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>Ice Elation lets out a sigh.
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>The Crystal Forest, even during daylight, makes her uneasy.
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>And a storm is on the way, a bone-chiller.
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>So she's rushing, trying to make it to the other side before nightfall
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>Wishing she didn't have to wear the glare-reducing goggles that make the dazzling reflections tolerable, but also make it hard to tell what's going on around you.
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>Her hooves crunching into the crisp snow and the panting of her breath the only sounds, the wind in abeyance as the storm approaches.
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>Making good time, perhaps she wi-
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>The abominable walks softly for one so large. Her mane woven with crystal leaves, her mouth holding on to small tree burning at one end, a torch fitting for one of her size
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>She heard a shriek in the forest, far off, and even with the sun beginning to set, went out of her cave to rescue the stricken pony
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>Already she has had to fend off crystalline wolves, and skitter-bugs fled the flames of her log as they leaped from the high branches
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>With true night settling in, she is afraid, afraid she won't make it in time
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>Suddenly she hears moaning!
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>Charging forward as only one so strong can in the rapidly falling snow, trusting her nose and keen hearing, she hopes she is in time...
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>There! A little one!
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>"You hear me, little pony?"
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>Ice groans, and blearily opens her eyes
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>A large hoof prods her
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>"LITTLE PONY, WAKE UP!" a frantic and loud voice shouts.
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"Wha-"
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>"Good, little pony alive. Come, me carry."
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>Ice can't really resist and has to be ponyhandled out of the pit she has fallen into
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>"You in trap, no want meet trapper"
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>That's for sure, thought Ice.
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>"You bleeding, strong pony, hold on!"
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>Ice passes out, spread on the abominable's back.
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>The little one is hardy for her kind, but even so, she's faint
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>Thank the stars she was heard.
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>Mere wolves couldn't have set that trap...
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>The abominable wonders who did while heading back to her cave
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>All the while her log begins to splutter and fade...
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>Just in time, she reaches her cave, and settles down the little pony.
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>Removing her thick and torn coat, the abominable smiles.
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>The coat absorbed the worst of it, the blood is from a nasty scrape on the forehead mainly, and similar on the legs.
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>She beings to hum while reaching for her herbs and medicines.
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>Ice wakes. She sees a scarred abominable's face looking at her, a crude eyepatch over one eye.
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>Understandably, she jolts in fear.
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>"Ha! Little one find me scary!"
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>But the abominable looks aside.
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>"Me name Scar Eye. Scary, scar eye. Hurr hur. But me save you!"
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>And smiles again at Ice.
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"Thank you, Scar Eye! Sorry for flinching...you are a bit, well..."
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>"SCARY!" shouts Scar Eye, who jumps up and down.
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>Ice laughs.
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>"You stay in me cave, rest up. Me make new coat!"
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>Ice sees a "coat", more like a simple cloak with a crude wooden clasp
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>"Made from sheddings, warm!" explains Scar Eye.
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>Ice hugs Scar Eye's leg.
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>Scar Eye is the one to jump this time.
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>But she crouches down and hugs Ice back.
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>"Little pony need be careful. Crystal wood no safe, no time".
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"I wouldn't have made such a mistake if I wasn't rushing to beat nightfall...
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>Scar Eye shakes her head.
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>"Safer to camp with fire than rush. Learn?"
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"Learn...yes, I've learned."
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>Scar Eye beams, and hugs Ice hard.
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"Ow ow, I'm hurt"
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>"Oh, me sorry", Scar Eye backs off, rubbing back of her head embarrassed.
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"And that's why I lost the coat you made me, Bundle"
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>"Ok....nearly dying excuses you".
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"Oh come on"
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>"Only teasing. That abominable coat suits you, not many white abominables."
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"Yeah. Scar Eye wasn't that scary."
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>"Ooh, did you like her?"
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>"BUNDLE!"
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>Ice's sister, Cold Shoulder, sat listening to this exchange, just snickers, glad her sister is safe home again.
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