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// 23:30-00:00 "Illusions of Grandeur" 
// Story: Ponies All Day-Writing Challenge 
// by ThunderTempest 
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Cold Martini sat up against the bar in Barhaydos, soaking up the sun as she waited for the right moment to approach her target, a rather shapely mare, with a fantastic rainbow dye job who could get her close to the Crime boss that was interfering in the region. She had everything she needed to succeed. Her charming personality, check. Her good looks, check. And if she and the mare with the rainbow hair just so happened to go back to a hotel room together, well, all the better. She’d at least get some fun before heading back to Canterlot.

Cold Martini danced gracefully with the rainbow-maned mare, taking the lead, dipping her as the two used each other as a counter balance.

“I don’t think I got your name, sweetie.” Breathed the rainbow mare.

“It’s Cold Martini. But you may call me sweetie anytime,” purred the agent of the Equestrian Crown. Cold Martini sighed, and then spoke again.

“Stop, Twilight.” The scene dissolved before Rarity’s eyes, and she was back in the Ponyville Library. She wasn’t Cold Martini, and she wasn’t dancing with a rainbow maned mare.

“Did I do anything wrong, Rarity?” asked the alicorn.

“No, you did everything perfectly, far better than I could have done it on my own,” said Rarity, giving a little sigh.

“There’s a but in that, I know it.”

“Yes. But...I still knew it was a fantasy.”

“I’m sorry, Rarity, but I don’t think I can make it any more realistic without frying parts of your brain. And quite honestly, the only other thing that I can immediately think of that could do something like this is well into Dark Magic territory, and I am not touching that unless my life depends on it.”

“I understand, my dear. Still, it was a rather pleasant diversion, to be able to live out one’s fantasies for a few hours. But, I must be getting back to the boutique. Dresses to finish and all.”

“See you, Rarity.”