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// Epilogue: A Lesson in Geology 
// Story: The Ten Million Year Hello 
// by Bandy 
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Ten million years passed. 

A new mountain range emerged north of Andesia, beginning around the tip of the southern plains and extending all the way north into Equestria, cleanly bisecting the San Palomino desert in the west from the Applosian hills in the east. As time went on, it extended further still, brushing up against the greater Ghastly Valley and the Everfree Forest on a relentless northbound path. 

Around the same time, a second new range emerged, this one beginning in the Unicorn Hills northwest of old Canterlot Mountain. This one cut a path south through the White Tail Woods. 

Year by year, the two ranges drew ever closer, by inches and by yards, nudged this way and that by volcanoes and the natural geological forces of the earth but never straying from their paths, until in a fantastic ten thousand year-long collison, the two ranges met in the plains where the city of Ponyville once sat, intertwining to become the longest continuous mountain range in the world.