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// Case 18 
// Story: The Strange Cases of Twilight Sparkle 
// by DrakoGlyph 
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	“Well,” Spike said, panting, “my quill almost lit on fire labeling all these things in the library.”
“Now’s not the time for jokes,” Twilight responded. “This labeling project has been a great distraction from the strange cases.” 
“Why did we have to label everything in the library?” Spike said, placing a sticky label on the statue on the table.
“Well… I… I don’t know,” Twilight admitted. “And that statue there, on the table… I hate it.”
“What do you mean, Twilight? It’s been there the whole two years you’ve lived here, and you’ve never once said that before!” Spike said as he smoothed out the wrinkles in the label.
“And that table… it’s so… so… ugly!” Twilight protested.
“Since when have you been so spiteful of the décor?” Spike asked, rubbing the label onto the table. “And since when do you need labels on everything anyway? Don’t you know what a table is? And a statue?”
“I… can’t really tell you why… it just kinda… came across my mind…”
Spike placed another label on the bookcase.
“I hate that bookcase…” Twilight said.
“Twilight, how can you ever say that? You love bookcases.”
“It’s too… bookcase-y,” Twilight responded.
“That’s not even a word,” Spike rebutted. “What’s going on with you?”
“I don’t know… it’s just that all these labels make everything so… so… hate-able.”
“That’s not a word either. Just settle down and I’ll take all the labels on everything?”
“No, no,” Twilight said.  “Oh, I hate that bed too,” she mentioned, pointing upstairs, “and the door, and—“
“Stop there, Twilight, I think this has to do with these Strange Cases you’ve been studying,” Spike pointed out.
“Right, take them down, and I’ll write the princess.”

Case 18:

Today I had the strange urge to label everything, and once everything was labeled, I started feeling hatred toward them. I’m having Spike remove all the labels. And I think I need to get a more consistent door. I’ve been noticing lately that it doesn’t always open the same way twice…

Your most faithful student,

Princess Twilight Sparkle

Discord rolled over laughing as he got the letter. “Everything that can be labeled can be hated… then again, I can be labeled, so perhaps I can be hated…” There was a flicker of a frown before he laughed again. “Who can hate a face like mine, so perfectly unbalanced, and so askew.”