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"Okay," says Fluttershy uncertainly. "You're near Ponyville. In Equestria," she adds, when this doesn't seem to be the answer Abrogail is looking for.

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"What plane is this?"

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"I don't know what that word means. You should talk to my friend Twilight. She knows a lot of stuff. She's the most talented unicorn in all of Equestria!"

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Abrogail is not actually sure that she wants to come to the attention of the most powerful wizard in the country, even if the country is fucking cutesy pony-land. Looks can certainly be deceiving. And assuming, of course, that that's what's being said at all.

"Your friend Twilight," she says. "What's the most powerful spell she can cast?"

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"Well...I don't know," says Fluttershy. "She defeated an Ursa Minor? That was supposed to be really impressive."

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That doesn't help her at all. "Can she teleport?"

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"I think so? But only across Ponyville, I don't think she can go to Canterlot."

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Fourth circle, then. If she actually was the most powerful spellcaster in the country, then—well, the country has a new most powerful spellcaster. More likely she's lying about that part; most peasants can barely distinguish a fourth-circle wizard from a god. But, at any rate, Abrogail isn't worried about coming to her attention.

"Yes, I think I'd like to meet your friend," she says.

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Fluttershy is, at this point, distracted by a small round winged creature making purring noises and sniffing at an apple by her feet.

"Oh, hello little guy," she says. "Are you hungry?" She squishes the fallen apple with a forehoof to allow the creature access to the soft interior of the fruit.

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The creature ignores her and heads straight for the full basket of apples sitting nearby, somehow devouring the entire thing in a few seconds of frantic buzzing.

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what the FUCK—Magic Missile.

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(The parasprite dies instantly.)

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Fluttershy rushes over to the fallen parasprite—

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—and then looks up at Abrogail with a glare that could paralyze a full-grown dragon.

"Fix him. Now."

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Abrogail is much harder to Intimidate than that. She did, after all, previously work with Aspexia Rugatonn.

"I just saved your entire town's harvest and quite possibly both of our lives! Haven't you ever seen a deceptively-cute-exponentially-multiplying-creature* before?"

(*A two-syllable word in Taldane and Federation Standard.)

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"What do you mean? Look at them, they wouldn't hurt a fly!" She bends down to the ground and lets another one nestle in her mane.

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She starts to remind herself that she doesn't actually care about these people and if they all get eaten by the adorable spawn of Deskari it'll be kind of funny actually, but it turns out that, unfortunately, she now also lives here.

Let's try that again, with more subtlety. Charm Person.

"Please put it back in the forest where it belongs," she says. Presumably, unless there's an active rift to the Abyss that the things are emerging from, the fact that everything hasn't already been overrun means they have some predators in their natural habitat.

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"...okay," she says, and coaxes the parasprite out of her mane and back towards the edge of the Everfree Forest.

"Let's go find Twilight," she says, and starts to walk toward Ponyville.

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Twilight Sparkle, this apparently being an actual name that someone gave their child, lives in an enormous tree near the center of Ponyville. When they arrive, however, the door is answered by a tiny purple-and-green dragon.

"Oh hi, Fluttershy," he says. "Who's this?"

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"I'm Abrogail. I'm from very far away. Is Twilight here?"

The dragon has sort of the right coloration to be a havoc dragon. It's not evidence against this being somewhere in Elysium, at any rate.

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"Oh, cool! How far away? Like Manehattan*?"

(*Abrogail will hear an appropriate horse-related Taldane pun on the name of Absalom.)

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She's had undispellable permanent Tongues since she was twelve years old and rarely even notices the actual language she's speaking. That, however, will get her to pay attention.

Tongues usually achieves a reasonably idiomatic translation. It doesn't make puns. Something is up with this place. 

"Farther than that, I think. I was hoping Twilight could help me figure out exactly how far, actually."

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"Well, she went down to Sugarcube Corner to check on the preparations for the Princess's visit."

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Todo: find out vastly more about this so-called princess, beginning with whether she's as hopelessly naïve as her subjects.

She hasn't mentioned being a queen yet. She doesn't exactly have a queen's power to call on anymore, in exile and with the Iomedaens having stolen her country, and mostly it hurts to think about, but even queenship in exile might get her a more useful conversation with the local royalty than she would otherwise have.

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