It's Ready · 4:03am Nov 8th, 2017
Here it is! It's finally almost time to kick this thing off. I'll be publishing chapter 1 on Wednesday (that's one week from tomorrow, just so we're clear
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Continue after the page break for an excerpt from the chapter. Hope to see you all in a week!
Twilight only needed a brief moment for her eyes to adjust as she passed from the dimly lit library to the darkened basement, and then she leaped from the landing without hesitation. She landed easily next to a long table that still held several chemistry sets, many of which still contained colored liquids in stoppered tubes. Against the opposite wall stood another table with a row of framed pictures, and in the far corner was a lone stool.
She lifted the closest picture and blinked.
It was a picture of her with five ponies gathered closely around, all of them—including herself—were smiling strangely. Their expressions confused her; why were their eyes so bright and their smiles so large? What could have happened to cause them to look like that? She frowned as her hoof rose to her smooth forehead. She hadn't known that she had once been a unicorn. The knowledge didn't bother her any, but trying to imagine herself with a horn was bizarre.
Her frown deepened as she studied the picture closer. She recognized Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie, but there were two others that she had never seen before; a yellow pony with a pink mane, and an orange pony with a hat. She wondered who they were, and why Mistress hadn’t turned them as well. Could they be among the skeletons that littered the streets?
In the next picture she was standing with her wings spread, the other five all pressing close and smiling at her. Twilight glanced back at the first picture and confirmed that she was wingless, then smirked. Even when she had been nothing more than a pathetic mortal, she had managed to ascend. Gazing at the others and the way they were looking at her, she wondered if they had once served her. Her eyes paused on her cutie mark, and she stared at the stars for a long moment, pondering what they could mean.
Finally, she shrugged and put the picture down. She didn't care what it represented, that was part of her past life. Still, as she stepped toward the next picture that lay face down in the dust, she couldn't help but steal a quick glance at her now blank flank.
As she lifted the picture and turned it over, Twilight gasped and dropped it. The frame struck the edge of the table and clattered to the floor, landing face up. She stumbled backward, tripping over an overturned chair and falling hard onto her rump, causing a thick cloud of dust to plume up around her.
Blinking the dust from her eyes and fanning her hooves as she coughed, Twilight stood and hesitantly gazed at the picture.
I looks totally awesome. I can't wait to read it.
Oh my, this one has been long in the making. Can’t wait to see its release.
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Yeah, it has. I just looked up the first blog I made about this story and it was almost exactly three years ago! I didn't even realize it was that long.
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I still remember us talking about it too! It really has been years ago. Still, glad to see it finally changed me about.
Looking forward to this!