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    • ~ Act II~ 23 ~ The Heartbound Home ~

      ~ Act II~ 23 ~ The Heartbound Home ~ Cover
      by Monochromatic The party that came after Princess Luna’s liberation was one unlike Hollow Shades had ever seen. No matter where you were, inside or out, you could hear it. The laughter, the dancing, the celebration of a cursed town that was cursed no more. It invited you to join, drew you in with the infectious cheers, and you would be remiss to not attend. Unless you were Princess Twilight Sparkle, and you were too busy debating whether you should take apart an Element of Harmony or not. Destroying…
    • ~ Epilogue ~ A Beautiful Night ~

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      by Monochromatic Princess Cadance had long ago made peace with the fact that she’d never have foals of her own. Long, long ago, this might have bothered her. It might have hurt her deeply, just as losing Shining Armor had. But long ago was long ago, and things had very much changed since then. Princess Cadance knew she’d never give birth to a filly or colt of her own flesh and blood, but that didn’t mean she didn’t have children. She had many children. Or, well, in this case, adopted…
    • ~ Act II ~ 16 ~ The Dragon Falls ~

      ~ Act II ~ 16 ~ The Dragon Falls ~ Cover
      by Monochromatic Princess Twilight Time. The three hours a week the Cutie Mark Crusaders dragged Rarity to the library for their lessons with Twilight, after they’d hassled her into going back on her “no visiting Twilight” rule. Then again, “dragged her to the library” wasn’t the right phrase, was it? That would imply Rarity didn’t really want to go, when the truth was that any excuse to go to the library was one she’d take. That was, until Twilight had become convinced that Rarity could…
    • ~ Act II ~ 17 ~ The Dragon Thief ~

      ~ Act II ~ 17 ~ The Dragon Thief ~ Cover
      by Monochromatic A dragon scale. If Rarity were an alicorn like Twilight Sparkle, she supposed getting one would be a fairly easy task. A quickly cast barrier, a few dizzying spells, maybe some teleporting around for added confusion, and she’d be trotting out of the cave with a scale before one could say “advanced teleportation.” Sadly though, Rarity wasn’t an all-mighty, powerful alicorn, and although she liked to consider herself quite the fighter, her brief lessons in self-defense as a filly could only do…
    • ~ Act II ~ 18 ~ The Dragon Sacrifice ~

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      by Monochromatic Rarity was absolutely certain of three things. First, one of the books she needed was currently in the possession of one of the most vicious dragon tribes in Equestria. Second, without those books—and Rarity didn’t know where half of them even were—Twilight Sparkle could not be free. And third, she had gone unconditionally and irrevocably mad. Dawn’s first light shone over Yaket Range, slowly washing over the chasms and crevices. The vast majority of ponies were snug in their beds,…
    • ~ Act II ~ 19 ~ The Promise Of A Future Meeting ~

      ~ Act II ~ 19 ~ The Promise Of A Future Meeting ~ Cover
      by Monochromatic “It’s very interesting, Fluttershy! This particular breed of daisies seem to have evolved from the ones present in my own time, which means that—” “Uhm… Princess Twilight?” “—using these flowers, and my Flower Genome Study book, we can potentially extract the very basic—” “Princess Twilight, your necklace…” “…My what?” “Your necklace. The one Rarity gave you. It’s glowing?” “It is?! It is!” Rarity’s headache wouldn’t let her think…
    • ~ Act II ~ 21 ~ The Checklist Conversation ~

      ~ Act II ~ 21 ~ The Checklist Conversation ~ Cover
      by Monochromatic An entire week went by before Twilight agreed to talk. An endless number of tasks kept appearing on the checklist, kept moving up the list of priorities, and Rarity allowed them to. It had been over a week, yes, but even so, she could still vividly picture the memories Twilight had inadvertently shared, as well as the fear and guilt that had accompanied them and briefly plagued Rarity. In that moment, Twilight Sparkle’s carefully constructed barriers had been ripped away, and it was only polite for…
    • ~ Act II ~ 20 ~ The Wrangled Maze ~

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      by Monochromatic Sleep was neither kind nor unkind to Rarity. She managed to get almost four full hours of it, but her dreams were plagued with dragons, and princesses, and Spirits of Chaos. In one dream, she was there with Twilight and her dragon friend during that ill-fated day. In another, she was chatting with Rainbow and Pinkie outside the Trader’s Exchange. But in the one that finally woke her, she found herself trying to go back home but painfully unable to locate the library. She spent the rest of the trip…
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