Preview of the Next Chapter of 7DSJ · 11:40pm Jul 9th, 2014
The penultimate chapter!
As she tried to piece together what Trixie and Lyra had taught her about traditional Gematria and its Italian variant, she rifled through Google Translate on her phone, then filtered it through a Gematria app she’d downloaded. As expected, some of it made sense – one numerical value translated to “I am the eternal shadow” – while most of it didn’t – she had no idea what “the crystal heart sings proudly” meant, though it was likely random gibberish. Either way, she continued to take notes in the hope that some of it – any of it – would give her some clue how to proceed further in protecting Twilight.
“Curious?” Applejack’s voice rang behind her. As Sunset turned to face her friend, Applejack said in a soft tone, “Heard whut y’ did yest’rday. Ah have t’ say Ah’m impressed – an’ not jest ‘cause she’s yer sister. But…next time, jest be careful. Ah’d hate t’ see any o’ mah friends hurt.”
“I’m already hurting, AJ,” Sunset said in a small voice, “and it has yet to stop.” At the moment, she was feeling a sense of anxiety, as though she needed to run out of the room as fast as she could and never come back. She wasn’t sure what it portended, but whatever it meant, it was coming from the other side of the hall – where the mirror was.
“Sunny, Ah thought y’ understood y’ ain’t alone in this,” Applejack said, patting her friend on the shoulder. “We ain’t lettin’ ya go alone on this one.”
“Really?” Sunset retorted. “Because do you understand any of this? Because I am a unicorn, one of the best unicorn mages short of Princess Twilight, and I have no idea what any of this means! It’s all obscure references and ersatz comments from some weird guy who lived in the Florentine Republic and might have gotten ancient obscure wisdom from a unicorn who may or may not have gotten some nookie from the guy’s wife – the same wife the guy’s supposed to have killed!”
Applejack just looked at her friend, not knowing what to say. Finally, she voiced, “Doesn’t mean we aren’t here fer ya, Sunny.”
“I know,” Sunset said quietly, “and I love you all for that. But I’m already in over my head – you guys will drown in whatever’s going on.”
Penultimate chapter already?
2270329 Penultimate in what is not even the penultimate book in the series. (How many books are planned, anyway? And will the second book be posted under BlueBastard's account?)
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There are three books planned. Book II will be on Blue's account; Book III will be back here on mine.
2270383 Cool to know. I'll be on the lookout for Book II once this one is done.
But might I have a link to Blue Bastard's page? I want to have him on my Watch list when he gets Book II started.
If I don't already, that is.
Definitely doesn't point to Sombra and the Crystal Empire, absolutely not...
...*liarjack.gif*
Who, though? Dunno, but that's gotta be the place. I don't remember if you detailed how synched Human-Equestria and Pony-Equestria are timeline-wise, but it COULD be that Sombra gave this guy this stuff.
That's my best guess that I'll probably stick to until I'm wrong, but...
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Forgot there are three books... 
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Have one.
I strongly recommend you read the first two stories in his Berylverse, A Hairy Problem and Rise of the Furball, as they take place in the same verse as this story does - and 7DSJ Book II will definitely include elements from those two earlier stories.
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Are you sure?
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Hi
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I could tell you, but what's the fun in that?
2270601 Oh, shoot! So that's who he is! I have read them, and he is on my Authors-to-be-Stalked (er, Watched) List!
Silly me.
Those are two of my fave stories, actually. Applejack as a werewolf, is just too cool for words! (Though I think that she...and Apple Bloom...are cured of that as of the end of Rise of the Furball.
)
And that's good to know. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for Book II now.
2270608 Hey! Sorry I didn't recognize ya, bud. But my brain's about half-scrambled after all the work that I've been doing in my bedroom the last few days.
2270619 If Rasberry's correct, there should be no living strains of lycanthropy in existence in Equestria. That ponykind knows of, at least, since AJ and AB--the last two ponies known to have the immortal-type strand--were cured.
@Shinzakura I...don't. It's a best guess, okay?!
EDIT: Jeez, can't you manually type that in? <_<
2270737 That's kinda what I thought, but I wasn't totally sure.
Heh, anyway, I bet both of 'em are pretty happy about that!
All I can think about is how non-Canon 'Rainbow Rocks' now is, and how you've better expanded EQG than Hasbro did.
Stay awesome dudes!