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// Chapter 48 
// Story: Raindrops' Wrap Up 
// by Arkensaw Pinkerton 
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This- augh! No! You are too young for foals, you've had that conversation with your mother a thousand times, and this foal is a book and you haven't even met the guy who wrote it let alone done anything with him that might bring a foal about and it's a really old book and how are you supposed to explain to a book that is a foal that his daddy is a pony who has been dead for like five hundred years and his mummy is you, because apparently now you're so fertile you need to wear gloves to pick up a freaking book?

Do books even have genders? You suppose it could be a girl. 

You think you're going to scream.

You're in the middle of a really impressive freakout and completely ignoring the fact that Pinkie is calmly discussing something with the book when you hear Spike open the door, accompanied by Twilight Sparkle.

"I'm sure they haven't looked at it, Twilight. Raindrops seems really responsi-"

"YOU HAVE TO FIX THIS!" You grab Twilight by the shoulders and shake her to make sure you've got her full attention.

"Gah! Okay, easy there, Raindrops is it? What do I have to fix?"

"This!" you shout, pushing Pinkie away from the book. You both have a look at it to see what's written on the first page- the writing's getting a bit cramped on the edges.

Amniomorphics 

By Starswirl the Bearded and Raindrops. A compendium of spells designed to manipulate and create auras, especially those which create life. Hi there.

Your name is in the book because you have contributed so much to it. You are as responsible as Starswirl was for my content. Thanks!

Is she okay? She seems a little freaked out. You're sure? Alright, then.

No, I don't have a secret candy compartment.

Or a spell for infinite candy. 

If you try to use me like a piñata then I'll tell Raindrops and she'll buck you directly into the sun please don't tell her I used that word! Promise! That's a good promise. I might borrow that one.

"Is this a joke?" Twilight asks, anger creeping into her voice. "Did you write in this book?"

No, no, that's all me! I promise Raindrops didn't do anything wrong! The writing appears on the page vertically, running up some of the only space left. 

Twilight looks at you with delight, only starting to grasp how serious this is when she sees you twitch. "Hang on a second, I've got an idea."

She runs to her desk and grabs a blank sheet of paper, placing it carefully on the first page.

"Can you write on the paper I just put on your first page?" she asks, carefully enunciating each word.

Yes. Hi there!

"Oh my goodness this is so exciting! You're a living book!"

Yes!

"Do you know how this happened?"

I'm pretty sure I do but somepony seriously needs to talk to Raindrops so I'm going to shut up until that's happened.

The book's heavy cover lifts ponderously from the desk before closing gently and trapping the new piece of paper inside.

"I'm pretty sure I know how too," Twilight murmurs to herself before turning to you. "Okay, Raindrops, we should talk about what's just happened and how we're going to go from here. This is a pretty clear case of neomagical reproduction, and I've got some pamphlets- Spike, could you go and fetch the pamphlets?- so you can have a read and I can answer a lot of your questions right now."

Spike puts a pamphlet in your hooves, and you stare at the title for a second. "So you've created a new life" it reads, and there's a picture of a little unicorn with a delighted expression and an animated teddy bear smiling at her. Cute. Your eyelid twitches again.

"Any questions?" Twilight asks, bubbling with excitement.

Oh, you've got questions alright. And then you may have to break something.

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