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// Entry #108 January 10, 2191 
// Story: Starswirl's Journal 
// by AlesFlamas 
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Banishing is hard. I honestly didn't expect a banishment spell to be this difficult to create. Of course, there isn't exactly a precedent for this kind of thing. I'm beginning to think that perhaps I'm thinking a bit to much on the grand scale of things. Perhaps I should banish him through some sort of mental manipulation. Make it so that he truly believes he could never return to his homeland. Although, altering the thought processes of any given creature is far more difficult in practice than it is in theory. And, as usual, the consequences in the result of any kind of mistake on my end would lead to something unsavory. Take, for example, the infamous Tenderhorn the many-minded, who accidentally melded the minds and personalities of three other ponies into his own. Not a pleasant prospect.

The war goes on. Things are starting to turn in our favor, what with the recent freeing of all the Earth pony slaves. Among those freed slaves was a little filly, who claimed to know me. Though she didn't use my name directly. She said, and I quote, "I wanna see the Starry-guy. You know, the unicorn that really likes my daddy's doughnuts. Can I see him? Pretty please?" According to the letter I received (oh how I grow tired of letters), she should be arriving sometime tomorrow. And if this little filly is who I think she is, then I'm going to have quite a few questions for her.