Alls good in death

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Alicorn twilight sparkle magically closed the heavy wooden doors to the library in her chambers, plunging the room into darkness as the large windows in her chambers had been covered by curtains and remained like that for months now. Twilight illuminated her horn, causing pulses of magenta light to wash against the smooth plastered walls. Making her way to a 'study corner' on the far side of the large room she began to feel a change, like cogs turning slowly and jerkily in her mind. Twi stretched her wings before sitting down on her rump, on a cushion.

Her magic levitated a blank scroll to her desk, along with a sharp new quill and without paying any attention to the page, sent the quill dancing across the page. Drip, scratch, scratch, drip, scratch, scratch. The sounds of art filled the eerily quiet room, bouncing off the ceiling and walls, amplifying it tenfold. Twilight shrunk down, the sudden noises unnerving her, warming her paranoia. Suddenly the scratching died down, the echoes got quieter and once again, the room was silent. She sat up slowly and glanced over to where she had dropped her quill. The drawing on the scroll was not what she expected.

There, belly up, slashes in her stomach outlining a smily face was princess celestia.

Levitating four thumbtacks into the air plus her scroll she pinned the gruesome picture to the wall, aside many other horrible pictures, the actions depicted on them only undermined by the stunning beauty that they held, applied by the artist. Once the deed was done, twilight chose a book at random and opened it up, trying to lose herself before the second stage of her paranoia appeared.(the first stage was the drawing)

The book was titled "great creatures and biodiversity in the gallop-agos islands" twi hadn't even reached the end of the first page when the monsters appeared.