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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-code mw-content-ltr"><div class="gettext source-gettext">&#160;<br />A Blueberry and her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">1</span>-<span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">1</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Having one hell of a time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Circling Equestria in your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping when you reach a town,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;performing magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pearls before swine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They don't appreciate it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not enough, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They can't see your greatness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Aren't you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are, ...somewhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lot's of trees.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Weird animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do those clouds have spikes?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been here for a few days.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sun can really fuckin' move.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So can the moon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knows how you got here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wherever here is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much to eat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clothes are dirty and torn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those clouds DO have spikes!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there're lots of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's getting darker.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly brighter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning! Way too close for comfort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rain too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is that a... a cave!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've read enough novels to know this never works out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that's only novels right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Real life has empty, unused caves, right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Man, the rain is really coming down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Besides, everyone knows monsters aren't real!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;BOOM!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning turns a tree in to fragments</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That cinches it: cave it is.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">2</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More importantly, you are out of the rain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More or less</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This cave isn't so big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it is long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The storm makes it dark outside,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but the cave continues in pure blackness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Shit's creepy, yo.[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You vaguely recall reading caves are bad places to be in thunderstorms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning can jump the gaps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was that why?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't remember.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Should you go deeper?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's even closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You see something out of the corner of your eye.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glinting in the flash from outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that in the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sound.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Barely audible over the din from outside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Different from the din outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;faint</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scraping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails, or...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, this is real life.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">3</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and there are jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There are many jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rubies, Saphires, Diamonds, Emeralds!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scattered a few meters further in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How convenient.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they're big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And your pockets are empty.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you realize it, you're squatting and stuffing them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hmmm, not as many as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still a half-dozen thumb-sized gems are nothing to sneeze at.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait, what's that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;At the edge of the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweet!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh, another?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just a bit further?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning flashes again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't seem so close this time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit you're deeper than you realized!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But there are still more jewels.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Little sparks of light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;laying one after the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a trail of winking eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;beckoning you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To go deeper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can see the mouth of the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A distant, dark gray splotch against the black</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look forward.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness. Not merely the absence of light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A darkness so absolute it seems to be material.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can feel it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like the abyss staring back at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smell</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rotting meat and unwashed fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dread and fear wash over you like a wave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;GET OUT NOW</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You turn to run, dropping the gems in your hands.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sound again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, not fingernails:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;claws.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scrabbling for purchase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Louder than before,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You break in to a sprint.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A step.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something hits you from behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Large and filthy and hairy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Laughter like nothing from a human throat echos in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're thrown to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bound with coarse rope.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something wet and clingy and noxious goes over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">4</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The day is looking good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond Dogs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're kind of stinky, sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But easy to impress!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And loaded with Jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much further now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good thing to</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;turning your wagon's wheels with magic is hard!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not too hard of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But hard enough.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sure does impress though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even other ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the Diamond Dogs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You giggle to yourself imagining their reaction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You put on a haughty expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sly smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;palpable arrogance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon carries you through the tree line.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Showtime!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come one! Come all!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the amaaazing feats of magic that can only be done by the most amaaazing unicorn in Equestria.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise unbidden.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A town not too far away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another unicorn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your expression never wavers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your eyes don't betray your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile even grows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Magic isn't the only amazing thing about you.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">5</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you cary on with practiced ease.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your vardo rolls on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Toward the wide mouth of the Diamond Dog's cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the dextrous manipulation of reality itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They've definitely noticed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Be AWED with power you never knew existed!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond pups yip and jump excitedly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some rush in to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Power you never knew *could* exist!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More Diamond Dogs emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ears perked,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wagging tails,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some with lolling tongues.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon trundles on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For while Trixie has graced your home with her presence before,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *was* some time ago.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon stops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gather round and see Trixie as you've never seen her before!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stand on your ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hat cocked just so.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cloak billowing behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Blessed with talent beyond any other unicorn!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trained by Princess Celestia herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Victor of a duel with *Princess* Twilight Sparkle!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ruler of Ponyville...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Until I got bored and left!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The one! The only! The Great and Powerful Trrrixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You leap from your vardo,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;subtly hitting a switch as you go.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magic carries you higher than a mere leap would have,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and slows your descent to a glide.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From your wagon trumpets blare and cannons launch confetti.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smoke erupts and a stage juts forth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Perfect timing, you think,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;magically adjusting your fall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You touch down as the smoke clears.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A wand in your hoof.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A dramatic flourish and bow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To a cacophony of excited howls</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tails drumming the ground.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">6</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you have the audience in the frog of your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You flash your perfect smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And raise your wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweeping the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but laugh as their heads follow it's movement</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Every last one of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Silly things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You play to it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hahaha!&quot; Your voice gradually rising in pitch</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Behold! An artifact from *beyond*!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Just a stick, yo![/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Griphons!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What should I call it?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Taurs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Think fast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to to the Dragons, and the mighty Diamond Dogs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was that thing called?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown even to Ponies!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lives under the sea, part pony part octopus, little bat-wings?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All but two, that is!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah, that's it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Brought to this world by Starswirl the Bearded himself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Used to work wonders!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then banished beyond the sea by Princess Celestia herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because even SHE feared it's might!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Tremble, for you are in the presence of the dreaded Wand of Colthulhu!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They all actually gasped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;perfect</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But *I*, the Great and Powerful Trixie could not be denied!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, through wit and sorcery unmatched,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stole this artifact from the depths of Tartarus itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, and I alone know the secret to it's use!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But the Great and Powerful Trixie is not cruel!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Selfless Trixie would share the marvels of this relic!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Who would witness it's power?&quot;</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">7</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The center of attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it should be</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs stand transfixed by the stick</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Eyes glazed, ears down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flourishing here and there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pink aura sparking and glowing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not even The Great and Powerful Trixie can use it in hoof.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's magic is too dangerous!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;One of Starswirl's apprentices tried...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and was seen dragged away by tentacled horrors!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Things from beyond the veil of worlds!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hold it steady</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few meters over the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With your magic you call forth screams</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shrill and wild</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sound like they're coming from the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a wispy vapor</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it darkens and thickens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From the lobes and pillows of smoke a face forms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twisted and rotten</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then melts away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;larger and more monstrous than the last</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look around</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're all focused on the show above them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few of the pups are hiding their eyes behind their paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A new shape rises</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Swift and terrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like a shark attacking from below</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it swallows the monsters face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and leers at the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gasps, and even a whimper or two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the pups</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ha!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Here we go...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dramatically you allow the pink aura of magic to sputter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You make the screams louder</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Add new voices</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twist them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some stones fall down the mountainside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of them turn to look</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now a voice for the face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pathetic creatures&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can not hold me! I will devour you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not good enough for ponies, you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More than enough for these mutts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of the pups flee in the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Silence beast!&quot; You shout.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are at my command!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will not allow you to harm!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Begone!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows brighter, so does the wand.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The face contorts in agony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it keens as it's absorbed back in to the stick.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It drops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs flee from where it lands</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile, allowing yourself to seem just a *bit* flustered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They look back and forth from the wand to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And erupt in cheers</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">8</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You just saved the day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or so they think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop down from your stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, a pin drop would be loud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stroll nonchalantly toward the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quietly laying in a circle of dumbstruck Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They part like water as you approach</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not e-ven the Immaterium's Horrors can match the Great and Powerful TrrrixIE!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emphasize the last sound</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;savoring it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But really...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows and the wand jumps to your cloak-pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs jump too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;was there *ever* any doubt?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then saunter back to stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling their eyes on you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Relishing it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting on stage now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hind hooves crossed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dangling languidly off the edge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Time for the goodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now then&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quondam royal student,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;triumphant in uncounted duels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and contests of magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has juuusstt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;saved your bacon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that phrase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Picked it up from the Gryphons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A murmur passes through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trio of them sprint to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie will accept your adulation...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The briefest of pauses</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The faintest of smiles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As one they rush to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping just shy of your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Yipping cheering and whining</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hopefully they don't piddle again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You raise your gorgeous face to the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sounds and more importantly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The feelings wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth swells in your chest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile more broadly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And look toward the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;careful to let only the barest of glances fall on your worshipers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They should be returning with your reward soon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Last time it was a basket full of glittering jewels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah there!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two of the cave-sprinters emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Empty-handed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Behind them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Movement in the gloom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That must be number three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What under Celestia's sun is that!?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">9</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still alive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you'd be better off dead</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains around your wrists and ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pushing a heavy gem-laden cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's barely any light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even less food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And brutish foul-smelling... things are everywhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;taunting you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;whipping you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How long have you been here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to tell when you can't see the sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's happening</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big blue hunchbacked one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your captor, is coming</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Where he is, the other two are never far behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sniff the air and bee-line for you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one's got something in his paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;One of them holds your chain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one shoves that thing over your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's wooden, and heavy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Baskets hang from its sides</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They stuff gems in one basket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bottles in the other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drag you by your chain</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And for once in your life you are speechless</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something has emerged from the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks like...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;well it looks like nothing you've ever seen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Walks on two legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;covered in dirty tattered cloth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It has a mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;of a sort</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But no coat you can see</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bearing a yoke with two full baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And prodded along by...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido was his name?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well the biggest of the three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whatever his name was</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're heading your way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover and Spot push through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and genuflect at your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tails stiff</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;just the ends wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're excited</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;trying to be subtle about it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Trixie...&quot; He begins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;AHEM!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pause</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may continue.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Thank you for saving us&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, look!&quot; The other one adds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Our servant brings you treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gems, and Cider, and Gryphon ale too!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So it's their servant?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why anything would serve the Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is beyond even the Great and Powerful Trixie's ken</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's closer now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back bent under it's burden</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that on it's... limbs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You no longer feel good</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Warm and smug a moment ago</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now chilled to the bone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They always do</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But never so soon after a show</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Incredible power in your veins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An even more incredible cruelty in your heart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching through your own eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Somehow not really comprehending</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as you do things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Things you still can't believe you would have</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you did</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Twilight...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;NO!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No No No No No No No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not a hair out of place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No matter how strong the feelings</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn, you're awesome</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SUNLIGHT!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't see shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes ache and burn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's a good pain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the warmth on your skin is unmistakable</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The thing behind you pokes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;forcing you to go where it wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes are starting to adjust</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're heading toward a large group of brutes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;clustered around a stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There seems to be a blue pony sitting on it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A blue pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a white mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a robe and wizard hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you have been in the dark too long</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And it doesn't look like an animal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As soon as it arrives</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the dogs push it to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You aren't laughing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither is it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such a weird face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can read it as clearly as anypony's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is no thoughtless beast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why would I want your prisoner?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blase, but not overly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No, Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;servant only bring treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, Look!&quot; says another</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They point to the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They hold up the bottles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wow! How did Dogs get luxuries like those?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They went all out this time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The show must have been better than you thought</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A stab of conscious</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn it</span></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-code mw-content-ltr"><div class="gettext source-gettext">&#160;<br />A Blueberry and her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">1</span>-<span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">1</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Having one hell of a time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Circling Equestria in your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping when you reach a town,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;performing magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pearls before swine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They don't appreciate it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not enough, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They can't see your greatness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Aren't you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are, ...somewhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lot's of trees.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Weird animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do those clouds have spikes?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been here for a few days.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sun can really fuckin' move.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So can the moon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knows how you got here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wherever here is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much to eat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clothes are dirty and torn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those clouds DO have spikes!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there're lots of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's getting darker.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly brighter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning! Way too close for comfort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rain too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is that a... a cave!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've read enough novels to know this never works out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that's only novels right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Real life has empty, unused caves, right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Man, the rain is really coming down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Besides, everyone knows monsters aren't real!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;BOOM!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning turns a tree in to fragments</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That cinches it: cave it is.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">2</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More importantly, you are out of the rain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More or less</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This cave isn't so big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it is long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The storm makes it dark outside,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but the cave continues in pure blackness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Shit's creepy, yo.[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You vaguely recall reading caves are bad places to be in thunderstorms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning can jump the gaps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was that why?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't remember.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Should you go deeper?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's even closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You see something out of the corner of your eye.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glinting in the flash from outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that in the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sound.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Barely audible over the din from outside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Different from the din outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;faint</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scraping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails, or...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, this is real life.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">3</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and there are jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There are many jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rubies, Saphires, Diamonds, Emeralds!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scattered a few meters further in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How convenient.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they're big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And your pockets are empty.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you realize it, you're squatting and stuffing them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hmmm, not as many as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still a half-dozen thumb-sized gems are nothing to sneeze at.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait, what's that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;At the edge of the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweet!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh, another?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just a bit further?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning flashes again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't seem so close this time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit you're deeper than you realized!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But there are still more jewels.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Little sparks of light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;laying one after the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a trail of winking eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;beckoning you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To go deeper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can see the mouth of the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A distant, dark gray splotch against the black</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look forward.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness. Not merely the absence of light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A darkness so absolute it seems to be material.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can feel it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like the abyss staring back at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smell</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rotting meat and unwashed fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dread and fear wash over you like a wave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;GET OUT NOW</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You turn to run, dropping the gems in your hands.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sound again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, not fingernails:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;claws.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scrabbling for purchase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Louder than before,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You break in to a sprint.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A step.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something hits you from behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Large and filthy and hairy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Laughter like nothing from a human throat echos in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're thrown to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bound with coarse rope.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something wet and clingy and noxious goes over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">4</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The day is looking good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond Dogs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're kind of stinky, sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But easy to impress!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And loaded with Jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much further now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good thing to</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;turning your wagon's wheels with magic is hard!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not too hard of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But hard enough.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sure does impress though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even other ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the Diamond Dogs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You giggle to yourself imagining their reaction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You put on a haughty expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sly smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;palpable arrogance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon carries you through the tree line.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Showtime!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come one! Come all!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the amaaazing feats of magic that can only be done by the most amaaazing unicorn in Equestria.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise unbidden.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A town not too far away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another unicorn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your expression never wavers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your eyes don't betray your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile even grows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Magic isn't the only amazing thing about you.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">5</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you cary on with practiced ease.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your vardo rolls on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Toward the wide mouth of the Diamond Dog's cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the dextrous manipulation of reality itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They've definitely noticed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Be AWED with power you never knew existed!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond pups yip and jump excitedly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some rush in to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Power you never knew *could* exist!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More Diamond Dogs emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ears perked,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wagging tails,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some with lolling tongues.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon trundles on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For while Trixie has graced your home with her presence before,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *was* some time ago.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon stops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gather round and see Trixie as you've never seen her before!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stand on your ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hat cocked just so.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cloak billowing behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Blessed with talent beyond any other unicorn!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trained by Princess Celestia herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Victor of a duel with *Princess* Twilight Sparkle!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ruler of Ponyville...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Until I got bored and left!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The one! The only! The Great and Powerful Trrrixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You leap from your vardo,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;subtly hitting a switch as you go.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magic carries you higher than a mere leap would have,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and slows your descent to a glide.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From your wagon trumpets blare and cannons launch confetti.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smoke erupts and a stage juts forth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Perfect timing, you think,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;magically adjusting your fall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You touch down as the smoke clears.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A wand in your hoof.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A dramatic flourish and bow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To a cacophony of excited howls</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tails drumming the ground.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">6</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you have the audience in the frog of your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You flash your perfect smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And raise your wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweeping the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but laugh as their heads follow it's movement</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Every last one of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Silly things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You play to it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hahaha!&quot; Your voice gradually rising in pitch</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Behold! An artifact from *beyond*!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Just a stick, yo![/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Griphons!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What should I call it?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Taurs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Think fast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to to the Dragons, and the mighty Diamond Dogs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was that thing called?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown even to Ponies!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lives under the sea, part pony part octopus, little bat-wings?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All but two, that is!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah, that's it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Brought to this world by Starswirl the Bearded himself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Used to work wonders!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then banished beyond the sea by Princess Celestia herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because even SHE feared it's might!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Tremble, for you are in the presence of the dreaded Wand of Colthulhu!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They all actually gasped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;perfect</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But *I*, the Great and Powerful Trixie could not be denied!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, through wit and sorcery unmatched,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stole this artifact from the depths of Tartarus itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, and I alone know the secret to it's use!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But the Great and Powerful Trixie is not cruel!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Selfless Trixie would share the marvels of this relic!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Who would witness it's power?&quot;</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">7</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The center of attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it should be</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs stand transfixed by the stick</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Eyes glazed, ears down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flourishing here and there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pink aura sparking and glowing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not even The Great and Powerful Trixie can use it in hoof.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's magic is too dangerous!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;One of Starswirl's apprentices tried...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and was seen dragged away by tentacled horrors!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Things from beyond the veil of worlds!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hold it steady</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few meters over the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With your magic you call forth screams</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shrill and wild</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sound like they're coming from the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a wispy vapor</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it darkens and thickens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From the lobes and pillows of smoke a face forms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twisted and rotten</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then melts away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;larger and more monstrous than the last</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look around</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're all focused on the show above them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few of the pups are hiding their eyes behind their paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A new shape rises</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Swift and terrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like a shark attacking from below</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it swallows the monsters face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and leers at the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gasps, and even a whimper or two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the pups</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ha!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Here we go...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dramatically you allow the pink aura of magic to sputter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You make the screams louder</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Add new voices</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twist them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some stones fall down the mountainside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of them turn to look</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now a voice for the face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pathetic creatures&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can not hold me! I will devour you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not good enough for ponies, you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More than enough for these mutts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of the pups flee in the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Silence beast!&quot; You shout.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are at my command!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will not allow you to harm!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Begone!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows brighter, so does the wand.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The face contorts in agony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it keens as it's absorbed back in to the stick.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It drops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs flee from where it lands</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile, allowing yourself to seem just a *bit* flustered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They look back and forth from the wand to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And erupt in cheers</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">8</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You just saved the day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or so they think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop down from your stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, a pin drop would be loud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stroll nonchalantly toward the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quietly laying in a circle of dumbstruck Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They part like water as you approach</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not e-ven the Immaterium's Horrors can match the Great and Powerful TrrrixIE!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emphasize the last sound</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;savoring it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But really...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows and the wand jumps to your cloak-pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs jump too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;was there *ever* any doubt?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then saunter back to stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling their eyes on you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Relishing it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting on stage now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hind hooves crossed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dangling languidly off the edge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Time for the goodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now then&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quondam royal student,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;triumphant in uncounted duels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and contests of magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has juuusstt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;saved your bacon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that phrase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Picked it up from the Gryphons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A murmur passes through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trio of them sprint to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie will accept your adulation...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The briefest of pauses</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The faintest of smiles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As one they rush to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping just shy of your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Yipping cheering and whining</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hopefully they don't piddle again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You raise your gorgeous face to the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sounds and more importantly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The feelings wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth swells in your chest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile more broadly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And look toward the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;careful to let only the barest of glances fall on your worshipers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They should be returning with your reward soon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Last time it was a basket full of glittering jewels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah there!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two of the cave-sprinters emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Empty-handed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Behind them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Movement in the gloom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That must be number three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What under Celestia's sun is that!?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">9</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still alive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you'd be better off dead</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains around your wrists and ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pushing a heavy gem-laden cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's barely any light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even less food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And brutish foul-smelling... things are everywhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;taunting you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;whipping you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How long have you been here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to tell when you can't see the sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's happening</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big blue hunchbacked one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your captor, is coming</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Where he is, the other two are never far behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sniff the air and bee-line for you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one's got something in his paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;One of them holds your chain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one shoves that thing over your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's wooden, and heavy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Baskets hang from its sides</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They stuff gems in one basket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bottles in the other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drag you by your chain</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And for once in your life you are speechless</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something has emerged from the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks like...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;well it looks like nothing you've ever seen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Walks on two legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;covered in dirty tattered cloth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It has a mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;of a sort</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But no coat you can see</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bearing a yoke with two full baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And prodded along by...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido was his name?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well the biggest of the three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whatever his name was</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're heading your way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover and Spot push through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and genuflect at your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tails stiff</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;just the ends wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're excited</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;trying to be subtle about it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Trixie...&quot; He begins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;AHEM!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pause</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may continue.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Thank you for saving us&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, look!&quot; The other one adds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Our servant brings you treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gems, and Cider, and Gryphon ale too!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So it's their servant?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why anything would serve the Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is beyond even the Great and Powerful Trixie's ken</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's closer now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back bent under it's burden</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that on it's... limbs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You no longer feel good</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Warm and smug a moment ago</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now chilled to the bone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They always do</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But never so soon after a show</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Incredible power in your veins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An even more incredible cruelty in your heart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching through your own eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Somehow not really comprehending</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as you do things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Things you still can't believe you would have</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you did</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Twilight...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;NO!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No No No No No No No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not a hair out of place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No matter how strong the feelings</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn, you're awesome</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SUNLIGHT!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't see shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes ache and burn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's a good pain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the warmth on your skin is unmistakable</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The thing behind you pokes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;forcing you to go where it wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes are starting to adjust</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're heading toward a large group of brutes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;clustered around a stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There seems to be a blue pony sitting on it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A blue pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a white mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a robe and wizard hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you have been in the dark too long</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And it doesn't look like an animal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As soon as it arrives</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the dogs push it to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You aren't laughing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither is it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such a weird face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can read it as clearly as anypony's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is no thoughtless beast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why would I want your prisoner?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blase, but not overly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No, Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;servant only bring treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, Look!&quot; says another</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They point to the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They hold up the bottles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wow! How did Dogs get luxuries like those?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They went all out this time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The show must have been better than you thought</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A stab of conscious</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn it</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">11</span>-<span class="nu0">20</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">11</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And hard experience has taught you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;reckless action is trouble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You need to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why do servants need chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their pay *is* their chain, is it not?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come to cave in forest!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Steal Diamond Dog treasure!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've heard of this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dogs baiting creatures and capturing them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For labor and eventually food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But always animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe he was a thief?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But even so</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does he deserve what they have in store for him?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And worse</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what if he isn't?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How to proceed?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You have to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and honey catches more flies than vinegar</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie approves!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh thank you Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His pockets bulged when we found him!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were so fat we almost couldn't net him!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Exaggeration, I'm sure.&quot; You sardonically reply</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another spoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yeah he didn't even get them all. We laid out too many gems in the line.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your heart sank</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They DID lure him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You know what you have to do.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're talking about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Knuckle-walking dog-things conversing with a blueberry wizard pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd laugh if you could</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you can't</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So all this is for the blueberry?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder who she is</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She keeps looking at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But not like the others</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They leer</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and throw things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She-not human but clearly female</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;regards you with...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pitty?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A split second</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then it's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The set of her face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The carriage of her body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Everything exudes confidence and power</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog-things extol their gifts</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She actually looks somewhat impressed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sideways glance at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She asks about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They say you're a thief!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your anger overcomes your fear</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're just about to say something</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you can the big dumb(er) one drops the truth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their tails stop wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wince and look at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He doesn't seem to realize what he said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blueberry does</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She doesn't seem happy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Well, The Great and Powerful Trixie has need of a new servant.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does she mean you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;should you be happy?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;She will graciously relieve you of this burden.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They are Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and don't want to let their toy go</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's not a treat!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's a thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What Trixie wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie gets!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Trixie wants him&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If you take him maybe he try steal from you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog seems genuinely worried</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful Trixie might get angry at us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A gentle melody</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;lilting on the breeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If it steals from Trixie it will be punished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Great and Magnanimous Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;would not hold you responsible&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But... but...&quot; the dog stammers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But!&quot; Your voice hardens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Terrible Trixie will get angry&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They whimper at this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;if you deny her!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Famous Trixie will tell all she meets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;'Diamond Dogs have no gratitude!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I saved their town from unspeakable terrors</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;yet they refused my simple request!'</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who will trade with Diamond Dogs then?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dogs look at each other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;indecision crumples their brows</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ok&quot; Spot relents</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No!&quot; Shouts Fido</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He mine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie saved us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover jumps between them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We give her the servant</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but we keep the jewels!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido thinks a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks painful for him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Drinks!&quot; He says finally</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not only no</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but hell fuck no!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Fine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand leaps from your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drops to the sand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe I should leave that here?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe you can find a way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to defeat whatever comes out next?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;their ears droop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They even tuck their tails</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will have it all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or you will have it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;plus everything that comes from that&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gesture with your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A subtle touch of magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a faint wailing and a wisp of smoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Most of the dogs break for the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lock eyes with Rover</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Head high</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cock an eyebrow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He grimaces</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;staring at the nascent cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They yours Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just take away magic stick&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand is back in your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You regard your new help</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He not only picked up your name</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But the proper way to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like him already</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good. Come with me if you want to live</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And bring the baskets&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">13</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You belong to a pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pointy-ears-red-vest dog-thing relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The screaming cloud vanished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The stick the cloud came out of glowed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then flew through the air and in to your pony's pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On any other day that would seem strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nothing's normal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not since waking up in that forest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And this day has been the weirdest one yet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You still have no clue where you are</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;only the vaguest about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what's going on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But if belonging to her</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gets you away from them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it's fine with you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Don't fuck this up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They called her Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something else too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was it a title?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she carried herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she was treated</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was obviously important</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe a noble?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even if not needed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;than not say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and get in deeper shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes glimmered</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smile played across her lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot; she said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She continued talking as she spun on her hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait did she really just say...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well you heard the part about the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you pick them up and follow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leads you around the stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hunh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's a wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With huge trumpets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And little cannons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The door opens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Put them in here&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points with her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Done</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Compassionate Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;thinks you know how to behave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points her horn at your feet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A brilliant golden beam shoots out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The chains crumble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You would be a FOOL to prove otherwise&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of that you had no doubt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie wishes to depart forthwith&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A whirring comes from the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the trumpets, cannons, and even the stage retract in to it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You will follow alongside&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful One&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She climbs aboard the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her snout up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you askance</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a surprisingly soft and warm voice:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Are you injured?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No Great and ...Kind One. I can walk&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon lurches to motion</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you follow</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">14</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he called you kind</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some silly reason</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that makes you very happy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Isn't that silly?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling warm and fuzzy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because the help complimented you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How silly!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A little &quot;harumph&quot; escapes your lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But is lost in the wagon's sounds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Down the road</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Continuing in silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stealing glances at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's so strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And he smells good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought one of the dogs found an equine cologne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But now that you're away</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's definitely him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even though he's filthy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And those rags he's wearing need to go too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been down this road before</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Countless times</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's a hot spring a bit further along</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to find</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've never seen anpony else there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your special place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magical realm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you could use a bath too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Filthy Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there's no way you're taking him to town looking like that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some time later you arrive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What's your name?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We stop here anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop from the cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is very important to Trixie, anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Normally, Trixie wouldn't bring anyone here</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But today is special;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her wisdom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie can see that you need to rest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her generosity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie will let you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and let you do it here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stares into your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is magical to me</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Treat it well</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do you understand?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dare you enter my magical realm?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The look on his face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder what that's about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Follow me&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">15</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;following Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Off the tiny path</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;through trees</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and boulders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hidden among the stones</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A small pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And glorious blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie wishes to bathe anon. You will wait</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;When she is finished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you will bathe too&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Without another word</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She drops her cloak and hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hips sway as she makes her way to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she so confident</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;nudity doesnt bother her?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or is it because she's a pony?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well it doesn't matter</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stretch back in the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Closing your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Soaking in the warmth of the sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Splashing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dripping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your mind wanders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some time passes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she singing now?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You better believe</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've got tricks up my sleeve...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lay back again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hands behind your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sun is so nice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See me dominate&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A tugging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your hand is glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;cause Im powerful and bra-a-aaave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sit up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Your turn anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stands before you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Naked</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wet mane plastered to her neck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She shakes like a dog</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Water goes flying</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What are you waiting for?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can I have some privacy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh Great and Kind One?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You dont need privacy anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trace of annoyance in her voice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You need a bath</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Strip&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You freeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;mind reeling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What to do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon the great and powerful Trixie is loosing patience!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are a servant not a noble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and servants don't need clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stop reaching above your station</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and remove them at once!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So that was it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ponies dont care about nudity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact neither did the dog-things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wore armor and vests</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But those were for protection and pockets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No care for modesty at all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you care</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pardon Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but humans always wear clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's probably why nopony's ever heard of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those are ruined anyway</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;youd look better naked&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns up her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Strip! Now!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stamps her hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pink light shines from her horn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie to YOU!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and YOU will obey ME! &quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly youre airborne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has had enough!&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">16</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;floating a meter or so above the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flipping and turning about your own axes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Struggling to keep your clothes on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The friggin' things are glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and doing their best to fly off your body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Damn it anon stop struggling!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Stop trying to tear off my clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you drop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stop just shy of the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That gets your attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;From how high do you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;could drop you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;before you sustain injury?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dead silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Would you like to find out?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No great and powerful one!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then take those cursed things off!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's bluffing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;probably</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hope</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I will Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just *please* give me some privacy!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;UUUGGGHHHH!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your shirt flies off before you can react</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pants open</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and shoot down your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your underwear too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You catch them just in time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holding with all your might</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;desperate to keep them from slipping off your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're rising higher too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glowing bright pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;curled in a fetal position</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pants around your ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;spinning bare-ass over heels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;cock poking backward between your thighs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Higher still</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was bluffing right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you're falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;oh shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She will catch you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SPLASH!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right in to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hitting water *does* hurt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's warm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tastes horrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look up at the surface</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and swim</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emerge to a very amused looking unicorn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks down at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;smugly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then saunters to the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;tail swishing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lies down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laughs</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">17</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are clean</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are your clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are Trixie's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She eventually relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And let you wear them on the condition you wash and repair them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you have to do hers too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But since she's been naked the whole time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've only had to wash them once.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been resting by the spring for over a week now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sight of the heavenly bodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;suddenly racing across the skies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;drove you to comment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She says there's a pair of princesses that raise and lower the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's got to be figurative</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She seemed absolutely incredulous</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that your sun and moon move on their own.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or that the sun and moon could share the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're feeling much better too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Getting tired of oatmeal though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She won't let you in the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so you sleep wrapped in a blanket outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In case it rains.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Also, it turns out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's not a noble at all:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's in show business!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And practices her magic a lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Uses you as a captive audience to try out new ideas.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how her magic compares to other unicorns,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but it impresses the hell out of you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's smart too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You share stories of your home with her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and she regales you with tales of her adventures.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how much is true,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But her observations are poignant,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her questions incisive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She uncovers things about you with a shocking talent for subterfuge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While she is more than a bit full of herself,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she isn't mean.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been kind to you:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;making sure you have enough to eat,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;offering you extra blankets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;those kinds of things.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's actually kind of sweet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her own way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like her more and more.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">18</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and it's time to leave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon's mechanisms are reset,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your suplies are running low,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and Anon is feeling better.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile despite yourself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But how could you not?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For the first time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you've found somepo-someone with as many stories as you have.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Literally an entire other world's worth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of it you just can't believe:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the sun and moon moving on their own?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No way!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still, for all that,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's ignorant of things that anyone who grew up in Equestria would know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's completely dependent on you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some reason,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you really like that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's also patient,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and attentive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not in the tail-nosing way so many are to famous ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither in the simple brain-dead way servants are to their employers.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He seems to be genuinely interested in you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and what you have to say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile broadens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's such a silly thing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but he smells good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He says all humans smell like that when they work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He also says they don't like it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans are silly.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">19</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A couple of days further down the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you aren't a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It turns out Anon isn't as strong as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's taller than you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So he looks imposing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But a few hours in to the first day back on the road,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you could see it wasn't going to work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was hitched properly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he really did try.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But he was slow,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even on flat ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trips at Anon-speed would take too long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the first hill you came to...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He tried that too, but slipped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd had to use magic to keep from careening backwards.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How were you supposed to relax, or study, or do anything,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;when you might have to leap to the rescue at any moment?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That put an end to that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans, it seems, just aren't as strong as equines.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you, the Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;are pulling your own wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While your putative servant strolls beside you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are not a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even if he does smell good.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you can see that Trixie is frustrated.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been snippier than usual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And quieter when you've stopped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You want to help her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you think you know a way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We're stopping here, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All right, Great and Powerful one. Let me help you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You walk over and begin unhitching her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't need your help, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You pause.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She practically spat it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and hadn't referred to herself in the third person for a while.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The buckles flared pink, and dropped to the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pull it off to the side, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;There's a stream beyond those trees.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her snout gestured to the left.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Get some water and start dinner.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She disappears in to her Wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You did as you were told.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A knock on her door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Dinner is ready, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She emerges,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;walks to the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and begins to eat.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You watch her take one glum bite after another.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful One,&quot; you began</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I can tell you're upset.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want to do something for you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Like what?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can't pull the vardo, you can't work magic, and you can't eat hay.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm stuck feeding you oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a small voice, barely audible:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want the oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pouts in to the flames.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's something special, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Something humans do for each other,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;when we... when we care.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks up at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You're always pulling the cart,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You say, sitting at her hooves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And I think you must be sore.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She watches you reach out,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cup her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gently lifting it and setting it in your lap.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's stopped chewing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;now silently looking you in the eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You rest your hand on her cannon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm not being too familiar, am I?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gently you begin to stroke along it's length.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly at first,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then with gentle pressure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following the grain of her fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's extremely soft,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and very fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's chewing again,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not so gloomily as before.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under her leg and up to her hock;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pinching your way down to her fetlock.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You do it again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's staring at the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;very intently.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An uncertain look on her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Back to her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;caressing her coronet:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly running your fingertips between hoof and fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then work from hock to coronet again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You glance up; her eyes are closed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A quiet sigh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You continue along her hoof wall,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to her heel.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Massaging her frog;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pressing and rolling in little circles.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She winces and melts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You must be doing well.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Up and down, from hock to hoof,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Over and over.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling her tension drain,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and body loosen with each pass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Kneading her hooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with strength, and with great care.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On and on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;First one, then the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;firm muscle, soft blue fur,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and a unicorn who's lost in the moment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hasn't moved or made a sound in some time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her breath is deep and rhythmic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but smile,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;placing her hooves back on the ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gently brush an errant strand of mane from her face,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And cover her with your blanket.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Softly: &quot;Good night Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You clean up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and lay down a short distance away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The night is clear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The fire is warm.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it fades you drift off,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to pleasant and unexpected thoughts of Trixie.</span></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-code mw-content-ltr"><div class="gettext source-gettext">&#160;<br />A Blueberry and her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">1</span>-<span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">1</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Having one hell of a time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Circling Equestria in your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping when you reach a town,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;performing magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pearls before swine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They don't appreciate it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not enough, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They can't see your greatness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Aren't you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are, ...somewhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lot's of trees.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Weird animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do those clouds have spikes?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been here for a few days.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sun can really fuckin' move.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So can the moon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knows how you got here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wherever here is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much to eat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clothes are dirty and torn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those clouds DO have spikes!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there're lots of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's getting darker.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly brighter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning! Way too close for comfort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rain too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is that a... a cave!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've read enough novels to know this never works out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that's only novels right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Real life has empty, unused caves, right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Man, the rain is really coming down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Besides, everyone knows monsters aren't real!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;BOOM!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning turns a tree in to fragments</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That cinches it: cave it is.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">2</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More importantly, you are out of the rain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More or less</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This cave isn't so big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it is long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The storm makes it dark outside,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but the cave continues in pure blackness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Shit's creepy, yo.[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You vaguely recall reading caves are bad places to be in thunderstorms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning can jump the gaps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was that why?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't remember.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Should you go deeper?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's even closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You see something out of the corner of your eye.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glinting in the flash from outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that in the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sound.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Barely audible over the din from outside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Different from the din outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;faint</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scraping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails, or...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, this is real life.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">3</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and there are jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There are many jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rubies, Saphires, Diamonds, Emeralds!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scattered a few meters further in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How convenient.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they're big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And your pockets are empty.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you realize it, you're squatting and stuffing them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hmmm, not as many as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still a half-dozen thumb-sized gems are nothing to sneeze at.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait, what's that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;At the edge of the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweet!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh, another?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just a bit further?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning flashes again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't seem so close this time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit you're deeper than you realized!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But there are still more jewels.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Little sparks of light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;laying one after the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a trail of winking eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;beckoning you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To go deeper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can see the mouth of the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A distant, dark gray splotch against the black</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look forward.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness. Not merely the absence of light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A darkness so absolute it seems to be material.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can feel it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like the abyss staring back at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smell</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rotting meat and unwashed fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dread and fear wash over you like a wave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;GET OUT NOW</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You turn to run, dropping the gems in your hands.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sound again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, not fingernails:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;claws.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scrabbling for purchase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Louder than before,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You break in to a sprint.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A step.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something hits you from behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Large and filthy and hairy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Laughter like nothing from a human throat echos in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're thrown to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bound with coarse rope.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something wet and clingy and noxious goes over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">4</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The day is looking good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond Dogs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're kind of stinky, sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But easy to impress!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And loaded with Jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much further now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good thing to</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;turning your wagon's wheels with magic is hard!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not too hard of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But hard enough.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sure does impress though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even other ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the Diamond Dogs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You giggle to yourself imagining their reaction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You put on a haughty expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sly smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;palpable arrogance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon carries you through the tree line.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Showtime!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come one! Come all!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the amaaazing feats of magic that can only be done by the most amaaazing unicorn in Equestria.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise unbidden.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A town not too far away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another unicorn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your expression never wavers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your eyes don't betray your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile even grows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Magic isn't the only amazing thing about you.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">5</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you cary on with practiced ease.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your vardo rolls on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Toward the wide mouth of the Diamond Dog's cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the dextrous manipulation of reality itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They've definitely noticed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Be AWED with power you never knew existed!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond pups yip and jump excitedly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some rush in to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Power you never knew *could* exist!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More Diamond Dogs emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ears perked,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wagging tails,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some with lolling tongues.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon trundles on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For while Trixie has graced your home with her presence before,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *was* some time ago.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon stops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gather round and see Trixie as you've never seen her before!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stand on your ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hat cocked just so.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cloak billowing behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Blessed with talent beyond any other unicorn!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trained by Princess Celestia herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Victor of a duel with *Princess* Twilight Sparkle!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ruler of Ponyville...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Until I got bored and left!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The one! The only! The Great and Powerful Trrrixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You leap from your vardo,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;subtly hitting a switch as you go.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magic carries you higher than a mere leap would have,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and slows your descent to a glide.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From your wagon trumpets blare and cannons launch confetti.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smoke erupts and a stage juts forth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Perfect timing, you think,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;magically adjusting your fall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You touch down as the smoke clears.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A wand in your hoof.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A dramatic flourish and bow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To a cacophony of excited howls</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tails drumming the ground.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">6</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you have the audience in the frog of your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You flash your perfect smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And raise your wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweeping the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but laugh as their heads follow it's movement</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Every last one of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Silly things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You play to it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hahaha!&quot; Your voice gradually rising in pitch</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Behold! An artifact from *beyond*!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Just a stick, yo![/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Griphons!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What should I call it?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Taurs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Think fast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to to the Dragons, and the mighty Diamond Dogs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was that thing called?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown even to Ponies!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lives under the sea, part pony part octopus, little bat-wings?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All but two, that is!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah, that's it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Brought to this world by Starswirl the Bearded himself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Used to work wonders!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then banished beyond the sea by Princess Celestia herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because even SHE feared it's might!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Tremble, for you are in the presence of the dreaded Wand of Colthulhu!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They all actually gasped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;perfect</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But *I*, the Great and Powerful Trixie could not be denied!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, through wit and sorcery unmatched,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stole this artifact from the depths of Tartarus itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, and I alone know the secret to it's use!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But the Great and Powerful Trixie is not cruel!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Selfless Trixie would share the marvels of this relic!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Who would witness it's power?&quot;</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">7</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The center of attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it should be</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs stand transfixed by the stick</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Eyes glazed, ears down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flourishing here and there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pink aura sparking and glowing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not even The Great and Powerful Trixie can use it in hoof.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's magic is too dangerous!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;One of Starswirl's apprentices tried...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and was seen dragged away by tentacled horrors!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Things from beyond the veil of worlds!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hold it steady</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few meters over the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With your magic you call forth screams</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shrill and wild</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sound like they're coming from the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a wispy vapor</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it darkens and thickens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From the lobes and pillows of smoke a face forms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twisted and rotten</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then melts away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;larger and more monstrous than the last</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look around</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're all focused on the show above them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few of the pups are hiding their eyes behind their paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A new shape rises</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Swift and terrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like a shark attacking from below</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it swallows the monsters face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and leers at the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gasps, and even a whimper or two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the pups</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ha!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Here we go...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dramatically you allow the pink aura of magic to sputter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You make the screams louder</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Add new voices</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twist them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some stones fall down the mountainside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of them turn to look</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now a voice for the face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pathetic creatures&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can not hold me! I will devour you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not good enough for ponies, you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More than enough for these mutts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of the pups flee in the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Silence beast!&quot; You shout.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are at my command!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will not allow you to harm!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Begone!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows brighter, so does the wand.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The face contorts in agony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it keens as it's absorbed back in to the stick.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It drops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs flee from where it lands</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile, allowing yourself to seem just a *bit* flustered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They look back and forth from the wand to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And erupt in cheers</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">8</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You just saved the day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or so they think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop down from your stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, a pin drop would be loud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stroll nonchalantly toward the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quietly laying in a circle of dumbstruck Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They part like water as you approach</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not e-ven the Immaterium's Horrors can match the Great and Powerful TrrrixIE!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emphasize the last sound</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;savoring it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But really...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows and the wand jumps to your cloak-pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs jump too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;was there *ever* any doubt?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then saunter back to stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling their eyes on you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Relishing it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting on stage now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hind hooves crossed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dangling languidly off the edge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Time for the goodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now then&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quondam royal student,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;triumphant in uncounted duels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and contests of magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has juuusstt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;saved your bacon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that phrase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Picked it up from the Gryphons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A murmur passes through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trio of them sprint to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie will accept your adulation...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The briefest of pauses</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The faintest of smiles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As one they rush to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping just shy of your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Yipping cheering and whining</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hopefully they don't piddle again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You raise your gorgeous face to the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sounds and more importantly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The feelings wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth swells in your chest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile more broadly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And look toward the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;careful to let only the barest of glances fall on your worshipers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They should be returning with your reward soon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Last time it was a basket full of glittering jewels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah there!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two of the cave-sprinters emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Empty-handed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Behind them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Movement in the gloom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That must be number three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What under Celestia's sun is that!?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">9</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still alive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you'd be better off dead</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains around your wrists and ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pushing a heavy gem-laden cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's barely any light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even less food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And brutish foul-smelling... things are everywhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;taunting you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;whipping you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How long have you been here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to tell when you can't see the sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's happening</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big blue hunchbacked one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your captor, is coming</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Where he is, the other two are never far behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sniff the air and bee-line for you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one's got something in his paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;One of them holds your chain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one shoves that thing over your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's wooden, and heavy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Baskets hang from its sides</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They stuff gems in one basket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bottles in the other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drag you by your chain</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And for once in your life you are speechless</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something has emerged from the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks like...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;well it looks like nothing you've ever seen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Walks on two legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;covered in dirty tattered cloth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It has a mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;of a sort</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But no coat you can see</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bearing a yoke with two full baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And prodded along by...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido was his name?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well the biggest of the three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whatever his name was</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're heading your way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover and Spot push through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and genuflect at your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tails stiff</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;just the ends wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're excited</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;trying to be subtle about it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Trixie...&quot; He begins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;AHEM!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pause</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may continue.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Thank you for saving us&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, look!&quot; The other one adds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Our servant brings you treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gems, and Cider, and Gryphon ale too!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So it's their servant?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why anything would serve the Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is beyond even the Great and Powerful Trixie's ken</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's closer now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back bent under it's burden</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that on it's... limbs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You no longer feel good</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Warm and smug a moment ago</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now chilled to the bone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They always do</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But never so soon after a show</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Incredible power in your veins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An even more incredible cruelty in your heart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching through your own eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Somehow not really comprehending</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as you do things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Things you still can't believe you would have</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you did</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Twilight...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;NO!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No No No No No No No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not a hair out of place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No matter how strong the feelings</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn, you're awesome</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SUNLIGHT!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't see shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes ache and burn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's a good pain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the warmth on your skin is unmistakable</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The thing behind you pokes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;forcing you to go where it wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes are starting to adjust</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're heading toward a large group of brutes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;clustered around a stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There seems to be a blue pony sitting on it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A blue pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a white mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a robe and wizard hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you have been in the dark too long</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And it doesn't look like an animal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As soon as it arrives</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the dogs push it to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You aren't laughing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither is it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such a weird face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can read it as clearly as anypony's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is no thoughtless beast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why would I want your prisoner?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blase, but not overly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No, Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;servant only bring treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, Look!&quot; says another</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They point to the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They hold up the bottles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wow! How did Dogs get luxuries like those?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They went all out this time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The show must have been better than you thought</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A stab of conscious</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn it</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">11</span>-<span class="nu0">20</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">11</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And hard experience has taught you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;reckless action is trouble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You need to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why do servants need chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their pay *is* their chain, is it not?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come to cave in forest!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Steal Diamond Dog treasure!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've heard of this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dogs baiting creatures and capturing them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For labor and eventually food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But always animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe he was a thief?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But even so</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does he deserve what they have in store for him?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And worse</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what if he isn't?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How to proceed?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You have to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and honey catches more flies than vinegar</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie approves!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh thank you Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His pockets bulged when we found him!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were so fat we almost couldn't net him!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Exaggeration, I'm sure.&quot; You sardonically reply</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another spoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yeah he didn't even get them all. We laid out too many gems in the line.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your heart sank</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They DID lure him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You know what you have to do.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're talking about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Knuckle-walking dog-things conversing with a blueberry wizard pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd laugh if you could</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you can't</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So all this is for the blueberry?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder who she is</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She keeps looking at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But not like the others</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They leer</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and throw things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She-not human but clearly female</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;regards you with...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pitty?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A split second</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then it's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The set of her face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The carriage of her body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Everything exudes confidence and power</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog-things extol their gifts</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She actually looks somewhat impressed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sideways glance at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She asks about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They say you're a thief!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your anger overcomes your fear</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're just about to say something</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you can the big dumb(er) one drops the truth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their tails stop wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wince and look at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He doesn't seem to realize what he said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blueberry does</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She doesn't seem happy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Well, The Great and Powerful Trixie has need of a new servant.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does she mean you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;should you be happy?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;She will graciously relieve you of this burden.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They are Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and don't want to let their toy go</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's not a treat!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's a thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What Trixie wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie gets!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Trixie wants him&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If you take him maybe he try steal from you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog seems genuinely worried</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful Trixie might get angry at us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A gentle melody</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;lilting on the breeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If it steals from Trixie it will be punished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Great and Magnanimous Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;would not hold you responsible&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But... but...&quot; the dog stammers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But!&quot; Your voice hardens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Terrible Trixie will get angry&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They whimper at this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;if you deny her!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Famous Trixie will tell all she meets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;'Diamond Dogs have no gratitude!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I saved their town from unspeakable terrors</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;yet they refused my simple request!'</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who will trade with Diamond Dogs then?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dogs look at each other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;indecision crumples their brows</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ok&quot; Spot relents</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No!&quot; Shouts Fido</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He mine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie saved us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover jumps between them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We give her the servant</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but we keep the jewels!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido thinks a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks painful for him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Drinks!&quot; He says finally</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not only no</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but hell fuck no!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Fine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand leaps from your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drops to the sand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe I should leave that here?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe you can find a way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to defeat whatever comes out next?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;their ears droop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They even tuck their tails</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will have it all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or you will have it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;plus everything that comes from that&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gesture with your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A subtle touch of magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a faint wailing and a wisp of smoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Most of the dogs break for the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lock eyes with Rover</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Head high</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cock an eyebrow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He grimaces</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;staring at the nascent cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They yours Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just take away magic stick&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand is back in your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You regard your new help</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He not only picked up your name</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But the proper way to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like him already</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good. Come with me if you want to live</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And bring the baskets&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">13</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You belong to a pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pointy-ears-red-vest dog-thing relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The screaming cloud vanished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The stick the cloud came out of glowed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then flew through the air and in to your pony's pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On any other day that would seem strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nothing's normal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not since waking up in that forest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And this day has been the weirdest one yet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You still have no clue where you are</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;only the vaguest about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what's going on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But if belonging to her</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gets you away from them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it's fine with you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Don't fuck this up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They called her Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something else too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was it a title?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she carried herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she was treated</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was obviously important</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe a noble?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even if not needed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;than not say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and get in deeper shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes glimmered</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smile played across her lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot; she said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She continued talking as she spun on her hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait did she really just say...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well you heard the part about the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you pick them up and follow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leads you around the stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hunh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's a wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With huge trumpets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And little cannons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The door opens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Put them in here&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points with her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Done</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Compassionate Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;thinks you know how to behave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points her horn at your feet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A brilliant golden beam shoots out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The chains crumble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You would be a FOOL to prove otherwise&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of that you had no doubt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie wishes to depart forthwith&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A whirring comes from the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the trumpets, cannons, and even the stage retract in to it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You will follow alongside&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful One&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She climbs aboard the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her snout up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you askance</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a surprisingly soft and warm voice:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Are you injured?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No Great and ...Kind One. I can walk&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon lurches to motion</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you follow</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">14</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he called you kind</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some silly reason</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that makes you very happy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Isn't that silly?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling warm and fuzzy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because the help complimented you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How silly!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A little &quot;harumph&quot; escapes your lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But is lost in the wagon's sounds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Down the road</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Continuing in silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stealing glances at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's so strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And he smells good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought one of the dogs found an equine cologne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But now that you're away</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's definitely him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even though he's filthy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And those rags he's wearing need to go too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been down this road before</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Countless times</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's a hot spring a bit further along</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to find</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've never seen anpony else there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your special place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magical realm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you could use a bath too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Filthy Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there's no way you're taking him to town looking like that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some time later you arrive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What's your name?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We stop here anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop from the cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is very important to Trixie, anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Normally, Trixie wouldn't bring anyone here</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But today is special;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her wisdom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie can see that you need to rest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her generosity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie will let you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and let you do it here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stares into your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is magical to me</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Treat it well</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do you understand?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dare you enter my magical realm?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The look on his face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder what that's about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Follow me&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">15</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;following Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Off the tiny path</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;through trees</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and boulders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hidden among the stones</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A small pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And glorious blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie wishes to bathe anon. You will wait</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;When she is finished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you will bathe too&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Without another word</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She drops her cloak and hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hips sway as she makes her way to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she so confident</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;nudity doesnt bother her?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or is it because she's a pony?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well it doesn't matter</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stretch back in the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Closing your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Soaking in the warmth of the sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Splashing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dripping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your mind wanders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some time passes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she singing now?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You better believe</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've got tricks up my sleeve...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lay back again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hands behind your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sun is so nice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See me dominate&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A tugging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your hand is glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;cause Im powerful and bra-a-aaave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sit up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Your turn anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stands before you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Naked</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wet mane plastered to her neck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She shakes like a dog</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Water goes flying</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What are you waiting for?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can I have some privacy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh Great and Kind One?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You dont need privacy anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trace of annoyance in her voice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You need a bath</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Strip&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You freeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;mind reeling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What to do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon the great and powerful Trixie is loosing patience!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are a servant not a noble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and servants don't need clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stop reaching above your station</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and remove them at once!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So that was it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ponies dont care about nudity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact neither did the dog-things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wore armor and vests</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But those were for protection and pockets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No care for modesty at all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you care</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pardon Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but humans always wear clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's probably why nopony's ever heard of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those are ruined anyway</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;youd look better naked&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns up her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Strip! Now!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stamps her hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pink light shines from her horn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie to YOU!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and YOU will obey ME! &quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly youre airborne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has had enough!&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">16</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;floating a meter or so above the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flipping and turning about your own axes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Struggling to keep your clothes on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The friggin' things are glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and doing their best to fly off your body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Damn it anon stop struggling!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Stop trying to tear off my clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you drop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stop just shy of the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That gets your attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;From how high do you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;could drop you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;before you sustain injury?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dead silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Would you like to find out?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No great and powerful one!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then take those cursed things off!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's bluffing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;probably</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hope</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I will Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just *please* give me some privacy!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;UUUGGGHHHH!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your shirt flies off before you can react</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pants open</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and shoot down your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your underwear too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You catch them just in time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holding with all your might</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;desperate to keep them from slipping off your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're rising higher too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glowing bright pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;curled in a fetal position</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pants around your ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;spinning bare-ass over heels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;cock poking backward between your thighs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Higher still</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was bluffing right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you're falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;oh shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She will catch you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SPLASH!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right in to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hitting water *does* hurt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's warm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tastes horrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look up at the surface</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and swim</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emerge to a very amused looking unicorn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks down at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;smugly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then saunters to the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;tail swishing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lies down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laughs</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">17</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are clean</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are your clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are Trixie's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She eventually relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And let you wear them on the condition you wash and repair them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you have to do hers too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But since she's been naked the whole time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've only had to wash them once.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been resting by the spring for over a week now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sight of the heavenly bodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;suddenly racing across the skies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;drove you to comment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She says there's a pair of princesses that raise and lower the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's got to be figurative</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She seemed absolutely incredulous</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that your sun and moon move on their own.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or that the sun and moon could share the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're feeling much better too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Getting tired of oatmeal though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She won't let you in the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so you sleep wrapped in a blanket outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In case it rains.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Also, it turns out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's not a noble at all:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's in show business!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And practices her magic a lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Uses you as a captive audience to try out new ideas.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how her magic compares to other unicorns,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but it impresses the hell out of you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's smart too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You share stories of your home with her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and she regales you with tales of her adventures.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how much is true,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But her observations are poignant,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her questions incisive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She uncovers things about you with a shocking talent for subterfuge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While she is more than a bit full of herself,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she isn't mean.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been kind to you:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;making sure you have enough to eat,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;offering you extra blankets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;those kinds of things.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's actually kind of sweet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her own way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like her more and more.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">18</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and it's time to leave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon's mechanisms are reset,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your suplies are running low,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and Anon is feeling better.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile despite yourself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But how could you not?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For the first time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you've found somepo-someone with as many stories as you have.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Literally an entire other world's worth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of it you just can't believe:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the sun and moon moving on their own?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No way!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still, for all that,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's ignorant of things that anyone who grew up in Equestria would know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's completely dependent on you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some reason,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you really like that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's also patient,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and attentive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not in the tail-nosing way so many are to famous ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither in the simple brain-dead way servants are to their employers.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He seems to be genuinely interested in you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and what you have to say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile broadens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's such a silly thing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but he smells good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He says all humans smell like that when they work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He also says they don't like it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans are silly.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">19</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A couple of days further down the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you aren't a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It turns out Anon isn't as strong as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's taller than you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So he looks imposing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But a few hours in to the first day back on the road,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you could see it wasn't going to work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was hitched properly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he really did try.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But he was slow,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even on flat ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trips at Anon-speed would take too long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the first hill you came to...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He tried that too, but slipped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd had to use magic to keep from careening backwards.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How were you supposed to relax, or study, or do anything,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;when you might have to leap to the rescue at any moment?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That put an end to that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans, it seems, just aren't as strong as equines.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you, the Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;are pulling your own wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While your putative servant strolls beside you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are not a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even if he does smell good.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you can see that Trixie is frustrated.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been snippier than usual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And quieter when you've stopped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You want to help her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you think you know a way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We're stopping here, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All right, Great and Powerful one. Let me help you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You walk over and begin unhitching her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't need your help, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You pause.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She practically spat it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and hadn't referred to herself in the third person for a while.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The buckles flared pink, and dropped to the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pull it off to the side, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;There's a stream beyond those trees.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her snout gestured to the left.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Get some water and start dinner.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She disappears in to her Wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You did as you were told.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A knock on her door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Dinner is ready, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She emerges,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;walks to the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and begins to eat.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You watch her take one glum bite after another.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful One,&quot; you began</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I can tell you're upset.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want to do something for you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Like what?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can't pull the vardo, you can't work magic, and you can't eat hay.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm stuck feeding you oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a small voice, barely audible:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want the oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pouts in to the flames.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's something special, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Something humans do for each other,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;when we... when we care.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks up at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You're always pulling the cart,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You say, sitting at her hooves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And I think you must be sore.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She watches you reach out,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cup her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gently lifting it and setting it in your lap.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's stopped chewing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;now silently looking you in the eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You rest your hand on her cannon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm not being too familiar, am I?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gently you begin to stroke along it's length.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly at first,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then with gentle pressure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following the grain of her fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's extremely soft,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and very fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's chewing again,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not so gloomily as before.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under her leg and up to her hock;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pinching your way down to her fetlock.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You do it again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's staring at the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;very intently.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An uncertain look on her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Back to her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;caressing her coronet:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly running your fingertips between hoof and fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then work from hock to coronet again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You glance up; her eyes are closed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A quiet sigh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You continue along her hoof wall,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to her heel.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Massaging her frog;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pressing and rolling in little circles.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She winces and melts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You must be doing well.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Up and down, from hock to hoof,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Over and over.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling her tension drain,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and body loosen with each pass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Kneading her hooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with strength, and with great care.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On and on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;First one, then the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;firm muscle, soft blue fur,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and a unicorn who's lost in the moment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hasn't moved or made a sound in some time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her breath is deep and rhythmic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but smile,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;placing her hooves back on the ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gently brush an errant strand of mane from her face,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And cover her with your blanket.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Softly: &quot;Good night Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You clean up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and lay down a short distance away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The night is clear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The fire is warm.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it fades you drift off,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to pleasant and unexpected thoughts of Trixie.</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">21</span>-<span class="nu0">30</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">21</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you're being followed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is your first time in a pony town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ever since Trixie's show,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you've had a handful of ponies around.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd watch you from their windows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd watch from the streets.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd even watch from the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought at first the clouds were chasing you too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you saw pegai peeking over the edges.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her show was, of course fantastic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She made what little you'd seen at the Diamond Dogs cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;seem like parlor tricks.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's for the ponies&quot; she'd said in private.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They can use magic too&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;so I have to pull out all the stops&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But even so, you were a distraction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The ponies just couldn't focus on Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with you there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After the show, she seemed a little put-off.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then, an idea must have struck,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because she immediately took a bag of bits,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and told you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you found yourself being led through the streets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;by a gorgeous blue unicorn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a half-dozen others trotting along behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie'd been much more relaxed lately.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She smiled.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Genuine smiles,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;no longer putting up a facade when you were in private.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact, she had stopped referring to herself in the third person.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you came to town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The difference was amazing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you were in public now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Surrounded by equines of all colors and descriptions.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She had an image to maintain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So, her demeanor came as no surprise when she said:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We're here, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Open the door for the Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then shouldered her way past</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with an annoyed little squeak</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her snout in the air.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon, you will turn the lock, and take a seat.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie will return momentarily.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And with that, she vanished down a hall.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">22</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting in the most enormous couch you'd ever seen.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wide, long and with padding thick enough to swallow you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You take stock of your surroundings:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are sitting in one of a pair of huge plush couches.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Across from you, an ornate wooden counter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The hall down which Trixie vanished behind it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Short, but very wide windows in the walls just below the ceiling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A large door to the outside on your right,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with many nosy ponies peering through the glass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The walls: lined alternately with full-length mirrors</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and equine dress-forms,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;adorned in the most ornate clothing you'd ever seen!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A tailor's shop.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a high-end one by the looks of it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why would she have brought you here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Speak of the Blueberry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Stand up!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She trots in to the room, another pony in tow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come here, Anon. The Great and Powerful Trixie has need of you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stop a step away from her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Do you think you can do it?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's speaking to the other pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This one's wearing fancy clothes,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with her mane in elaborate coifs and curls.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's even wearing make-up.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe, great and Powerful one.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I need to get a better look.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Very well. Anon, strip.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back at the door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anxious faces still pressed against the glass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They follow your gaze.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie's horn glows and a shade drops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He's easily embarrassed, the silly thing.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie replies to the other mares quizzical expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now don't make Trixie repeat herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well they are ponies...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You disrobe in front of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stand tall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Nicely done, anon.&quot; she says with a mischievous grin.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That wasn't so bad, was it?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Better than the alternative, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes lock; her mirth is unmistakable.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cheeky little blueberry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The other pony doesn't seem to care.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trotting around and around you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then back to check your garments.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Making notes on a piece of paper,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;measuring you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scribbling again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Finally she says:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I can accommodate your request, Lady Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">23</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back under the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After leaving the clothier's,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie had led you around the city.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pointing out the good and bad.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Talking about how it had looked before</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;or where such-and-such a thing had happened.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her memory must be incredible.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She had obviously been in a good mood,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and even treated you to a restaurant.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She'd said it was a favorite of Pegai</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And that she'd chosen it for one reason:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It served fish!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And vegetables.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knew how delicious they could be after so long on oatmeal?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She also paid you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Minus expenses, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that still left you with some bits in your pockets.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Near the end of the scheduled day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had returned to the store and found an outfit waiting for you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And what an outfit!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Based on what you'd worn,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but embellished beyond belief:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rhinestones, and showy fabric,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with enormous liberties taken with the cut.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looked ridiculous, but fit suprisingly well,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So Trixie had you carry it out, wrapped in brown paper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It seems Trixie had noticed how much attention you garnered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And being the keen business-pony she was,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;decided to capitalize on it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You were to join her show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whether you liked it, or not.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All in all it had been a very nice day.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So even when the clouds rolled in and a drizzle started up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your spirits were high.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">24</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Thinking about the day.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What a wonderful time you'd had with Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How happy he'd been to eat the fish.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anything but oatmeal&quot; he'd joked.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But he seemed to enjoy the fish the most.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Turns out you guessed right.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That made you happy, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But Anon being happy...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That made you feel...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It made your chest warm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a funny little flutter creep in your stomach.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like some school-filly crush.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How silly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it *was* nice.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You couldn't remember the last time you felt so good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact the memories hadn't come back, either.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not at all.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not since you'd met Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hadn't had a good night's sleep since you were a filly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your parents, other fillies,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;teachers, and so many others.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd all rejected you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you rejected them back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That didn't make them like you, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it did make you feel stronger.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No longer at their mercy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You didn't need anypony!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even as an adult mare.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they needed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your talent, your showponyship.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They craved your attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you gave it to them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until Ponyville, and...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had known the danger</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;had known it twisted and corrupted the minds of it's wielders.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hadn't cared.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wanted revenge!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Revenge for what she had done to you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd thought you could control it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;or at least resist it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you were wrong.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And when your own mind had returned,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you had so many new personal horrors to face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So many things to haunt your waking moments,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and keep you up at night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you met Anon.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">25</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sit lost in thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sound of rain drumming your caravan.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon is...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Out there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Can you really...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What if he says &quot;no?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're no school-filly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You will not be cowed by fear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sigh, and open your door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A little touch of magic and a canopy forms over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why was your voice so soft?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He looks out from under your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful One?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How to put this without giving the wrong idea?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was the right idea, anyway?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're no longer sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You shouldn't be out in the rain, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Dry off...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate a towel.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;come inside.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I... don't want those new clothes being ruined.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You know the new clothes are in the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She knows too; she put them there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That look on her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's wrong?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You climb out from under the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and towel yourself on it's ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly your towel gains a life of it's own;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ruffling your hair and stroking your face and neck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hold still anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I don't want any of that in here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You realize she's using her forehooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not her magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's fine, Anon. You may enter.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her snout is up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But she doesn't meet your eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You crawl in to the wagon for the first time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's cozy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With small, modestly carved cabinetry</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stained a shade darker than the wooden walls.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scents of cedar, gardenias, and horse.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pulls another blanket and pillow from a net</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;suspended from the ceiling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She gives them to you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her eyes at last meeting yours.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I... I hope there's enough room.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She snuffs out the candle.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The steady patter of rain,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and Trixie's gardenia-scented mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;carry you softly to sleep.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">26</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you couldn't be happier!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's been weeks now,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;since you added Anon to your show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've visited farms, and towns, and a big city too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Arriving to find that your reputation has preceded you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and everypony is just dying to see you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your profits have skyrocketed!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the show, either.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Afterward, many of the ponies want to talk with him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You and Anon are invited to restaurants,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pubs, cidereys and so many other places.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They take vignettes,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hang banners,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And tell everypony who comes by</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *their* establishment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;is a favorite of the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her &quot;pet.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You rarely have to pay for food or supplies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even your seamstress</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;is offering to make new clothes gratis.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;If only you'll &quot;Please, please, please,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;tell everypony who made them.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your little chest of bits is overflowing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Literally.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Also, Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your little human.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You shared the wagon every night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His scent in your home.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His warmth in your bed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had gone to sleep facing the walls,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that first unforgetable night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But when you awoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;-before he did-</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;snuggled in his arms,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;muzzle under his chin,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You knew a peace you never thought you would.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth and contentment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that had only grown stronger.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You didn't think those feelings were silly any more.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were serious.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you wanted more!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But what could you do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was your employee, and not even a pony!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hiding your feelings around other ponies was easy;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you act like it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Around them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But Anon was different</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wanted him to like you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just respect you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What would you do when estrus came?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What would he do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought and wondered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wondered and thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until one day...</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">27</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Squatting by the fire, preparing lunch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your arrogant, demanding,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wonderful boss is lying under a tree.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clacking beads on an abacus and scratching in a notebook.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A shadow passes overhead.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pagasus.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had seen many around.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Especially in this part of Equestria.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There were more pagai here than any other kind of pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But this one was different.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He wore gold armor.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His mane and tail: blue.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cropped and pushed through his helmet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Redolent of a Roman soldier's comb on Earth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He circled, and flew overhead again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Much closer this time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and landed a few paces away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie noticed him then.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stood, watching impassively.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Upon seeing her, the pegasus spoke.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Are you Trixie Lulamoon? Magus of the Road, and Guardian of Anon?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am.&quot; She replies in an equally haughty voice.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What brings a royal guard&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;to search out the Great and Powerful Trixie?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He produces a scroll from his saddlebags,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and lays it at her hooves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;have heard of your magnificence!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They wish to see your performance, and meet your pet!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are hereby summoned to appear in the royal court,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;no later than the end of summer. You are invited to stay,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;as a guest of Their Royal Highnesses in the castle,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and enjoy their hospitality. How do you answer?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pauses a moment,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;raises the scroll with her magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and reads.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;If you didn't know her like you did,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You might believe her nonchalance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you do,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her excitement is clear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With a smirk, and toss of her mane, she says:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may tell Their Royal Highnesses,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That The Great and Powerful Trixie,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Magus of the Road, and Guardian of Anon,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;accepts their invitation.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;She will make all due haste toward Canterlot.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The pagasus bows and takes to the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie watches him go, snout raised.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then suddenly prances circles on tippy-hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;swishing her tail and arching her back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">28</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;marching beside your vardo.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well Trixie's vardo.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you can't help but think of it as yours too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your relationship has blossomed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You work together, travel together</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;eat together and share the same bed every night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And she's a real cuddlebug.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Always finding excuses to touch you while you work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She particularly enjoys leaning against you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and uses your lap as a pillow for her naps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Many pleasant hours had passed under trees,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;watching your little pony dream her dreams.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Herd animals are prone to physical contact,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but this didn't feel casual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you loved every moment of it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On this particular morning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she had put on her costume, chattering incessantly,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Excited and nervous.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Saying today was the day you'd reach Canterlot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had seen the castle from far away,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sprouting from a cliff in defiance of all prudence.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But now you drew close,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so with a little nuzzle of your arm,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she put on her archetype.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tail and nose high,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;eyes: bright and imperious.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pride oozing from beneath her wide brim.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We are nearly there Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;As we have come by Royal Invite,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;doubtlessly they will be on the lookout for us.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;In fact, Trixie wouldn't be surprised if they already know we're here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It turns out, she was right.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Moments later 6 guard ponies in sparkling armor approached.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The captain bowed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Lady Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;by order of Their Royal Highnesses, we bid you welcome.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Please allow us to escort you to the Royal Palace.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Captain, The Great and Powerful Trixie accepts your welcome&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and bids you lead on.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;4 took position in front.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another behind you, buckled himself to your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had a retinue!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The captain bowed again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;At your convenience, Lady Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her smile is as smug as you'd ever seen.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But this time she isn't smiling at you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she's smiling with you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Enjoying the moment, and inviting you to do the same.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile meets hers,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and with pomp barely concealing glee,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she marches forth.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">29</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Strutting over the drawbridge and through the gate.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Guard ponies bow as you pass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Acknowledgement, admiration, and respect:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;everything you've ever wanted</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;made all the sweeter because Anon is here to share it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All ponies watch as you pass by.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Probably wondering who's so important as to get a Royal escort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As if there was anyone more deserving!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well, maybe one...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as deserving, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look at anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's watching you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the grandeur, all the wonder of Canterlot</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he's watching you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you deserve it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but still...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His smile rivals the sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But can't compare to the blaze in your heart.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Could this day get any better?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You close your eyes and savor the feeling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Together</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The hoi polloi can't see you like this!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You force yourself to look away</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and notice other ponies in the crowd.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching you and watching him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And who is that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fleur Dis Lee!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Very clearly watching him, not you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's noticed too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smile and that weird &quot;hand-wave&quot; thing he does.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns as you pass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gives him a wink[spoiler]with her eyes[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and prances off.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why do you feel like this?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He does that to all the ponies when you enter a new town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smiling and flailing those &quot;arms&quot; around like the silly thing he is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why do you feel like this?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, your facade is no act;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;genuine anger burns inside you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You never told anyone,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you're a monogamist.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's your dirty little secret.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't like to share.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Are humans monogamous?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You should tell Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He must know, it's not fair to keep it a secret if you love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you do.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Beyond any shadow of a doubt.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's not a pony, so maybe he won't be angry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He might not...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;reject...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, no, not again!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's been so long!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sadness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anger!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You focus on it and let it focus you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the ponies &quot;great&quot; and small make way for you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They had damn well better!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the way to the castle.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">30</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Trixie is very, very angry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not at you, thank goodness,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can see right through her fauxequanimity.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not that she pretended out there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes had hardened and her stride lengthened unexpectedly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had been pressed to keep up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;until she noticed you lagging and slowed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Once you reached the castle you had been shown to your chambers.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The guards said you would be summoned a little after sunset.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until then, you had the run of the place.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The doors close and her demeanor changes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like flipping a switch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie, what's wrong?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Calculatingly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trying to decide how much to say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then she smiles.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't reach her eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm thinking about meeting the princesses.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like hell, but it's best not to pry when she's like this.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;There're only a few hours until sunset.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We should bathe, and make ourselves presentable.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;lying on a massage table in the Royal Spa.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The masseuse was good, but not as good as Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingers really were better than hooves at this.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's just as well;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you can't focus on it anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Images of Fleur's smirking wink dance in your mind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What if she asked him to herd with her?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, she wouldn't do that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She might try to use him as a cooler, though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was famous, and exotic, and new.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just the kind of thing Fleur would want as an accessory.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you don't like to share.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, behind your closed eyes:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon rutting Fleur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sucking her horn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You grimmace,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the masseuse's touch lightens.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You love him,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;By Celestia you love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And now that you know, you have to say something.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You may be a monogamist,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but that didn't mean you were heartless.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Despite what some ponies would say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You want him to love you too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And how can he love you, if he doesn't know you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He'll probably leave after he finds out what a freak you are.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you need this show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'll tell him after.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tears well up unbidden,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they are small, and easily hidden.</span></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="mw-geshi mw-code mw-content-ltr"><div class="gettext source-gettext">&#160;<br />A Blueberry and her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">1</span>-<span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">1</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Having one hell of a time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Circling Equestria in your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping when you reach a town,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;performing magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pearls before swine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They don't appreciate it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not enough, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They can't see your greatness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Aren't you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are, ...somewhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lot's of trees.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Weird animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do those clouds have spikes?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been here for a few days.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sun can really fuckin' move.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So can the moon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knows how you got here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wherever here is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much to eat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clothes are dirty and torn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those clouds DO have spikes!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there're lots of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's getting darker.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly brighter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning! Way too close for comfort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rain too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is that a... a cave!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've read enough novels to know this never works out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that's only novels right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Real life has empty, unused caves, right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Man, the rain is really coming down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Besides, everyone knows monsters aren't real!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;BOOM!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning turns a tree in to fragments</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That cinches it: cave it is.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">2</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More importantly, you are out of the rain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More or less</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This cave isn't so big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it is long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The storm makes it dark outside,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but the cave continues in pure blackness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Shit's creepy, yo.[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You vaguely recall reading caves are bad places to be in thunderstorms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning can jump the gaps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was that why?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't remember.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Should you go deeper?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's even closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You see something out of the corner of your eye.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glinting in the flash from outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that in the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No more light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sound.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Barely audible over the din from outside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Different from the din outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;faint</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scraping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails, or...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, this is real life.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More lightning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">3</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and there are jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There are many jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rubies, Saphires, Diamonds, Emeralds!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scattered a few meters further in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How convenient.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they're big.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And your pockets are empty.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you realize it, you're squatting and stuffing them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hmmm, not as many as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still a half-dozen thumb-sized gems are nothing to sneeze at.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait, what's that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;At the edge of the darkness?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweet!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh, another?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just a bit further?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And another!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightning flashes again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't seem so close this time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit you're deeper than you realized!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But there are still more jewels.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Little sparks of light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;laying one after the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a trail of winking eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;beckoning you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To go deeper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can see the mouth of the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A distant, dark gray splotch against the black</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look forward.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness. Not merely the absence of light.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A darkness so absolute it seems to be material.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can feel it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like the abyss staring back at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smell</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rotting meat and unwashed fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dread and fear wash over you like a wave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;GET OUT NOW</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You turn to run, dropping the gems in your hands.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That sound again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingernails on stone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, not fingernails:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;claws.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scrabbling for purchase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Louder than before,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and closer.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You break in to a sprint.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A step.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something hits you from behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Large and filthy and hairy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Laughter like nothing from a human throat echos in the cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're thrown to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bound with coarse rope.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something wet and clingy and noxious goes over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Darkness.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">4</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The day is looking good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond Dogs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're kind of stinky, sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But easy to impress!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And loaded with Jewels!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not much further now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good thing to</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;turning your wagon's wheels with magic is hard!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not too hard of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But hard enough.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sure does impress though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even other ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the Diamond Dogs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You giggle to yourself imagining their reaction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You put on a haughty expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sly smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;palpable arrogance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon carries you through the tree line.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Showtime!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come one! Come all!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the amaaazing feats of magic that can only be done by the most amaaazing unicorn in Equestria.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise unbidden.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A town not too far away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another unicorn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your expression never wavers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your eyes don't betray your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile even grows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Magic isn't the only amazing thing about you.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">5</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you cary on with practiced ease.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your vardo rolls on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Toward the wide mouth of the Diamond Dog's cave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See the dextrous manipulation of reality itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They've definitely noticed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Be AWED with power you never knew existed!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Diamond pups yip and jump excitedly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some rush in to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Power you never knew *could* exist!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More Diamond Dogs emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ears perked,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wagging tails,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some with lolling tongues.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon trundles on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For while Trixie has graced your home with her presence before,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *was* some time ago.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon stops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gather round and see Trixie as you've never seen her before!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stand on your ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hat cocked just so.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cloak billowing behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Blessed with talent beyond any other unicorn!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trained by Princess Celestia herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Victor of a duel with *Princess* Twilight Sparkle!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ruler of Ponyville...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Until I got bored and left!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The one! The only! The Great and Powerful Trrrixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You leap from your vardo,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;subtly hitting a switch as you go.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magic carries you higher than a mere leap would have,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and slows your descent to a glide.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From your wagon trumpets blare and cannons launch confetti.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smoke erupts and a stage juts forth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Perfect timing, you think,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;magically adjusting your fall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You touch down as the smoke clears.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A wand in your hoof.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A dramatic flourish and bow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;To a cacophony of excited howls</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tails drumming the ground.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">6</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you have the audience in the frog of your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You flash your perfect smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And raise your wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sweeping the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but laugh as their heads follow it's movement</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Every last one of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Silly things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You play to it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hahaha!&quot; Your voice gradually rising in pitch</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Behold! An artifact from *beyond*!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Just a stick, yo![/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Griphons!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What should I call it?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to Taurs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Think fast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown to to the Dragons, and the mighty Diamond Dogs!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was that thing called?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Unknown even to Ponies!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lives under the sea, part pony part octopus, little bat-wings?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All but two, that is!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah, that's it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Brought to this world by Starswirl the Bearded himself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Used to work wonders!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then banished beyond the sea by Princess Celestia herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because even SHE feared it's might!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Tremble, for you are in the presence of the dreaded Wand of Colthulhu!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They all actually gasped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;perfect</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But *I*, the Great and Powerful Trixie could not be denied!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, through wit and sorcery unmatched,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stole this artifact from the depths of Tartarus itself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I, and I alone know the secret to it's use!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But the Great and Powerful Trixie is not cruel!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Selfless Trixie would share the marvels of this relic!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Who would witness it's power?&quot;</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">7</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The center of attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it should be</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs stand transfixed by the stick</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Eyes glazed, ears down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flourishing here and there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pink aura sparking and glowing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not even The Great and Powerful Trixie can use it in hoof.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's magic is too dangerous!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;One of Starswirl's apprentices tried...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and was seen dragged away by tentacled horrors!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Things from beyond the veil of worlds!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hold it steady</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few meters over the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With your magic you call forth screams</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shrill and wild</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sound like they're coming from the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a wispy vapor</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it darkens and thickens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;From the lobes and pillows of smoke a face forms</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twisted and rotten</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then melts away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;larger and more monstrous than the last</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look around</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're all focused on the show above them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A few of the pups are hiding their eyes behind their paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A new shape rises</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Swift and terrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like a shark attacking from below</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it swallows the monsters face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and leers at the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gasps, and even a whimper or two.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the pups</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ha!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Here we go...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dramatically you allow the pink aura of magic to sputter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You make the screams louder</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Add new voices</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Twist them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some stones fall down the mountainside</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of them turn to look</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now a voice for the face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pathetic creatures&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can not hold me! I will devour you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not good enough for ponies, you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;More than enough for these mutts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of the pups flee in the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Silence beast!&quot; You shout.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are at my command!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will not allow you to harm!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Begone!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows brighter, so does the wand.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The face contorts in agony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it keens as it's absorbed back in to the stick.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It drops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs flee from where it lands</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile, allowing yourself to seem just a *bit* flustered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They look back and forth from the wand to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And erupt in cheers</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">8</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You just saved the day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or so they think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop down from your stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, a pin drop would be loud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stroll nonchalantly toward the wand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quietly laying in a circle of dumbstruck Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They part like water as you approach</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not e-ven the Immaterium's Horrors can match the Great and Powerful TrrrixIE!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emphasize the last sound</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;savoring it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But really...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows and the wand jumps to your cloak-pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Diamond Dogs jump too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;was there *ever* any doubt?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then saunter back to stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling their eyes on you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Relishing it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting on stage now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hind hooves crossed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dangling languidly off the edge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Time for the goodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now then&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;quondam royal student,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;triumphant in uncounted duels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and contests of magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has juuusstt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;saved your bacon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that phrase</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Picked it up from the Gryphons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A murmur passes through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trio of them sprint to the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie will accept your adulation...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The briefest of pauses</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The faintest of smiles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As one they rush to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping just shy of your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Yipping cheering and whining</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hopefully they don't piddle again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You raise your gorgeous face to the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sounds and more importantly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The feelings wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth swells in your chest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile more broadly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And look toward the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;careful to let only the barest of glances fall on your worshipers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They should be returning with your reward soon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Last time it was a basket full of glittering jewels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ah there!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Two of the cave-sprinters emerge</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Empty-handed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Behind them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Movement in the gloom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That must be number three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What under Celestia's sun is that!?</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">9</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still alive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you'd be better off dead</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains around your wrists and ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pushing a heavy gem-laden cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's barely any light</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even less food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And brutish foul-smelling... things are everywhere.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;taunting you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;whipping you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How long have you been here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to tell when you can't see the sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something's happening</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big blue hunchbacked one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your captor, is coming</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Where he is, the other two are never far behind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They sniff the air and bee-line for you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one's got something in his paws</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;One of them holds your chain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The big one shoves that thing over your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's wooden, and heavy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Baskets hang from its sides</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They stuff gems in one basket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bottles in the other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drag you by your chain</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And for once in your life you are speechless</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something has emerged from the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks like...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;well it looks like nothing you've ever seen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Walks on two legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;covered in dirty tattered cloth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It has a mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;of a sort</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But no coat you can see</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Bearing a yoke with two full baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And prodded along by...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido was his name?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well the biggest of the three</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whatever his name was</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're heading your way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover and Spot push through the crowd</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and genuflect at your hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tails stiff</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;just the ends wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're excited</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;trying to be subtle about it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Trixie...&quot; He begins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;AHEM!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pause</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may continue.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Thank you for saving us&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, look!&quot; The other one adds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Our servant brings you treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Gems, and Cider, and Gryphon ale too!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So it's their servant?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why anything would serve the Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is beyond even the Great and Powerful Trixie's ken</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's closer now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back bent under it's burden</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's that on it's... limbs?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">10</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You no longer feel good</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Warm and smug a moment ago</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now chilled to the bone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Memories rise</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They always do</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But never so soon after a show</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An amulet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Incredible power in your veins</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An even more incredible cruelty in your heart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching through your own eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Somehow not really comprehending</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as you do things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Things you still can't believe you would have</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you did</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Twilight...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;NO!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No No No No No No No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better now</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not a hair out of place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No matter how strong the feelings</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn, you're awesome</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SUNLIGHT!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't see shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes ache and burn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it's a good pain</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the warmth on your skin is unmistakable</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The thing behind you pokes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;forcing you to go where it wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes are starting to adjust</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're heading toward a large group of brutes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;clustered around a stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There seems to be a blue pony sitting on it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A blue pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a white mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a robe and wizard hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe you have been in the dark too long</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And it doesn't look like an animal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As soon as it arrives</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the dogs push it to the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You aren't laughing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither is it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such a weird face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can read it as clearly as anypony's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is no thoughtless beast</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why would I want your prisoner?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blase, but not overly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No, Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;servant only bring treats!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Look, Look!&quot; says another</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They point to the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They hold up the bottles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wow! How did Dogs get luxuries like those?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They went all out this time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The show must have been better than you thought</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;memories</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A stab of conscious</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Damn it</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">11</span>-<span class="nu0">20</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">11</span><br /><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And hard experience has taught you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;reckless action is trouble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You need to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Why do servants need chains?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their pay *is* their chain, is it not?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come to cave in forest!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Steal Diamond Dog treasure!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've heard of this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dogs baiting creatures and capturing them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For labor and eventually food</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But always animals</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe he was a thief?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But even so</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does he deserve what they have in store for him?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And worse</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what if he isn't?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How to proceed?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You have to know more</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and honey catches more flies than vinegar</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie approves!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh thank you Great and Powerful!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His pockets bulged when we found him!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were so fat we almost couldn't net him!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Exaggeration, I'm sure.&quot; You sardonically reply</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another spoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yeah he didn't even get them all. We laid out too many gems in the line.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your heart sank</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They DID lure him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You know what you have to do.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They're talking about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Knuckle-walking dog-things conversing with a blueberry wizard pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd laugh if you could</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you can't</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So all this is for the blueberry?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder who she is</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She keeps looking at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But not like the others</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They leer</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and throw things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She-not human but clearly female</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;regards you with...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pitty?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A split second</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then it's gone</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The set of her face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The carriage of her body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Everything exudes confidence and power</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog-things extol their gifts</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She actually looks somewhat impressed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A sideways glance at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She asks about you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They say you're a thief!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your anger overcomes your fear</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're just about to say something</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Before you can the big dumb(er) one drops the truth</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their tails stop wagging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wince and look at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He doesn't seem to realize what he said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Blueberry does</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She doesn't seem happy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Well, The Great and Powerful Trixie has need of a new servant.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Does she mean you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;should you be happy?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;She will graciously relieve you of this burden.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They are Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and don't want to let their toy go</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's not a treat!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's a thief!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You scowl</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What Trixie wants</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie gets!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Trixie wants him&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If you take him maybe he try steal from you!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dog seems genuinely worried</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful Trixie might get angry at us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You laugh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A gentle melody</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;lilting on the breeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;If it steals from Trixie it will be punished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The Great and Magnanimous Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;would not hold you responsible&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But... but...&quot; the dog stammers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But!&quot; Your voice hardens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Terrible Trixie will get angry&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They whimper at this</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;if you deny her!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Famous Trixie will tell all she meets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;'Diamond Dogs have no gratitude!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I saved their town from unspeakable terrors</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;yet they refused my simple request!'</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who will trade with Diamond Dogs then?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The dogs look at each other</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;indecision crumples their brows</span><br /><br /><br />Post 12b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Ok&quot; Spot relents</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No!&quot; Shouts Fido</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He mine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie saved us!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Rover jumps between them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We give her the servant</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but we keep the jewels!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fido thinks a moment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looks painful for him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And Drinks!&quot; He says finally</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not only no</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but hell fuck no!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Fine!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand leaps from your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and drops to the sand</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe I should leave that here?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smirk</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe you can find a way</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to defeat whatever comes out next?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Their eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;their ears droop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They even tuck their tails</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I the Great and Powerful Trixie will have it all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or you will have it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;plus everything that comes from that&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gesture with your hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A subtle touch of magic</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a faint wailing and a wisp of smoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Most of the dogs break for the cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lock eyes with Rover</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Head high</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cock an eyebrow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He grimaces</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;staring at the nascent cloud</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They yours Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just take away magic stick&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;[spoiler]Especially from Diamond Dogs[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wand is back in your pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You regard your new help</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He not only picked up your name</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But the proper way to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like him already</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good. Come with me if you want to live</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And bring the baskets&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">13</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You belong to a pony</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pointy-ears-red-vest dog-thing relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The screaming cloud vanished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The stick the cloud came out of glowed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then flew through the air and in to your pony's pocket</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On any other day that would seem strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nothing's normal</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not since waking up in that forest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And this day has been the weirdest one yet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You still have no clue where you are</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;only the vaguest about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;what's going on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But if belonging to her</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gets you away from them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;it's fine with you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns to you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can you speak?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Don't fuck this up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They called her Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Something else too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Was it a title?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she carried herself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The way she was treated</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was obviously important</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Maybe a noble?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Better to say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even if not needed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;than not say it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and get in deeper shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes glimmered</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smile played across her lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot; she said</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She continued talking as she spun on her hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wait did she really just say...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well you heard the part about the baskets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you pick them up and follow</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leads you around the stage</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hunh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's a wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With huge trumpets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And little cannons</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The door opens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Put them in here&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points with her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Done</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Compassionate Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;thinks you know how to behave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She points her horn at your feet</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A brilliant golden beam shoots out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The chains crumble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You would be a FOOL to prove otherwise&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of that you had no doubt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie wishes to depart forthwith&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A whirring comes from the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the trumpets, cannons, and even the stage retract in to it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You will follow alongside&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful One&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She climbs aboard the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her snout up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stops</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you askance</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a surprisingly soft and warm voice:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Are you injured?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No Great and ...Kind One. I can walk&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Good&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nose up again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn glows</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The wagon lurches to motion</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you follow</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">14</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he called you kind</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some silly reason</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that makes you very happy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Isn't that silly?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling warm and fuzzy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because the help complimented you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How silly!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A little &quot;harumph&quot; escapes your lips</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But is lost in the wagon's sounds</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Down the road</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Continuing in silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stealing glances at him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's so strange</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And he smells good!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought one of the dogs found an equine cologne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But now that you're away</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's definitely him</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even though he's filthy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And those rags he's wearing need to go too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been down this road before</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Countless times</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's a hot spring a bit further along</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's hard to find</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've never seen anpony else there</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your special place</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your magical realm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you could use a bath too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Filthy Diamond Dogs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there's no way you're taking him to town looking like that!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;some time later you arrive</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What's your name?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We stop here anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hop from the cart</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is very important to Trixie, anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Normally, Trixie wouldn't bring anyone here</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But today is special;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her wisdom</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie can see that you need to rest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her generosity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie will let you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and let you do it here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stares into your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;This place is magical to me</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Treat it well</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Do you understand?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Dare you enter my magical realm?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The look on his face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wonder what that's about</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Follow me&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">15</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;following Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Off the tiny path</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;through trees</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and boulders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hidden among the stones</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A small pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And glorious blue sky</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie wishes to bathe anon. You will wait</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;When she is finished</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you will bathe too&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Without another word</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She drops her cloak and hat</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hips sway as she makes her way to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she so confident</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;nudity doesnt bother her?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or is it because she's a pony?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well it doesn't matter</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stretch back in the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Closing your eyes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Soaking in the warmth of the sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Splashing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dripping</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your mind wanders</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some time passes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she singing now?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You better believe</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I've got tricks up my sleeve...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lay back again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hands behind your head</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sun is so nice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See me dominate&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A tugging</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;your hand is glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;cause Im powerful and bra-a-aaave&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sit up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Your turn anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stands before you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Naked</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wet mane plastered to her neck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She shakes like a dog</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Water goes flying</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What are you waiting for?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Can I have some privacy</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh Great and Kind One?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You dont need privacy anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A trace of annoyance in her voice</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You need a bath</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Strip&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You freeze</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;mind reeling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What to do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon the great and powerful Trixie is loosing patience!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are a servant not a noble</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and servants don't need clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stop reaching above your station</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and remove them at once!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So that was it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ponies dont care about nudity</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact neither did the dog-things</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They wore armor and vests</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But those were for protection and pockets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No care for modesty at all</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you care</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pardon Great and Powerful one</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but humans always wear clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's probably why nopony's ever heard of them!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Those are ruined anyway</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;youd look better naked&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns up her snout</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Strip! Now!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stamps her hoof</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But Trixie...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes widen</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Oh fuck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pink light shines from her horn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am the GREAT and POWERFUL Trixie to YOU!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and YOU will obey ME! &quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly youre airborne</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;has had enough!&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">16</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;floating a meter or so above the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flipping and turning about your own axes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Struggling to keep your clothes on</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The friggin' things are glowing pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and doing their best to fly off your body</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Damn it anon stop struggling!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Stop trying to tear off my clothes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you drop</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stop just shy of the ground</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That gets your attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;From how high do you think</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;could drop you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;before you sustain injury?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;dead silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Would you like to find out?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;No great and powerful one!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Then take those cursed things off!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's bluffing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;probably</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hope</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I will Great and Powerful one!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just *please* give me some privacy!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;UUUGGGHHHH!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your shirt flies off before you can react</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your pants open</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and shoot down your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your underwear too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You catch them just in time</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holding with all your might</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;desperate to keep them from slipping off your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're rising higher too</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Glowing bright pink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;curled in a fetal position</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pants around your ankles</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;spinning bare-ass over heels</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;cock poking backward between your thighs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Higher still</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She was bluffing right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly you're falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;oh shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She will catch you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and falling</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;SPLASH!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;right in to the pool</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holy shit</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hitting water *does* hurt</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's warm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and tastes horrible</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look up at the surface</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and swim</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You emerge to a very amused looking unicorn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks down at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;smugly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then saunters to the grass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;tail swishing</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lies down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and laughs</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">17</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are clean</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are your clothes</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So are Trixie's</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She eventually relented</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And let you wear them on the condition you wash and repair them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you have to do hers too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But since she's been naked the whole time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've only had to wash them once.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've been resting by the spring for over a week now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sight of the heavenly bodies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;suddenly racing across the skies</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;drove you to comment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She says there's a pair of princesses that raise and lower the sun.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's got to be figurative</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She seemed absolutely incredulous</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that your sun and moon move on their own.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Or that the sun and moon could share the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're feeling much better too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Getting tired of oatmeal though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She won't let you in the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so you sleep wrapped in a blanket outside.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under the wagon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In case it rains.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Also, it turns out</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's not a noble at all:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's in show business!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And practices her magic a lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Uses you as a captive audience to try out new ideas.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That's fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how her magic compares to other unicorns,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but it impresses the hell out of you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's smart too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You share stories of your home with her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and she regales you with tales of her adventures.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know how much is true,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But her observations are poignant,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her questions incisive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She uncovers things about you with a shocking talent for subterfuge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While she is more than a bit full of herself,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she isn't mean.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been kind to you:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;making sure you have enough to eat,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;offering you extra blankets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;those kinds of things.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's actually kind of sweet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In her own way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like her more and more.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">18</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and it's time to leave.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your wagon's mechanisms are reset,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your suplies are running low,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and Anon is feeling better.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You smile despite yourself</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But how could you not?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For the first time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you've found somepo-someone with as many stories as you have.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Literally an entire other world's worth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Some of it you just can't believe:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the sun and moon moving on their own?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No way!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Still, for all that,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's ignorant of things that anyone who grew up in Equestria would know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's completely dependent on you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;For some reason,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you really like that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's also patient,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and attentive.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not in the tail-nosing way so many are to famous ponies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Neither in the simple brain-dead way servants are to their employers.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He seems to be genuinely interested in you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and what you have to say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You like that too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile broadens</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's such a silly thing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but he smells good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He says all humans smell like that when they work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He also says they don't like it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans are silly.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">19</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A couple of days further down the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you aren't a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It turns out Anon isn't as strong as you thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;he's taller than you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So he looks imposing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But a few hours in to the first day back on the road,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you could see it wasn't going to work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was hitched properly</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he really did try.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But he was slow,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even on flat ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trips at Anon-speed would take too long.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the first hill you came to...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He tried that too, but slipped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd had to use magic to keep from careening backwards.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How were you supposed to relax, or study, or do anything,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;when you might have to leap to the rescue at any moment?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That put an end to that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Humans, it seems, just aren't as strong as equines.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you, the Great and Powerful Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;are pulling your own wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While your putative servant strolls beside you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are not a happy pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even if he does smell good.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20a<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you can see that Trixie is frustrated.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been snippier than usual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And quieter when you've stopped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You want to help her,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you think you know a way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We're stopping here, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All right, Great and Powerful one. Let me help you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You walk over and begin unhitching her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie doesn't need your help, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You pause.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She practically spat it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and hadn't referred to herself in the third person for a while.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The buckles flared pink, and dropped to the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Pull it off to the side, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;There's a stream beyond those trees.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her snout gestured to the left.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Get some water and start dinner.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She disappears in to her Wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You did as you were told.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A knock on her door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Dinner is ready, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She emerges,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;walks to the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and begins to eat.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You watch her take one glum bite after another.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Great and Powerful One,&quot; you began</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I can tell you're upset.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want to do something for you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Like what?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You can't pull the vardo, you can't work magic, and you can't eat hay.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm stuck feeding you oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then in a small voice, barely audible:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want the oats.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pouts in to the flames.</span><br /><br /><br />Post 20b<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's something special, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Something humans do for each other,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;when we... when we care.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks up at you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You're always pulling the cart,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You say, sitting at her hooves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;And I think you must be sore.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She watches you reach out,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and cup her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gently lifting it and setting it in your lap.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's stopped chewing,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;now silently looking you in the eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You rest your hand on her cannon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm not being too familiar, am I?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;silence</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gently you begin to stroke along it's length.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly at first,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then with gentle pressure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Following the grain of her fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's extremely soft,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and very fine.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's chewing again,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not so gloomily as before.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Under her leg and up to her hock;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pinching your way down to her fetlock.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You do it again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's staring at the fire,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;very intently.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An uncertain look on her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Back to her pastern;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;caressing her coronet:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Lightly running your fingertips between hoof and fur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then work from hock to coronet again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You glance up; her eyes are closed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A quiet sigh</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You continue along her hoof wall,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to her heel.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Massaging her frog;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pressing and rolling in little circles.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She winces and melts.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You must be doing well.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Up and down, from hock to hoof,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Over and over.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Feeling her tension drain,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and body loosen with each pass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Kneading her hooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with strength, and with great care.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On and on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;First one, then the other.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;firm muscle, soft blue fur,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and a unicorn who's lost in the moment.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hasn't moved or made a sound in some time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her breath is deep and rhythmic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You can't help but smile,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;placing her hooves back on the ground.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gently brush an errant strand of mane from her face,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And cover her with your blanket.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Softly: &quot;Good night Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You clean up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and lay down a short distance away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The night is clear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The fire is warm.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As it fades you drift off,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;to pleasant and unexpected thoughts of Trixie.</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">21</span>-<span class="nu0">30</span><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">21</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you're being followed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is your first time in a pony town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Ever since Trixie's show,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you've had a handful of ponies around.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd watch you from their windows.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd watch from the streets.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd even watch from the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought at first the clouds were chasing you too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you saw pegai peeking over the edges.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her show was, of course fantastic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She made what little you'd seen at the Diamond Dogs cave</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;seem like parlor tricks.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's for the ponies&quot; she'd said in private.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They can use magic too&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;so I have to pull out all the stops&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But even so, you were a distraction.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The ponies just couldn't focus on Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with you there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After the show, she seemed a little put-off.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then, an idea must have struck,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;because she immediately took a bag of bits,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and told you to follow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you found yourself being led through the streets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;by a gorgeous blue unicorn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with a half-dozen others trotting along behind you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie'd been much more relaxed lately.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She smiled.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Genuine smiles,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;no longer putting up a facade when you were in private.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact, she had stopped referring to herself in the third person.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you came to town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The difference was amazing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you were in public now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Surrounded by equines of all colors and descriptions.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She had an image to maintain.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So, her demeanor came as no surprise when she said:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We're here, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Open the door for the Great and Powerful Trixie!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then shouldered her way past</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with an annoyed little squeak</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her snout in the air.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon, you will turn the lock, and take a seat.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The Great and Powerful Trixie will return momentarily.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And with that, she vanished down a hall.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">22</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting in the most enormous couch you'd ever seen.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wide, long and with padding thick enough to swallow you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You take stock of your surroundings:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are sitting in one of a pair of huge plush couches.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Across from you, an ornate wooden counter.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The hall down which Trixie vanished behind it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Short, but very wide windows in the walls just below the ceiling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A large door to the outside on your right,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with many nosy ponies peering through the glass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The walls: lined alternately with full-length mirrors</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and equine dress-forms,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;adorned in the most ornate clothing you'd ever seen!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A tailor's shop.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a high-end one by the looks of it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why would she have brought you here?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Speak of the Blueberry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Stand up!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She trots in to the room, another pony in tow.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Come here, Anon. The Great and Powerful Trixie has need of you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You stop a step away from her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Do you think you can do it?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's speaking to the other pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This one's wearing fancy clothes,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with her mane in elaborate coifs and curls.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's even wearing make-up.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Maybe, great and Powerful one.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I need to get a better look.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Very well. Anon, strip.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look back at the door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anxious faces still pressed against the glass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They follow your gaze.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie's horn glows and a shade drops.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;He's easily embarrassed, the silly thing.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie replies to the other mares quizzical expression.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now don't make Trixie repeat herself!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well they are ponies...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You disrobe in front of them</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and stand tall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Nicely done, anon.&quot; she says with a mischievous grin.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That wasn't so bad, was it?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Better than the alternative, Great and Powerful One.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;For you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes lock; her mirth is unmistakable.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cheeky little blueberry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The other pony doesn't seem to care.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trotting around and around you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then back to check your garments.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Making notes on a piece of paper,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;measuring you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;scribbling again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Finally she says:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;I can accommodate your request, Lady Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">23</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;back under the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After leaving the clothier's,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie had led you around the city.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pointing out the good and bad.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Talking about how it had looked before</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;or where such-and-such a thing had happened.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her memory must be incredible.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She had obviously been in a good mood,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and even treated you to a restaurant.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She'd said it was a favorite of Pegai</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And that she'd chosen it for one reason:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It served fish!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And vegetables.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who knew how delicious they could be after so long on oatmeal?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She also paid you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Minus expenses, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But that still left you with some bits in your pockets.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Near the end of the scheduled day</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had returned to the store and found an outfit waiting for you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And what an outfit!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Based on what you'd worn,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but embellished beyond belief:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;rhinestones, and showy fabric,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with enormous liberties taken with the cut.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It looked ridiculous, but fit suprisingly well,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So Trixie had you carry it out, wrapped in brown paper.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It seems Trixie had noticed how much attention you garnered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And being the keen business-pony she was,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;decided to capitalize on it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You were to join her show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whether you liked it, or not.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All in all it had been a very nice day.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So even when the clouds rolled in and a drizzle started up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your spirits were high.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">24</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Thinking about the day.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What a wonderful time you'd had with Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How happy he'd been to eat the fish.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anything but oatmeal&quot; he'd joked.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But he seemed to enjoy the fish the most.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Turns out you guessed right.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That made you happy, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But Anon being happy...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That made you feel...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It made your chest warm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And a funny little flutter creep in your stomach.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like some school-filly crush.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How silly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it *was* nice.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You couldn't remember the last time you felt so good.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact the memories hadn't come back, either.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not at all.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not since you'd met Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hadn't had a good night's sleep since you were a filly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your parents, other fillies,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;teachers, and so many others.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They'd all rejected you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So you rejected them back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That didn't make them like you, of course.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it did make you feel stronger.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No longer at their mercy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You didn't need anypony!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even as an adult mare.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they needed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your talent, your showponyship.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They craved your attention</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you gave it to them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until Ponyville, and...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that amulet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had known the danger</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;had known it twisted and corrupted the minds of it's wielders.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You hadn't cared.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wanted revenge!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Revenge for what she had done to you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd thought you could control it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;or at least resist it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you were wrong.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And when your own mind had returned,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you had so many new personal horrors to face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So many things to haunt your waking moments,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and keep you up at night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until you met Anon.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">25</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sit lost in thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sound of rain drumming your caravan.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon is...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Out there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Can you really...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What if he says &quot;no?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're no school-filly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You will not be cowed by fear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You sigh, and open your door.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A little touch of magic and a canopy forms over your head.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why was your voice so soft?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He looks out from under your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Great and Powerful One?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How to put this without giving the wrong idea?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What was the right idea, anyway?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're no longer sure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You shouldn't be out in the rain, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Dry off...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You levitate a towel.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;come inside.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I... don't want those new clothes being ruined.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You know the new clothes are in the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She knows too; she put them there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That look on her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What's wrong?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You climb out from under the wagon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and towel yourself on it's ledge.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly your towel gains a life of it's own;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;ruffling your hair and stroking your face and neck</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Hold still anon&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I don't want any of that in here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You realize she's using her forehooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not her magic.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's fine, Anon. You may enter.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her snout is up</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But she doesn't meet your eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You crawl in to the wagon for the first time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's cozy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With small, modestly carved cabinetry</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;stained a shade darker than the wooden walls.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Scents of cedar, gardenias, and horse.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pulls another blanket and pillow from a net</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;suspended from the ceiling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She gives them to you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her eyes at last meeting yours.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I... I hope there's enough room.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She snuffs out the candle.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The steady patter of rain,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and Trixie's gardenia-scented mane</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;carry you softly to sleep.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">26</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and you couldn't be happier!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's been weeks now,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;since you added Anon to your show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've visited farms, and towns, and a big city too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Arriving to find that your reputation has preceded you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and everypony is just dying to see you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your profits have skyrocketed!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just from the show, either.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Afterward, many of the ponies want to talk with him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You and Anon are invited to restaurants,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pubs, cidereys and so many other places.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They take vignettes,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hang banners,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And tell everypony who comes by</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that *their* establishment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;is a favorite of the Great and Powerful Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her &quot;pet.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You rarely have to pay for food or supplies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Even your seamstress</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;is offering to make new clothes gratis.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;If only you'll &quot;Please, please, please,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;tell everypony who made them.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your little chest of bits is overflowing.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Literally.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Also, Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your little human.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You shared the wagon every night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His scent in your home.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His warmth in your bed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had gone to sleep facing the walls,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that first unforgetable night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But when you awoke</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;-before he did-</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;snuggled in his arms,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;muzzle under his chin,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You knew a peace you never thought you would.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A warmth and contentment</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;that had only grown stronger.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You didn't think those feelings were silly any more.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were serious.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you wanted more!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But what could you do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was your employee, and not even a pony!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Hiding your feelings around other ponies was easy;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you act like it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Around them.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But Anon was different</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You wanted him to like you</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not just respect you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What would you do when estrus came?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What would he do?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You thought and wondered.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Wondered and thought.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until one day...</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">27</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Squatting by the fire, preparing lunch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your arrogant, demanding,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;wonderful boss is lying under a tree.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Clacking beads on an abacus and scratching in a notebook.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A shadow passes overhead.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A pagasus.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had seen many around.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Especially in this part of Equestria.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There were more pagai here than any other kind of pony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But this one was different.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He wore gold armor.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His mane and tail: blue.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cropped and pushed through his helmet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Redolent of a Roman soldier's comb on Earth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He circled, and flew overhead again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Much closer this time,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and landed a few paces away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie noticed him then.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She stood, watching impassively.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Upon seeing her, the pegasus spoke.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Are you Trixie Lulamoon? Magus of the Road, and Guardian of Anon?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am.&quot; She replies in an equally haughty voice.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What brings a royal guard&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;to search out the Great and Powerful Trixie?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He produces a scroll from his saddlebags,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and lays it at her hooves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Their Royal Highnesses, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;have heard of your magnificence!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They wish to see your performance, and meet your pet!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You are hereby summoned to appear in the royal court,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;no later than the end of summer. You are invited to stay,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;as a guest of Their Royal Highnesses in the castle,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and enjoy their hospitality. How do you answer?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pauses a moment,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;raises the scroll with her magic,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and reads.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;If you didn't know her like you did,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You might believe her nonchalance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you do,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her excitement is clear.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With a smirk, and toss of her mane, she says:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You may tell Their Royal Highnesses,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That The Great and Powerful Trixie,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Magus of the Road, and Guardian of Anon,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;accepts their invitation.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;She will make all due haste toward Canterlot.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The pagasus bows and takes to the sky.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie watches him go, snout raised.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then suddenly prances circles on tippy-hooves</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;swishing her tail and arching her back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!Yes!&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">28</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;marching beside your vardo.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well Trixie's vardo.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you can't help but think of it as yours too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your relationship has blossomed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You work together, travel together</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;eat together and share the same bed every night.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And she's a real cuddlebug.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Always finding excuses to touch you while you work.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She particularly enjoys leaning against you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and uses your lap as a pillow for her naps.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Many pleasant hours had passed under trees,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;watching your little pony dream her dreams.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Herd animals are prone to physical contact,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but this didn't feel casual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you loved every moment of it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;On this particular morning,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she had put on her costume, chattering incessantly,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Excited and nervous.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Saying today was the day you'd reach Canterlot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had seen the castle from far away,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sprouting from a cliff in defiance of all prudence.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But now you drew close,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so with a little nuzzle of your arm,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she put on her archetype.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tail and nose high,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;eyes: bright and imperious.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pride oozing from beneath her wide brim.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We are nearly there Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;As we have come by Royal Invite,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;doubtlessly they will be on the lookout for us.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;In fact, Trixie wouldn't be surprised if they already know we're here.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It turns out, she was right.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Moments later 6 guard ponies in sparkling armor approached.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The captain bowed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Lady Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;by order of Their Royal Highnesses, we bid you welcome.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Please allow us to escort you to the Royal Palace.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Yes Captain, The Great and Powerful Trixie accepts your welcome&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and bids you lead on.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;4 took position in front.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another behind you, buckled himself to your wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had a retinue!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The captain bowed again</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;At your convenience, Lady Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her smile is as smug as you'd ever seen.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But this time she isn't smiling at you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she's smiling with you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Enjoying the moment, and inviting you to do the same.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your smile meets hers,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and with pomp barely concealing glee,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she marches forth.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">29</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Strutting over the drawbridge and through the gate.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Guard ponies bow as you pass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Acknowledgement, admiration, and respect:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;everything you've ever wanted</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;made all the sweeter because Anon is here to share it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All ponies watch as you pass by.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Probably wondering who's so important as to get a Royal escort.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;As if there was anyone more deserving!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Well, maybe one...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as deserving, anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look at anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's watching you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the grandeur, all the wonder of Canterlot</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and he's watching you!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you deserve it,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but still...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;His smile rivals the sun</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But can't compare to the blaze in your heart.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Could this day get any better?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You close your eyes and savor the feeling.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Together</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Shit!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The hoi polloi can't see you like this!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You force yourself to look away</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and notice other ponies in the crowd.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Watching you and watching him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And who is that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fleur Dis Lee!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Very clearly watching him, not you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's noticed too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A smile and that weird &quot;hand-wave&quot; thing he does.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She turns as you pass</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;gives him a wink[spoiler]with her eyes[/spoiler]</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and prances off.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why do you feel like this?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He does that to all the ponies when you enter a new town.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Smiling and flailing those &quot;arms&quot; around like the silly thing he is.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Why do you feel like this?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, your facade is no act;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;genuine anger burns inside you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You never told anyone,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you're a monogamist.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's your dirty little secret.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't like to share.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Are humans monogamous?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You don't know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You should tell Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He must know, it's not fair to keep it a secret if you love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you do.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Beyond any shadow of a doubt.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He's not a pony, so maybe he won't be angry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He might not...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;reject...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, no, not again!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's been so long!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sadness.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anger!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You focus on it and let it focus you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the ponies &quot;great&quot; and small make way for you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They had damn well better!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the way to the castle.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">30</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And Trixie is very, very angry.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not at you, thank goodness,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you can see right through her fauxequanimity.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not that she pretended out there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes had hardened and her stride lengthened unexpectedly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You had been pressed to keep up,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;until she noticed you lagging and slowed.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Once you reached the castle you had been shown to your chambers.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The guards said you would be summoned a little after sunset.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Until then, you had the run of the place.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The doors close and her demeanor changes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like flipping a switch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Trixie, what's wrong?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Calculatingly.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trying to decide how much to say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then she smiles.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It doesn't reach her eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm thinking about meeting the princesses.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Like hell, but it's best not to pry when she's like this.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;There're only a few hours until sunset.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We should bathe, and make ourselves presentable.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;lying on a massage table in the Royal Spa.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The masseuse was good, but not as good as Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fingers really were better than hooves at this.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's just as well;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you can't focus on it anyway.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Images of Fleur's smirking wink dance in your mind.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What if she asked him to herd with her?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;No, she wouldn't do that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She might try to use him as a cooler, though.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He was famous, and exotic, and new.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just the kind of thing Fleur would want as an accessory.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And you don't like to share.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, behind your closed eyes:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Anon rutting Fleur.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sucking her horn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You grimmace,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;the masseuse's touch lightens.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You love him,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;By Celestia you love him.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And now that you know, you have to say something.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You may be a monogamist,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but that didn't mean you were heartless.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Despite what some ponies would say.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You want him to love you too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And how can he love you, if he doesn't know you?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He'll probably leave after he finds out what a freak you are.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you need this show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'll tell him after.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Tears well up unbidden,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But they are small, and easily hidden.</span><br />A Blueberry and Her Greenery<br /><span class="nu0">31</span>-<span class="nu0">35</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">31</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And it's almost sunset.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie takes you to the window and points</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;See, Anon? Those are the princesses.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Celestia is the white pony, the other is Luna, her sister.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They're bigger th...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Shhh.&quot; She chided.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Remember what I told you? About our sun and moon?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You nod</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This you had to see.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leans against you and whispers</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Watch.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The larger one's horn glowed brighter than any you'd seen.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And the sun dipped.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That's impossible!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I told you so. Keep watching.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After the sun sank below the horizon, it was the other pony's turn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her horn flared and the moon rose.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She smirked and nipped your arm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now what did the Great and Powerful Trixie tell you?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Even if they did move it, we wouldn't see it had moved for... a few minutes!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;That doesn't make any sense Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Magic.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Magic.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;What else could it be?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Magic.&quot; you finally agree.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;following guards through the palace.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie is beside you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;leaning ever so lightly in to you as you walk.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hasn't left your side since your bath.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After watching the day change to night</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pillowed her head on your lap and talked.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You could tell something was off, but she wouldn't say what.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Eventually the guards came, and she switched personalities again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But she still wouldn't leave your side.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It was actually frightening.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Were the princesses tyrants?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They didn't *look* all that bad,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but looks could be deceiving.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And there was no shortage of rumors about Luna.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly, you stop at huge ornate double doors.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A guard announces your arrival,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and they swing slowly open.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">32</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The doors opened on a fairytale room.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Banners, stained glass, tall as the sky itself.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Polished marble floors, red carpet,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and a throne against the far wall.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Both princesses waiting for you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie took the lead.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You followed, stopping when she did, bowing when she did,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and let her do the talking.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It seems your little pony had some history with the princesses:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;a former pupil at the royal school.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Celestia seemed happy things turned out well for her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They also wanted to know everything about you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Who you were, where you came from, how you had arrived.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;They were surprisingly unconcerned you didn't know,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but were angry to learn how you'd met.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She promised to correct the Diamond Dogs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Princess Celestia was vague about what she meant, but</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she moves stars, united Equestria and held power for over a millennium.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The thought of her true might,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and what she could do if she chose made you shudder.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sisters set a date for the show:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;one week hence!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then dismissed you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A long time to wait,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;not long to practice.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It didn't help that Trixie was distracted.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hid it well; you doubt any of the ponies picked up on it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But you knew her, and it hurt she wouldn't confide in you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Especially when was so much needier than usual.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She never left you alone.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Once, when you were out, you passed a flower cart.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie lingered a moment and asked:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Isn't that blue one pretty?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The florist's eyes widened, and gave you both a funny look.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It really was a pretty flower.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The same powder blue as Trixie's coat.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You were about to say so when she laughed</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;nervously</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and trotted on.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Flower pony watched you go, looking a bit shocked.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But the week did pass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now here you are sitting backstage,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;about to give the show of your life.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie nuzzles behind your ear</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Whatever happens after this Anon, this is our show tonight.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Another nuzzle, and more leaning.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Forever and always, yours and mine.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Is she crying?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're on!</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">33</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and it's time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The night's been wonderful:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;an incredible show, and a fabulous party.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Mingling with the haut monde,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;with attention and admiration from the Princesses themselves!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you always knew it was your due,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but now the other ponies couldn't deny it!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then she had come.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stepping from the woodwork,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;like a stupid, gangly, pink-haired termite!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Actually leaning against your stallion!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Nuzzling him!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In front of everyone!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You're the lead mare in your herd.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The only mare.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;True, you and Anon weren't officially a herd.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You'd never given him a flower, after all.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But she doesn't know that.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;How dare she not come to you for permission to court Anon!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Not that you would have given it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Of course you didn't let it show.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are the Great and Powerful Trixie!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You master your feelings, not the other way around.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But it hurt.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A lot.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;So when the princesses retired,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you captured Anon's attention with a word,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;guided him away with your touch,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and returned to your chambers straight away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Making *damn* sure she saw it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All but laughing at the look on her face when Anon told her &quot;goodnight,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and left with you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Now here you were, behind closed doors.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's time.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Celestia help you.</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">34</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Trixie</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sitting with Anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He knows something is coming.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But not this, how could he?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I love you, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I love you too Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You blink</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Just like that?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You're not surprised?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Is this what all the matter's been?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Didn't you know I felt the same, Trixie?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such joy!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Such warmth!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Threatening to wash over and carry you away.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Of course I knew, doofus.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He laughs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;My incredible little pony really didn't know?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pressure swelling in your chest.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's almost painful.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Surely your heart will burst?</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;He moves to hug you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but you stop him with a forehoof on his chest.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's more, and he must know.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But there's something about me you need to know.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Something disgusting, and vile, and selfish.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Something...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You won't let yourself cry yet!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;That comes later.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;When you're alone again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is the hardest thing you've ever done.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But love, true love, demands honesty,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and just maybe,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;love will demand you let him go.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You breathe.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I'm a monogamist.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your ears fold back despite yourself.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your eyes cast themselves to the floor.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I love you, Anon. With all my heart and soul.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I want to be with you more than anything. But I can't share you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I can't.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Seeing you with Fleur...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I... I just can't.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I understand if you don't want somepony like me.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Understand if you... hate me, for being so selfish.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But I want you to love me.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;To know me. All of me, so you have to know this too.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You've done it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whatever happens next, you've done what love required,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and bared your soul to this one, special someone.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Moments pass.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Whole eternities,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;but the expected castigation never comes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Instead he leans in and hugs you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;squeezing you against his chest.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I don't want anypony but you.&quot;</span><br /><br /><br />Post <span class="nu0">35</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are Anon,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Holding your very special somepony.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her sobs racking both your bodies.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A kiss on her neck.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A whisper in her ear:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I love you, Trixie.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;All of you, and only you.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look down:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;tears,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;hot and round</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;running down her face</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her eyes, so soft,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and so very, very large.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Don't leave me, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Please, please don't ever leave me.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You kiss away her tears, and hold her close.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I never will.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And they lived a life of love.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Some people asked that I write a lewd scene for these two. It seemed like fun, but didn't fit anywhere in the story, so, here it is, after the end. Think of it as a &quot;deleted scene&quot;, and not part of the tale. I hope you enjoy it, too.<br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You are anon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Cuddling with your special somepony by the fire.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The sky, clear and cold above.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's spring and you and Trixie are back on the road.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's been acting funny lately.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Very touchy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Very friendly with you,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;very snippy with everypony else.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She wants massages every night,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;so, when she kissed you, and asked for one,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you thought nothing of it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She hopped up on the wagon-ledge,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;So you're at the just the right level&quot; she'd said.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And set her left hind leg on your shoulder.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;you tilt your head and kiss the inside of her hock.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Gently taking her leg in your hands and holding it up, off your shoulder,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then kissing your way down her cannon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Stopping at her fetlock you look sideways;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's watching you, a smug little smile playing on her lips.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Keep going Anonymous. Trixie did not say to stop.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You lean back against a stone and set her hoof on your chest.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your fingertips follow the curve of her leg,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;up and down it's length,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;as your tongue finds her coronet.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Kisses follow, and her eyes close.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You gently reach to her thigh,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;kneading the firm muscle between fingers and thumb.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then pinching gently from hock to fetlock,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and down to her hoof.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Pressing under it with your thumbs,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;her frog flexing beneath your touch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Mmmmmm Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She raises her other leg and rests it on your shoulder too.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You look up;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;she's leaned back on the wagon's ledge,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;forehooves extended and touching the overhang,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;eyes closed.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon, do your mares have any special times?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What do you mean, Tixie?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She smiles and stares right in your eyes.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Heat, Anon. Do human mares go in to heat?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leans down, mouth open just a bit, and sniffs you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Not really, Great and Sexy Trixie&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She smiles and bites her lip.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;We do.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She trails her forehoof along your arm</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;In fact...&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;little circles against your chest</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;I am right now.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;You're my very special somepony, Anon,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;and you're also my servant, little human.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Do you know what that means?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You think so</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You *hope* so</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You tilt your face to kiss her</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She pulls back at the last moment with another smile</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Kisses are nice, Anon,&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;but I want to do something else.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She slides her hind legs from your shoulders and leans further in.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sitting on the wagon, legs spread, her marehood just at eye level.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She nuzzles you, nips your ear and whispers:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Touch my horn.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie takes your hands in her hooves,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;guides them to her face.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;The base first, sweety. Use those soft little fingers.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She gasps a little as you trace circles around it</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A strange feeling on the side of your face,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;like static electricity.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leans against you more firmly as her breath deepens.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Mmmmmmmm good boy.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She rubs your back</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Now...Oh!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her words catch in her throat.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You knew what she wanted, and began to stroke before she finished her sentence.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her breathing grows faster and deeper,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and her horn glows brighter, its light reflecting off the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Suck my horn, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Do it now!&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your mouth opens, and you carefully guide her past your lips,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and close them around her tip, sliding along her shaft.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She actually tastes like blueberries.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;And whipped cream.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;While you suckle, her muzzle finds it's way to your crotch.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She nuzzles and licks at your pants,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;little moans emerging now and then.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon, your dick belongs to me.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Give it to me. Now.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your hand slides down her shaft, around the back of her ear,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;curves along her jaw, and finally comes to your belt.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She licks and nibbles at your fingers as they work the fasteners.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Suddenly the blueberry and whipped cream flavor grows stronger,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your trousers glow pink, and slide down your legs.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie takes you eagerly inside her mouth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her nimble equine tongue turning circles and loops,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;even able to wrap itself completely around you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your own ministrations flag as waves of pleasure wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;But only for a moment:</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;There's no way you're letting your little pony do all the work!</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Back down on her, pressing your own tongue against her horn.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Copying her own motions as closely as you can.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Little whinneys and moans escaping around your cock.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She lays her ears back and forces herself down</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Taking you as deeply as she can</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;All the way in, and holding you there.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her tongue emerging and licking between your legs</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;then back in and around your shaft again,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;actually rubbing you inside her mouth.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You take her out and purse your lips against her horn</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;running your head up and down its length,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's blazing now.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;bright pink with little jets and sparks flying off now again.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The feeling of static is warm and contagious,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;filling you with erotic energy.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon! I..!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You quickly pop her back in your mouth,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;taking in as much as you can.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Anon!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;An odd heat fills your mouth as she convulses and grunts in your lap.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;A taste, overwhelmingly like blueberries, and whiped cream.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;With a little extra.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;In fact, it tastes just like...</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Oh, Anon, I'm sorry. Right in your mouth, you didn't deserve that!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It's cute when she switches, you think to yourself.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You purse your lips tightly and slide her out,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;letting your tongue find every crease in her spiral groove on the way.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;It's fine Trixie. In fact it tastes just like Poprocks.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Blueberry and whipped cream Poprocks.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;What are Poprocks?&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;They're a kind of candy we have back on Earth.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks at you strangely and lets out a languid laugh.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Somehow, I'm not surprised.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;But we're not finished, little servant.&quot;</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She bites your hair and gently pulls you up in to the wagon.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Trixie rolls over on the floor,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;sweeping the bedding up with her forelegs and pillows her head on it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She looks back: ass up, tail raised, hips swaying and bites her lip.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Make me whinney like a little filly, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You pounce on her, sliding your hands up her back.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Balling her mane in your fist and jerking.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She whinneys.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Fuck me right now, Anon! Prove you're worthy of me!&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You guide yourself inside her with your other hand.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's... wet would be an understatement.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Sopping, would almost be enough to describe it.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;You slide in with no resistance.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She moans loudly and her marehood convulses around you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;It grips you like a vice, but is too slick to hold.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Your thrusts slip in and out; balls deep, then just the tip.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her ponut swollen and sensitive,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;pressing against your stomach and drawing a fresh pony groan with each thrust.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her flanks begin to quiver</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She burries her face in the blankets</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Her ponytang clenches and holds,</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;and she suddenly goes stiff and silent.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Collapsing moments later.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Time to get yours.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She's lying now flat on the bed, and you continue to ride her.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Thrusting into her, not bothering to pace yourself.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Letting the sensations wash over you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Finally erupting inside her and crashing down to her flower-scented mane.</span><br /><br /><span class="co4">&gt;After some moments you both rise to clean yourselves.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Staring up in the cold night air, savoring your lingering pleasure.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;She leans against you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Estrus lasts about a week, Anon.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;&quot;Just so you know.&quot;</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;Then she steps back in the wagon and begins straightening the bedding.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;The stars shine down on you.</span><br /><span class="co4">&gt;This is going to be one hell of a week.</span></div></div>




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