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// Preface 
// Story: A Tale of Two Twilies 
// by AdrianJNovelle 
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	"There's no doubt about it, Spike," Twilight said, staring attentively at her bulletin board, which she had cluttered with graphs and charts and snipets of phenomena she could not quite explain, "something very strange is definitely going on at that school."
Spike barked.
Twilight scratched at her chin and sighed, pulling up a swivel chair and taking a seat in front of her board. "At first, I thought it was nothing," she continued in a biased conversation with her purple pet dog. "But then there was this uprise in what appeared to be magic. I started investigating, but by the time I had finished making my checklist, whatever was happening seemed to have passed. Must've been fleeting in nature, only lasting for a day or two..."
Spike heard the word 'checklist' and scampered off into the other corner of the dimly lit room, and retrieved a long sheet of paper for his owner. He made a whining sound.
Twilight looked down and saw the small dog at her feet. She gave a slight grin and took the paper from her pet's mouth with one hand, and petted him with the other. 
"Good boy," she said quietly. She leaned back in her chair and studied the list...

Remember to make checklist
Get extra reams of paper
Buy pushpins
Go to library
Check out books on magic
Feed Spike

The list went on from there. 

Twilight's vision started to fade as she reread her to-do list. She drifted off for a moment, but the sound of her snoring jolted her awake.  She yawned and averted her eyes back to her bulletin board.
"C'mon, Spike," she began, rising to her feet. "We won't learn anything being cooped up in the lab. We've got to see this for ourselves."
Spike barked and followed Twilight out the door.