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by shortskirtsandexplosions

and backrooms

Author's Note:

Stairs

The stairs lead up

But they do not pierce the buzzing

As you ascend

One hoof at a time

The buzz climbs

It carries on

And it carries on

Your ears flick

The buzz carries forward

On fluorescent waves

Or maybe it isn't climbing

It's just a sound

Maybe it is sinking

Sound goes in all direction

Then why are there no hoofsteps?

Your eyes widen

A stab of pain

Brightness and brightness

Piercing gravity

And as you look down

And as you look up

You lose track of either

Are these stairs going up?

Or down?

You pause

You lean against the wall

With your hoof

It's barely even there

Your hoof?

The wall

The walls are everywhere, Twilight Sparkle

They're your only friends now

The walls and the ceiling

Six sides, forever receding

Yet forever devouring

And one day they will sink inwards

And swallow you into nothingness

It was always bound to happen

Maybe

Maybe somepony got tired of waiting

And brought you here before your time

Unless

This is the time

The buzz

Lights flicker

The stairs tilt

Back

Forward

Somewhere

Teetering

No

Do not wait for the walls

You are not surrounded

You can't be

The sixth barrier

It

Is always receding

It is an exit

Must

You must find it, Twilight

You must find it and break free

The stairs tilt up

The are stairs in front of you

Climb

You climb

You ascend

Past the buzz

Through the buzz

The buzz follows

There's a hallway up ahead

There's always a hallway up ahead

Keep an even pace

Get on even hoofing

Even now

Even now

Even now

Do you seriously believe her?

A slight shudder

But

You keep moving

You ascend

And

The buzz

Comments

[Merula]

Its all in her head, isn't it?

[RoboRed]

Your eyes widen

A stab of pain

Brightness and brightness

Piercing gravity

And as you look down

And as you look up

You lose track of either

Are these stairs going up?

Or down?

I rather liked this bit here. Fits in well with the header image and 90% with how it's cropped.

[TheAncientPolitzanian]

From the image source:
"If you're not careful and noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms, where it's nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million square miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell has heard you."

...Sh*t.

[WovenWord]

So, from what little I can discern out of the chapters I could read before they disappeared, this is unicorn Twilight. She was "replaced" by alicorn Twilight, and has been trapped in this weird endless space for what seems to have been quite a long time (she found that molt from Spike's wings, so it's probably close to the current season). The two voices could just be her own (a cynical side and a comforting / encouraging side) or something else entirely.

Really digging the presentation, though. Hope we'll get to see all the chapters when the experiment is done

[KnightMysterio]

...MY BRAIN!!!

[Wydril]

3Deep5me.