Twilight, Spike, and Pinkie Pie arrived at the Apple farm, each more worried than the next. That is to say, Twilight was still a nervous wreck, Pinkie was still a ball of giggles, and Spike was somewhere in the vast between.
Big Mac waved from the fields and chatted with Spike as the two ponies looked for Applejack. She wasn't far - just over a hill, tilling and seeding for annual crops, like carrots, celery, and various other things that weren't going to sprout before the story exploded.
"Applejack!" Twilight called.
"Yeah?" she answered. "Oh, hey Twilight! You here about that thing in the sky?"
"Yep," Twilight answered. She was relieved to find somepony who was being rational about this whole thing.
"So are you just gatherin' everypony together for an adventure, like you always do?"
"Yeah, I - wait, I do that?"
Applejack nodded. "Yeah, sugar cube. You do."
Twilight looked down at her hooves, thinking about what she'd just learned.
"Well, let's go, then," Applejack continued, dropping her seedbags under a tree and falling in place next to Pinkie Pie.
"Right," Twilight agreed. "Right. Let's go."
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I'd missed that as well, so I suppose that explains that. I'd figured some sort of code would've had to have been at play though, because, again, manually doing it would be too tedious to be worth it.
Though now I'm wondering if they've got the code to auto-publish chapters every hour too. I mean, might as well at that point, right?
It's been fun seeing the email notices appear in my inbox tagged for this story, given how the time in the title is different every time. Not something you see every day, y'know?
(20:37 now)
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That was amazinggg