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// Journey Through the Dark - Part 33 
// Story: Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot 
// by Equimorto 
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Twilight quietly swayed back and forth on her legs, waiting for the door to open. Getting back to the laboratory had been easy enough, but getting away from it would be much harder, she knew that.
With a soft click, the lock came undone, and Sunlight greeted her from inside and motioned her to enter. Or, at least, greeted the general area where she assumed Twilight would be, as Twilight hadn't actually dropped her disguise yet. She did once she actually stepped into the laboratory, though. "Everything ready?" she asked.
Sunlight closed the door again, then looked between Starburst and herself. "I think so, yeah. Right?"
The stallion looked at her, then had a slow, deliberate look around. "I think so too, yes." He sighed, and he seemed to slump down. "Sorry, it's just... It's a lot."
"Didn't think we were ever going to leave this place alive," said Sunlight. "But somehow it still hurts, some way. So much time spent here, I guess we grew fond of it."
"The beds were pretty nice," Starburst noted. "And... I don't like it, I know you don't either, but this is still my life's work. It still feels odd to leave it all behind, even if I hated it. Everything about this is still so sudden and weird and I'm not sure if I'm ready." He stood up and donned a pair of saddlebags stuffed to the point of almost bursting, and yet by the look he gave to the tables around it was clear he was carrying far less than what he would have wanted to.
"I don't think there ever could have been a way to be prepared for this. I don't think it's ever possible to be prepared for a change this massive in your life." Sunlight donned her own pair of saddlebags. They were just as full as the stallion's, though notably the shapes of a few large books could be seen poking with their corners against their rounded edges.
"But you'll still have each other," Twilight said. "That's what matters, no? What made being here something you could withstand, maybe even what made you appreciate the time you spent here in a way. You were with someone you wanted to be with."
The two unicorns looked at each other, and after a moment each gave a subtle smile. "I suppose you're right," Starburst said turning back to Twilight, while Sunlight simply nodded.
"I guess that's that, then," said Sunlight. "Will you lead the way? Where are we leaving through?"
"There's a passage that leads directly into a courtyard, up a set of stairs in the corridor past the... Past the other room," Twilight explained. "We'll fly out from there." Just as the two began to stare at her wings, about to speak, she briefly lifted them both in her telekinesis and silenced any objections. "But before that, something else." Her horn began to glow again, her magic aura enveloping the two unicorns once more. "Camouflage spells," she explained. "We can't have you two running around while you can be easily spotted."