Have another snippet of chapter one · 3:47am Aug 15th, 2014
Considering school and my greatly reduced free time, I'm releasing another snippet of chapter one for you guys.
The Golden Oaks Library for all appearances seemed calm and quiet in the dusk, the windows emitting a faint yellow glow outward. The only indication of something being amiss was how the glass of the windows were frosted over on the interior in spite of the warm night blanketing Ponyville.
In stark contrast to the calmness of the public main floor of the library, the basement was a whirlwind of activity as clipboards, sheets of data, and various scientific instruments tore through the air at velocities that could almost effortlessly break bone, all held aloft in the telekinetic grip of one Twilight Sparkle as she worked tirelessly to pinpoint the origin of a recent Thaumatic Cascade Discharge that had rippled outward from within the Everfree Forest.
In another time and place she might have become an alicorn in the event that had transformed her a year prior, but the gate to that path was now forever sealed as she now tread a different path, "Spike, Please go and retrieve the book on Thaumatic Triangulation from the theoretical thaumatic science section please!"
"Just a second!" Spike yelped as he made his way, bobbing and weaving, through the maelstrom of flying material toward the stairway.
As he scrambled up the steps he was keenly aware of several objects wizzing past him and would duck as necessary. After what felt like a small eternity for him, Spike managed to reach the top landing and sprinted for the door and flung it open.
Back in the basement Twilight flitted between the different displays and recording devices, rechecking the information on her datasheets for the ninth time in the past two hours,
"No, no, no... A Cascade Discharge of that magnitude should have coincided with a detonation that almost certainly would have been seen across Equestria, followed by a concussion wave that should have leveled a good portion of the Everfree and shattered windows in towns hundreds of miles beyond Ponyville!" she mumbled to herself as the temperature in the basement dropped further with her increasing frustration.
"Hm, possible that detonation and concussive blast were contained, but that would imply that it was planned and facilitated," Twilight was seething now, her eyes and mane aglow with swirls of ghostly blue and crimson, "but if it was facilitated, then it would have been facilitated by the Institute of Arcane Science, and I would have been informed before hoof! IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!"
With her outburst the tornado of clipboards and scientific instruments slammed to a halt in an almost comical fashion.
There is your little snippet, you may now carry on if you so please.
