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Caerson was still walking around the hallways, trying to find a solid wall that he could touch in order to know where he was standing.

"Twilight, is that you? I cannot see anything, all I can see is a darkness... It is-" Caerson suddenly crashed inside a castle servants who had been carrying a large stack of plates and other things, including lots of glasses, which were now broken when the entire bunch landed on him.

 

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Twilight watched "Don't move." She levitated him out of the shards "What's wrong? Are you ok?" She set him down on the floor. "That was... less graceful than normal." She just had no idea what was wrong but she was trying her best to help him. "Well... Tell me."

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"I think I have become blind... But i can't say for certain, i just can't see anything." Caerson said  he was touching his face with his hand.

"Also, i can't really recall how it happened, at first i was wandering trough the courtyard, i stepped on the some blue flower, then i went to the bathroom and checked to look in the mirror, but by that time i suddenly could not see more." Careson explained.

"Can't say that getting old can cause you to get blind, can it? I know of getting a  worse eyesight but this... This is just ridiculous!"

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Twiligh snickered a bit "I think... It might've been Poison Joke... It's a rare flower that when somepony touches it... Well it depends I think it might respond to DNA or something... I know the fix for it... But I need to make it quickly..." Twilight started back to the work-room and carried Caerson over to it.

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"Wait... A flower can cause such abhorred things? I thought I had seen the craziest things, but this really takes the cake." Caerson said with a bit of distress.

"But i have an question here, why would they plant such a flower in the middle of the courtyard? Such flowers would not grow in such places, unless i am mistaken, but if that is the case then there should be more then just 1 there, it doesn't make sense!" Caerson asked with disbelief.

"I just sure hope that will be capable of returning my sight, how can i work if i can't see what i am doing?" Caerson said as he kept muttering things in disbelief, how this would even be physically possible, or if there was some sort of magic involved.

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"Somepony probably dropped it... Or maybe it was someponys idea of a joke..." Twilight growled "I can fix it but I'll be gone for a long while. So stay in this room for now." Twilight said with an unseeable smile Hoping he understood that it was very important for him to stay there.

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"Alright, please do hurry, i am not sure if this is the only effect of that plant on me." Caerson said as he sat down on the ground, hoping she would return soon.

'Just what is that weird feeling near my left eye?' He thought but decided to ignore it for now.

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It took Twilight around 2 hours to get back. "Alright. It'll be a little while longer. Zecora's getting the herbal bath ready... Should fix the Poison Joke... Do you feel anything else wrong? I don't exactly know how a non-equestrian would react to the joke so I'm very curious." She levitated a pencil and paper over to her and got ready to write.

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"I do feel a weird itching under my augmented left eye, but I don't think that is it anything concerning. Hmmm, I should check just to be sure." Caerson said. "Please don't be afraid that you won't a left eye, it is something I couldn't really restore off course." He proceeded to detach the augmentation from his left eye, and what showed was...

An eye, but it was not his eye, it looked the eye of a reptile, but it was moving on its own, and the area around it had changed a bit like scales almost.

"How does it look?" He asked Twilight.

 

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"It... uhh... Looks great. Don't worry." Twilight realized that she'd hesitated. "I... just didn't know you could take it off like that... So it intimidated me a bit." She wrote 'Blindness' and 'transformations' in her paper. "Is there uhh. Anything else..."

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"I made it so I take off my augmented eye in case of some wounds underneath it needs cleaning, so I apologize if it scared you." Caerson said as he tried to put back on, but for some reason, it didn't seem to fit, the scales were too thick for him to put his augmented eye back on, but he was not aware of this, but kept fidging with it.

"Argh, stupid thing!" Caerson cursed as he was still trying to fidget with it.

After a while, he gave up.

"Well, guess i can't put that back on, perhaps i will try later, but i wonder if others wouldn't get a bit horrified by the sight of a missing left eye, well, they have faced alot of gruesome creatures by now right? I bet my injury won't even faze them." Caerson said with optimism, but he had no idea on how horrified other ponies would react when they saw that repulsive eye, looking around like some sort of spying camera.

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"Y... Yea... Let's just stay here until Zecora comes and says that the bath is ready..." Twilight sounded awkward that time but it was very small amounts of awkward. "For now... maybe you could teach me to program a drone... You seem to have it memorized... you do don't you?.."

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"I do have it memorized yes, tough i am not sure how well i can perform while i am blind. But regardless, i can tell you how to do it, though you will have to describe what you are doing, use your words as my eyes so to say." Caerson said, but then he realised Twilight must not be used to the way of talking that many of his own kind do.

"Ok that might be rather odd thing to say to you, but its a rather normal turn for others of my race to talk like that, old habits never go away so to say." Caerson explained quickly.

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"Hmm? No tha tmade perfect sense... I mean I do read... A lot... So what you said translated well." Twilight got bothered by his strange eye again and zoned out but quickly zoned back in. "A... At any rate let's get to work Right?"

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"Good plan, it can keep me occupied to at any rate, better than sitting there doing nothing." Caerson said.

"But why is my left arm now itching as well? Must be some sort of irritated place on my body, thanks to that poison joke." Caerson said as he presumed that.

But oh how wrong he was...

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Back to the other group, they had started and had been underway for a while, it was going to take around a week before they would arrive at their destination, but nothing was going to stop them.

And hot it was, the desert being the place that it was, was really making it troubling for travellers, the sun not showing any mercy, however, some were having it rather easy regarding this.

"No matter where i go, it is always either extremely hot, or extremely cold, just what is up with that?" Jack complained as he tried to shield himself with his arms from the sun, wich was a rather futile attempt.

"Well, atleast it is only a week, and this time we are not risking of starving to death." He noted, glad it wouldn't the same case as last time they where traveling trough the desert.

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Festus blocked the sun using his shield the sword still inside the shethe part of it. "You alright? You look tired..." Festus was a dragon who lived in a volcano so of course, HE was fine "Though about the starving thing yea I agree there. Though We'll consume all our water id we're not careful..."

Maple walked over to Jack but kept distantly. Her body was emitting more heat than the sun was on them. Mostly due to proximity. Her metal body had no way of regulating its temperature. "I can't imagine how hot it is... Sorry, you two have to feel it. There where cracks, jack noticed in parts of Maple's body from going to extremely hot to extremely cold over and over.

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"It is hot to a degree where you can start to see hallucinations, that is how hot is it." Jack said. "But I cannot imagine just how cold it is going to be at night, can you imagine it? Absurd heat and freezing cold nights? And sleeping in the bare sand? Just like the old days.." Jack said a bit absent, bags under his eyes showing.

He then looked a bit around, until he saw something.

"Maple, you seem to have cracks on your body, changing temperatures at rapid rates, I don't think you are as immune to the temperature as you believe yourself to be." Jack noted to her. "Give me a second." He said as he used a spell that was not any form of freezing, but it made a cold touch, which was meant as a cooling spell for things like forging, but he used it on Maple's hot metal in order to cool her down. "There, that should last for a while, call me if you need more.."

He was just staring out the plain desert ahead of them until he heard Festus his question.

"Yeah, i haven't exactly slept much other then last night, and after i wen't on that killing spree againts the infected during my training? No surprise there, but there isn't really much i can do about it, we need to keep moving." Jack told Festus.

 

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Maple looked at the cracks that were in the other metal. "Huh... I thought I heard some weird noises coming from me... I thought it was just robotic parts shifting around." Maple then moved her hoof and the sounds of parts moving were heard "See... I wish I'd never had died... I'd rather be dying from heat not... Cracking. And I'd be crying probably..."

Festus looked at Maple "Well... You're still awesome Maple you can't feel pain! You can take a LOT more than anyone else. No need to be ashamed!"

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"He is right, you wouldn't imagine how many would want to feel no pain, they rather give up every shred of emotion and feeling if it means they could acquire that, You wouldn't believe how many times i had preferred to be like that, because then i would never feel pain, need to eat or drink, or even age for that matter, i would become immortal in that sense, you have all of those things, but i can see also on why you would want to feel again, but you remember that person i talked about? Who can create a body? That offer still stands..." Jack said as he looked into the distance.

"Just tell me when you have decided." he said to her with a smile, before returning to his toughts.

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It was about a few hours later, as the sun setting still high in the sky.

A growl escaped Jack's mouth as he had a big scowl on his face.

'I hate this desert... I really really HATE  it... Next, i know a scorpion pops and up and I get poisoned, wouldn't that be ironic? Or die because i get fried to death? It doesn't really matter at this point, there is always something, infected, climates, temperatures, or dangerous diseases, i might as well just try and attack one of the most dangerous towers alone while i am at it, wouldn't that be a relief? There is nothing else in this god forsaken existance then constant misery.' Tought to himself as he want on a tirade, just thinking the craziest things to himself just to keep himself from freaking out over just how bad everything was currently going for him, he was not one who was really capable of putting up with such things after all.

'Heat? Sunburn? HAH! It might as well just rain lava at this point! All praise the almighty sun god! Let there be lava!' Jack thought, starting to get a bit delusional from the overtaking heat that neve seemed to end.

 

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Maple considered the offer as they where walking she didn't have to worry about the heat or hunger or anything. "Jack can I talk with-" She was interupted by Jacks spree of complaining. "Uhh... I'll wait..."

Ember rolled her eyes "Maple. Come on you can't seriously be thinking it's you who's bohtering him... Forget I'm gonna get some water." Ember walked over to wherever supplies where being kept.

Festus Scoffed at Ember's behaviour "How rude well..." Festus also noticed that Jack looked bothered, probably by the heat... "Hey Jack... uhh... Luna looks pretty cool... Maybe you should chat with her..."

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"But then what? Walk through another desert for 100 miles? Walk in that same creeping sun for so long? Why not! It is not like one a certain someone can handle it all!" Jack said, suddenly roaring in a rather concerning laughter.

He let himself fall face first into the sand, still laughing crazily, even when that very laughter was muffled by the sand.

'Someone in the group who is having too much sun exposure? Check.' Kiran joked

"You are having to much sun exposure!" Jack said to him in with the muffled sand, not even realising he should be thinking to him instead.

He was just laying there with his face planted straight into the sand, it was very obvious to this point that he was not feeling very well.

'But serious talk here, He has been walking in this sun for almost 10 hours or so, if you count the training part. I don't know whether he himself realised, but even if he did i doubt he would have did anything about it or told anyone, he is not the type that wants to bother others for asking help.  Anyways... Evelyn, you might want to pick him there because he really won't be moving for a while, not the way he is acting right now. I sure wonder why no one had thought about creating any form of shadow or something, surely someone must have tought about this?' Kiran said with a sigh.

'I am getting to old for this.'

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Maple was about to set a hoof on Jack to be sure he was ok. But She could've been hot again and She didn't want to brand him with her hoof. Maple noticed that Luna was using a spell on herself. It was a cooling spell, something most stronger Equestria diplomats knew. They used it to stay safe in the dragonlands. Maple decided to ask her something

A bit after Maple walked away, a wave of Cool passed over Jack. Luna had used the magic she was using on herself on jack instead now "That feel any better Jack?" It did It felt like he was sitting in a cool fridge and it felt much better than the hot desert. "I think it's working on you... Not sure how it's reacting though."

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Jack stood up, gasping for air as he removed his face from the sand, having an embarrassed look on his face after realizing the entire tirade he had caused on himself when he was under the influence of the desert hotness.

"Y-yeah, it is working, thanks, Luna." He said with a smile, but the look of embarrassment was still there.

"I apologize for that... behaviour really didn't wish any of you had to see that, it happens when my emotions grow to high in hard situations." He said.

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"It's ok. Are you alright? Looks like your suffering pretty bad? How thick is your coat? How does this magic feel?" Luna asked Jack in rapid succession. Concerned about how he felt "Do you need something I'm right here for you."

 

 

Maple walked over to Evelyn. "Oh hey, Tin-flank. Been a while since we talked eh? How you been around Jack?"

Maple looked at her "New... Nickname I see... Anyways I wanted to... He's been fine Evelyn... but I wanted to say, The new... not pony body... What do you think about that?"

"Hey then I couldn't call you tin-flank." Evelyn laughed.

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"I am not sure if I am really, been just rather tired, haven't really slept since this morning, and all that walking, just rather hard to keep it up for so long, I just travelling through desert's in general." Jack paused for a moment.

"I guess my coat is not that thick, its rather thin, i guess the only thing on my coat is that burn mark i had earlier, but other then that i am ok." Jack explained.

"Tough the magic feels good, i wish my spell would work on myself before i burned my hand." he mentioned as he looked around.