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// FredMSloniker's Mood Pie (The Hat Man's "Normal") 
// Story: Never the Final Word (Vol. 2) 
// by FanOfMostEverything 
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"Okay, Maud," Pinkie Pie said a few days after the party, "so the potion wasn't the best of ideas, but my new idea is going to knock your socks off! So go get some socks and put them on, so it can knock them off!"

Maud Pie tilted her head the tiniest of fractions. "What is it?" she said, looking at the small object Pinkie was holding. It was a small yellow disc with three black marks on it: two dots on one half, and a straight line on the other. It looked a little like musical notation.

"It's an emotion badge!" Pinkie said, holding it up with the dots on the top half. "I just stick this to you—" She pressed it against Maud's chest, and it clung as if taped in place. "—and anypony who looks at it can see how you feel!"

Maud slowly blinked. Out of her field of view, the horizontal line curved downward and tilted to one side. "I don't get it."