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// 4: The Tragic End of Maregellen 
// Story: Everypony is Drunk and Speaking Russian For Some Reason 
// by Admiral Biscuit 
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The Tragic End of Maregellen
Admiral Biscuit

On the sterncastle of Her Royal Majesty's ship Trinidad, Commander Maregellen stood next to the helmspony, studying a globe which her good friend Chancellor Puddinghead had given her.  They were—by her best reckoning—more than halfway between Equestria and the other side of Equestria.

Everypony had told her that she was crazy, but she was sure she could sail around the whole thing.

“Land ahead,” a pegasus reported from the crow's next.  “Shoaling water, and then land.”

Are we there?  She trembled with excitement, and turned to her helmsmare.  “Bring the ship as close as you can without grounding her.”

Maregellen galloped around the ship, gathering supplies and preparing for a landing party. She was certain this wasn't her final destination . . . but if there were ponies on the land, perhaps she could ask where they were.  The globe didn't show any land here, but it wasn't a very useful tool for navigation, in all honestly.  Only the largest landmasses were shown.

Presently, she found herself on the strange shore, accompanied by four of her most loyal mares.  She stuck a Ponygese flag in the sand, on the off chance that this land hadn't been claimed by somepony else already, and trotted across the rising land, her exploration party on her heels.

By the end of the day, they'd reached the other side of the landmass.  There was no ocean there; there was no nothing.  Only an empty space, studded with stars.

In frustration, Maregellen bravely went to the very edge, and peered over, hoping against hope to see something below her—some strange land or sea, but there was naught.

She craned her neck over the edge, and got a glimpse of the strata of rock, neatly sliced as if by a cleaver, before the loose topsoil crumbled underhoof.  The last thing her crew heard was a diminishing scream as she fell off the edge of Equestria.

The four mares looked around at each other in wide-eyed wonder, before tossing the globe off the edge, too.