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// Entry #2 Part 3 
// Story: The Desperate Journals of Starlight Glimmer 
// by Arararagi 
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        I woke up in my bed, back at the Castle of Friendship, sweating profusely once again. I coughed violently and even gagged a little as I struggled to breathe. My heart was pounding as my mind reeled from what I had just experienced. I had died! I was fairly certain of that, and yet here I was again, back in my bed. There was almost no evidence of my time looping, except one small detail. A singular dark blue feather that was stuck to my hoof. One that no doubt belonged to the Princess of the Night.  It took me some time to gather my thoughts, and I wrote started writing down the few things that made sense.



 I am stuck in a time loop, from the morning of the 11th, to sometime on the 12th.


My actions can affect the loop, but I do not know how to escape.


Nopony else seems to remember the previous loops besides me


It seems possible to bring things I am holding back with me. (But not ponies?)


Chrysalis is behind at least some of this.


There is some dark magic involved I have never seen before.



        I stared at the last note I wrote for several moments as I recalled with great detail the darkness that attacked us and killed me in the previous loop. What was that? Thinking back, I could feel the mana that saturated the air. It was so thick it actually made it harder to breathe. Some powerful magic was obviously at play, but I had never heard of anything like that happening before.



        I looked at the feather I had accidentally brought back with me. It had dried blood on the shaft, but the color of the plume was definitely Princess Luna's. It was the first definitive, physical proof of my looping. It scared me to see such undeniable proof of what I had witnessed, but at the same time it made me think. Why did the feather come back with me, and not my saddlebag? If I wanted to use this to my advantage somehow, I needed to know how it worked. It gave me an idea.



        I pulled out a blank notebook I was planning on using for some magical studies, and I ripped out the front page where I had written some now unimportant notes. I needed some way to test if I could bring something useful back with me. Why not keep a journal? It would also serve a double purpose. What if each time I looped, there was also a timeline where I didn't? What if everypony is mourning my death right now?



        I had more and more of these thoughts as I picked up my quill and ink in my magic. And so I began writing...



        "My name is Starlight Glimmer. I am currently unable to escape from the bizarre circumstances in which I find myself..."