I prematurely posted a draft chapter last week and had to yank it down again because it hadn't cooked enough. I'm finished and it's back up now:

http://www.fimfiction.net/story/132387/4/friendship-is-optimal-mismatching-wits/principia-discordai-part-2

This concludes the April Fools interlude; the story will continue soon on its previous track. Here's another teaser:

“Hey, Pen!” they called out to him from the grass.

“Yes?” he replied, dragging his snout out of his book.

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I am uncertain how many of you read Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, but today's comic brought up an important point that many folks don't really think about as far as immortality goes; that is to say, even if you eliminate aging and senescence as a cause of death, people still die, of accidents, of disease, and of random other things.

How many people?

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