A moment of calm by >>38964515


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                                                >with a grunted sigh, I slid to the ground, resting my back against the rock wall

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                                                >out of all the damn shit life ever threw at me, this was total bullshit

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                                                >removing my helmet and setting it down with my bag, I wiped the sweat out of my eyes

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                                                >the torn landscape of No Pone's Land gave me thoughts of home, of my kinds first Great War

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                                                >this land of the magical talking horses was hard to adjust to at first

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                                                >and suddenly being in a war

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                                                >to tired to remember the details of my last three years in this hell, I reached over to my bag

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                                                >not much time to eat and drink before I have to get back to patrol

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                                                >mindlessly I dug through my bag, looking for my can of applesauce and can opener

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                                                >thoughts of why I even agreed to fight burned at the back of my brain

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                                                >feeling the ground instead of the canvas of my bag

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                                                >I then noticed the hole near the bottom, most of my supplies for the day gone

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                                                >fucking glass canon prick-a-corns...

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                                                >another defeated sigh escaped my lips, my legs getting ready to lift me back up

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                                                >a soft breeze, quick and sharp blew dust near me as rainbow mane horse landed, folding her wings

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                                                >Rainbow Dash. The pony who I first met when I landed in the middle of this hell

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                                                >at that time, her metal wing was just a bloody stump and her eye and ear bleeding on top of that

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                                                >I don't know what compelled me to help her, I had no idea what side was doing what for what

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                                                >perhaps it was her eye that stared into me at that moment

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                                                >I smiled as she sat near me, her face one of stone and some how relaxed

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                                                >looking at my bag and I assume seeing me before, in one swift motion her hoof held a can of applesauce and its top was sliced clean off with one stroke of her metal wing

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                                                >a simple nod, she handed it to me

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                                                >no way you can say no if Dash gave you something

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                                                >like I even would want to

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                                                >sipping on it like a can of beer, Dash and I spent our few minutes of break staring out at the sundered land

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                                                >a cold and firm embrace on my shoulder as she rested her metal wing on me

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                                                >together, we dreamed of tomorrow