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Note: Single spaces separate 'paragraphs', double spaces separate breaks in the story, and a line-break... thing separates 'chapters'.
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>>Be Anon, a compulsive liar.
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>>Be the only human Inna'Questria.
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>>Not-so-accidentally make yourself out to be more than you actually are (were?).
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>>Did you mention that you're a lying liar who lies?
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>>Cause, you lie.
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>>Like, a lot.
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>>It's not your fault though!
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>>Well, it is, but... This is *the* opportunity you've been looking for your entire life!
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>>Plus, you've been working on self-improvement to live up to the expectations you've set!
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>>It’s all in an effort to not get caught, but still!
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>>When you got here, you might’ve been a layabout piece-of-shit with only theoretical knowledge of some of the things you said you could do.
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>>That was when you got here, though.
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>>A lot of those things you claimed? Now a reality!
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>>You said you were known for your tracking, hunting, and outdoorsmanship.
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>>You busted your ass ‘learning the differences in local flora and fauna’ and going out for days at a time to little success.
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>>You said you were an accomplished spearman, a skilled archer, a student of the blade!
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>>Your numerous trips to the local Blacksmith and months of effort in your enclosed backyard have led you to be as such.
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>>Actually, on the topic of improvement, something changed in the transmigration.
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>>Those things shouldn’t have been as easy to pick up as they were.
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>>You laid claim to noble heritage - granted yourself titles upon titles (some, you’re more fond of than others) and epithets upon epithets!
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>>You’ve at least picked up some knowledge relating to those things.
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>>The ones you haven’t? Forced upon you due to politics.
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>>No one can prove otherwise, really.
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>>Except for Luna.
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>>Luna, who hasn’t been released from her prison yet.
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>>She won’t be for another year, by your reckoning.
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>>... Fuck.
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>>Looks like you’ll need to pick up lucid dreaming as well.
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>>What’ll you need based on what you’ve told Twilight?
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>>Hmm…
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>>War stories. Hunting down some Ohioan border hoppers. Traumatizing childhood events…
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>>Why couldn’t you have just said you were a clerk or something? Fuck.
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Something something something Luna’s sympathetic.
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Something something something Canterlot Wedding? More like Changeling Massacre.
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Something something something Knight of the Realm.
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Something something something free Royal therapy? Sex therapy? Whatever.
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Something something something, Anon never gets caught!
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Something something something, Waifu Get!
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I was going to wait for a new thread, but, well... No.
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>>Be Anon, a compulsive liar.
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>>Sole human Inna'Questria.
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>>Be a year and a half prior to the initial post.
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>>Be standing knee-deep in reeds and murk.
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>>Why?
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>>You're carving a clear path to the Castle of Two Sisters.
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>>Why?
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>>You need an in with Equestria.
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>>Best way you can think of is to retrieve artifacts and documents from the Castle and return them.
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>>You've already gathered tools and basic supplies.
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>>The place was pretty hastily abandoned.
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>>Plenty to gather 'because magic'.
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>>Preservation spells are pretty legit, apparently.
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>>Now, you're putting all those vocational classes from high school to work.
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>>Building a bridge.
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>>Well... it's more of a pier, really.
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>>Whatever the case, you're learning that the Everfree isn't that bad.
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>>It's not that different from the forests back home, actually.
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>>More shit to scare the piss out of you, though.
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>>Still, aside from being startled more often, not much is actually willing to fuck with you.
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>>Just...
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>>Respect what's around you;
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>>Stand your ground;
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>>And keep your place as a result.
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>>Fuck Cockatrice, though.
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>>One almost got you a couple of days ago.
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>>The stew you made out of it is still pulling its weight, simmering over the fire back home.
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>>Back to the matter at hand.
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>>This is technically week... three - Two or three - of the project.
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>>You've only been putting posts in the ground for three days.
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>>You've probably underestimated how many you'll need.
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>>You're only halfway through *this* stretch of swamp.
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>>There're three more to go before you have to focus on repairing that fucking rope bridge.
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>>You're shedding weight like... something that sheds a lot.
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>>Gone from technically obese to... probably pretty healthy?
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>>That might be a bit much, actually...
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>>Whatever the case, there's an issue.
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>>You might need to visit Ponyville early.
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>>Your initial plan was that you'd clear the path, then go into town to get some boxes to begin sending shit in.
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>>Hopefully, the local courier service would be like USPS or something, and you can go request a large number of boxes for free.
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>>That was before you began driving posts, though.
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>>Humans weren't built to wade through swamps like this.
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>>You're doing it naked, to keep your clothes at least somewhat fresh.
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>>God help you if you develop trench foot.
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>>Your shit's been pruney since near the start of day one.
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>>You try to take regular breaks, go back and lay near a fire.
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>>Issue is, it's going to take months if you keep going that way.
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>>It wouldn't be much of a crime to loot some of the spare bits in the Castle.
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>>... Right?
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>>Even if you take a large amount of what's present, you're still doing them a favor.
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>>It's not like they need what's here, regardless.
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>>If they did, they would've come and gotten them.
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>>You'll just... take some time - a few days at most - and go into town.
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>>Get checked over - by the local hospital or by Fluttershy.
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>>Go to the Boutique and commission some clothing.
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>>What you can think of to make it in the swampy areas.
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>>Hint at needing more made at a later date when you've 'secured funds'?
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>>Need a story, though.
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>>They probably won't just... accept you, if what you remember of canon holds true.
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>>You're, uh... Anon Y. Mous.
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>>Anon of House Mous... of the State of West Virginia!
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>>...
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>>West Virginia?
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>>Doesn't sound too... stately, in the sense of being a country...
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>>Kanawha, maybe? Vandalia? Augusta? Allegheny?
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>>You'll work on it.
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>>So, you're Anon of House Mous of the State of... Something of the United States of America.
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>>A vaunted name and series of titles, to be true.
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>>You were taking part in a raid into the nearby State of Ohio.
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>>A border dispute the federal government refused to interpret.
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>>You were a member of a forward combat unit. An armored scout, maybe.
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>>You did your job, silencing any sentries you could find before the battle could begin in earnest.
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>>You were moving to meet with the primary combat unit when it happened.
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>>Something something something magic.
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>>...
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>>...
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>>Magic?
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>>You can’t *do* magic!
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>>Why would you go with something so edgy?
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>>Fuck, why’d it have to be in conflict?
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>>Why not just say who and what and where with honesty?
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>>Fuck!
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>>...
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>>Okay, so… magic.
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>>You can’t do it because you’re something of a cripple.
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>>A magical Blank.
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>>A soldier from a world of magicians, incapable of magic.
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>>Kind of like Rock Lee.
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>>That… might work.
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>>You’ll need to be careful to meet any expectations you set.
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>>Can’t go claiming to fly or something.
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>>You… might be able to make it work.
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>>At the least, it’ll be worth some pity points.
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>>The Heir Apparent to House Mous, who trained his body when his soul was unworthy.
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>>You kind of like the sound of that.
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Which one sounds good? To call West Virginia, that is.
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I kind of like Vandalia, myself, but? They're all historical alternatives to WV.
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>>Be Anon, a compulsive Liar.
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>>Be the sole human Inna'Questria.
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>>Be standing crotch deep in a stream of crystal clear water.
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>>This is quite an improvement from earlier in the week.
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>>You're going into Ponyville today.
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>>Nothing you can do about it, considering the sores that have popped up on your right foot.
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>>Issue is, you’ve spent the last week in a dank-smelling swamp.
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>>GranAnon taught you never to go to the hospital while smelling like white trash.
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>>Even if you were white trash.
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>>As such, you're taking a bath in a stream near the edge of the Everfree.
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>>It’s very soothing, the fire in your foot seeming to seep away with every minute you sit there.
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>>Your regular clothes are pretty well swamp trash at this point.
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>>Still leaving them to soak while you go into town, though.
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>>You’re wearing curtains in the meantime.
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>>Pretty ones, with geometric patterns all over them.
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>>It took hours of practice, but you can pretty well wrap them around yourself into something that doesn’t look half bad.
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>>You’ve also got some sandals you scrounged from bits of scrap wood and fabric.
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>>Plenty more comfortable than your regular shoes, out in the swamps.
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>>As well, you were right in how much you’d find in spare bits.
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>>Three purses total, sitting on the bank, after looking through a little less than half the servant’s quarters.
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>>Also, a walking stick you claimed from one of the willows deeper into the woods.
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>>You’ve hung a lantern from it.
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>>It looks cool.
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>>It helps you keep pressure off your foot
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>>… It looks cool.
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>>That’s really all that matters, isn’t it?
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>>You looked at yourself in a mirror before starting the trip last night.
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>>Pretty based-looking, if you’re being kind to yourself.
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>>Like a wandering wise man.
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>>Or a mage.
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>>Or… something else that’s based.
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>>It’s tempting to wait until near dark to begin your trek, just so you can light the lantern and look even more based.
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>>(When did you start using based this much? Surely your isolation isn’t turning you *more* autistic?)
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>>You want to stop at Sugarcube Corner if you can, though.
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>>Play up the wanderer shtick.
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>>Until then, though, you need to get the lead out.
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>>The heat’s mostly gone from your foot by now.
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>>The wounds don’t look that bad, either.
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>>Compared to before, that is.
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>>What you set out to wear is dried now, too.
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>>You towel off and wrap your foot.
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>>You don’t know enough about the outdoors to prepare some sort of herbal poultice to help with the pain or infection, sadly.
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>>From there, it’s all about finagling the curtains into a shape that kind of looks right.
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>>Cover all your bits.
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>>Provide storage for your purses.
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>>Give yourself a hood with what’s spare.
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>>...
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>>Hope and pray you’re able to commission actual clothes at some point in the near future.
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>>If you’re lucky, you’ll be in the hospital long enough to collect them from there.
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>>Best to get this over with.
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>>It's a beautiful day for first contact.
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>>Harmonious, even.
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>>Spring's sprung, wind's blowing, sun's shining.
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>>Your foot is only sending waves of discomfort, compared to a constant stream of agony.
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>>You’re stoic enough to ward off any plot hooks, regardless.
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>>Your first impression *won’t* be as a moaning, groaning monster. Surer than shit.
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>>You’re just a tall, cloaked, blood-and-sickness-smelling monster instead.
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>>...
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>>God help you.
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>>...
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>>Maybe it’s that you’re hobbling instead of walking or running, but the distance between Ponyville and where you’d been bathing feels… more somehow.
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>>This is an issue you’ve been facing regularly, actually.
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>>That fancy path you’re carving?
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>>The one that cuts through all the bullshit and is putting you in this situation to begin with?
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>>It’s probably going to take half a day to travel.
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>>The Mane 6 made that distance in, like, half that time while also dealing with all kinds of trials and tribulations to establish themselves as the Elements of Harmony.
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>>Such horseshit.
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>>Pun not intended.
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>>At least it’s almost over.
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>>All without being spotted, too!
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>>...
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>>That might prove more of a bane than a boon, considering the town’s disposition.
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>>Unless they only started acting like that *after* Twiggles showed up and brought along her Monster-of-the-Week-Itis.
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>>That almost makes sense, logically, if a bit too meta.
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by DaddyIssuesAnon