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    • i believe in magic

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      by Monochromatic When I was, oh, about twelve or so, I played a starring role in the school’s yearly play. I’d been hoping for a romantic affair, where I would kiss the leading boy.  Unfortunately, our teacher decided we should properly re-enact the kingdom’s most famous legend instead.  “But that’s boring,” a girl protested.  “That’s what Seeking Night is for,” a boy yawned.  “There’s no romance in there!” I whined, crossing my arms and pouting. “And what’re the boys…
    • keep holding on

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      by Monochromatic Death follows Princess Twilight Sparkle like the most loyal of servants.  It trails after her as she walks, every footstep casting a dark shadow as endless as the vacant expression in her eyes, surveying her lonely prison made up of tombs for dead trees.  She wished she could die.  She wished it so often, the poor lonely princess, her fingertips idly brushing against her neck, morbidly recalling facts she’d read from coroners’ reports of people long gone.  It could be…
    • babe, i did it for you

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      by Monochromatic There was no one Rarity loved in the whole world more than Rainbow Dash.  Granted, she was only a high schooler, and she’d hardly met most of the whole world, but she was fairly certain that, out of the many people she’d met, which were many, she loved no one more than she loved Rainbow Dash.  On a separate note, Rainbow Dash was a very interesting person who—dear reader, I mean this in the best of ways—was prone to getting into situations. It was her nature, who she was, that if…
    • V. #102C54 [1st Draft / Supporter Locked]

      by Monochromatic Twilight Sparkle arrived at the hotel’s breakfast area precisely ten minutes after it opened, which was one hour earlier than she’d arrived all the previous days. This was not because she was excited to eat, mind you, but because she barely slept, kept up the entire night by the fact that she and Rarity had kissed.  Bleary, baggy eyes scanned the large dining hall, hoping to catch sight of her friends somewhere within the mass of ponies carrying trays around in varying degrees of tiredness.…
    • IV. #E6E6FA [1st Draft / Supporter Locked]

      by Monochromatic When Twilight Sparkle awoke that morning, she thought it was understood that Rarity didn’t like her, and was only trying to overcompensate out of some misplaced, unnecessary guilt. But now. Well, frankly, even before then, but especially right then and there, the spotlight shining over them, Twilight couldn’t explain Rarity’s actions away. What she had just done was not something somepony did out of misplaced guilt. This was. This felt like. This seemed like flirting. The real…
    • The Reunion at the Castle

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      by Monochromatic Canterlot Castle had been closed for the day.  This was, as far as Rarity understood, a very rare occurrence. Canterlot Castle was seldom closed, its doors open to any and all at any time of the day, a safe haven for anypony who might need it. In fact, until that very day, the last time it had closed was during the still-talked-about time when a dragon visited Princess Denza.  “Must be serious,” they had all thought then and thought the same on this occasion. “Must be bad?” they…
    • when one is sick, one goes to the forest to die

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      by Monochromatic If the four kingdoms had a single thing in common, it was this:  When a pony was sick or dying of a disease that could not be cured, they were to travel to the forest in the middle of the four territories alone to die. Good medical care was rare and expensive, and it was simply not worth risking everypony else.So, young or old, noble or not, if you were sick and could not be cured, you had to go.  This had been the way for as long as anypony alive remembered.  Allegedly, a creature…
    • III. #DE4C8A [1st Draft / Supporter Locked]

      by Monochromatic If her conversation with Rarity at the boutique helped in any way, Twilight sure didn’t feel like it. If anything, it seemed to have made things worse.  The weeks after, at the train station, Twilight noticed Rarity seemed much more preoccupied with conversing with her friend than actually searching for her ‘soulmate’, if she even went to the train station at all. More often than not, it seemed, the unicorn would change course last minute, insisting Twilight and she go do something else…
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