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// Just Girls Never Running Out of Pages 
// Story: Just Girls Talking 
// by MythrilMoth 
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Sunset Shimmer stared morosely at the magic journal, her only link back to Equestria. Not only did it serve as the means to bypass the thirty-moons limitation on the portal, it served as her main link to her friend and mentor, Princess Twilight Sparkle.

And there were only four blank pages left.

The portal still worked, but what about when those last pages were used up? Would that be it? Would they be limited to only being able to see each other, talk to each other, every thirty moons?

Whenever Sunset thought about that, a feeling of helpless sadness and despair overcame her.

She desperately wanted to write to Twilight, but to waste one of those precious few pages...

"Hey Sunset."

Sunset blinked and looked up from the journal.

The Princess herself, Twilight Sparkle, stood in front of her, smiling and holding a stack of books bound with thick twine. A trolley stood next to her, heaped with similar leather-bound books.

"Twilight? What—?"

Twilight set the stack of books she held down on the table next to Sunset with a heavy thump and cut the twine with a pair of scissors. "I noticed we were running low on pages in the journal a while back, so I decided to talk to Princess Celestia about making a new one. Then I got to thinking about how much people like to text over here, and how I don't really have a way of talking to my Canterlot High friends other than you, and how it'd be easier if we just had a whole lot of journals, so..." She took the top book off the stack and set it in front of Sunset. The cover had Sunset's Cutie Mark paired with Twilight's, and in the corner, stamped in gold leaf: Vol. II.

Sunset looked at the top of the stack, and saw a similar cover, stamped Vol. III.

There were four more books underneath it.

"This is your stack," Twilight said. "Your set and mine go up to Volume Four, then there's three that you can use to write to Princess Celestia. Then I've got one each for the other girls—well, two for Pinkie because you know Pinkie, and two for the other Twilight because if she's anything like me she'll fill up half the book in a week." Twilight giggled. "There's also an emergency book that isn't really for anybody to use, I'm leaving it in Principal Celestia's office. Its twin is the one I'll be using to power the portal from now on, that way we don't risk losing the connection. Of course, if there's an emergency and you can't get to any of the other books, use that one. After all, that's why it's an emergency book..."

Sunset's head began to swim. "What...how..." She shook her head. "Twilight, how did you—how did you manage to duplicate the journal so many times?"

"Well, it's not that hard a spell, really," Twilight said. "Once Celestia taught it to me and Starlight Glimmer, Starlight was able to make three pairs of connected journals without even breaking a sweat. She's even testing enhancing the spell to create self-renewing books that never run out of pages!" Twilight clapped happily. "Isn't that exciting?"

Sunset stared at her. "Uhh...yeah," she said. "Exciting..."

Twilight frowned. "You don't...sound excited."

Sunset smiled and shook her head. "Bewildered is more like it," she said. "Here I was worried we were about to run out of pages and I might not be able to talk to you again for a really long time, and wondering whether I should write to you or save those last pages for something really important, and here you just show up with...with all this..." She gestured vaguely.

Twilight smiled. "Oh, Sunset," she said. "Did you forget that an alicorn enchanted that book in the first place? And that you've got three alicorns and a ridiculously overpowered unicorn on the other side of that portal? We'll never run out of pages."

Sunset looked up at Twilight and smiled brightly. "Yeah," she said. "Yeah..." She stood up and hugged Twilight. "Friends never run out of pages."