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// Move 
// Story: Appledashery 
// by Just Essay 
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	Rainbow's eyes didn't dry until the next morning, and even then it was difficult to keep them open.

She stood in her bathroom, gazing at the mirror.

All of the furnishings and bat equipment had been removed.  It was just her and the shadows.  That's what it always had been.

She sighed.  Her breath fogged the glass.  She no longer bothered to wipe it clean.

Just then, she heard the distant ring of her doorbell resonating throughout her house.

Another exhale.  Rainbow reached forward.  It took her the better part of a minute, but she was finally able to grip the frame of the mirror and carry it with her into the foyer.





"To be honest, Miss Dash, the boys and I expected to be lugging a lot more around!"  A stallion shoved a partially collapsed bed into a chariot.  He wiped the sweat from his brow and smiled at her in the early morning light.  "Just two movers could have gotten this stuff out in the time slot you scheduled!"

"The more the merrier... the faster the better," Rainbow droned, watching from beneath the shadow of her floating home.  Her eyes traced other stallions as they carried out her chairs, sofas, and tables.  "Need I go on?"

"Hey... we're just happy to serve!"  The stallion made room in the chariot for two of his partners to drop in an ironing board and a coat-wrack.  "We're taking this to the heart of Ponyville?"

"Yeah.  To the address listed," Rainbow said.

"The pawn shop, right?"  The stallion blew out the side of his muzzle.  "We'll be there in a sneeze!"

"I'll meet you there," Rainbow said.

Within minutes, they held true to his words.  The workhorses plopped the last bit of furniture into the back of the cart.  Collectively, they lifted it into the air and flew southwest towards downtown Ponyville.  The light of the rising sun glinted off the spokes of their wagon wheels.

Rainbow Dash flapped her wings.  She lifted off the ground and made to zoom after them.

Pausing briefly, however, she turned to look up at her floating house.  She couldn't see the empty rooms from the exterior... and yet she felt as though a huge weight had been lifted from her body.

It still didn't bring more than a tingle to her forelimbs.

With a heavy sigh, she spread her wings to the cool morning wind and blurred her way southwest.