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Gloria slowly opened her eyes and notice the window for the first time, wait that was and escape root. she ran up to it and looked down, that was a long drop, wait she could cut her sheets into strips and make a rope! So she looked for anything sharp, luckily she found a pair of clippers. She began her work hastily. Sinp, snip, snip, the sound was almost as annoying as the clock, speaking of the clock where did the gears go? Then she heard he stomach rumble, she needed to get out. I took her about an hour to  finish and now all she needed to do was break the window. She picked up a decorative crystal and through it at the window and it shattered. She quickly tied the end of the sheet rope to the bed and put the rest of it out the window. It was about a fifteen-foot drop to the balcony, the odds of her succeeding with her escape was better this way than any other. She took a firm hold of the makeshift rope and her began to descend she had about thirty more feet to go before she reached the bottom when she heard the load rip of the sheets. The look on her face, it was priceless, well not if you're falling far enough to kill you. Then she felt a magic field wrap around her and she felt like it was smothering her. She started to kick and scream until she felt the magic loosen and the ground beneath her hooves,  she held her head low.

"Look up now," she heard a voice say to her, she assumed to be King Sombra's . She hated him she snuck in to steal his magic book but failed miserably. She did not look up. Gloria suddenly felt Sombra's magic forcibly ripping her head up to look at him. She glared at him defiantly. Now a one of my slaves would be at my feet begging for mercy.

"Well, I'm better that any earth pony, slave or otherwise. I would not grove to a King just because he's a King," she said, she was a little racist towards earth ponies because they worked in the filth and mud. She nicknamed them mud ponies. "Now you, however, you saved my life, anypony would and should be thankful for that."

"You are well spoken," he complimented as he leant a hoof to help her up, which she gladly accepted. "The only reason I didn't kill you was that you have an aptitude towards magic, I thought about it for a while and decided to invite you to become my apprentice," Sombra said opening the door on the balcony which lead into the throne room.

"Hmm, " she said putting her hoof to her chin, "First of all I'd like to keep that room in the tower and, I'd like to know what's in it for you."

"Smart girl, what in it for me is I have someone to protect the Empire while I'm traveling and a pony that is powerful and loyal to me."

"Deal," she said putting out her hoof, which Sombra put out his and the shook hooves.