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// Apr. 2015 - Wonder, Yonder, Wander 
// Story: RoMS' Extravaganza 
// by RoMS 
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Time had clawed part of the light blue paint off the walls of the tunnel. Below the still glued flakes, bleached orange and yellow shades transpired. Water pipes cast in the bare concrete ceiling had broken at some point and a steady stream of sludgy water came crashing down through a crack. Old and decrepit, the underground alleyway stank of stagnant water, moss, and rotting murk. Nothing lay alive there and only three small shapes traveled across the shadows.

“We should have taken to the right,” a colt’s voice broke open. “Now we’re lost!”

“I don’t feel great. Can we just… go back?” another sheepish voice added.

“Come, guys. Relax,” a slightly older filly mused back. “Ain’t no ghost here. It’s just the old castle’s caves.”

The second colt stopped dead on the concrete embankment they had walked on for an hour. Looking down on his left, he saw the filly’s lit up horn reflection in the rusting and disaffected railway. He gulped and stopped, ready to turn around and run back to the outside.

“Tut, tut,” the filly countered as she stepped behind the colt and nudged him forward with her muzzle. “You’ll see. T‘will be fun. Big sis’ gotta show her brothers some fun tricks.”

“Why did you bring us here, Sonder?” the first colt hissed. “Codex and I… We didn’t want to come.”

The second colt, Codex was his name, nodded hastily, throwing a look right and left as they reached a crosswalk. In the distance, a slow trickle of water hit a pond intermittently. 

“Hush, Wonder."