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// (25) 
// Story: Choose Your Own Adventure: Maud's Education 
// by Palm Palette 
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“Fashion is about expressing oneself,” Maud said.

“It's just about expression you say? Fashion's not really that way. As a fashionista you've one job to do well, and that's to make ponies look swell.”

“I'd rather just look the way I want to look.” Maud pointed a hoof at herself. “Like this.”

“I don't mean to be contrary, but the plainness of that garb is scary.”

“It's still a dress. If I can make it, so what?”

“I guess if you know your technical stuff, that alone should be enough.” Zirconia pointed at a complex looking device full of interlacing strings, straps, and knobs. It was also lined with a crust of dark crystals on its wooden frame. “So you see this simple thing here? You need to tell me what it is, dear.”

“It's... um...” Maud stared at it blankly. She was clearly perplexed. “It's got a nice design?”

“Three, two, one. Too bad, but you are done. It's a basic, simple thing to know, but a lack of knowledge you do show. This is a crystal pony's slaver's loom. You failed; so leave my room.”

Drat.

Start over?