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// Eyes 
// Story: Autumn 
// by canonkiller 
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     "Do you think he's coming back?" Sunrise whispered.
Discord snapped out of his almost-trance, looking away from the window. "Hm?"
"Obsidian. Do you think he'll come b-back...?" He saw her eyes filling with tears and stepped forward, hugging her close.
"I know you miss him." He muttered, patting the back of her head. These moments were getting more and more... difficult, with her expanding girth. "But I don't want to give you false hope. He may never come back. But no matter what, he'll always be in here." He placed his claw on her chest, before smiling a devilish grin and moving down to her stomach. "And technically, in here."
"Oh, you always have ways to make me feel better." She laughed weakly.
"And if you want to get a little dirty about it," Discord stepped back, twirling his tail in one claw, "he's also in-"
"Ahem!" The dragonness squealed, folding her claws over her belly. "Young ears present!"
"Oh, I forgot." He drawled, leaning against the wall. "Speaking of which, felt any movement?"
"I thought these were awkward questions for guys." Sunrise observed.
"Look, hon, I am awkward. I am the awkward. It comes quite naturally. Now, the question?"
"Nothing." She took his place at the window, sighing. "Oh, Discord..."
He walked up beside her, draping a paw over her shoulders. With his other claw, he snapped a brilliant night sky into the ceiling of the dome, a few gemstones sparkling inside the navy rock. "You want to put any touches on it?"
"What the... you've never done that before."
"Been practicing. Now, go on."
She squinted, her forehead crest glowing white. Within seconds, the 'stars' had doubled, and a pale sphere of magic hovered a few meters away from the ceiling. Discord patted her shoulder in approval. 
"Luna would have been proud."

He had slipped.
For one brief second, Obsidian had thought about how much he wanted to be surrounded by real things.
The Shard existed for these moments. Quickly and painlessly, Obsidian was swept out of control, as the Shard worked his claws, focusing the vast amounts of magic left in the world.

"What's happening?!" Discord yelled as Sunrise tipped limply forward onto the window ledge. "Are you okay?!"

"So much life." It muttered, realizing it had focused on a single, potent source first. "Strange."

"Sunrise, speak to me!" Discord had her propped up against the wall, lifting her eyelids with his claw. "Respond!"
Her eyes rolled back into her head.

Obsidian kicked and fought against the barrier, the solid wall growing stronger as the Shard collected magic. With a frustrated growl, he yelled into the darkness, "Where are you getting this from?!"
Realization dawned as the wall started to turn a pale purple.

"Wake up!" Discord shouted, holding her close, completely powerless. "You're all I have left..."

"LET HER GO!" Obsidian screeched. He could see flashes through his own eyes, of the ground dipping and waving, mountains tearing out of the earth and dust flying into what used to be a brilliant blue sky. 
Things other than earth alone were now exploding around him, a strange set of hues replacing what used to be. The dirty-brown clouds became a mottled gauze blocking the sky. Something that resembled grass and miniature undergrowth spread in leaps and bounds, melting away from the bottom as it launched and creating hills haphazardly painted with blue and pink. Clouds seemed to puff from the 'grass' in evenly spaced tufts of orange, floating into the sky. One of the clouds shuddered, and a crash of thunder rolled across the new land; with it, a single navy bolt of lightning and a downpour of brown rain. Suddenly, Obsidian felt a tingling in his chest.
Oxygen. His lungs were working again.

Sunrise stopped panting. 
Discord held her at arm's length, shaking her, yelling, peeling back her eyelids... but there was nothing.


Slowly,

the

world

changed...

and

everything

went