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// Twilight's Discovery 
// Story: The Secret Of The Stare 
// by S0ngb1rd 
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	"Hey Fluttershy! Twilight wants you!" Shouted Rainbow Dash as she sped past Fluttershy.  
"Oh, ok," replied Fluttershy. She wondered what it was for. 

Since becoming a princess, Twilight had been in her library more, reading more books about talents of ponies. Fluttershy remembered he  saying that 'If my ending to that spell about  ponies' destinies made me a princess, my own destiny must have something to do with that.'

Fluttershy didn't know why Twilight wanted her, she  already knew why and how she talked to animals. She headed over to Twilight's tree house, pondering about why Twilight wanted her. Had she seen Rarity, Applejack or Pinkie? She must have seen Rainbow Dash, because she was the one who told her about Twilight. Or maybe she hadn't seen Twilight. It could have just been a message. Fluttershy knew how fast Rainbow Dash was, everypony knew. Still thinking, Fluttershy rounded the corner to Twilight's house. 

Fluttershy knocked on the door. "Hello?" She asked in her usual timid voice. "You wanted to see me Twilight?" 
"Ah, yes! Hello Fluttershy! Come on in, I'm really excited about what I have found out about your talent," Twilight answered as a pink aura surrounded the door and opened it. "Spike's having a nap. Goodness knows how much he's been helping me, letters have been coming in from everywhere!"
"Oh, ok," Fluttershy came into Twilight's house, taking in the extra shelves that were once empty but had recently been filled. "You wanted to see me about my talent, right? But I know I can communicate with animals, I've known that ever since I got my cutie mark."
"Well, it's not exactly that talent. I was more talking about your  unique stare." Twilight flipped through the pages  of a book with a swirly pattern on it. Fluttershy didn't take any notice. She was too busy worrying about what Twilight would ask her to do. Didn't Twilight know that she had little power over her stare?
"So, I was reading this book Princess Celestia gave me about some unusual talents. It seems that some ponies actually have two talents, and if they figured out the other one first, their whole life would be different!" Fluttershy looked sceptical, if not scared at what Twilight had said. What would have happened is staring had been her cutie mark? What would it have looked like?
"So," Fluttershy hesitantly asked, "if I had discovered my strange ability to stare at ponies, I would have a different cutie mark?"
"Well, it's not exactly a stare, I mean it's not just a stare." Twilight looked slightly hesitant. "I mean to say, that, well, your stare is actually, when you gain control over it, a means to gain control over ponies."
"What do you mean?" Fluttershy was quite scared at the fact that she could 'gain control over ponies'. 
"Well, you know Chrysalis' power to brainwash ponies?" Fluttershy remembered  well. She was closely  involved in the events of the royal wedding, and felt ashamed that she didn't believe Twilight's claims about the Changeling Queen Chrysalis. "You don't think that I can do that, right? I mean, I don't even have a horn," Fluttershy worriedly asked.
"No, no! Not like that at all! Your talent is... different. It can help ponies."
"But why haven't I known about this?" Fluttershy asked. 
"Because this talent is quite rare in ponies, especially Pegasi. No racism intended, but Pegasi usually have talents based around weather." Twilight answered patiently. "You are different, as I said. You have a sort of... soft persuasion about you. I only noticed after I had read about this. Don't you wonder about how everypony likes you, even if they haven't met you?" 
"Well, yes, actually. Sometimes I wonder if it has something to do with my stare... But it can't," She decisively said. "That's impossible."
"Ah, but it is possible, Fluttershy! Especially in your case, because when used properly, your stare can, well, it can hypnotise ponies."