It's awesome that this story is back! I can't wait for what you have in store me!

love this story

I'm having the weirdest sense of Déjà vu right now.

Now, normally with a unicorn's 'pops' it would be anything from actual pops, small amounts of magic bubbling on the surface of the horn with no real effect. There were some rare cases of more (and more different) varieties of 'pops', but those tended to be from chaos magic oriented ponies and could range from floating into/through walls, to random transmogrification, to the rare but always panic inducing sudden and instant teleportation.

“more different” just doesn't sound right there.

Hoping for a Groger reference and/or plotpoint.

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If I remember correctly, this chapter is a rewrite of and older version that rushed through his childhood, the incident where he raised a entire classroom of dead frogs, they dragged him off to the catacombs under Canterlot, he meets a friendly ghost, they steal a book on necromancy from the Royal Library's restricted section, and spook Twilight in the process. Given that all of that happened in one roughly 3,000 word chapter, I'm glad to see the author decided to go back, rewrite the chapter, and apparently split it up. This should help the pacing, and give us a bit more time to digest each chapter on its own, to get a better feel for stuff happening in-story.

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No wonder I was having a big ass sense of Déjà vu, this shit good.