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// You Have Nothing to Fear... 
// Story: Rainbow Dash's Awesome Nightmare Night Haunted House Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Adventure 
// by TheDriderPony 
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Just as you start to reply, he interrupts you.

"Wait a moment." He squints, making his eyes look for once normal sized behind his glasses. "Are you... wearing fake rabbit ears?"

The question is so random, so completely out of left field that you don't know how to respond at first. The obvious answer is of course 'no', but if it were that obvious why would he have asked?

You probably just misheard him. "Come again?"

"Rabbit. Ears." He repeats himself, pointing this time at somewhere just above your head.

This has to be a joke. It's too ridiculous. You lift your hoof, just to humor him, but there's no way or reason you'd possibly be wearing...

Something brushes your hoof. Soft, but synthetic, with a rigid wire inside.

You grab a framed picture of your cats from your desk and tilt the glass until it shows your reflection. Sure enough, there on the top of your head, nestled between your own, are a pair of fluffy bunny ears.

There's no clear strap or way they're attached, but they still look fake. Almost like some kind of foal's... Nightmare Night... costume.

Why does that thought strike such an odd chord with you? A strange almost-nostalgia, like a memory you can't quite grasp. An uneasiness rises in the back of your thoughts, lingering on your awareness like a felt-but-unseen observer.

"...ash. Miss Dash!"

You break from your uncanny thoughts as you realize he's been calling your name for a while  now. "Sorry, could you repeat that?"

There's a glare in his eyes that wasn't there a minute ago. You must have been distracted longer than you thought, and in front of the one manager whose pet peeve is being ignored. "I said," he practically snarls. "Take those ridiculous things off! They're a total violation of the dress code!"

You instinctively reach up to obey when when—

—you hesitate. You hoof stayed by some peculiar sense of wrongness.