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// ThrTrn 
// Story: Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot 
// by Equimorto 
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"Twilight!"
"I should have expected you'd be here," Twilight said, looking around the room. "Well, we can just walk to the castle."
Once she was done hugging the alicorn, Starlight stepped back. "What happened?" she asked. "And why didn't you set up a long distance communication spell before going?"
"A huge oversight on my part, yes," Twilight said, already heading for the exit and conjuring a sound nullifying bubble to surround herself and the others. "I was trying not to worry you, but in hindsight I should have let you know a bit more. I didn't think things would go like this."
"Did she get taller?" Trixie asked, trotting behind Twilight out of the room. Starshine shrugged in response, while everyone else just ignored her.
"Won't you tell me what happened?" Starlight asked again, following the others. "I still don't know why you left in the first place."
"Sunburst can fill you in for now, any other questions I'll be able to answer later. I need to send a letter to my brother." Twilight's steps grew a little faster.
Sunburst, trotting beside Starlight, bit his lower lip as the mare's attention focused on him. "There's apparently someone on top of the Behemoth. Was. Driving it around like an elephant, from my understanding."
"He's good at whistling," Starshine added, unprompted.
Starlight blankly stared at Sunburst, as her body kept walking on by itself like she was a spring-loaded toy. But when the charge ran out, rather than stopping, she exploded in a shocked expression. "What?" she yelled. "That's just... What?"
"Firecracker ran into him first," Twilight said from the head of the group. "He turned out to be as knowledgeable about the situation as you'd expect someone who apparently exists for the purpose of directing the Behemoth around alone to be. We have a few things to discuss once this crisis is over."
"I..." Starlight's mouth hung open for a bit longer, until she closed it and began to process the information.
"You said was," Trixie pointed out. "What happened to him?"
"Going around Equestria," answered Starshine, with a tone filled with more cheer than anyone had any right to use when talking about the subject matter. "Anywhere he wants to and we've got no way to track him or stop him, seems he's tapping into the Weave too. Also he was strong enough to overpower Twilight's spells so there's that as well."
Trixie would have slowed her pace down enough to be left behind by the group if she hadn't been stuck in the middle of it. Instead she simply shrunk in on herself, wallowing in her perceived inadequacy and regretting ever asking the question.
"Oh." Starlight began to breathe noticeably faster and heavier than normal. "Oh good. Just another force that could wreck everything and we've got no way to stop. You know that keeping me in the dark so I don't have a breakdown thing well I'm starting to miss it Twi-"
"It's not that bad," Twilight said.
Starlight was silent for a moment. "How is it not that bad? How is it possibly in any conceivable way not that bad?" she growled out. "What the fuck did you do there?"