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                                            1.
                                            >You take a sip of warm tea while your gaze falls on a distant Ponyville bathed in yellowish-orange sunlight.
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                                            2.
                                            >Celestia moves her sun ever closer to the horizon bit by bit.
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                                            3.
                                            >You idly wonder what she's up to right nos but you push that away and take another warm sip.
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                                            4.
                                            >Magic is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
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                                            5.
                                            >Your tea remains comfortably warm even all the way out here on this hill.
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                                            6.
                                            >Your eyes fall to the cup between your hooves.
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                                            7.
                                            >You catch your reflection and almost lose yourself in it before the silence is broken.
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                                            8.
                                            >"You know," Twilight begins.
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                                            9.
                                            >You look up and bring your sight just above your cup and over the tea set to the lavender alicorn.
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                                            10.
                                            >She gives you a content, albeit confused, smile.
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                                            11.
                                            >"Of all the things I expected when I woke up this morning,"
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                                            12.
                                            >She takes a sip.
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                                            13.
                                            >"This wasn't one of them."
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                                            14.
                                            >You open your mouth to respond but words just don't come.
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                                            15.
                                            >Twilight continues regardless.
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                                            16.
                                            >"Honestly. I woke up and just lied there for half an hour dreading what I was going to have to deal with today. Maybe a note form Cheerilee about some choice words you've said in front of your peers or maybe you get a wild tail hair and decide you are going to use spike to send something gross to Princess Celestia."
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                                            17.
                                            >She continues to list emphasize each point with her wings.
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                                            18.
                                            >"I'm still trying to dismantle that pyramid scheme of yours. Maybe you'll have goaded my friend's sisters into trying to break glass with their voices again. Heck maybe even a monster attack."
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                                            19.
                                            >Her left primary coming down on a right pinion with each thought.
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                                            20.
                                            >Several pinions later she comes out her train of thought with a blush and clears her throat.
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                                            21.
                                            >"The point is that this is really nice. Uncharacteristically so. I don't think we've ever done anything like this before and I'm glad we aren't arguing over something and we just got to talk."
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                                            22.
                                            >You really don't know what to say to that.
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                                            23.
                                            >All you manage is a helpless smile and a blush.
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                                            24.
                                            >You take another sip to drown out the awkward.
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                                            25.
                                            >Normally you could deal with being put on the spot when you were giving somepony shit but not this.
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                                            26.
                                            >You don't often hear compliments so you kinda don't know how to respond to them.
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                                            27.
                                            >As if picking up on the fact, Twilight continues.
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                                            28.
                                            >"Don't get me wrong, Anon. You drive me up the wall but that doesn't mean I don't like you. You are going to be a filly for a long time and I know you act out because its my fault. I understand. I'd be upset too. But that doesn't mean you can't grow to enjoy it I can't grow from your estranged caretaker to friend."
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                                            29.
                                            >Okay, you were expecting sappy bullshit when you invited her here for tea but what the fuck?
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                                            30.
                                            >Not that you mind but…
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                                            31.
                                            >You place your cup down and run a hoof along your mane.
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                                            32.
                                            "Laying it on kinda thick there ain'tcha, Purple?"
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                                            33.
                                            >She just smiles.
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                                            34.
                                            >It makes you smile.
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                                            35.
                                            >Dumb cunt.
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                                            36.
                                            >She magics away the tea set but leaves the blanket.
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                                            37.
                                            >"I mean it though. Deflect all you but we will talk about this."
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                                            38.
                                            "Listen, I'm not about to start talking about my feelings or not-"
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                                            39.
                                            >Twilight stands and closes the distance between the both of you before you can protest.
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                                            40.
                                            >She's hugging you.
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                                            41.
                                            >Hooves and wings wrapped around you like… like some dumb thing.
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                                            42.
                                            >You try and keep your shit together but you feel yourself start to lose the battle.
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                                            43.
                                            >Mercifully however, she lets go and rises to her full height before you do.
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                                            44.
                                            >You play it cool.
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                                            45.
                                            "That was gay."
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                                            46.
                                            >"Yes, and it made you gay too but that's besides the point."
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                                            47.
                                            >You get the joke but it falls flat for you.
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                                            48.
                                            >It really didn't.
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                                            49.
                                            >Only accomplished the opposite honestly.
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                                            >"We don't have to talk about anything right now but just know that I'd like to, okay?"
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                                            51.
                                            >She starts to trot down the hill.
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                                            52.
                                            >"Just think about it."
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                                            53.
                                            >You watch her go and are left with three feelings anda thought.
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                                            54.
                                            >You still feel the lingering sensation of her hooves and wings around you.
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                                            55.
                                            >You feel a horrible tightness in your chest that threatens to burst fourth from your throat.
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                                            56.
                                            >You feel a terrible bittersweetness that you can almost taste.
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                                            57.
                                            >And all of it contrasts so greatly with the thought you have it makes you want to laugh at the absolute absurdity of it all.
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                                            58.
                                            >Twilight magicked the tea set away and used her wings to emphasize points but uses neither of those to make her exit and hoofs it instead.
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                                            59.
                                            >Stupid dumb horse thing.
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                                            60.
                                            >You hiccup.
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                                            61.
                                            >You have to wipe your eyes cause the hiccup made them leak.
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                                            62.
                                            >Stupid hiccup.
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                                            63.
                                            >It happens again and your eyes get leakier.
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                                            64.
                                            >One might say you were trying to sob but they'd be fuckin liars.
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                                            65.
                                            >You look at Ponyville from atop your hill again.
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                                            66.
                                            >You look at a stupid purple speck on the next hill over getting smaller as it moves away.
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                                            67.
                                            >Everything is bathed in an orange hue now as the sun still creeps ever closer towards the West horizon.
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                                            68.
                                            >It won't be long now.
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                                            69.
                                            >Okay, so maybe you are crying now.
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                                            70.
                                            >In equal parts happiness to to all the sorrow.
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                                            71.
                                            >And dread.
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                                            72.
                                            >The worst part is that today was-
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                                            73.
                                            >"Perfect."
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                                            >Startled, you look over to your left just in time to see Pinkie Pie sitting on the blanket with you with an oddly subdued smile on her face.
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                                            >She is also facing west.
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                                            76.
                                            >"Today was perfect."
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                                            >You'll never get used to that bullshit.
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                                            "How do you-"
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                                            80.
                                            >"Shush, silly filly. You won't get an answer out of me unless you can tell me why you made our friends last day perfect. Not a teensy weensy peep 'til then."
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                                            >How…
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                                            82.
                                            >"And maaaaaybe a little birdie told me that today was totally the end of everything as we know it and everything you did today made a heck of a lot more sense than 'Woowie, Anon sure turned over a new leaf today for no reason whatsoever!'"
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                                            83.
                                            >Instead of dwelling on that…whaterver that was…you take the easier pill to swallow and find that you can't get it down either.
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                                            84.
                                            >Why did you do this for them?
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                                            85.
                                            >You did chores for Appul, modeled fru fru crap for Marshmallow, played rabbit sitter for Butterflutter, stroked Blue Fast's hot, wet, slick and steamy…
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                                            86.
                                            >Ego.
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                                            87.
                                            >You baked and pranked with pink horse and brought Twilight up here and didn't give any of them shit all day as you normally do.
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                                            88.
                                            >If anything you planned on being an even bigger shit and doing some truly vile things cause it was the end but instead, well… you know the rest.
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                                            89.
                                            >You really don't have an answer.
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                                            90.
                                            >"Thank you."
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                                            91.
                                            "Huh?"
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                                            92.
                                            >"For caring enough to do all of this. It means a lot to me for what its worth."
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                                            93.
                                            >You sniffle, trying to take control of yourself enough to speak.
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                                            94.
                                            >It takes you a lot longer than you like, the sun noticeably lower.
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                                            95.
                                            >You have questions.
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                                            96.
                                            >There are things you'd like to ask but there just isn't that much time now.
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                                            97.
                                            >As the sun sinks toward the horizon you feel an unnaturally cold wind begin to blow softly at your back.
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                                            98.
                                            >It sends shivers down your spine and you let out a little whine.
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                                            99.
                                            >Pinkie turns her head to look back and… and…
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                                            100.
                                            >Her little smile melts into horror.
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                                            101.
                                            >You need to say something.
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                                            102.
                                            >Anything.
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                                            103.
                                            >Witnessing Ponk's face do that is almost more frightening than knowing what's coming.
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                                            104.
                                            >If you don't do anything you know you'll drown in your fear and start screaming and crying and never stop.
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                                            105.
                                            "I-Is it worth a hug?" you ask, your quavering voice louder than you intended in near panic.
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                                            106.
                                            >That manages to rip her trembling gaze from whatever it is she saw long enough to look at you.
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                                            107.
                                            >There is a low ominous groan behind you like the sound of an impossibly large beast in pain mixed with the sundering of a great sheet of metal underwater.
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                                            >Both of you flinch but you press on.
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                                            109.
                                            >Its the only thing you can do not to scream
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                                            110.
                                            "What its worth t-to you n' junk! Is it worth a hug?"
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                                            111.
                                            >It takes far to many seconds for understanding to dawn on the pink pony.
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                                            112.
                                            >Far to many noises of the approaching calamity occur in those seconds.
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                                            113.
                                            >No doubt they were hearing this in Ponyville now.
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                                            114.
                                            >"Yes. Yes it is, Nonny."
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                                            115.
                                            >She scooches closer to you on your little unimportant blanket and throws her hooves around you in a tight hug.
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                                            116.
                                            >You wished her hooves blocked out the sounds but at least her chest blocked you from seeing what was coming.
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                                            117.
                                            >That fleeting thought was a mistake.
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                                            118.
                                            >Slowly, you turn your head so your eyes peek under one of her pink limbs and you see.
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                                            119.
                                            >Oh god you see.
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                                            120.
                                            >Miles away, lie a encroaching wall of yawning black where all light seems to just stop.
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                                            121.
                                            >The lands and trees and other things are being engulfed from the east alarmingly fast.
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                                            122.
                                            >You start to scre-
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                                            123.
                                            >And its gone.
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                                            124.
                                            >The land, the black, and even Pinkie Pie.
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                                            125.
                                            >You find yourself floating on a field of stars.
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                                            126.
                                            >"You know, Anonymous, you could just try being polite and friendly and they would accept you readily and wholeheartedly as a friend rather than a nuisance or a villain. They've done the same for me."
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                                            127.
                                            >Startled, you turn around just in time to catch a blue hoof on your nose before your eyes shoot open and you find yourself staring at a crystal ceiling.
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                                            128.
                                            >Was that a-
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                                            129.
                                            >Fuck.
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                                            130.
                                            >Stupid fucking dreams.
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                                            131.
                                            "Stupid fucking alicorns trying to get you to talk about your feeling like some kinda gay… uh… Gay."
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                                            132.
                                            >You turn over on your fuzzy green side to get out of bed only to see a displeased purple alicorn.
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                                            133.
                                            >Go fucking figure.
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                                            134.
                                            "Well…"
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                                            135.
                                            >She teleports a bar of soap to herself and she beckons you to the door with a hoof.
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                                            136.
                                            "Shit."
 
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