‘I don’t wanna remember… do I? I mean with those bullets I took to the head before I became whatever I am would make losing memories easier if I didn’t go looking for them.’ Taylor thinks
Cadence just looks at Taylor sadly
‘Can she read minds? No that’s not possible even Lisa couldn’t read minds, she was just really good at reading people.’ Taylor thinks
“So my Aunt?” Taylor asks unsure of herself.
“If your comfortable with it.” Cadence tells the dull silver filly.
“I’m being read like an open book aren’t I?” Taylor asks looking up at the bright pink Alicorn.
“Taylor, what makes you think that?” Cadence asks
“I had a friend once, she could catch so much information in a single glance. Breathing patterns, any subtle twitching, along with their tone of voice… She could deduce so much with such little information. She was unstoppable when it came to arguments and negotiations.” Taylor says with a slight smile.
“She sounds like a great pony. Even more skilled than me… which is impressive since I cheat.” Cadence says
“There is no such thing as cheating aunt Cadence. You are just using your resources… It took me a while to learn that lesson.” Taylor says
“Oh? And what is your friends name?” Cadence asks
Taylor pauses for a minute.
‘C can I just say Lisa? I mean all the ponies have weird names.. wait I can use our cape names!’
“Her name was Tattletale, and she was a great friend.” Taylor says with a smile remembering the blonde.
Cadence meanwhile paused, the amount of time Taylor took to think about that meant she made something up. Yet her abilities tell her it is all truthful.
“Do you wanna talk more about her?” Cadence asks
“I don’t think… I miss them all however I’m here now.” Taylor says
Cadence is starting to get a headache, Taylor is obviously in pain yet she seems to not be?
“Say Taylor? Before you came to Equestria as it is today were you hurt in anyway?” Cadence asks
Taylor flinches before looking away avoiding eye contact. Afterall who would mention that they purposely had the limiter removed on their power. The first thing she lost was the ability to speak and communicate with others. She rapidly lost her sanity next. Her power had a pre-programmed drive to cause conflict. The loss of the limiters on Taylor's power caused this the conflict drive of her power to excessively bleed into her personality. She lost the ability to understand basic human emotional cues and bodily language, ultimately interpreting nearly any and all forms of human interaction as fighting or conflict. She was never truthfully a hero, a weird chain of events lead her down a road of villainy and moral compromises all culminating in being the savior of the human race.
“No I’m perfectly fine.”
“Hmm, I meant physically…” Cadence says very slowly brushing her mane trying to calm the filly knowing that hit a very sever nerve.
Taylor just stares emotionlessly at the Pink Alicorn for a moment. At some point she had started crying.
Cadence at this point is freaking out internally as her powers were reading nothing from the filly in front of her like she had no love the thousands of lines from before had disappeared.
“I was missing my left forehoof and I had taken two cross bow bolts to the back of the head.” Taylor says
“Taylor, I want you to think about twilight for me, think about Spike. Also think about your other friends.” Cadence says hugging Taylor close
Taylor at some point has fallen asleep.
“Luna is gonna have her work cut out for her tonight…” Cadence says hugging the sleeping filly tighter before setting Taylor on her back to take her to bed.
“Hey Cadence Shining had to make an emergency visit to Celestia.” Twilight says
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Earlier with Twilight and Shining armor.
“So, what did you wanna show me twilly?” Shining Armor asks
“Taylor keeps books from her time in a subspace… to be honest it is some amazing and complex storage magic.” Twilight says
“Twilly focus please.” Shining says
“Right well here.” Twilight says handing shining a stack of books. With the art of war being at the top.
Shining starts to over look the books skimming them.
“If these are what they seem. Then we need to get them into circulation among the highest in our military.” Shining says
“I wanna agree however…” Twilight says handing him one last book.
Shining looks it over as he slowly starts to pale.
“We don’t have any thing to stop spies. Do we even have anti scrying spells? This is gonna change the world. It calls it information warfare. Twilight has Celestia seen this book?” Shining asks
“I want to send it however I don’t know if I can trust our mail system after reading that book. I think Taylor’s paranoia is rubbing off on me.” Twilight says with a slight giggle.
“I’ll make a quick run to the capital. If we had these books earlier we probably would’ve even been able to stop the Changelings.” Shining says in amazement.
“Ah right speaking of changelings. When Celestia stopped by earlier this week Taylor promised to write this up for her. To be honest it’s revolutionary especially since it will allow us to find out is someone is under mind control or a shape shifter.” Twilight says climbing onto a book shelf to reach into a hidden spot on the top of it.
“Magic Twilly.” Shining says teasingly.
“The compartment is magic resistant and so it can’t just be found the enchantment is hidden in a durability enchantment for the entire shelf.” Twilight says handing Shining a book on master stranger protocol from the PRT.
The two look out of the window watching the sunset.
“I guess I’ll be back tomorrow morning.” Shining says
“Thanks for doing this BBBFF.” Twilight says smiling