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// Northern Hemispheres 
// Story: Awful Lot of Coffee in Equestria 
// by NorrisThePony 
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Pink hooves shuffled through the overhanging dark, cold eyes peering ahead without a trace of aimlessness.

She gave her impossibly wide wings a quick shuffle, not for any purpose, but rather out of instinct, as she crossed from the desolate wasteland into the enclave of what in another life had been a building. 

Her horn burned not with a warm glow, but with an all-encompassing chill. Not that such a thing would have ever been able to affect her. The freezing temperature concerned her as little as the swirling snow that dared not graze her flesh. 

The streets of Canterlot—if they could still be called streets—were as silent as the dead and moonless black sky above. The world had fallen silent—not even a distant vulture's call sounding out the last traces of some former life.  Even the howling  wind and eternally swirling snow were not permitted to drone into the empty void. 

The only sound in the perfect dark was a slight crunching as her hooves trodded over what was once the enveloping window of Pony Joe's Café. 

The tall alicorn stepped over cracked remains of diner tables and crunched a large pile of spilled coffee beans from what had once been a proud and beautiful display. She continued walking with an emotionless frown, her thoughts elsewhere and everywhere.

Eventually she reached her destination. The entire café looked like it had survived every disaster known to Equestria—which, the alicorn smiled mirthlessly, wasn't too far from the truth. 

Still, the grave of a diner booth was present, and with a careless flare of magic, Equus' goddess brought it back to its former being. A perfectly polished café booth amidst an eternal wasteland of death and darkness. 

"Enjoying your choiceless nap, princesses?" Flurry Heart whispered a cooing question to herself with a sly smile. "Welcome to my hell." 





"She is so cute!" Luna gushed at the sleeping alicorn filly.

Celestia giggled. "She makes such a fuss about going to sleep, and now look at her. Grinning like crazy." 

"We should fillysit for Cadance more often!" Luna breathed. Then, her magic flared.

"What are you doing?" Celestia cocked her head.

"Just hopping into her dreams for a moment. I can only imagine what innocent little fantasy world she dreamed up."