I panicked. We did.
While I simply wanted to scream, for my borrowed mind it was instinctive defense, sending a lash of roiling, boiling emotional memories from the dark corners of my mind boiling towards Luna in a black-red cloud.
Her horn glowed again, and a bubble of something snapped into place around her, dispersing the cloud.
Around her my constructed dream dissolved into nothing, leaving us floating in the depths of my alien mind. With a visitor inside, it looked less abstract than I recalled, more constructed, like a vast, suspended library inside a cavern that stretched out forever. Here and there were missing bits, or places I could not comprehend with my human mind so far out of sync with the monstrous shell it inhabited.
She still held her shield, set for any further assaults.
We floated there a while, until she slowly lowered her own defenses and simply looked around, taking it in and smiling reassuringly at me. "Be not alarmed Changeling. I merely wished to see if there was more to thee than a simple grass plain." She floated down, a gesture of my mind summoning simple resin-like pillars to stand on. "I am, to say the least, pleasantly surprised." I swirled like black mist to walk by her side through my mind's archive, pillars rising up to meet our feet.
Luna examined the pillars, and the archives around us, looking closely at the vast volume of tightly packed 'books' of knowledge and memory. I allowed her to look, and followed as the lunar Princess walked between the shelves "A full mind.. May I peruse one? T'would be interesting to see things as thine species does, if only for a moment."
I considered the idea, and smiled just a little "very well your majesty, you may. Not all of these, I would warn you, are my own."
She turned, a slim black volume already in her field, and quirked an eye "oh? If not thine, then whose?"
I let a little predator shine through there, the knowledge unfolding in my mind within the mind "some are copies of those of my victim's. I study their minds to better emulate them, to further the masquerade as it were." In truth, that worried me, it made me realise, even further, that I was the bad guy here; an emotion, memory, identity stealing monster. If there's one thing you learned from watching MLP, it's that Bad guys don't last.
Luna simply hummed, turning back to the tome in her aura and quirking an eyebrow "be that as it may, changeling, whose memories are these?" She turned it upside down and then sideways, narrowing her eyes at the cover "I do not recognise this language.. if it can be called such." With annoyed huff she floated the book my way, showing the simple rectangle of alien, odd text adorning the hardened resin cover.
I didn't know the language either, for a moment it was as foreign to me as the blibble-blobble of fish to anyone but Fluttershy. It seemed to be comprised of little but jagged, geometric lines with dots accenting it. Then comprehension bloomed like a flower, and a rustle went through the space of my mind, ruffling the pages of my archives as a short, powerful wind. My eyes flashed green for a second over the blue and I smiled.
I must have stood there for a while, because soon Luna risked poking my side with a careful wing "Changeling, art thou okay?"
I blinked with the eyelids I didn't have and nodded, turning with the book floating to rest between us "Very much so Princess, I merely lost myself in thought for a while.." The book floated up and began to open, green light erupting onto our faces "..This is one of my favourites, a simple little memory, detailing a very.. interesting day in Ponyville. From one of my long term agents, named..."
RoseLuck!
Lyra, probably something to do with how she stood out to us with how weird she was sitting.
Bon Bon!
Derpy
Chapter 6000+ words lenghth?
...sigh, really dug the story, had good pacing, now we are just skipping through really cool scenes with tiny chapters. He is digging his own grave now with not acting anything like his human self anymore. If he isn't going to act at least mostly like his original self then he didn't really swap places did he. Th changling will just be like he was, and he will be like the changling was. Hopefully we ge a longer chapter soon, we s really enjoying it.
Time Turner!
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I'll have to take that into consideration
Sorry if I'm losing you, better be more human.
Next chapter will be longer, and this scene ain't quite over yet :D
Just paused for the next little sequence
Have a haiku:
The insane profound
Storming in their bound psyches
Urinating fear
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After this I'm now convinced that Discord did more than just switch their minds, I believe he only moved a "part" of that changeling's mind into Ed's body while leaving another part of it with the changeling's body, namely the instincts and a bit of the original personality that belonged to the changeling, and shoved Ed's mind into that changeling's body leaving him with a "chaotic" mind for Ed to deal with what he wants to do and what his body wants to do. Which is why he could adopt some of the similar attitudes and memories and occasionally have it orverride his true personality sometimes.
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You're right..
But I can't exactly fix it now.
I'll try to go closer to their characters in future chapters.
Derpy sounds good. It would show how good the Changeling is at duplication if it could copy somepony as difficult as Derpy.
Silver Spoon.
Would be quite the twist, no?
I reiterate the other peoples' concerns with regard to character. Also, why didn't he admit the truth about why he hurt Fluttershy and the guilt associated with it.
My guess: Mayor Mare (to be interesting) and The Summer Sun Celebration obviously. Let's watch nightmare moon.
4597792 Why not fixing it? I understand that the effort would be a rewrite of part of story, which is certainly a larger investment of time. But it doesn't like you have considered this before.
BTW, whom did Fluttershy tell about herself ordering BG to attack? Wouldn't have Rainbow Dash remembered when being prompted to recount the events?
Also, please use a spell checker on your stories. Most of the misspellings would have been caught by this.
alright class postaness 101 would anypony like to translate?
Caramel Apple.
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True, but he has displayed advanced knowledge of her friends and her history.
I may edit that bit. :)
hello.
i seem it have run out of story. can you loan me a cup?
mepony
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Also EVERYONE is pi kids friend until that is broken, and she can break rules (of reality) so long as the narrative supports it (and the changeling has been observing ponyville so would be aware pi kie is basically terrifying). The pinkie promise is basically a verbal equivalent to the stare in my opinion and doing it willingly means you can't be forced into it.