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Harià's fleeing from Cheliax. The alarm has gone off, and perhaps all the other Badgers are dead.
"This is much worse than that. Some kinds of unliving creatures can turn ponies into more of them, and there's no known way to turn an unliving creature living again."
"By then it will be too late. Maybe not for everyone, but for you, and—I'm not willing to take that risk. Also, even if she's telling the truth about being from very far away, somepony* made her the way she is and sent her here, and they're definitely evil."
(*) Twilight has, currently, no reason to believe that Eriape is not a pony.
"—oh, right, it would, if her life-force is inverted then Celestia's universal healing spell would have inverted effects on her—I'm honestly not sure I can do anything about that, but I'll see."
They have, by now, circled back around to Harià's burrow. Twilight sticks her muzzle back into the entrance. "I'm going to try to do something about the sun so that you can come out of your burrow if you want," she says. "Be careful, our sun will destroy you if you spend too much time in it."
With a few days of research she could probably come up with a spell to do the thing she actually needs—the Cloudwalker spell is clearly a special case of a generalized adaptation-to-the-local-environment pattern that she could probably make a generalized form of...it would require a lot more power than Cloudwalker but she could probably cast it anyway...but she doesn't have a few days. There is, however, something else that she, as a Princess of Equestria, can do, even if in some senses it's vast overkill.
She taps her nascent connection to the local fabric of reality and temporarily suspends the day/night cycle in a hundred-yard area between here and Fluttershy’s cottage. Birds stop singing in confusion as the sun appears to fall back below the horizon and stays there.
Haria sticks get nose out, then, bit by bit, she emerges fully, and shakes off the dirt. "Gosh that is a Lot of Area of Effect, Not that its Not Appreciated! What is the Circle and How long will that Last?"
“It should last until regular nightfall, but I think I can figure out something better by the next sunrise.” If they decide to let Harià keep existing, that is. “What’s a ‘circle’?—I mean, I know what a circle is but I don’t think that’s what you mean.”
“Shh, don’t tell anyone. I wasn’t actually sure I could do it until I did.”
"Where I come from Spells have Differing Topological Genus. Higher Genus usually means More Powerful, and we call the Genus of the Spell its Circle. I can cast Third so I am Third."
"Oh, we have that. The most powerful spell I can cast is a six but that, uh, wasn't a spell, it's something I can only do because I'm a Princess of Equestria. Princess Celestia raises the sun over all of Equestria every morning but I'm not that powerful."
An Important Pony. "It is Very Impressive Nevertheless. Are you Able to Trade Spells? I like Extradimensional Effects and also Flying."
“Maybe later.” If they don’t decide to kill her. “But right now I need to go talk to Princess Celestia. Also, I don’t need a spell to fly.” She spreads her wings.
"Okay!"
Haria wanders over to investigate the edge of the effect, then returns to Fluttershy.
"She is Very Powerful."
"Oh, yes, she is. Princess Celestia taught her herself."
"Do you need anything? What do Undying Badgers eat?" Hopefully the answer is not 'ponies'.
"We don't Have to Eat, but I will not Turn Down a Fresh Mole. I do not Formally Need to Drink or Breathe Either and this is Very Useful for Undersea Adventures! There are Many Advantages to Being Undying!"
She looks at Fluttershy.
"What do you Eat?"
"Oh, a lot of different things, but mostly plants. Sometimes milk or eggs, but we never eat meat. There are other creatures in Equestria that do, though.”
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