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// Out of The Flood 
// Story: Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot 
// by Equimorto 
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"Did you see that?!" Scarlet Ribbon asked in alarmed tones, vaguely pointing a hoof towards the corner of the street. "There was a pony there! And then she just wasn't!"
"No, Scarlet. I did not see a pony there." Silver Lace kept trotting at her friend's side, an unamused expression on her face as she stared in the direction the other mare was pointing towards. "Are you sure you aren't seeing things?"
"I'm not!" Scarlet answered back, turning towards Silver. "I swear, she was right there. A grey pegasus with a blonde mane. And then she just went poof -" She stopped, and made a vague gesture with her front hooves "- and suddenly she wasn't there anymore."
Silver stopped and turned to her friend. "Are you sure you haven't just caught the crazy too?"
"Don't call it just 'the crazy', Silver, that's so unscientific," Scarlet half-whined. "It's a real condition and we just don't have a name for it yet. Probably. I need to study it more." She bit her lip and looked to the side.
Silver knowingly raised an eyebrow at her. "Gonna be hard to do that if you keep avoiding him, right?"
"Yeah." Scarlet gave a nod. Then, after a moment, her expression cleared and she went back to looking at the other mare. "But anyway, there's probably no way I caught it, he seems to have gotten it from eating that thing he found and either way a condition like that is probably not contagious and, well, actually, I don't really have any idea if it's contagious or not and it could be and he did come to my house last week and oh no Silver what if it's contagious and he's going to spread it all through the town and what if I already have it what do I do!" She ended the sentence just barely not screaming, and almost shaking the other mare as she held her shoulders.
Silver pushed her away with a hoof and walked back. "Well first off don't come this close to me if it is contagious, what if I catch it too? And don't ask me what you're supposed to do! You're the doctor here."
"I'm not a real doctor yet!" Scarlet clutched her head in her hooves. "What do I do what do I do what do I do what do I-"
A grey pegasus with a blonde mane ran between them, and disappeared in the middle of the road.
The two mares looked at each other in silence.
"You infected me!" Silver screeched, drawing back.
"See? I wasn't crazy!" Scarlet said, at exactly the same time. 
They looked at each other a moment longer, as each heard and processed what the other had said. Then they laughed. 
"Alright then. Disappearing pegasus mare. Why not?" Silver said as the two of them got back to walking down the road.
"Did you hear about the tentacle monster?"
"I did hear about the tentacle monster," replied Silver in her most melodramatic tone.
"Thankfully the guards took care of that."
"Yeah. Wanna come to my place for tea, later?"
"Sure."