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// Zecora 
// Story: The Dream and the Strange Creature 
// by silverbronygirl43 
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	Fluttershy hurried over to Zecora's hidden hut, deep in the woods.  Creeping up the steps, she knocked gently on the old door.  No pony came so she knocked again.  A voice sounded from inside.
"Who there be, knocking so quietly?"
"Um, it's fluttershy."
The door quickly opened.
"Ah, sweet Fluttershy, please, my dear, come inside."  She beckoned to the pony to come in.
Once in the two sat down.
"You've came through all your fear, what, pray tell brings you here?"
"Well, I need an ingredient for this medicine,and was wondering if you knew where i could find it."  She spoke.
"That depends on a simple matter, what is this ingredient that you're after?"  Zecora questioned.
"It's called a Syclondon root, I think."
"You mean siclindin my shy friend, the medicine it makes, truly does mend.  Why in need of such a plant? for something normal medicine can't?"
The Pegasus nodded,  "yes, so you've heard of it?"
"Know it, and know it well, in the darkest corners, it does dwell." 
"The darkest corners," She squeaked.  "Could you maybe come with me to find it, if you're not busy or anything that is."
"If I could go, I would follow."
"Why not, is there something you need to do?  I can help you finish it."
"No, that is not the reason I cannot go, about this plant you need to know.  Listen closely my dear, if onepony treads, it does not fear, but if many ponies come close by, everypony there will surely die!"
"So, I have to go alone?!"
The zebra nodded gently, apparently tired of rhyming.
Fluttershy gulped, "All right then, thank you Zecora, I'm sorryfor wasting your time."
She pulled herself to the door, even more afraid than when she got there.  She would have to go to thee
deepest part of the Everfree.  She proceeded to exit the shack.
As she stepped out zecora called to her.
"Good luck Fluttershy, please do not die."
The door quietly clicked behind her.  
"I can do this, I can do this!" She chanted in her mind while walking away from the safety of the hut.