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// Bestiary 
// Story: Thirty Minute Ponies 
// by Arcainum 
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Prompt #146: Tell me a story about a mythical creature that lives in Equestria. Preferably something that hasn’t been seen in the show yet.


“Now come, my foals, and sit with me,

just here beneath the moon,

For you are older than you were, you see,

and even older soon.

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There comes a time, a certain age,

when we learn of things we shouldn’t,

Things once trapped upon the page,

‘til those that guarded couldn’t.

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You see, Equestria has dangers too,

and both of you must know it,

‘Else not just I, but you and you,

will have the scars to show it.

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So listen close and fold your wings,

please listen close and well,

I will tell you of the nameless things,

that in the elsewhere dwell.

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The Hissing Thing, it preys at night,

when moon is bright it walks,

But only in your waking sight,

outside of sleep it stalks.

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The Beast of Many Eyes is blind,

a sad old thing, it’s true,

But leave the Sun’s domain behind,

it learns to see through you.

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The Markless Ones, beyond our walls,

they swarm and breed unchecked,

They crawl within their seeping halls,

in stolen destiny bedecked.

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But though these things be fearful wrong,

all creatures weird and vile,

The last is worst, its evil strong,

and watching all the while.

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I speak, of course, of That Which Sings,

no more than maw and hate,

Its whispers of the sweetest things,

its clacking jaws a gate.

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The reason you must fear, my dears,

is not the poisonous bite,

But what it takes, the space it clears,

its violence wrought in spite.

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For That Which Sings is not a beast,

nor a Dark One from above,

It is a need, the need to feast,

and it was born of love.

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So guard yourselves and guard your hearts,

and never doubt or lie.

For if we do not do our parts,

our race will surely die.”