they didn't want him to catch at least snippets of what they said, they should have created some other noise, get further away from him, or talk lower. He wouldn't bring up what had been said though, in case they became worried about talking anywhere near him. Paranoia could do strange things to a being.

Lucid_Nightlight · July 12, 2018

@Blitz Boom @EQ_Theta @Storm Shine

The new creature Lucid made looked like the perfect gift for Novia.

"I should tell you, Novia isn't my quu-friend... yet."

The new animal thing looked up at Anomaly when she offered it food. It was obviously hungry.

"Should we call him a Blizwolf? How does that sound?"

He looked over to Fluttershy.

"Do you think Blizwolf would be a good name for this hybrid?"

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FanOfManyShows · July 12, 2018

@Blitz Boom @Dji

Everything snapped for her, Sapphire realized the one problem with that question. Groaning to herself as she rubbed a hoof into her face. "Hold onto me, there's no time." She turned to Astral, who grabbed onto her, and if the general had as well, a swirl of fire would surround them, while inside they wouldn't see anything, and the General would still be dragged along even if she let go. But the three would find themselves land in the castle of the two sisters as the fire cleared out. Sapphire threw her hoof out, a spear forming from the rocks of the earth, rising into her grasp. From this move the ponies in the room would know; Sapphire was at full power again. "Emerald!" She glanced to the element Zhu was handing over, smiling to herself as she recognized the illusion that hide the true crystal that he held from the world. "Poetic, the gem he holds is the very same you're named after." She said, gesturing to it.

Astral looked to Sapphire confused. "How would you know that?"

"I recognize the magic of the element of deceit, and that gem's color is only an illusion created by whoever wields it." Sapphire chuckled to herself. "Seems Zhu might be using it this time." Of course, Zhu would know he couldn't be using it, so something was off about Sapphire's confidence here.

Sapphire was about to throw herself forward into a fight, when Astral stopped her by placing a hoof on her chest With a sigh, Astral's eyes changed color, to that of the element itself."Wait..." She looked to Sapphire, backing off, as she created a sword construct. Whispering to Sapphire and the General. "From what I can sense, nopony here has the element, the crystal's appearance may be an illusion, but he couldn't be hiding it."

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"I think they just show how I feel, Hogweed." Warlock stared at her with anger, the fury fueled by the words of the twins. "Hopeless, in a world where reformation is promoted now, I wouldn't fit in as a citizen., or anypony. Think how they'd react to seeing me wander this place free?" The chuckle he had after would be unsuitable, and probably unnerving. "A pony like me, deserves to be locked up. Even they agreed. Mam."

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Iron Star chuckled a little "Y-you think I'd do that?" He said, making it clear with his words that he read Chow's mind. "Clearly you think little of me." His expression was that of pouting, then he chuckled a bit. "Honestly, the books harmless Chow. Why wouldn't it be safe?"

"He just had a book hit his face two times now."

"That wasn't the book. Even the living book just, laid there and talked a lot."

Pr0m4NV14 · July 12, 2018

"L-lets just get to the hospital now," Mike said in a mix of confusion and slight sadness. He started heading down the street. His father never told him what a 'Blank Flank" was.

He really hoped his sister was in there...

Sekel · July 12, 2018

@Blitz Boom, @Moonlit, @Seamore Sandwich

WATTS MECHANO

Watts was extremely grateful for this pony's helping hoof. She did have a tiny bit of fear that he would have given her directions and that was that but actually being guided sounded a whole lot better in her mind. "Thank you, mister," she told him with a smile as she shakily followed him and glanced back at the train. "If you were getting on that train, I'm sorry I made you miss it though."

@Blitz Boom, @Lloyd

KARMIC FATE

"Take me over?" Karmic repeated in abject confusion. She looked at her body and noticed tiny wisps curling out of her mane in the corner of her eye that were not grey or white. "What the...?"

'Finally noticed, have you?' Atzy chuckled inside Karmic's head and she thought she a flash of green for eyes in her mind. 'Took you long enough. I mean, I thought that the disappearing root would have tipped you off to something, but no. It takes another being in a vessel for you to start figuring things out.'

Before Karmic could even formulate a response, the ponies that had been pursuing herself and Zhu from the storage room had shown up. Upon pure instinct, her eyes flashed white and the three ponies that were talking about some kind of element or something, felt calming sensations flow over them.

AURORA LIGHTS

"We weren't bickering," Aurora quickly changed her response to face the new pony and didn't question her when she noticed the hard stare. She then looked over at the Pegasus. "S-Students? Sure ... I guess we could play along," she whispered quietly so only both the Pegasus and Last heard her. "I'm gonna need a name, hard-staring pony and Pegasus. I can't exactly keep calling you these things."

@Blitz Boom, @Seamore Sandwich

TWILIGHT SPARKLE

"Last is one of the most hardworking ponies I know. She doesn't let anything get in the way of her job, which is more of a stubborn quality than anything when she's sustained those kind of injuries," Twilight sighed.

FanOfManyShows · July 12, 2018

@Dji

He chuckled, looking to her. "I had just come off the train, so no worries about that." He had been waiting there, hoping for Crystal to just, deciding to go there. But as it turns out, waiting wasn't going to cut it. Zealous would need to find her. "My days aren't busy either so you haven't exactly interrupted anything."

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@EQ_Theta @Blitz Boom @Storm Shine

"Nothing troubles me, although being able to live 300 years, must be incredibly boring." She put a hoof to her chin. "That would mean like, today spans a time period equivalent to blinking compared to how long you've lived." What'd be most surprising right now, would be how calm she was around this. Crystal felt the need to not upset this thing, but as she talked, the nervousness of talking to a sphinx vanished entirely. "But hey, riddles could be fun. Challenging your mental strength is good for the brain."

EQ_Theta · July 13, 2018

@Blitz Boom @Storm Shine @Lucid_Nightlight

Fluttershy has this giddy look on her whenever she sees a new creature. A mix of curiosity, glee, and excitement, at what she sees and how it behaves around others. Considering this creature is a mix of various animals should normally have her appear reserved but being around Discord, Lucid, and Anomaly for some time, it has the opposite effect. Eventually, she simply concedes that the strangeness of the whole thing has its own kind of charm. And as for names...

"I think that sounds like a good name! I guess my choices in names probably won't go past cutesy and it fits the creature nicely."

The mention of another name got the pegasus thinking, however. A "quu-friend," curious. Quu- as in draconequus? Or something like it?

"Lucid, if you don't mind me asking, who is this Novia?"

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@Blitz Boom

The basics first, simple enough but a little difficult to convey given the gaps in the information Lin and Sen had. There were things already made apparent, some from experience, and some from inference. Even their knowledge was lacking, but Lin remembers the things she told the guard pony back in Ponyville. Sometimes, she thinks that it might become routine to introduce Omen to the villagers using a script, much like the one she might try to construct in her head right at this moment.

"Omen is a Ki'Nathar, formless when first conceived but given form, name, and purpose by masters who choose them. And if I could take a wild guess at how old Omen is, I'd say over a thousand as a good start, though I am certain it is probably over two or three. If I remember Equestria's history right, Discord was turned to stone for the first time one thousand years ago, so I guess that estimate is fairly accurate time to start counting. Given how she came to be long before Discord came along, you could probably add another one thousand to that."

"Yeah, Discord is Omen's master," Sen chimed in, assured and confident given his time spent with the draconequus. That thought once had a negative connotation but after meeting Discord nowadays, he isn't so bad. "Discord formed Omen into what can pass as an earth pony. She is definitely older than us but she has this mind of a youngling, looking to Discord in order to learn about the world outside her home realm. I guess Discord's disappearance meant she didn't get a chance to learn as much as she could. Her mother... she said so herself. There's little to learn in her realm, which meant her children needed to go out to discover more, but she always made sure to entrust her children to masters who can look after them and give them purpose."

It was then that Sen thought about the talk back in Mother's realm about how Discord wasn't an ideal choice. His attitude then was much, much different, more chaotic. It probably was tempting for Mother to pass him up. Times have changed; the Discord now is an improvement over him back then. Strangely, he wasn't sure how that might relate to what Mother does. She has her reasons, and that are sound. Sen trusts her that much.

The siblings were curious about Rosa, though given the subject matter at the moment, they'd wait to see if Rosa had more questions in mind. Omen, and by extension, Lin, were strange enough to warrant some questions about themselves. Not to mention Sen blurting out some things back in Canterlot that Rosa warned him about saying out loud. It was just them out in the wilderness. It was probably safe for them to tell him now.

Moonlit · July 13, 2018

@Blitz Boom @Dji @Seamore Sandwich "Moonlight Serenade" She gives the other pony a wink, then offers her a hoof, "Newly minted Friendship Student of Princess Sp...Twilight"

@Blitz Boom Fionrai opens a eye and watches a pair. Tired and sore, he lays there, uncaring if anything came across him.

Lucid_Nightlight · July 13, 2018

Fluttershy had a question and it was best that Lucid answered.

"Novia is a draconequus who is about my age. I've liked her for the longest time. She's a little different than most of her kind. She's still a little chaotic, but grew up around ponies, which caused her to think like a bit more like a pony."

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EQ_Theta · July 14, 2018

@Blitz Boom @Storm Shine @Lucid_Nightlight

"There are other draconequi? Wow, that's... I've never heard of others like yourself. Do other draconequi live in other dimensions like Discord or is living among ponies rare? This is all so new to me! I- I'm sorry if my questions might get a little overwhelming; I've always thought Discord was the only one of his kind. Now seeing and hearing about others. Can you tell me more?"

An excited Fluttershy eagerly awaited Lucid's response. Normally, she'd be ecstatic to hear something related to animals, but this is one of those exceptions. Pinkie might be more excited about hearing things like this and throwing a party about it, no matter how esoteric the subject. Maybe she might just do that if she were around. Hopefully she isn't spying on them right now; who know's what that mare is up to when nobody is looking...

Lucid_Nightlight · July 14, 2018

@Storm Shine @EQ_Theta @Blitz Boom

More questions from Fluttershy, more answers from Lucid.

"I do not know much, I know Discord lives in another dimension, Anomaly lives on some Island, and Novia lives in a house in an alternate version of Ponyville, the only difference being it's called Ponydale which is quite weird, but that's the multiverse for you. It's safe to assume that the cases for Anomaly and Novia are probably special situations, but I could be wrong. As for the amount of draconequi, it's obvious there is more than just Discord. The multiverse is big and contains infinite universes, there is also infinite multiverses."

BloodDrops · July 14, 2018

On 7/6/2018 at 9:37 PM, Blitz Boom said:

The pain was growing more intense by the minute...

Nerzhei used as much energy as she could to make for her and Lyriel's escape - who she had been lucky enough to drag with her - but the overuse of magic and the injuries the dragoness already had were getting to her, as she tunneled through layers of rock and dirt, and collapsing the track behind her as they went on as best she could.

She tried to keep her thoughts on other things to get away from the pain, but it were getting harder and harder to focus on anything else.

It had started with her praising her luck that she had taken her book with her when she had left the cave, as the sphinx were likely going to destroy it now in retaliation. Countless hours of work, slivers of crystal that had taken her months to collect and fill with small amounts of magic, and up to years of research notes would be gone, but as long as she had the book and Lotus, she had the most important things with her. Everything else could be remade, relearned or rewritten.

Then the thoughts had gone towards Lyriel, who had started to squirm a little less as they finally broke through the sand, and got into more fertile soil. The Dryad were still encapsulated in rock, but it brought her closer, so her pain eased a little. Well, her physical pain at least, though Nerzhei suspected that the emotional trauma were going to take a good deal longer for her to get past.

A few other things regarding Lotus, the book, what she were going to do now and so on also came and went, but the pain in Nerzhei's head and bad arm increased to a point where it started to be hard for her to even navigate, or move anymore. She didn't have a choice, they had to get to the surface. And quickly, lest they get stuck down here.

Breaking the surface would cause a bit of a stir, since they were in Ponyville at the time, though it were thankfully not in the main street, where the majority of the guards were. Sadly, there were still a couple here, who approached the dragon and the weeping plant pony wrapped in rock with raised swords.

"Halt! Let go of the mare."

They hestiated somewhat, seeing how the dragoness had one arm in a noose, and the other were clutching her head, doing a poor job of disguising the amount of pain that were going over her face right now.

"B-Bag. Hnngh! .. Elix-Argh!"

Surge after surge were going through her head, combining a migraine attack with the aftermath of using too much magic at once, to cause her a mental pain unlike any she had tried before. Frankly, the dragoness would be attacking something out of pure instinct if she had the ability to move much right now.

The guards weren't sure what she were going on about though, and just kept their weapons on the ready. Thankfully for Nerzhei though, there were someone who understood what she were on about. A pink little someone, opening the top of the bag she had been in, and reaching a bottle of strange liquid up towards Nerzhei.

The dragoness quickly took the elixir from the bunny and gobbled up the entire bottle in one go. It was more than she had ever done at once before, but it were how much she had to drink before she could feel the pain starting to subside, and she had the capacity to let go of Lyriel again. Her arm still felt like it was burning, and pearls of sweat were showing on her brow, but she were somewhat lucid again now, and glanced over at the guards that were holding her up.

"The princess. Where is she?"

"State your name and reason for keeping that pony restrained."

The two were more focused on the dragoness than the pony, so they didn't notice the flowers growing on her - a few things were poking through the crackling rock shell - which would be a hard argument against the mare being an all out pony, though that were semantics really. It would still look like a hostage situation no matter what kind of creature had been brought up like that, wrapped in stone.

"There isn't time. She needs to be warned."

"About what?"

Nerzhei looked the most talkative of the two guards straight in the eyes, as she took a deep, raspy breath.

"The sphinx that's taking over your forest."

That seemed to get their attention, though they weren't the only ones who bit notice in this. Some citizens began to talk too, and would spread the word whilst the guards eventually would help the dragoness to her feet, and assist in leading her towards the castle.

Not everypony who listened in had worried thoughts about what they heard though. One in particular, instead eyed an opportunity and began making her way towards the forest whilst everypony were occupied with their own things. The only one following the tall, well dressed pony, were a small, blue mare, who looked like she hadn't slept in a few days, but went on with a smile on her muzzle regardless, as the tall one lead the way towards an unusual situation.

The Sphinx let out a loud roar, she stamped her paws onto the ground and stared at the hole that had now collapsed. She growled as she realized the dragon and her servant had escaped, though she growled as she realized what had defeated her.

~Magic~

She hated magic, especially cowardly magic though it was not a problem, not really it didn't affect her grande scheme though it made her want to bring her plans forwards. World conquest was always the most hard to pull off though she had a good foothold. After all the forest now belong to her since Lyriel had fled, she flicked her tail now able to destroy everything within the forest, knowing exactly what she would turn it into.

She let out another loud roar before muttering to herself. She knew how she would deal with this transgression within her temple. Only she could use magic, nothing else. She flicked her tail smashing one of the many ornaments within her temple. She gathered up the sand that was glowing and flicked it causing it to slowly spin. It began gathering momentum and expanding outwards eventually expanding out from the temple gaining momentum.

The Sphinx moved back to her throne unaffected by the growing sandstorm. The forest would die as the sand touched it and be replaced by more sand to further the storm, nothing would grow though it wouldn't harm the ponies directly they would not enjoy a sand landscape she thought. The ponies in the nearby settlements would soon know of her presence. If this plan didn't flush out Nerzhei and Lyriel from there hiding place then she would have to do something more drastic. Maybe even visit the settlements herself and reign as she once did.

She watched the sandstorm growing and laughed, "So Nerzhei, You made me your enemy, So you want to play with Magic? Well lets play then" she then spread her wings and flew out of her temple before slowly flying around it causing the sandstorm to grow faster and larger. "Are you ready for, ready for. The Perfect Storm, Perfect Storm" she cackled causing the storm to head towards the nearby settlement.

She then flew down and sat ontop of her temple roof watching it move towards her target.

~Ponyville~

Rising Dusk · July 14, 2018

@BloodDrops @Storm Shine @Lucid_Nightlight @EQ_Theta

Rising Dusk was actually pretty shocked that what was once just a jumble of whirls and clanks that came from the spiders actually took on meaning. All thanks to how easy it is for him to memorize things. It wasn't perfect photographic memory. He can't recall everything that's happened in his life with perfect clarity, but pretty darn close. Really aiding in his job as a Detective at the Office of Magical Investigations. Nice an hoofing to be able to recall witness statements, clues and other experiences without having to waste the time flipping through those little notebooks one tends to see other officers use to keep notes.

Watching the little spider file away the papers back into the no longer locked drawer. Hearing this 'speak' was still new to him, working those translations stored into his flash memory at the moment. Connecting specific clanks and whirls at different pitches to meanings. It was a little more difficult than learning a different language, as metal had a much high range of pitches that he wasn't all the familiar or use to hearing like a mechanic would be. This would take a lot of practice.

Turning his attention to Felicia who then spoke directly at him. Working through the sounds produced by the large spider. He glanced off in the direction Blitz had gone to look for snacks. Although by now she probably had found something else to do with that hyper mind of hers. It did makes since, especially if Molotov didn't want these papers to just randomly disappear. Actually he kinda wondered how many of Molotov's things just up and disappeared when a wild minded filly went about on one of her random crusades about the workshop.

"Mostly. Small one. Dangerous. Important things. I get the gist."

Blitz Boom · July 14, 2018

"How bad is the situation with the sphinx?"

It was about then that the column of sand and wind began forming from deep within the forest, and Nerzhei pointed the baffled guards towards it, and the sphinx that could be seen flying above and making it worse.

"Worse than I had hoped, better than I expected."

What exactly they could do against this storm, Nerzhei didn't know. She were a geomancer, not a wind specialist, and even if she could provide some protection perhaps or guide the sand away, she were out of magic now. She could do nothing.

"The forest screams... She is tearing it apart..."

Lyriel wouldn't know the first thing about how to stop this. As she opened her eyes and watched what were coming their way, she could only feel despair over the incoming destruction, and the feeling that went through her as trees turned to dust, and animals ran horrified from the storm. The ecosystem were shattering before her very eyes, and it was all her fault... If she had just refused, and tried to deal with Blood herself, it would not have gotten to this.

She wasn't any better than her corrupted siblings...

The guards were still carrying Lyriel and trying to stop Nerzhei from falling over as they approached the castle, and found it a chaotic mess. The last ten minutes of the two draconequui that were seen + company had done much to meddle with the area around the castle from the looks of things, and the guards wasn't sure what to do about it.

The dragoness however, did. She ignored the lot of them - including Discord, which were pretty hard - and wobbled straight to the door, where she clenched her teeth and slammed her hand against the door to this strange, crystalline castle as hard as she could, wincing in pain from the impact.

"Princess, open the door! Your town is in trouble!"

This would have been so much easier if the large dragon, Ancalagon, had remained in town, but for some reason Nerzhei couldn't see him. Either he were sleeping in a smaller form, or he had taken off. None of the options were helping them right now.

Out in the forest, the mare and her escort that had begun moving towards the desert area, encountered the sandy banks that were beginning to form at the edge of the storm in making. The larger one made the smaller mare follow her past the edge before the winds became too harsh, and started to thread in the piles of sand, towards the center, where the creator of this, or her temple at least, were likely to be.

Queen Onache frankly didn't care much for the sand blowing into the clothes she had formed around her in her disguise, but the sandy banks themselves were somewhat welcome. It reminded her of the desert her former hive usually hid in, when they weren't out hunting for love. Most ponies didn't wander into deserts for no reason, so it had been a good level of protection, even if they needed to change around where the hive were inside said desert somewhat frequently.

As for her follower, that one wouldn't mind as long as she were instructed not to. The mare's mind were solidly under Onache's control, and that wouldn't change anytime soon if she had something to say about it. Having this servant were useful for the time being, even if she didn't care for ponies in the slightest. They were just tools and food after all.

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@BloodDrops @Dji @Moonlit @Seamore Sandwich

"Perhaps she could use your guidance when her task is done, Twilight."

Celestia had confidence in her student's ability to help ponies of all kinds, as she had proven to do so many other times so far. Perhaps she could even help the shrine maiden, once her current task were over and she might be able to be convinced to rest. Or ordered too. Celestia were loathe do to that, but she had little doubt that it would work, if no pressing matter were at hoof.

Suddenly, a voice calling for who she would assume were Twilight and a violent, slow hammering on the castle's front door, caught her attention.

"It sounds urgent. We must see what is happening."

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@Dji @Moonlit

Further in, Last couldn't hear what was going on at the door, though perhaps one of the others had good enough ears to pick up on something. However, for the time being, as she knew little better, Last handled the situation at hoof.

"I am Last Stand, current forepony of the Ponyville reparations."

She could have mentioned some other things, such as her status as a former shrine maiden, but it didn't seem important right now. Dealing with these two so they were ready to meet the princesses were, and so far, only one of them had a grip on things.

"Your turn then, griffon. And quick. The princesses are waiting."

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@Dji @FanOfManyShows

Zhu would have said something to what were going on with Sapphire and Astral's conclusion that the gem were indeed fake, but Emerald were ahead of them already. She barely tossed her sister a glance before throwing the gem to the floor and using her magic to pin Zhu to the wall. Whilst before it had been weak, the addition of a horn on this body made it easier for her to focus the magic that were still somewhat locked down in her.

"A fake? You dare to bring a fake gem to me?! You think I wouldn't notice? I was the wearer for years, and you think that a pretend will make me lower my guard?!"

The pressure that were slammed up against him were bigger than he had expected, but Zhu still did his part, and let out a small, slow chuckle.

"You were one of many who could carry it. You are no special, just as what I present you with is not."

It had been a tossup honestly for Zhu. Whilst he had sowed the seed to make the old dragon make fakes all those years ago, the dragon were very effective with his illusions, and Zhu couldn't gaze on the gem, in case it turned out that the dragon had not listened, and had actually given the genuine one to Scorn. The potential of Zhu himself getting corrupted were too big to risk, though it seemed as if that were nothing more than a worry now. She had been given a fake, and the plan would continue. The presence of Sapphire were not counted on in preferred path for this, but in many ways, it could only make this simpler to go through.

Emerald on the other hoof, were just furious, and threw Zhu from the wall and through another, causing a good deal of damage to the serpanther, who didn't do anything but twitch in the rubble. Then, the furious parasite turned to her family, with a blood-red aura swirling on her horn, and a want for hurting others in her mind.

She rose her hoof, but something was wrong. There was something... Siphoning off her rage?

Emerald looked around, as a calm fell over things that were quenching even her harsh mind, and fell upon the other possessed one.

"An empath, of all things. Go figure you haven't fallen to Atzy. Yet."

Empaths were rare creatures, but Emerald had heard of them before. From the low grade ones who had a sense of what you felt, to those who felt like those near them, and even the higher ranks, who could force an emotion upon others. It seemed as if this were one of the stronger ones of that, unless it was Atzy doing this, and used some kind of magic that Emerald had not heard off before, as a kind of self preservation? It depended on what the parasite were. So far, the clues were too small to be certain.

Slowly setting her hoof towards the dirt again, Emerald refocused her eyes to her sister, and niece. Two that she should want to hurt in many, varied ways, but because of the magic being used right now, she couldn't. She had never been good with magic of this kind.

"Did either you know of this serpanther's treachery, Sapphire?"

Her hoof fell fully, and hit the crystal that she had just thrown down there before. A small crack came in it from the pressure, yet nothing came of it.

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@Rising Dusk

So, his translation wasn't perfect then. No matter, the interloper would learn soon enough. For the time being, she had to work with what he could get a grasp on, and retain a slow talking speed to ensure he learned.

Felicia would have given a small smile if she had the capabilities, but she wasn't designed to look happy, and frankly, she didn't care for the idea either. Perhaps some degree of laughing emote or sign could be applied, but a smile would be strange. She were a guard robot at design, not a circus contraption.

"Good enough, interloper. You will learn the language, as I learn your rules."

Pony rules logically should only apply to ponies, or if not, then legal citizens. Robotic entities weren't likely to be under that law, yet if she didn't want to be faced with angry villagers holding pitchforks - which would frankly not even scratch her chassis - Felicia needed to comply somewhat with the boundaries of the town. It only seemed fair to her then, that if she learned of these rules, the interloper should learn of her language, and both parties would strive to learn everything. It had been one of several reasons why she had made Carmen help her take these papers out. Another reason were to give the stallion a test, which he seemed to mostly succeed at so far. Statistically speaking, he were excelling really, when you took notice of how short a time ago it were that he learned this, but Felicia were reluctant to count something as being perfect.

About then, Molotov reentered the room. He had a towel around his neck, his mane and tail were a mess, as he hadn't bothered combing them yet, and his goggle, hoof wraps, tool-belt, necklace and wings were all detached. Frankly a weird sight to see him without the accessories, at least for Felicia. Carmen were used to it, so she didn't react much, except crawling over so she could get back on his back.

"Felt pretty good with a shower. What've I missed? You know, besides the reason for Blitz rummaging through the laundry, making monster sounds. I figure she just felt like it again."

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@EQ_Theta

Rosa's eyelids rose as he heard more of Omen. It was... Quite a bit weirder than he had expected honestly.

"Discord was first turned to stone roughly 300 years ago. Even if you do not include an estimated millennia more before her formation then, she still counts among one of the oldest, living being in Equestria then.

Furthermore, from what you say, she doesn't suffer from any mental issues, but rather a lack of education, from a combination of an absent master, how the world changed once Discord were contained, and her presumed isolation in either her home realm, or in general in Equestria from nopony trusting somepony associated with Discord. Have I understood that correctly? If so, have you considered having her enroll in a school program? Or is she back to learning from Discord, after his return?"

It did explain some things really. Ponies wouldn't trust anypony working for Discord, and Omen wouldn't know what to do without a master, if she were truly learning from his presence. With the world settled and nopony willing to welcome her, Omen would have gone back to the one thing she could count on. Her home realm, which didn't provide her with any sort of education. It were taking things to a few extremes, but when you took in the facts he were presented with, you could make the argument that is what happened, it were logical. At least to Omen.

"I am further curious about her mother, but I will limit myself to Omen for the time being. We have enough time on other occasions to discuss whoever spawns these Ki'Nathar, as you called them, and their apparent... Hybridization options. More so since I can imagine that I will not be free from questions myself."

Rosa glanced briefly towards Lin as he chose his words carefully. He did not expect her to outright attack, but she may well clamp up if he weren't somewhat careful with what he called her mixture of Omen's kind, and the longma. Perhaps not the most likely thing, but in any case, he'd prefer to stay on good hooves with these two. They still had travel to do together, and they were doing him quite a large favor with this. It were not right of him to treat them poorly, with that in mind.

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@Moonlit

After the plants were grown sufficiently, Briar would rattle the leaves off, smash them to mush with his vine and then begin to apply it slowly to the wolf. The evergrown wasn't entirely sure how effective it would work on this wolf, but it had done well the time he had learned it from that delightful zebra outcast about four years ago. A bit eccentric, but as he had since learned with Zecora, most of their kind were that to him.

"This should work well, though be aware that it may sting."

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"300 might be a lot for your kind, but a sphinx are but a young adult as such an age. Disgusting as the comparison is, we have that in common with dragons."

Enzo didn't know if his kind in general had any issues with dragons per se. Mostly it was just a matter of turf war, the times he had heard of battles, though pettiness were also likely, as both their races could be stubborn, and could have escalated a fight from one of them bumping into them and not apologizing.

Personally though, he had been trapped since he were 15 by dragons. If it were up to him, he'd chain them all down in a bunker beneath the sands, and let them try their own medicine. Loathsome, disgusting creatures, taking his teenage years for something as idiotic as to defend an element...

"If it is a riddle you seek, then fine. Answer me this: I am rarely touched but often held, and if you are smart you'll use me well. What am I?"

It was a somewhat simple one, but in fairness, Enzo mostly only knew minor riddles. It might be important for his kind, yet he had been taken when he were but a large kitten. The ones he had learned were meant for such, and he had been free now for less than a day. He'd need time to stock up on the more difficult ones.

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@Pr0m4NV14

"Don't let them get to you Mike. So what if you don't have a cutie mark? Some ponies can take a little longer to find what they're really good at. My grandfather didn't get his until he were 63, and started knitting to fill the void after his retirement."

Sorrow missed her grandfather, but he had a good life, and deserved his rest. He had hung around enough for the rest of the family to say their goodbyes, so it had all in all been a good way to go.

As for the hospital, she were leading the way there now, as Mike seemed more comfortable with that sort of thing. Perhaps he just didn't like taking charge? Some ponies were like that.

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"I don't want to hear that out of you now too."

Hogweed went closer to Warlock, though her pace slowed a little as he began to laugh. It was quite an unnerving tone, to put it mildly.

"Nopony would trust it if you just wandered around now, but they will get used to it, once you've gotten the help you need. Discord... It still hurt for a good deal of guards when they see him, after the things he did when he first broke loose, but they've gotten used to him, and accepted he's there. So have the citizens, and even the ones who defeated him are calling him their friend now.

So please, stop saying that you don't deserve a chance to redeem yourself, and that you should just be locked down for the rest of your life. You're just as deserving of a chance to prove yourself as anypony else, and if Discord can get past his nature and sway the public, then anypony can. You just need somepony to help you realize that."

Warlock were going to be the most difficult case she had ever had to work with it seemed, but she would still try. She knew it could fail, and that he might just fall back into his old ways, but still. He deserved to be given the chance to prove he didn't have to go that way before they condemned him as an irredeemable monster.

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@Lucid_Nightlight @Storm Shine @EQ_Theta

"All due respect here Iron, but this whole magic adventure thing have shown me that you can't trust anything when it comes to you folks."

He sent the stallion a grin, and opened the book. Thankfully it really wasn't some kind of trap, so without any pie smashed all over his face, he might be able to get a bit of reading done here. Not something he did much, but eh, he could ask the brainiacs if there was some high brow terms he understood zero bits about. Even if it were a *for dummies* book, those sorta things could just come slamming at you out of nowhere. Much like a pie in a book.

Chow might be messing with Iron a bit here, since he knew the old timer were reading his thoughts. All in good fun, unless he got turned into a toad. Or was that more fairy tale stuff? Frankly, what was real and what was completely bonkers were not exactly easy to figure out sometimes. Especially when it came to this magical world he was suddenly plunged into.

...Okay fine, he had plunged himself into it way before this, when he had meddled with magic to try and become a griffon, but this whole thing certainly had escalated it. Silver lining though: He wasn't gonna have nightmares anymore, with Emerald outta his skull. Hopefully.

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"That's a fun name. Hello little Blitzy. Here's nomnom for you."

Anomaly put down the fish, then snapped up a few other things too that it might like. Like a bundle of sausages, raw meat from a boar, a boiled lobster, some ham, calamari, that sort of thing. It was kinda fun doing this, though she almost missed them getting a dinner guest, in the form of the dracolisk. He had seen fish, and though it looked strange, he wanted one too.

"Hehe, scaly thing want a treat too? Here you go."

A snap of her tail, and a juicy, still flapping gold-fish the size of a pug flopped into existence right on front of the incoming dracolisk. What happened next were a little... Graphic, but suffice it to say that the fish didn't move for much longer, and nopony wouldn't have to look it in the eyes.

"This is kinda fun. Does you girly crush do stuff like this too, Lucid? Or is she more specialized in some other, weird thing? The Spirit of Poetry or something silly like that?"

A thought bubble appeared over her head, and the vivid image of Discord decked out like a mime, silently reciting some kind of book whilst snapping his fingers came up. And then Anomaly fell down laughing.

It dfidn't stop unti she noticed they had gotten company, and grinned towards them. The two guards there didn't seem to know what to do with that, and just starred around at the strange mixture of grass, columns, fountains and statues that did make for a pretty garden, but were still weird. Especially considering the bubble creatures flying around, and the roaming benches.

The dragoness was no fun either, just walking past and going over to the door. Pretty rude really. A bunny popped her head out of the bag said dragoness was wearing though, and looked towards Anomaly. Awh, and it was pink and had a tuft of *hair*. Adorable!

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Lucid_Nightlight · July 14, 2018

@Blitz Boom @EQ_Theta @Storm Shine

The blizwolf ate all the food given to him really quick.

"Novia is not a spirit of poetry or anything else, she's kind of her own thing."

He seemed to be thinking a bit.

"Would you like to meet her? Just don't go telling her about how I like her if you do want to meet her."

FanOfManyShows · July 14, 2018

@Blitz Boom @Dji

The turns of events were unlikely, Sapphire smiled to herself, as she closed her eye. "I sensed that it was a fake, to me though, that was just an advantage." The smile transformed into a smirk, a sly one. "He lead me right to you." She stepped forward.

"You could've at least informed us about that."

"Couldn't risk the general turning out to be Emerald, so I hid it. Just like most things." Her eye sparked out as she spoke.

Astral tilted her head. "Well." She looked to Emerald. "From what I can sense, nopony here has it. So why are we here?"

Sapphire put her hoof down, looking down at Astral. "To talk." She looked back to Emerald. "Since we've not taken the time to do so."

From her position, Astral noticed nothing different, but Sapphire's aura feeling, off, as if it only originated from the gem that was her eye. "Best you can do, then."

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He turned a glare at her, with a bit of a smirk, but his glare that of anger, doubting her words, only thinking she just wanted to reform him for no reason, he needed to keep his goal in mind, and Hogweed was proving herself to be somepony who also held onto her own goal, Warlock smirked as he decided to feed this desire of hers. "I have never heard a pony so sure that I could turn from evil, even the pony who turned me to stone showed little regret to the fact they did so. Others only shown anger towards me, except you." He tilted his head, true interest in her motivation starting to spark. "Your so sure of my ability to be good, I admire that."

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A shiver went down Irons spine, he had been mainly observing how Sapphire was doing, his senses disturbed by how it felt like she wasn't, there. "I get that Chow, with everything we've put you through, it must be hard to trust our little group of magic users." He looked down, closing his eyes as he sighed. "I feel that things are escalating over where Sapphire and Astral are. We might need to jump in and help at some point, but hey, maybe Misty can keep an eye on you." Iron chuckled to himself, the image of a filly looking after a pony of Chow's age, was hilarious to him.

Pr0m4NV14 · July 14, 2018

Mike followed Sorrow into the hospital. The moment the threshold was passed, mike darted towards the front desk and pulled out the old picture.

"Do you have anyone in here that looks like this?" He said, dropping the picture on the counter with a hopeful smile.

Sekel · July 15, 2018