This story is a sequel to A Twist in Evolution

Submersive Exploration and her friends have been searching everywhere for the pale brown man. Fortunately, it's winter vacation, and they can travel. They come across the next alternate evolutionary pathway that humans have taken far from their home, in the depths of Antarctica.

Twilight has been chosen as this year's addition to queen Nightmare Moon's mysterious cadre of personal students. She gets to live in a castle, receive lessons from their sovereign, yet her parents remain sad for some reason.

Twilight doesn't understand why they aren't happy for her.

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