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// Chapter 44 
// Story: Raindrops' Wrap Up 
// by Arkensaw Pinkerton 
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Okay, everypony seems to be taking this way too seriously. If you're careful, you reckon you can slip back to the library and file yourself somewhere quiet before anypony knows what's going on. 

While Twilight tries to organise Rarity's organisation, you nonchalantly edge towards the town proper, shuffling through the crowd; they weren't actually paying as much attention to you as you thought they were. You've almost gotten out of the square when you hear the boss calling from above you.

"Hey, Raindrops! Hold it right there!"

Ugh. Busted.

"Hi boss!" you shout, trying to sound cheerful. "Just getting back to the library- we've all got a job to do, right?" 

She raises an eyebrow and lands in front of you before sighing.

"Look, Raindrops, I know Twilight can be kind of bossy but you should really listen to her about magic stuff. She knows what she's talking about, I promise!" She sets her hooves wide and nods back towards the crowd. "I'm the boss and I'm telling you, if that makes it easier on you- just get back to Twilight and let her take care of you."

"I'm trying to take care of myself!" you mutter, and you mean it. If only there was some way to get Rainbow off your case- wait, you know just the spell for this. You concentrate on drawing your magic into your horn, but as you do you remember it's not there- you need to draw your magic into your spine instead. Because you're a book.

You have a moment of deep existential terror, compounded by the fact that you're fairly certain you didn't understand the word 'existential' until a couple of seconds ago. Or the word 'compounded'. One thing you do know, though, is that pegasus magic is all in the wings- they're like a unicorn's horn, capable of channelling the innate magic of your form through them to create various weather effects. You knew it in simpler words a moment ago, but you're starting to roll with it. The book part of you knows a spell to get you out of this, and the pony part of you has wings. Let's see if you can make this work.

You pull your magic into your wings and stretch them wide in a way that feels right- Rainbow takes a worried step back and opens her mouth to ask a question, but then your spell takes effect. You alter your aura to make yourself unremarkable, unmemorable, hard to notice; it hurts to cast through your wings more than you think it would if you had a horn, but it works.

Sort of. 

"Celestia's teats!" Rainbow shouts. There are gasps and a rustle of worried movement from the other ponies that had glanced at you as you spread your wings. Rainbow's eyes slide off you, but she looks panicked- she's looking everywhere for you, backing off and breathing heavily. She pulls out her organising whistle and blows the emergency notes- two short blasts and one long one.

"Raindrops disappeared! Everypony, Raindrops has disappeared or teleported away or something!" she yells. 

"What!?" you hear Twilight Sparkle shout as she runs over, and you're about to copy her when you realise that you can't see the end of your nose. You raise a hoof to your eyes and wave it around, but it's not there. You've turned completely invisible! Well, it makes perfect sense, the intent of the spell was the same but channelled through a different magical organ the effect has been achieved in a different way and- eee! This is so exciting! Invisible!

Everypony else is starting to spread out and look for you, though, and Twilight's charging up to cast a spell at where you were standing. That is, where you're still standing. She's probably going to end the spell if she can. Should you let her? She could at least help you write this up, you suppose.

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