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// the crack 
// Story: Mail Order Changeling 
// by odeeyou 
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“My Buddy! My Buddy!” Luna sang and skipped cheerfully down the hallway while dragging a changeling along with her magic.

“Where ever I go – he goes! 
My Buddy! My Buddy!
My Buddy and me!”

Luna looked down at changeling 12345 aka ‘Buddy’ expectantly.

Buddy wracked his brain for lyrics. “Umm…” 

“Big Sister! Big Sister!
Where ever she goes – I go!
Big Sister! Big Sister!
Big Sister and me!”

Luna squeed and wrapped Buddy in a suffocating hug. “So what should we do together now my new friend? Wait! I know! Let us go to my sister’s room and bounce up and down upon her bed! It shall be fun!”

Buddy took a deep breath when he was released from the hug, and smiled up at Luna. “Can we try on some of her shoes?” He asked hopefully.

“Okay!”

“Yay!”

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Buddy laid on his back beside Luna on the roof of her tower, watching the moon crawl across the night sky.

“Hey Luna?”

“Yes Buddy?”

“Have you ever wondered what those sparkly dots are up there?”

“Silly Changeling. I don’t wonder. I know.”

“Oh. What are they?”

“They are fireflies that Starswirl and I stuck in that big bluish black thing.”

“…really?”

“Yes. Don’t tell anypony though. Unicorns came up with some theory about burning balls of gas burning billions of miles away. Which is of course ridiculous, but neither my sister nor I have the heart to tell them the truth and crush their dreams.”

Buddy felt a moment of satisfaction at that knowing that the changelings had been correct about their theory of the night sky all along.