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// The Studying 
// Story: Twilight's Curiosity: War 
// by Mr Anomalous 
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The Studying


Twilight Sparkle was up late, almost as late as the first night she spent in Ponyville, but, this time, it wasn't pounding music and voices coming from the entrance, it was her own studying and her strive for knowlege.
She was searching for the history of Equestria, and not just the little but that she learned in magic kindergarten, but she wanted to search deeper. Her knowledge only went as far back as the founding of Equestria, but she wanted to know about before then, before the land was named Equestria, and how exactly the ponies had treated one another. Somehow "distrust" just didn't cut it.
She was on her twenty-second book on history before she finally found something. She was flipping through and she had found a very short, very small chapter on pre-history of Equestria.
In this chapter, there was a word, one that she hadn't read or hear for years. War. She knew what war was, in the sense of a conflict, but that was about it. She debated with herself whether or not to bring the issue up with somepony, somepony who may or may not be able to help her...
All of her best friends passed through her thoughts, but she disbanded the thoughts immediately, and the same happened with everyone in Ponyville.
She needed to leave town.
She immediately blew out her candle and hopped in bed, the book cradled in her hooves close to her, but, of course, a mixture of nervousness and excitedness kept her awake for the rest of the night.