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i wonder if silver will ask Luna to help fix the damage done to the spell that the jackals almost undid
would be so amusing to see their reactions when the jackals see Jake though
i will say though, i really don't like nefertari
Could be just me, but this sounds a bit awkward.
6275297 http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/buzz
Man silver will have lot of child's when they get back to Equestria .
6275259 She is cunning and pragmatic and knows how to push the buttons of others. She had been very careful in playing her cards right so I have a bit of respect for her even if she is a total douche lol
6275422 Ah, thank you. Probably sounded awkward to me because I usually hear it as "A buzz with activity" and not "A buzz of activity"
I suppose it's for the best that Nefertari hitchhiked like that, this way it looks like Celestia kidnapped her and she gets to have a chance at unchallenged rule over the fleeing Anubians .
Keep going! ;)
Should be: "of the worthless"
6277470 Fixed!
End of an arc? Is it the end of an arc? What do you think?
I think Silver has some explaining to his wives about a jackal that is pregnant to him.
6280293 Fixed.
All "able-bodied" jackals.
Don't capitalize "Jackals."
Presuming this means that she's lying down, then it should be "Nefertari rested on her belly."
It occurs to me that I forgot, in my review of the last chapter, to note how Firm Touch blanched at Silver's use of the term "human." There's a mystery there, one that I suspect is going to be kept on the back-burner until the current crisis is resolved. Foreshadowing, as they say.
Leaving that aside, we see the exodus begin here, and also get some interesting confirmation regarding the likely casualties among the Anubians. My understanding was that this last battle was going to be one from which there was no coming back for them, as a people. Based on what Celestia said to Silver, however, it seems that was a slight misinterpretation. Instead it seems like that particular tribe is going to be wiped out, but the Anubians as a whole will, eventually, spring back from this. That certainly shrinks the scale of the conflict, even beyond what I thought before. This isn't about Silver saving a people from total annihilation, so much as it's him saving a handful that are within arm's reach.
While I'd previously praised the story for not inflating Silver's presence to grandiose proportions, things can go too far in the other direction as well. To be fair, I don't think that that's the case here, but this does reduce - perhaps vastly - the scope of Silver's mission. He's neither able to avert a war, nor change the hearts of the Anubian people, nor is he the savior of a race that's about to be annihilated. Instead, he's making a difference on a local level, and nothing more. That's certainly something for these Anubians (and perhaps one day they'll come back and make a change for the rest of their kind), but in overall terms Silver hasn't really accomplished much of any particular note. He didn't even gain much information about them that could affect future relations.
Of course, the real meat of this chapter was the meeting between Celestia and Nefertari. Honestly, I was a bit surprised that Silver seemed to have forgotten about the shamaness entirely, to the point where, if Fiddah hadn't spoken up, she'd have been left behind. Of course, Nefertari's attitude makes it seem like she expected this, so I suspect that this wasn't really an issue.
What's more interesting is to see how the two of them related to each other. Both are proud, powerful females, and it strikes me as entirely appropriate that they both apparently took an instant dislike to each other, what with Nefertari's baiting and Celestia's coldly telling the Anubian female that she was "nothing." As it was, Nefertari "surrendered" only because she needed Celestia to take her to Silver...once that's done, I can almost see the two of them coming to blows, simply because of the clash of personalities. After all, I doubt Celestia will let Nefertari forget that they're now going to be under Equestrian jurisdiction, whereas Nefertari seems likely to needle Celestia about how she's pregnant.
Oh, and Firm Touch will undoubtedly be backing his shaman up as well, on that score. The character drama is about to go into an upswing.
6286718 The days of the Anubian scourge are dwindling. Their people will be destroyed back into meaninglessness. They will recover in some form, in time, but the region will advance while they do so. It's very unlikely, assuming Saddle Arabia leads the full cleansing they seem intent on, that they will be in a situation to resume those activities for a while. It will be bloody and horrific and terrible, but ultimately? Perhaps effective. Perhaps he wasn't wrong to do this.
It does prove the Anubians right, in a way. If they weren't wanted, sufficient force would have pushed them out. Here it is.
Silver's interference gives a collection of them a chance to bring some label to the Anubians besides blood-soaked thugs. Perhaps, in time, they could become a great part of Equestria's colorful tapestry of people. That would be a difference, a good difference.
6286579 Typos sent to the brig!
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