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Occupied Equestria - The Thread That Came Late
Anonymous
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No.133503
133506 135124
In Changelingia (West Equestria), Brie gains the support of a Changeling queen for his endeavors. Spark is doing his best to help an ill Wolf spiritual leader.

In Free Equestria (East Equestria), Iron is trying to intimidate a group of criminal griffin interlopers. Fantasy Play is helping to shut down an Anarchist press. Silver is helping his new household. Amber Sunset is walking through the city, and Dark Star has just finished helping the orphans.
2365 replies and 51 files omitted.
Anonymous
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No.137910
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>>137909
The hall way goes further, towards a room with an open door, a desk and paperwork, past a closed door marked as a bathroom, past a stairway, and ending in a door with a window that view out into a large concrete-floored room with number poorly illuminated rectangles.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137911
137912
>>137910
"Where are we...?"

Silver shines his flashlight through the window to better illuminate the room.
Anonymous
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No.137912
137913
>>137911
Inside this room, there are indeed a number of doors, mostly appearing to be regular sized residential and commercial doors. This room is much larger, and has a brick wall with a deep shade of red. Silver can see that that room leads into others.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137913
137914
>>137912
"Is there door factory near Church?"

He looks to see if Pear is still near.
Anonymous
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No.137914
137915
>>137913
Pear has pulled up behind Silver, looking very uncertain about the whole ordeal.
“I... don’t know.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137915
137916
>>137914
"I have no idea where this is, if I am honest. I doubt this is part of 33 Hoebuck. Did you want to keep exploring here, or go back and try and find another route?"
Anonymous
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No.137916
137918
>>137915
She looks uneasy. Her tail, previously held confidently high, is now firmly down.

“I don’t think we should be here.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137918
137919
>>137916
Silver nods.

"Alright, let us be off, then."

He leads the pair back the way they came.
Anonymous
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No.137919
137920
>>137918
Silver goes back through the hallway, through the door to the back hallway, and into the old, cramped hall through which they came, and steps over the locked down door and broken hinges back into the stairwell to the subterranean pathway
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137920
137922
>>137919
Having explored one of the forks in the tunnel they came across, Silver decides to explore the other.
Anonymous
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No.137922
137923
>>137920
This end of the tunnel is not very far from where Silver and Pear entered it, or at least, it is not as far as the distance the other way. Going that way, the ponies travel what is probably 200 or more feet down the old brick-lined tunnel. There is a smell of wet stone and at times, something less pleasant, as there is definitely mold growing in the tunnel, and who knows what else. Silver sees a rat scurry across. Pear jumps away, but makes no noise in relation to it. Finally, the tunnel ends in a yellow wall that matches the original construction, with a simple steel door off to the right side
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137923
137924
>>137922
Silver tries this steel door.
Anonymous
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No.137924
137925
>>137923
The door is neither locked nor pressing against the frame of the door. Opening the door, silver sees into a room that is yellow bricked, approximately medium in size, and empty besides a few coat racks. Mid way in the room part of the wall comes inward on the right side and nearly cutting the room in half, and there is what could best be described as a concrete bench along that portion of the wall, the half of the right wall nearest Silver. On the far side is still another door, though this one is partially open
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137925
137927
>>137924
Silver goes through the partially open door.
Anonymous
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No.137927
137928
>>137925
Silver walks out into a somewhat narrow but long hallway. Looking right, there is another door further down and a dead end in yellow brick. But looking to the left, the hallway swiftly opens up into a larger hallway with a pair of steel doors and a newer tile floor.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137928
137929
>>137927
Silver goes to the left.
Anonymous
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No.137929
137930
>>137928
Walking out into this area, Silver recognizes were he is. He is under 33 Hoebuck in that portion between the forks and the administrative center, by the boiler room and that back-hallway that leads out to holding cells were Silver and friends found so much a few nights before.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137930
137931
>>137929
Silver turns around to Pear.

"Okay, this is actually 33 Hoebuck. I recognize this."
Anonymous
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No.137931
137932
>>137930
She looks up and around, trying to take in her surroundings.

“So where should you take me first?” She asks
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137932
137933
>>137931
"I suppose we should start with where I found their book press. Come on, follow me."
Anonymous
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No.137933
137934
>>137932
The little pony quickly comes up to Silver’s side, her upright posture displayed renewed enthusiasm
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137934
137935
>>137933
Silver smiles, and leads the way back to the book press.
Anonymous
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No.137935
137936
>>137934
Perhaps Silver is weary of running into guards or police as he makes his way up. All the same, it's just slightly down the hallway to a flight of stairs, then up to the dorms. Maybe he goes to the second floor to avoid walking by the glass doors on the first floor; in any event, he traverses the second floor of the administrative building to go to that one, horrid backroom where days before he found the printing press. One light at the far end of the second floor hall is on. All other light must be supplied by the flashlight, or if he intends subtlety, to walk in darkness. Pear follows Silver into the room. While the printing press itself is still present, the table is clear, the vat is empty, and there is indeed only one cardboard box in the corner of the room.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137936
137937
>>137935
"Hmm. They must have cleared this room since."

He looks in the cardboard box.
Anonymous
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No.137937
137938
>>137936
Silver is not disappointed: Inside the box are several very large, leather bound books with no title, description, nor other text. But he knows what it is.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137938
137939
>>137937
"Pear? You are in luck."
Anonymous
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No.137939
137940
>>137938
She walks over and peaks in. Then, she pulls out a book with her hoof and looks at it, then sits down and uses both forelegs to examine it.

"Rather ugly leather" she remarks, then opens it, and her eyes go wide and for a moment she stops breathing, as she stares at the pages before her.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137940
137941
>>137939
Silver tilts his head at her.

"Pear? Are you okay?"
Anonymous
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No.137941
137942
>>137940
It takes her a moment

"Huh? Yes. It's just... not many ponies have seen such books" She says
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137942
137943
>>137941
Silver raises an eyebrow, picks up one of the tomes in his magic reluctantly, and looks in it.
Anonymous
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No.137943
137944
>>137942
Most of the text is in Herzlander, and what Silver can make out regardless implies secrets about the extra lunar spheres, or perhaps it is dimensions besides the three dimensions of space and the one of time occupied by matter. It is easy for Silver to understand Pear's evident feeling of having come in contact with forbidden knowledge.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137944
137945
>>137943
"I can see why you would be so taken by this, even if I do not understand it. Spheres, dimensions...I am not familiar, I must admit."
Anonymous
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No.137945
137946
>>137944
"Neither am I..." She says almost vacantly as she looks at the pages, then flips one. Silver may think he hears distant conversation.

Then Pear adds,
"So few of these survive."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137946
137947
>>137945
"Then it is good we got you one while we could. I suppose I will take one too, in case I ever manage to wrap my own head around it."

Silver's ears perk up and angle around at the detection of distant conversation.

"I hear voices. It will be little awkward running into them if we can not come up with plausible story for us being here. We can either leave now, or I can bring you to their ritual chamber. It is your choice."
Anonymous
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No.137947
137948
>>137946
"Heh" She makes a strained smile. "I'm not sure that's advisable."

"You hear voices? I think I hear something too. But I want to see the ritual chamber. I want to see whatever physical artifacts they left behind."
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137948
137949
>>137947
Silver nods, decides to put the book he had grabbed back in the cardboard box, and carefully leads Pear up to the ritual chamber.
Anonymous
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No.137949
137951
>>137948
Silver goes into the hallway, and for a moment it seems as if the distant conversation continues. But soon enough he is to a stairwell, taking him upstairs to the entrance foyer of the Chapel. Entering into the room with the high ceiling, Silver can see that the floor is cleaned, and most pews - some charred, broken, or even chopped - have been moved to the side, or perhaps even removed. But simple cleaning could not, and did not, remove all of blackened spots from the rear of the room, nor the dark, blackish spots near the center. Silver can see the two stone altars there are on the raised platform, not unlike as they were before.
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137951
137952
>>137949
"And here is where magic happened, so to speak."
Anonymous
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No.137952
137953
>>137951
She walks forward. Slowly. Trying to look at everything, and take it in.

“Do you... want to tell me again, what that magic was?”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137953
137954
>>137952
"Primarily necromantic, which was used to bring back multiple dead cultists, but Boek also used mind-control magic to make living but unwilling cultists attack us, and he launched explosive fireballs at our group."
Anonymous
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No.137954
137955
>>137953
“Well... You haven’t disappointed me yet.”
She slowly walks up towards the altars, standing above one, holding out a hoof over it, and looking back to Silver
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137955
137956
>>137954
"Those altars are where sacrifices were bound."
Anonymous
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No.137956
137957
>>137955
She stares down at them
“I figured as much. I’ve seen similar things in the South-East, in my studies”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137957
137958
>>137956
Silver trots over to where she's standing.

"I must admit, I did not know there was standard for sacrifical altars."
Anonymous
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No.137958
137959
>>137957
“Well, there are only so many ways to conduct a sacrifice. You can kill them as they are kneeling, or sitting, or prostrate, but you don’t need an altar for that, and the action isn’t necessarily raised above for observers to see. Hanging hasn’t been popular, nor has crucifixion, for the purpose of sacrifice anyways. Burning is at least kind of popular, including with Maarists. Especially with Maarists... but if you want to sacrifice a subject before a crowd, laying them down on a raised altar is one of the best ways to do it.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137959
137960
>>137958
"Huh...there must be lot of cultures and religions that perform sacrifices."
Anonymous
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No.137960
137961
>>137959
“Well... more than none, let’s say. Usually it’s a rare practice even within the religion.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137961
137962
>>137960
Silver looks up through the windows in ritual chamber.

"When Boek invoked Maar's power, it changed moonlight coming through windows. Does Maar have influence over moon, in Griffon beliefs?"
Anonymous
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No.137962
137963
>>137961
“Not the moon per se... what lurks within the moon, or what hides in the craters, or on the far side, or in the dark voids surrounding... maybe. The moon light is a sort of fueling energy, it is thought.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137963
137964
>>137962
"...there is dark side of moon?"
Anonymous
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No.137964
137965
>>137963
“There is... a side that we don’t see, as it never faces us.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137965
137966
>>137964
Silver looks a little perplexed at the idea.

"Huh..."
Anonymous
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No.137966
137969
>>137965
“So uh...” she looks up
“You see up there. The windows are directly above. You can’t see it right now because the time isn’t right, but this chapel is designed for the moon light to shine down directly at midnight on a full moon. Or the sun at noon, with the sunlight striking a slightly different part of the floor at different times of the year. That is why it was designed like this, when it was a Celestialist chapel.”
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137969
137971
>>137966
Silver looks up with her.

"Many Orthodox temples in Severyana were designed same way. It is magical to behold."
Anonymous
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No.137971
137972
>>137969
“Perhaps a little less pleasant over the circumstances...”

There is a clank further away
Silver "The Floof" Sword
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No.137972
138062
>>137971
Silver turns his head rapidly towards the direction of the noise.
Amber Sunset
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No.137989
137991
>>137891
I can play today.
Anonymous
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No.137991
137992
>>137989
The stallion walks with Amber, being perfectly quiet as he goes. He’s fairly large - not exceedingly so, but still fully displaying the larger general size of the male sex - and he has a particularly sharp set of and prominent set of teeth. He stands still when he arrives at the scene, surveying the buildings

“Did you see where he went?” He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.137992
137993
>>137991
Amber shakes her head. "No, and neither did Guy–the griffon who works with me at the shop. The vandal was out of eyeshot by the time we got here."
Anonymous
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No.137993
137994
>>137992
“Just where, precisely, did he disappear?”
He says, still eyes locked on the buildings, and with a completely emotionless voice.
Amber Sunset
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No.137994
137995
>>137993
"Guy said he must've gone in one of these buildings or else, if he was fast enough, he would have gone straight through and turned into those alleys back there."
Anonymous
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No.137995
137996
>>137994
He nods. Then he turns his head towards Amber, and asks “what is the relation of your place of work with the unions?”
Amber Sunset
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No.137996
137997
>>137995
The young mare blinks in surprise. "Um, I arrived in the city just yesterday. Nopony told me anything about unions."
Anonymous
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No.137997
137998
>>137996
“And what did his cutie mark look like?” He asks
Anonymous
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No.137998
137999
>>137997
"A wheel or tire. I wasn't able to get a close look at it."
Anonymous
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No.137999
138000
>>137998
"Mhmmm"
He picks up his notepad again, and writes something. Then he looks back up at Amber, and says
"Thank you ma'am," gives a curt nod, and starts to walk off
Amber Sunset
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No.138000
138001
>>137999
"Oh, I don't think I got your name, mister."
Anonymous
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No.138001
138002
>>138000
He stops, and he turns to her
"You can call me Mr. Smoke." He says, still expressionless
Amber Sunset
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No.138002
138003
>>138001
She smiles shyly. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Smoke, I'm Amber. Do you need any more help with anything?"
Anonymous
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No.138003
138004
>>138002
He moves a part of his lip on the right side of his mouth up. His lips are black and a bit thick.

"Is there any pertinent information related to the event, your employer, or the establishment that I should know about?"
Amber Sunset
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No.138004
138005
>>138003
"Well, Miss Sewn has convinced me it's an 'anarchist' who did it. Maybe because her shop is so fancy and they hate anything fancy, or because sometimes the fascists buy from her.
Gangs and other mean ponies haven't given her trouble for a long time, so I don't see how it could be anypony else. All that scruffy stallion did was break the window with a pipe of sorts; he took nary a scarf."

Anonymous
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No.138005
138006
>>138004
He nods again.

"He used a pipe?" He asks
Amber Sunset
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No.138006
138007
>>138005
"Some sort of metal rod or pick. I'm sorry for not remembering all the details, it happened so unexpectedly…"
Anonymous
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No.138007
138008
>>138006
"I see. Thank you, ma'am." He again turns away
Amber Sunset
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No.138008
138009
>>138007
"Uh-huh, you're welcome." Uncertainly, Amber turns and trots away back to the store, turning her head back once before continuing on her way.
Anonymous
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No.138009
138010
>>138008
Amber makes the short trip back unmolested, arriving at the store
Amber Sunset
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No.138010
138011
>>138009
Amber looks to see if there's any broken glass left and what her coworkers are doing.
Anonymous
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No.138011
>>138010
High Sewn, perhaps unsurprisingly, is on the phone. Guy is moving items located in the display case to further away in the store
Amber Sunset
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No.138012
138013
She follows the griffon's lead and carefully picks up one of the display case items to move it. What a sad state of affairs where you have worry about things being stolen in broad daylight… she thinks to herself.
Anonymous
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No.138013
138014
>>138012
Nothing is stolen quite yet under Amber's watchful gaze, as they vacate the display case. High Sewn walks up to the two:

"Okay. I found a replacement. It will be here shortly. It'll be expensive, but we can have it shortly."
Amber Sunset
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No.138014
138015
>>138013
The short pony frowns at the word "expensive" but nods wordlessly.
Anonymous
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No.138015
138016
>>138014
Guy remarks: "probably won't have many or any customers until that happens"
Amber Sunset
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No.138016
138017
>>138015
Amber's stomach growls audibly.
Anonymous
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No.138017
138018
>>138016
Poor little pony probably should have eaten something at lunch break. Though time passes, ponies arrive in a cart with what seems to be the pane of glass, and High Sewn goes to greet them and Guy helps to install the glass
Amber Sunset
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No.138018
138019
>>138017
"Do you folks need any help with that?"
Anonymous
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No.138019
138020
>>138018
A grey earth stallion with a surprisingly long, charcoal mane turns to Amber and answers
"No, I think I've got it."
Amber Sunset
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No.138020
138022
>>138019
With nothing else to do she watches the team go at it.
Anonymous
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No.138022
138023
>>138020
Guy has by now long removed the remains of the old window, leaving an empty spot for the new pane to fit. Thus, he directs the two earth stallions as they place the pane in, and some time is spent securing the window, and sealing it with water proofing.

It is not long before dusk, and at the very end of this process that a certain creature approaches the store, and enters inside. The creature is of a variety that Amber has likely seen since her arrival in the city, but not at so close a distance - for this is a creature whose general shape and outline purports to be that of a pony, but whose wings are long thin, visible bones connected by thin, naked webs of skin, whose pupils are cat-like slits, and whose teeth includes two oddly long and sharp canines. This one has a lilac coat over her thin, almost greyhound-like body, and a dark blue mane that is cut almost too short for a creature whose eye lashes, lack of muscle, small size and curved muzzle allege the female sex. She wears a black shirt that seems to be some kind of uniform. Whatever Amber may say, the creature ignores Amber and walks past her, then past Guy, who himself wants nothing to do with her, and back towards High Sewn. High Sewn says some words to her, but waves her away, saying something like "no... she saw it," and evidently passes the mare on to Amber. Amber is approached by the creature, who says

"Were you witness to an attack on this store earlier?"
Amber Sunset
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No.138023
138024
>>138022
Amber feels the hairs of her coat stand on end beneath her dress as she watches the walking oxymoron enter the store. A deep-seated unease that had left since the chase now comes rushing back and roils within her empty belly. Every facet of this intruder is disconcerting to the country filly and she takes a step back when approached, trembling visibly.

"Y-y-yes, I was," she stammers.
Anonymous
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No.138024
138025
>>138023
Her lips, much thinner than that of the previous stallion, are pressed low over her jaw, but they do not stop the tips of her canines - they may as well be fangs - from protruding from her mouth. Her uniform has a collar and buttons, as well as several pockets. Sewn onto it is a rectangle with yellow and black checkers and the outline of a mare on one side, and triangle of red and white stripes, and a pair of horse shoes opposed to each other on the other on the left side of the rectangle. the uniform fits on her loosely, almost like it was made for a stallion to wear. But there is no doubting that, whereas the last stallion came wearing an overly baggy duster and large hat that hid almost all of his body from the tips of his ears to his back, this mare hides nothing, with her overly thin belly, overly fluffy ear tips, and especially her featherless wings of bone and skin plainly visible to all.

She looks Amber directly in the eyes with her own vertical slit pupils and Icy blue eyes, and she speaks with an accent that is probably from further north, yet decidedly still Equestrian:

"Does the owner, yourself, or any of the employees have any connection with any radical ideology, anarchist or otherwise?"
Anonymous
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No.138025
138026
>>138024
To Amber everything about this newcomer suggests coldness, not least the chill running down her back. Through the open front of her skirt it's clear her tail hangs low, practically between her legs. However, although the earth pony pulls her head back she doesn't avert her gaze.

"N-no…I certainly don't. M-Miss…Miss Sewn doesn't, I'm pretty sure, and I think Guy doesn't, though I don't know him very well…"
Anonymous
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No.138026
138027
>>138025
"Guy? Who is Guy?" She asks. She seems not many years older than Amber, still very young, a decade or more below the age of the Stallion, but perhaps similar in age to the police mare from earlier, or even younger.
Anonymous
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No.138027
138028
>>138026
"He's…he's the griffon who works the afternoon shift, right over there. That's all I know about him, really." Amber steals a nervous glance at those odd wings. Even with such a high-pitched voice she reminds me of spiders, urgh.
Anonymous
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No.138028
138029
>>138027
Dragon or bat like, they are a darker purple than her body, and seem almost covered in velvet.

"A griffin... I should have figured. Does your store contract with the Provisional Government, the Army, or the local government?"
Anonymous
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No.138029
138030
>>138028
"I…don't think so. We just sell to ponies around here."

I wish Sven would turn up.
Anonymous
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No.138030
>>138029
"Do any ponies from the Provisional Government or the Army come around here? Or the local government, for that matter?"

I do too..
Anonymous
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No.138031
138032
Amber seems noticeably calmer, though still clearly on edge.
"I haven't seen any, but this is my first day here…Miss Sewn did say some ponies from the government shop here sometimes…"
Anonymous
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No.138032
138033
>>138031
The mare moves her slightly canine-like head forward
"When the attacker chose this place, do you know if he looked around, chose this spot at random, or went directly for this shop, not stopping at any others?"
Anonymous
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No.138033
138040
>>138032
"Well, he was poking his head around outside here when I first saw him, but then he wandered and looked around for a bit before he attacked."
Anonymous
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No.138040
138112
>>138033
She blinks, then asks

"What direction did he come from?"