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The Secret Element


New Discoveries


Canterlot Castle Perimeter Wall


‘Ten years, it’s been ten long years’ Rainbow thought to herself as she

patrolled the south parapet of Canterlot Castle at sunset. 


“Captain”


Rainbow had been ignoring the call of her subordinates that afternoon for an hour so she could enjoy the end of her afternoon before she handed charge of the castle over to the

Night Guard Captain.


“Captain please you need to hurry over to the signal tower and see Captain Dark

Light.


I’ll handle Dark Light myself after we finish the last patrol of the Parapet.


But Captain.


You’re my new Lieutenant and I understand you were transferred to the

Star Guard from the Day Guard but we ain't too uptight around here. Never have

been never will be. Do you even know the Star Guards secret motto?” She

questioned the guard just next to her, Silver Shine she remembered the name in the

back of her mind.


“Ummm well no I didn’t know we had one. Frankly captain I don’t know

much more about the Star Guard other than the rank structure and duties.” He said

scratching the back of his head looking slightly embarrassed. Rainbow stopped

walking and looked out to the south of Canterlot. She could just make out Ponyville

from this spot.


“Not much to tell about Ten Years ago I joined the Guard for training to be

Princess Twilight Sparkle’s Captain of the Guard. All of my highest ranked officers

trained with me. About 5 years ago I decided to completely abandon my dream of

the Wonderbolts and just stayed in. Too loyal some say but so what. It was also

about that time that the Guard’s name got changed to the Star Guard when Twilight

took control of the stars from Princess Luna. The guard also took a secret sworn

oath of loyalty they picked up from me to protect Princess Sparkle with their lives no

matter what other order’s we receive.


Okay but is it true what they say in the Day Guard that most of your Guard are really

Changelings?


Yes when we befriended them seven years ago due to Twilight’s efforts in friendship

they gave us 1000 Changelings to Twilight to do as she wished with. I trained them

and now they are loyal to no hive but her.” She smiled and reminisced about the

past for a minute.” Alright were done here let’s go ahead and head out to the signal

tower.


Yes Ma’am, just one more question ma’am is it true about…” He hesitated for a

minute looking around sheepishly, “you know”.


She opened her wings and laughed before replying happily, “I’d of thought my wings

could have told you that”. Now let’s get….” She stopped wings poised for flight and

just seized up.


“Captain is something the matter?” he waited a second or two without a reply.

“Corporal over here.” He called to the nearest soldier he saw.


“Its sergeant sir, sergeant Night Tail what’s the problem”, asked the magi. He

pointed with his wings to the Captain. The sergeant walked over and looked at the

captain, he watched as the sergeant looked at the captain’s eyes before he suddenly

backed away. “All call to arms Star Guard man your station’s in the castle now!” He

yelled. It snapped Rainbow out of her stance.


“Sergeant Night Tail have all soldier’s report to the north courtyard district on the

triple!” the sergeant saluted before running off giving orders. Rainbow looked

around for a second for the blue Aviaon with Silver hair that was her new lackey.

“Lieutenant Silver Shine Report immediately to Captain Dark Light.


But Captain what’s going…


Don’t Question my orders just do it!


Yes Ma’am.” He Saluted and flew as fast as he could wondering what was going on.

Rainbow watched him leave then looked to the west side and took off

muttering under her breath, “Dammit Twi you better be safe when I get there or ill

send whoever is responsible to darkest pit of Tartarus in ten seconds flat.


North Canterlot Castle Corridor’s

“Come on Sucker Punch let’s go” Twilight complained to the empty corridor as she

passed a servant.


“Excuse me your Highness”, He asked confused.


“Oh sorry I’m not talking to you my bodyguard is dragging his feet this

afternoon, There you are now let’s go slowpoke" she said to the wall next to

her, "oh and can you send some chamomile tea and cider to my quarters at the

change of the Guard, Thank you.” She called as she ran down the hallway again.


‘What a strange girl’ he thought as he balanced the supplies in his hands and walked

away.


Twilight ran around a corner and through a few more corridors’ till she

came to the throne room on the north side of the castle. It was empty this

afternoon as Celestia had taken care of all the questions of the court. Twilight did

hold court but mostly for the guilds as she controlled most of them. Usually her

court consisted of the guild leaders asking her questions about what she was

working on or stellar event’s she had planned and other such things. Today though

she wasn’t doing any of that, no today she was finally going test out a scroll she had

found in the Library. It had been about 5 weeks ago when she had the dream of the

tome in question hidden under the floor of the Star Swirl the Bearded section. A

secret door and a bit off magic showed her a whole room the size of a jail cell filled

with old scrolls from someone named Merlin all except one which was simply

titled, ‘The Power of Crystals’ by Father, she knew by the look of the scroll the other

half of the name had been scraped off with time not much of the scroll was

readable due to age or the script it was written with that she didn’t recognize. But

none the less she had found a map of the Castle, well not the same castle per say

but it looked good enough, which showed the underground crystal caves beneath

Canterlot Castle. Most importantly a secret room beneath the throne room.


“Your Majesty what are we even looking for here?” she heard just behind

her. She turned around to see the Changeling male that was her personal Guard. He

stood about Seven foot FIve, black as night and his skin was hard like an insect’s, his

eyes had slitted iris but the face looked normal. If it weren’t the fact his skin was

armored and had holes in it he would have looked like a normal person. That and if

you got rid of his insective wings.


“We are here looking for a secret entrance to the crystal caves beneath the

city.” She said matter of factly as she snapped her fingers. A scroll appeared in her

hand a second later. She was an Alicorn and thus stronger than most magi who

need to channel their power through and object. She unrolled the scroll in the air

next to her and sighed as a blue feather fell from it. She picked it up a spun it

around her hand for a minute. “Why is it the blue one’s molt first” she asked aloud

as she looked at her wings. They each had two solid vertical bands of blue on her

otherwise lavender wings.

“Maybe it’s because Captain Dash’s wings molt before yours Princess.” Punch said

as he put a comforting hand on her shoulder. She just sighed again as his razor sharp

claws lightly rested on her skin.


“Maybe but it still makes me sad when I have to watch them go first before my

lavender ones molt away.”


Don’t let it get you down your Highness. Now what was it you were saying

about a secret entrance?” He asked offhandedly as he walked around the throne

room. That snapped her out of her reprieve and she tucked the feather in her hair.

She snapped her fingers again and felt a small tug on a few of her hairs before she

looked back at her scroll.


“How does she look?” She asked as she looked for the map. The Changeling looked

over toward his ward and scrutinized the feathers in her hair.


“Yep fit’s in just fine with the other five your Highness.” He replied. ‘Hmmm

six years’ she thought as she gazed toward the ceiling. Six happy years. When

Rainbow had proposed to her she remembered trying to teleport away only for

Dash to grab her and get dragged along with her. She had only teleported to her

room but as soon as it ended Dash tripped her and held to the ground. “Uh uh

egghead you’re not going anywhere till I get my answer” she had said with a kiss.

She agreed and they had a small service in the gardens that only her Guard, friends,

and family including Rainbow’s knew about it and because they didn’t want total

publicity over it, never fully announced it. Instead she had created a spell that had

swapped some of hers and Dash’s feathers permanently in place of rings. Also every

year when the first of her feathers molted she used another spell that attached

them to her hair making them still apart of her. Dash on the other hand would have

hers gilded in a Liquid Lavender Steel and pressed into her Wing Plates. She

breathed in and out to bring herself back to the present and looked at the diagram

on the scroll.


“Okay well according to this scroll were looking for a symbol that looks like this”

she said as she pointed to the top of the scroll which supported a square with four

smaller squares connected at its corner.


“What’s it called?”


I don’t know I think it has something to do with this Father character that wrote it.


Okay who’s this Father character?


Don’t know the scroll is written in a language that I’ve never seen before.” She said

as she showed him the scroll. She watched his eye’s look over the scroll before

stopping. “What is it?” she asked. He pointed to a single ruin on the page.


“That symbol is on the floor in the deepest chamber of my hive. We don’t know how

it got there nor the person who put it there. We are merely told that it harbors a key

to something in the past.


That makes no sense, that’s all you know?


Yes.” He said shortly before walking to a wall to look for the symbol. She

inwardly growled at the lack of complete data and walked around the room for over

an hour to find the symbol. Despite the intensity of the search and her spells they

never found it. She was sitting on the throne looking at the scroll when she heard a

grunt of curiosity in front of her. She looked over the scroll and saw Punch

scratching at the floor.


“What did you find?” He held up a green paint chip almost too small to tell the color

of it. “Okay what’s this about?” she questioned him. He pointed to the floor where

he found the chip at.


“The floor has been retiled since it was first built. There is another tile below this

one.” He stated. She looked at his logic and flew up above the floor and hovered for

a second thinking. Then it hit her the floor plan and the symbol.

“Punch can you move the throne if I lift it?” she asked. He gave her a

quizzical look. “If I can put just enough power into a spell I might be able to lift it up

and lighten it just a bit but from what Celestia told me it hasn’t been moved as long

as she’s lived here.” He shook his head once before speaking.


“I can try your Highness.” He put his hands on the front of the throne and

waited. Twilight concentrated her power into her right hand as much as possible. It

in turn started to glow a pale Purple and turn evermore Lavender. Finally when she

couldn’t get any more power she pointed at the throne and released the energy and

watched as the throne began to glow. Punch put all his weight behind his hands into

pushing the throne around in any direction but it didn’t budge. Eventually she just

let her power go and the aura about her hand and the throne ceased and Sucker

Punch dropped to the ground exhausted for the time being. “It didn’t work.” He

stated breathlessly as he sat on the ground. Twilight reopened the scroll getting

angrier by the second at it.


“UUHHHHHHH, this thing is so infuriating why won’t it just open up the

passage or tell me how!” she yelled as she used a spell to propel the scroll at the

base of the Throne. It hit it at terminal velocity due to her wind spell. The scroll

stayed there having imbedded itself in it. “Oh great now I’ve done it. Gone and

broke the throne because I can’t get this passage way to activate and open up.” The

throne shook for a second then the symbol appeared around the scroll. It glowed a

faint green and lavender before the throne lifted into the air about 20 feet to reveal

a tunnel leading down with large stairs. “Punch get up we found it, we found it” she

squealed with joy as she lit a ball of light in her hand and walked down the stairs. He

rolled his eye’s thinking ‘I’m going to regret this I can tell just like the time she found

a new potion to render other’s invisible.’ Before heading down the stairs after her

still feeling the echo of a burn that potion had left on his arm.



*Secret Passage


“Sucker Punch hurry up or I’m leaving you up there” He Heard Twilight call from

in the tunnel. He really hated that name, especially when the other palace staff

or guards used it. But when it came to his Princess he couldn’t help but let it pass.

Especially because for the first three weeks he punched everyone that came near

her. Prince Blueblood and most of the nobles still didn’t like him, thus his need

to travel camouflaged. He quickly caught up to her as she was walking down the

stairwell watching the walls and ceiling in the low light her spell provided.


“Princess I suggest you take a close look at this cavern” he suggested to her and

pointed toward the ceiling. Which was pocketed with holes and crevices. It looked

like it should have already caved in long ago.


“It’s okay it looks weak but I’m detecting hidden struts threw out the ceiling made

of other rock and stone holding it in place. That’s still not saying that a strong

enough impact won’t bring it down so let’s see”. She stopped in the middle of the

stairs to contemplate her next move for a minute. He watched her face scrunch up

and her eyes narrow before going wide and a smile breakout on her face.

“I got just the thing.” She said as she pulled a rod from her waist. It was her wand

which looked like a Lavender horn with the spirals that were cut into it. He took a

step up the stairs to give her room to use her spell. Also so he didn’t get hit by any

magical backlash that normally accompanied her wand use, which she reserved for

only her most powerful of spells. She concentrated for a few seconds and the aura

of her magic surrounded the rod in her hand before she swirled it in front of her and

unleashed its power. He saw the walls and ceiling glow a faint pink before returning

to their dark color, he ran to catch twilight as she started to fall over.


“Princess are you okay?” he asked worriedly as she blinked rapidly a few times

before answering.


“Yes I’m fine the staircase is much longer than I thought it was so the spell took

more of my energy than I expected” she said wearily as she stood up and balanced

for a second. She put her wand back in her waist belt before going continuing on

after reactivating her recently shut off light spell. They descended into the darkness

for a few more minutes before twilight stopped and started looking at the left

hand wall. “Hey Punch what does this look like?” She asked him while pointing to

something on the wall. He got closer to the wall to see it and saw a single runic

symbol cut into the stone.


“A symbol?” He asked questionably.


“Exactly and it’s a match to one of the symbols on this scroll.” She said as she

brought the scroll into his view point and pointed its match. “That’s not all, look”

she said as she pointed down the wall on both sides where he noticed the symbols

continued both up and down the wall and Stairway. “We must be getting close to

the bottom she said as she hurried down the stairs as the symbols became more

and more clustered together.


A Few more minutes going down the stairs and they finally reached the bottom

and stood before a giant archway big enough for a whole Military Company to

march through with space to spare and its height was that of the front palace doors.

Its design was curious as it towered over them looking like it was cut separately

from the rest of the mountain. Twilight went over to the walls of the Archway to

examine them and finally started to cheer up. She could finally read the script, at

least some of it. She saw Arabic, Equestrian, Italian, even Germanium. She took the

most interest though in the Greek as it was the native language for beginner magic

users who didn’t have their Soul Mark to perform their natural magic. She quickly

read and re-read it before translating out loud, “Beware the who travels this gate

for in it the Winds Rage Slumber must never break”. She immediately re-read it one

more time but here translation didn’t change. She went to the Equestrian one which

said “Warning the Gate of The Wind is to be sealed to hide its Rage!” Suddenly

getting an idea she cast a temporary but powerful ‘Read It” spell so should read text

she could speak like it was Equestrian. Every one read something similar about a

Gate and the Wind’s Rage. Her curiosity was getting the better of her now and she

started to head through the Archway.


“Your Highness I must protest, we should head back and report our findings.

Besides we don’t know how long the passage will remain open.” He insisted with

a slightly worried voice as he tensed up as if expecting an enemy to just show up.

The cavern seemed to taunt him as the blackness outside Twilights light spell shifted

and turned at the corner of his eyes. The Archway above looked to be daring him

with its spiral design. ‘Wait spiral’ he thought as he looked at it closely and saw it

was actually a creature carved out of the mountain to serve as a gateway into who

knows where. Most disturbing is the creature it depicted had a Dragons head but a

powerful serpent’s body with something on its body, what though he couldn’t tell as

Twilight’s Light spell moved on with her into the chamber beyond.


*Hidden Chamber



Twilight was amazed for everywhere she looked her light spell reflected off

of crystal of the purest kind, the thousands of shades and hues easily lite the

chamber they stood in. it had what looked like a stairway that traveled beyond her

sight and in the center a raised dais. The chamber itself was circular and easily as

large as the Throne Room if not bigger she looked at the walls and noticed small

cubby like spaces to her left. Punch was breathing down her neck now but she

shook it off as she walked to the four rectangular rock slits in the otherwise crystal

wall. The slit’s themselves weren’t of any note four feet long and two feet wide and

only noticeable due to the fact that they were actual rock. She reached her hand

into the bottom ‘cubby’ and groped around it went back another two feet. She slid

her hand along the back wall till she touched something cold. Curiosity overcoming

her she grabbed it pulled it out slowly, to reveal a Platinum and Diamond Crown of

the finest make. She looked at the crown turning it in her hand this way and that

marveling at its workmanship till she saw something inscribed on the inside. It was

in Greek and to help out Punch she read it aloud.


“‘Ζήτω η Αυτοκρατορία,’ Long live the Empire” she mused to herself for a minute

trying to think of what empire it could mean before having a sudden idea and

looked at the front of the crown and there sat the Emblem of Queen Platinum of

Pre Equestria. She gasped aloud staring at the crown. She heard a scrape come from

next to her and jumped to see Punch holding a weird looking hat and pulling out

War helm from the top ‘Cubby’. She took it safe to assume that these were truly

the last vestiges of the Three rules of the Pre-Equestrian Era. But why were they

here.


“Hey Punch what’s in the top one” she asked as she pointed the 12 feet up to it. He

shrugged his shoulders as used the three lower ones to climb up to it. He reached

his hand in and grunted in surprise.


“My Lady there is a scroll and an old Tome up here” he called down to her.

‘Good finally some information I can use’ she thought to herself, before calling up to

him. 

“Carry the tome down and toss me the scroll”. She waited as he complied. She

watched the scroll fall and quickly caught it in her magic to bring to her safely. She

used a small spell to see if it was safe to open, and finding nothing overly bad slowly

unrolled as Punch climbed down. Out Loud to the chamber she read.


“Let it here stand that we the Ex-Rulers of the three races of Equestria herby lay

our lives down to seal away the Creature and through the world it’s family so

that they may never wake and tear our nation apart. May those who find this

proclamation be warned that the one we seal today will not forever sleep and

when it wake all the world shall fall to His power. To help we take from him His

weapon of mark and Servant of Power. Together should He reclaim both these

items we shall all surely be doomed. Long live the Princesses and forever sleep the

Last Shadow.” 


She looked at the three signs of power in front of her in fear. She

couldn’t place the fear but something told her now was the time to run or else.

She looked to the Head ornaments before her, and now they looked less majestic,

instead they looked sad and burdened with the fact they had lost their owners to

some unknown cause. Punch came to stand next to her and once more put his hand

on her shoulder.


“I’m fine Punch, I just need a minute to myself please.” She could feel his reluctance

to move and leave her. “Just please one minute, look around and tell me what else

you can find.” She listened as he sighed and walked on toward the center of the

room they were in. She stood there and wrapped her arms around herself wishing

it was Rainbows instead. She suddenly felt a shift in her magic as it started to drain

drastically. She sighed and sat down before taking a small emerald about as big as

the soul mark on her hand and flicked. Immediately she felt the power drain shift to

the gems energy store. ‘It must be dusk’ she thought. It happened to her 4 times a

day every day for two months now. At dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight. She knew

the source of the drain but not the reason nor how to stop it. She also still hadn’t

told Rainbow who just though she had a really bad head cold. The gem‘s she had

stored around a few places and that she carried on her she had filled with power or

else she would blackout and wake up drained of energy both magical and non. She

sat there feeling a coldness starting to settle in as the drain of her power though now

much less still seemed to steal the heat from her body. She shivered then relaxed

as she felt the drain stop. She did a quick check on her Mana levels and found it

was low, enough for the light she was casting throughout the room and a few other

medium level spells.


“Your Highness over here I found something.” She heard Punch call out to her.

While his princess had been “Collecting” herself as she liked to say. He had done as

asked and started looking around at first it seemed like an over extensive Crystal

cavern. There were what looked like tool marks cut in everywhere on the floor.

Probably where they at fitted the pieces together with magic by the looks of how

perfectly they fitted together. At least that’s what he thought till reached a point

close to the center where the lines stopped and circled the middle of the room. He

walked on from there scrutinizing the seamless floor till he saw another Circle, and

another a little further in. he saw something slightly odd about the floor after the

farthest circle, once again there were lines but these ones were painted in black

lettering he couldn’t read but what really caught his eye was what lay beneath it.

He looked in wonder at the object below him. It had overlapping enclosed scale like

structures that bound inward on themselves. The only thing he could really compare

it to was like looking at the top of an exotic flower.


“Your Highness over here I found something.” He called out to his princess.


“What is it Punch” she asked when she reached him. He pointed below himself to

the object below and Twilight was instantly amazed in wonder and the object that

swirl with a multi-color facet of Violet, Red, and Blue. She kneeled down to stare at

it and send a tendril of magic but was instantly rebuff with an extremely powerful

detection spell. Normal not a problem for her but in her current status a real pain

in the rear. Her hand brushed the lettering and felt the difference in the floor and

moved Punch over a bit so she could read it. She but a touch more of power into

her light spell to read it clearer but it still seemed almost blurry and unintelligible.

She ran her hand over the outline the script was in and some of it rubbed into her

fingers. She pulled her fingers up to look at them and rubbed the mixture a bit. She

brought her fingers to her nose and took a small smell. It smelled like chalk and

something else almost forbidden like a type of spirit. Then it hit her.


“Magic Kindergarten” she breathed.


“Your Highness” punched asked.

Twilight extended her fingers to him. So he could see the mixture as she explained it

to him.


“This is what’s known as Chakra Sand. It’s a type of chalk mixed with diluted spirits

and lace with magic to solidify and carbonize to once again become chalk. In its

broken form it takes a resemblance of sand which is where it is enchanted with a

certain spell or depending on how fine you make it several. You then commit it to

an object in any language by script with a command word or phrase that activates

the spells in the Sand. It used to be used to hide secret passages, vaults, messages. At

one time even assassinations. Know we use it to teach young children who are first

learning their power how to focus it and apply it outside themselves.” Punch looked

at her to the powder in her hand and asked a small question.


“Assassinations?”


“Yes well the sand can hide whatever it’s used to write. Say you enchanted it and

write a phrase someone you want dead or something destroyed with a phrase

someone says a lot. Or disguise it as a secret letter. You then just wait for them to

activate the script, reveal the phrase, and then say it. Watch.” She told him as she

ran her fingers over the ingrained powder on the floor. She ran a tendril of power

which the powder absorbed before glowing a rich, soft, golden color and displaying

a small phrase. ERSI MFOR ETH SEHAPTD OT ETH SWHAODS. Twilight stared at it for

a minute. She eventually sat back on her feet in defeat.


“I can’t read this” she stated aloud to herself.


“That makes no sense” Punch said next to her


“I know two unknown languages in….


Not that Princess how is it one can come from the depths but still be in shadow?”

He asked quizzically.


“You can’t but wait” she stated almost going into a scientific explanation. “You can

read it?”


“Yes” he said looking at her. He caught the look of disbelief on her face and started

to explain. “It’s a simple trick of displacement. In the old days before the Rise of

Nightmare Moon the Changelings only sent out the Collector’s that had a distinct

disability that mishmashes the words they read.” He started


“Dyslexia?” Twilight asked in his minor pause.


“Yes we later stopped when you all figured out something was amiss with a large

group of people flowing in with this ability and pulled them out before they were

caught. We still have it but it’s a lost point and we can look past it.” He finished

explaining to her.


Twilight leaned forward again and asked, “Okay then what does this say? Exactly?”


Punch stared at it a second and the answered her in a clear voice.

“RISE FROM THE DEPTHS TO THE SHADOWS.” The effect was almost immediate as

the floor shook and started to rise. They quickly retreated as the object under the

floor rose up. They stopped outside the circles huddled close to each other as the

floor stopped shaking. They looked back as a small thud rang around the chamber.

The center of the chamber now resembled a four tier raised Dias with the top about

twenty feet above them. Sitting on the top was and accurately carved Lotus Flower.

They stood there and just stared at it waiting for something to happen. Finally

Twilight decided to break the stillness.


“Well I guess now we know why it said from the depths into the shadows, could you

imagine this place without my brilliant shine?” she quibed. It brought a few chuckles

to them both. A good lesson Rainbow had taught her to break a tense moment

i.e. this chamber, a first date, or telling her parents she was dating her. A Good or

bad joke never goes amiss. She wriggled out of Punches grip and climbed up to the

flower marveling at its texture and workmanship. She wondered if it was all one

piece or several that just fitted together.


“Your Highness I must insist you come down from there immediately it’s not safe.”


Oh Punch its fine just look at” She said as she ran her finger along the top of one of

the closed petals before exclaiming and falling back. Punch quick to move caught

her and carried her down. She looked at her Index finger and saw a small cut. Punch

quickly pulled a small strip of spare linen and wrapped it. She slapped his shoulder

after he was done back on the main floor.


“You distracted me” she stated. He simply rolled his eyes and looked back at the

Flower. He really wished he had just dragged her out of this place back to the

palace. Banishment would have been peaceful, depending on how the moon was in

the winter. The flower suddenly pulsed. He could just make out with his heightened

sight a thin trail of red slowly fall into the bottom and disappear into the center of

the Flower. It pulsed again this time a Ruby Red color. The ground light up with a

red light and stretched outwards along the lines Punch had seen earlier. The lines

were quickly engulfed in the light. He grabbed Twilight and picked her up before

running as fast as he could out of the room. He never made it for as he got halfway

the lines suddenly pulse a dark green and shoot up into the area before striking back

down. The Room went dark for a second before the Flower lite the room back up.

HE was still running he was close to the archway. Maybe 50 feet to go.


SCARPE


He froze as he heard the sound of rock sliding on rock and looked back as the

flower’s pedal slowly spun against each other a circuit or two before opening. In

the center stood a being on a Black Crystal Throne. His head was resting on his

propped up fist. HE was looking in their direction. Its Mouth opened probably to

proclaim some final command to kill them in a second. HE turned from the Man and

Crouched with his princess in his arms to shield her. He listened to hear what he was

sure would be the last sound before he died.


SNORE.

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