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// The Present That Keeps Giving (updated) 
// Story: Steel and Ichor 
// by Gallants 
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I danced with my Mistress throughout the night something I didn't know how to do but she seemed happy to teach me. I hurt her, a lot.

I quickly noticed my new set of armor in the corner I went and transferred my essence to it, then my Mistress spoke. "Morning Myth how was your night," Something in the back of my head told me to embrace her

"I rested just fine Mistress, how was your night," She smiled and quickly walked over to me and started polishing my armor, I felt strange.

“Myth, how are you glowing?” Looking down I noticed that my new body was glowing, that was the source of the new feeling. We promptly went to the university, where they discovered that it is possible for me to cast spells by discharging magic bleed off which happens to be controlled by my emotions, you would think my maker would have put this information in my matrix. What else don't I know about myself?

After our time at the university, I protected my Mistress during day court it was the same as usual except for one small incident, which was more I opened my mouth when I shouldn't have. Some pony with the name of Marx something came in and started spouting about how unfair our economic system was and how we need to use this new system he made which was mostly pushing for some sort of economic equality giving all control of personal finance in essence to the government and jobs that nopony would want to do like waste management would be irrelevant somehow; I told him his ideas might work at the beginning but wouldn't last. He lashed out at that rushing my Mistress I was quick to knock him down and place the tip of my Halberd to his throat.

My Mistress didn't seem happy with the colorful vocabulary I used while addressing him and his asinine ideas, her displeasure was made quite clear while we waited for the next partitioner. "Myth, if your spell didn't force you to protect me," She growled at me and did nothing to hide her scowl even when other ponies came in, it made me feel worse than her previous scowls I don't know why. The final petitioner was a pony requesting lower tax rates for restaurants; my Mistress told the stallion that she would think about it; he left without incident. 

The rest of the day was uneventful, the night, however, was very eventful. There was a crash inside the castle gardens guards were quick to respond to protect my Mistress side she told me to go and support the ponies that responded to the crash; I deemed it safe to leave her side. What I saw was something the ponies called the strangest thing they ever saw, I had to agree with them.

It was circular with four thick stilts on its side and something on the top of the body that was thick and thin with indents on the side that glowed pink shortly. Luna was interested that a country would have enough gall to attack the capital, I told her that whatever landed was not an attack.

Princess Luna has been excited for the past few days about that thing that crashed in the gardens she said it came from her stars, at least she isn't apologizing to me anymore. Every time my Mistress and I run into her she talks about it how it doesn't seem to understand her and is sparking every now and then. "Myth will you try talking to it? Your telepathy might let the creature tell us it's name," Luna was adamant about making contact with this creature I thought we should kill it we don’t know what it is; it probably wants to lull us into a false sense of security.

“If you wish me too I will ask my Mistress if I should,” I told her and I went into the throne room to ask my Mistress. I found myself in a private section of the castle the creature was being hung by chains it was taller than my Mistress, I hesitantly went in and started to prod its brain except there wasn’t one, but it still made a noise at me it was intelligent but had nothing to give it intelligence, even I have a brain that can be prodded, but this has nothing. I stepped out and told my Mistress that there is nothing for me to talk to, she nodded and we left.