A Quiet Rune Scribe
Chapter 59
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After deciding to relax I find my sketchbook and sit in front of the main room's window. I can see a few birds on a building not far away and just start drawing them. I can't see them well from here, but I can draw them as they sit in a line on the edge of the building.
I get halfway through the drawing when I abruptly stop. A thing I've developed over time is my ability to sense life magic. And something with a lot, A LOT, of life magic just got close enough for me to feel it. I don't know what it is, but I try to focus on it while keeping calm.
I feel it is getting closer to me slowly. It's not moving fast so I know it's not in a hurry. What is that? Why is it here? I focus my mind while keeping a metaphorical eye on the mass of life magic. What could this be? Well I only know of two things that have that kind of life magic in them.
First, Entropy. I don't think it's another of her race so that's out. Second, an alicorn, and that might be possible. Although I don't know why Celestia would be here, but I have a decent guess, me. If it is her then I should get ready. I quickly go into my workroom.
First I grab any notebooks that have anything she shouldn't see in them. I don't really have anywhere to put them so thinking fast I go over to my Iron Oak. And using my magic I decompose the wood of the trunk to make several small areas. They aren't large but can each hold one book.
After moving the soil out of the way I put the books inside and grow the wood over the opening. This takes me a minute, and by the time I'm done the mass of life magic is much closer to me. Next I grab my small planet and move it to my bedroom, then hide it under my bed.
But as I'm thinking of if I need to hide anything else my mind has a thought. And what if it's not Celestia?
I pause at that thought. I don't know anything else that would have this much life magic, but just because I don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. But I don't really have a way to defend myself from something like that do I? But as I'm starting to panic about all of this my time runs out.
That mass of life magic is now on the same floor as me. No time to spiral, I need to keep my calm as best I can. I'll ask a question to see if it's her, if it is I'll deal with all the questions she'll ask, and the secrets that I will have to tell her. And if it's not her I have Entropy get us the fuck out of here.
I cast the illusion spell on Entropy and had her ride on me. "Ok girl remember that time I asked you to wait to move us? I need you to do that again." Once again I'm not sure if she understands me, but she closes her eyes and stays still on my back. My saddlebags are near the door if I need to grab them, and I'm as prepared as I can be in such a short amount of time.
And whoever they are is at my door. Nothing happens for a moment, but then I hear a knock. I wait a moment, steeling myself for whatever is to come. And open the door. I normally check who's on the other side before opening the door fully, but that won't matter here so I just open it fully.
On the other side is a pony. A unicorn mare with a lime green coat, jade eyes, and a light blue mane. And on her back is a large dove. We lock eyes and neither of us speaks for a moment, I'm tense but summon my courage to ask a question before she can speak.
"What was the first gift I ever sent you?" I say this in a blunt and flat tone.
Her face shifts for a moment, looking confused, but after that moment I see it shift to understanding. She smiles at me, "A lot of red tea." I let my body relax, and use my field to flip the small piece of wood that controls the shield around my home.
"Come on in, please close the door behind you." I move out of the doorway and walk to the kitchen. I'm going to need something to help me relax, and tea sounds nice right now.
As I start making tea, Celestia comes inside and starts looking around the room. Not that there is much to see beyond the one painting I have, and my plants. "Thank you for inviting me in, although I am rather curious how you knew it was me?"
It doesn't take me long to heat the teapot with a warming spell, so I walk over to my table and sit down with two tea cups. "I can feel life magic, and very few things give off as much life magic as you. Also, you can drop the disguise if you want, I don't normally get visitors."
She nods at that, and drops her illusion. A small flash of light and Celestia is standing in front of me. "That's something I didn't know. Although now that I think about it, that would explain a few things." I pour both of us tea. "I met Green Skies several times, and she always seemed to know when I was nearby. I guess she did the same as you."
I take a sip of my tea. "Most likely. To be honest your arrival gave me quite the scare." She raises a brow at me. "I couldn't tell it was you, just that somepony with a lot of life magic was nearby. That was why I asked you that question."
She looks at me for a moment. "I'm beginning to realize just how paranoid you are."
I just give her a small smile. "You know I'm not the type for formality, and I realize that I don't really make much sense. But before we get to that, how about we get the rest of our introductions out of the way." I say while pointing a hoof to the dove on her back.
She smiles again. "Yes I suppose some introductions are still necessary." After a second the dove on her back also changes, there is a large Phoenix on her back. "Shade I'd like you to meet Philomena."
Philomena stares at me for several seconds. She just stares with narrowed eyes, but after finding whatever she was looking for she stops and starts preening herself. "I believe it's your turn," Celestia says, holding her smile while staring at Entropy.
As soon as I knew it was Celestia at my door I knew she'd find out about Entropy's true nature. So I don't try to hide it, I use my magic to carefully dismiss the illusion spell around Entropy. And watch Celestia's face for her reaction.
At this point Entropy's feathers don't really look like feathers anymore, just a dark mass that reflects almost no light. Honestly, it's hard to tell where her feathers end and begin. "Celestia meet Entropy, she's been a very good friend to me."
She stares at Entropy, studying her. "I don't know where you found such a bird, do you know what she is?"
I shake my head. "No, not from a lack of trying, I've looked through every book I could find about magical birds. I only found one reference that might be right, but even then it's vague. Do you know what she is?" I ask back hoping to finally have some answers about Entropy.
But to my surprise, she shakes her head. "I may know a few things about her, but they are little more than myths. Sorry if you were hoping for more. Where did you find her?"
"I won't say I'm not disappointed, but I would like to hear what you do know. And I hatched her."
Celestia looks surprised again. "How? Most magical beings very rarely have children, so where did you find her egg?"
"Well to answer the second question, I found her egg at an auction. They said it was in their collection for years, and that they had no idea what it was. And I bought it because much like you, her egg was producing a lot of life magic." I refill my tea cup, having already emptied it.
"No pony else would buy it so I did, and after that I started dumping my excess life magic into her egg."
She cuts me off. "Did you ever consider if that could go wrong?" She doesn't say this with a scolding tone just as an actual question.
"Yes, I had two shields over her egg and kept a close eye on it. Anyway there isn't much more to say about her egg, beyond the fact that it kept getting darker over time, in fact by the time she did hatch the egg looked more like a hole in the world around it." I stop short as Philomena files over and lands on my back.
I decided to try and be friendly with her. I take a juniper berry from the bush on my counter and try to float it in front of her. She immediately eats it, I didn't even stop moving it, she just grabbed it out of the air.
Celestia chuckles at this. And I just sigh, "I'm going to take a wild guess, and say that Philomena is also obsessed with food?"
"Yes she very much is." Entropy and Philomena are both on my back looking at each other, after a little while both don't do anything and just sit on my back. "It seems Philomena has taken a liking to you, but she tends to do that with anypony who gives her food."
I nod to her. "Well I've calmed down some, and I've delayed enough. So what would you like to know?"
She gives me a reassuring look. "I can tell you're not the type to tell others about yourself, I've known that for a while now."
I nod. "Yes I don't share much about myself with anypony, honestly Entropy probably knows me best."
She nods back. "I'd like to say before we begin that I won't be angry or judge you, I'm just concerned about your well-being. That said, my first question would be, are you ok?"
I really thought about her question before answering. "Yes and no. Am I ok with my life, and what I'm doing? Yes. But, there are other things that cut away at that. And I think the biggest thing is lying."
Like she said she doesn't judge me and just listens to me. "But why lie about anything?"
"Because I want to help, but I also want to be left alone. And I think I can't overstate that last part, I REALLY want to be left alone. And I'm not sure I can say why to you, I also won't lie to you and say I don't have secrets I won't tell you, and this is one of them. And I hope you can respect that."
She listens to me talk with a calm face. "Then I will, I do hope you can trust me enough with that one day, but I won't force you to tell me. Let's move on, I've asked you this before, and you gave me a half answer then, but why do you try so hard?"
I was expecting this question, but that doesn't make me any more ready for it. But I'm tired of the lies and I think it's long past due for the truth. Why now? Because if I can't trust Celestia I can trust no one. "I'm scared."
She raises a brow seemingly surprised at my answer. "Scared of what?"
"Celestia, have you ever thought about what having magic really means?"
This only seems to increase her confusion. "In what way?"
"I'll be blunt then. Celestia, do you know how easy it would be to cause mass destruction with magic?" She tries to answer but I cut her off. "If you gave me a single small ruby I could level a building with ease, I'd just need to fill it with magic and have it gather and compress air."
She doesn't speak, just continues to listen as I go off on a small rant. "You wait a week and then light the air on fire, the resulting explosion would be massive. And this has no real limit, as long as the air doesn't condensate into water then the more air you have the bigger the explosion."
She stops me at this. "I can understand the concern over something like that, but why fear it so much? The likelihood of something like that happening is almost zero."
"Because anypony can do this, as long as a sentient being has magic they can cause massive destruction. And the worst part is that it's not even hard. I fear the day a pony decides that they want something, and will use any means to get it. All it takes is a single pony with the right knowledge and a city is just gone."
By the end of my rant I'm not loud or angry, just tired. There is a long moment of silence before she speaks. "I, I understand, that fear, it is one I shared long ago." I look up to meet her eyes again, surprised at her answer.
She takes a long drink of tea before continuing. "When I was much younger I was always fearful of others' intentions. The world isn't like that now, but back then court politics could get messy and dangerous. I've lost a few friends that way."
The mood is heavy now, and a stillness comes over both of us. "But one day I realized that if I did nothing but worry about what could be I'd grow blind to what is."
A saying comes to my mind when hearing that. "Those who live in fear of everything never truly live."
She nods. "Wise words, and something to keep in mind. I myself still have moments where I slip back into that type of thinking. And in the end I settled for preparing as best I can."
If the mood was bad before it's downright fucked now. I'm more relaxed now and decided to show some trust, so I stand up while making sure that both Entropy and Philomena are still stable on my back. "Come with me," I walk over to the door to my workroom and lead her inside.
When she enters, she starts looking around at the things on my shelves. "What is all of this?"
"Welcome to my workroom, I test, create, and invent here. Feel free to look around, just be careful what you touch." And she does just that, she takes her time looking through different things on my shelves and examining them. And she starts looking through my small stack of Steel wood cubes.
"What are these for?"
"You saw the small tree I have, right?" She nods. "It's an Iron Oak, they are known to have wood that is both magic resistant and magic conductive. And because I can make the wood stronger with life magic I can take the wood to new levels."
"I've seen some craftponies use the wood in the past." She looks around the room. "Just how many things have you made?"
"As of now? Several dozen spells and many other small things. Mostly enchanted objects I use for various purposes. Any of my larger projects I send to you."
"That is another thing I wanted to ask you, why send your inventions to me? I know you want to be left alone, but it still seems odd to not take any credit for them."
"Honestly? It's for the same reason as my fear. I make many good things, but they can be used in horrible ways. That and I believe you'll know how to implement and use the things I make better than I ever would."
She looks happy to hear that. "Thank you for the trust. What are you working on right now?"
"Right now? I'm taking apart the cleansing spell used for healing, and improving it, I hope to make a much better version."
"Really?" She asks back with much more enthusiasm and interest. "How long until it's done? And how far have you gotten?"
I'm a little surprised with how excited she seems. "I won't be done for several more weeks, and how about I just show you?"
I take her over to my desk and take out a piece of paper with the half-done matrix I was working on earlier today. She reads through it quickly and then does something I don't expect. She hugs me, I'm stunned by this and don't do anything until she lets go of me.
She sees me looking shocked and backs up from me. "OH, I'm sorry if that was too far." She apologizes.
"No it's fine, I'm more confused why you seem so happy?"
She looks a little bit embarrassed at all this. "Once again sorry, I let my emotions get the best of me. And to answer your question, it has to do with some unpleasant memories."
I can see she doesn't like thinking about it, so I cut her off hoping to keep our lighter mood. "Then you don't need to answer me, you've respected my privacy, and I'll do the same."
She smiles widely at that. "Thank you, but I do think you should know the reason. What do you know of the Red Plague?"
As soon as I hear the name I start remembering all I know about it. In 556 a plague wiped out over thirty percent of Equestria at the time. To say it was a disaster would be an understatement. That may not sound too bad to humans but it is for ponies.
A thing I've learned from reading about history in this world, is that plagues aren't as much of a threat for them. In a world with magical spells and plants disease is much less of a threat to your life. And that's what made the Red plague so bad.
The original disease was relatively bad, it caused some pain and red boils to appear on the infected's body, but was relatively easy to survive. Most who caught it recovered after a few weeks and lived on just fine. But the disease did have an interesting ability.
It was highly resistant to magic, and thus couldn't be treated using magical spells or plants on a large scale. This wasn't a problem until it mutated. The disease mutated to form boils in the throat, which normally caused the infected patient to die, as they would have difficulty eating, and being unable to breathe if it got bad enough.
And worse yet if the boils popped it would normally result in an extreme infection of the throat. The plague got its name from the red boils that still appeared on the skin. And because most healing spells and plants wouldn't work the disease was a disaster.
I can not overstress how bad this was for them. They had never had a plague this bad in their remembered history and were completely unprepared for it. The only two things that kept it from being worse, was the small size of the population at the time, as most ponies were spread out.
But when the disease did get into a community the results were hellish. The only form of magic that did help was a few cleaning spells. I'm not sure about all of the details, but apparently, a few of the cleaning spells were able to get past the magical resistance of the Red plague.
And after the plague had burned itself out it became mandatory for doctors and healers to learn at least one cleaning spell. And this is also the reason that many still value those who know it, even if Equestria is much better prepared for a plague now.
I focus back on our conversation. "Yes I know a lot about it."
She gives a slow nod. "I was there and lost many to it, and I've had many try to improve cleaning spells as a result. But the one you have here shows great potential, the fact that you've removed a rune entirely and still improved the spell is no small feat."
I knew that she was there, and did see all of the deaths involved. So of course she's happy to have the spell be easier for others to learn and have them be better prepared. "Thank you, and sorry again for bringing up bad memories."
She just smiles at me. "You have nothing to apologize for. Now I think we've gone off topic." Seems she's trying to lift the mood.
"Yes we did. What other things did you want to know?"
"Hmmm. What do you train in? I know you use life magic, and are working on sensing space magic, but what else?
"A lot. I'll just go down the list. I practice life magic, I'm still getting better at sensing space magic, and I also keep practicing my runic magic. I'm currently trying to become a journeypony in runic casting. I pay a retired guard to train me in both fighting and weapon use."
" I have a teacher and I've almost become mostly fluent in Griffin."
"Really? That's good, not many bother." She says this is a challenging and joking tone. I'm just happy we're not on a depressing topic.
I just smile at her small tease. "Yes really, and if you want I can just speak Griffin for the rest of our conversation?"
She just smiles back. "No that's fine, please continue."
"I work at the library and am currently apprenticing under Ruby Rose. But I expect you already know that." She doesn't answer me and just keeps smiling. "I research and learn different spells. Mostly illusion spells, healing spells, and a large assortment of other spells."
"Beyond that I have a few hobbies. I carve wood, draw, and I obviously create things. There are probably a few things I'm missing but those are the big ones."
"I must say that is a lot for anypony to do. But considering your attitude I think constantly learning new things and seeking out knowledge is just who you are. Who's the guard you train with?"
"Stone Mace, he runs me ragged, but I couldn't ask for a better trainer."
She nods. "Yes, I remember meeting him a few times. From what I remember he had a reputation among the guard recruits."
I laugh at that. "Ya, that sounds like him. Anything else?"
"Yes, have you found out any of Entropy's magical properties? She's definitely highly magical so I expect her to have some abilities."
Right now both Entropy and Philomena are still on my back. Both just seem to be napping while me and Celestia talk. I pick up Philomena and move her over to Celestia. "Hey girl wake up," I say to Entropy, and after a moment Entropy opens her eyes and turns to look at me.
"Want to earn a treat?"
"Berry." She answers back. And Celestia looks a little surprised at her talking
"Sure a berry it is." I walk into the main room with a curious Celesta following me. I grab a Juniper berry and keep it with me. "Ok girl, just to the other side of the room." She caws at me and closes her eyes. And considering the small distance it only takes a moment before we both vanish in a wisp of back smoke.
I see the void for a moment and then see my apartment again. I turn back to look at Celestia and see her fully shocked for the first time. "She can teleport? I have several questions."
I chuckle at her. "I thought you might, ask away."
"How far can she move? How does she move? Are there any restrictions? And how long has she been able to do this?" She asks all these questions very fast and with an excited tone. It's times like this that I remember she's still just a pony.
"Well in order. Right now she can move us forty miles, but suffers from exhaustion afterward. I don't know how she moves us just that we move through someplace I've been calling the void. It's just a back empty space that we appear in for a tiny moment."
"Like I said she gets exhausted if we move too far over her limit, or exceed that limit with much smaller teleportations. And she's been doing this since she turned a few months old, and I train her by giving her treats to move us around. When we started she could only move us a short distance but that's increased."
"You train your bird? Never mind of course you do. Still this is an amazing thing. I've never met anything besides a Phoenix that can teleport. And now I'm even more curious as to what she is."
"Yes, she is an amazing bird. We take trips to a forest outside Canterlot." I say this while giving Entropy her well-deserved berry.
I think about something for a moment before speaking again. "Celestia? You probably know what I've been avoiding this the whole time, So I'll just ask. Now that you've had most of your big questions answered, what happens now?" Despite my best efforts, my voice comes out a little nervous.
She stays silent for a few seconds before answering. "I'll be honest, I expected to have to comfort you or help you with dealing with the stress of life. But beyond a few small things you are doing well, very well."
"I'm not sure what to do with you Shade. I want you to live this life you've made for yourself, but I also worry over your safety." She once again goes quiet for a moment. "So I will settle for keeping a closer eye on you, I'd like you to meet me at the palace once every two weeks to talk."
I was honestly expecting worse. "That's it? just talking to you?"
"Yes that's it. I've seen ponies younger than you make a life for themselves in much worse conditions, and you are doing very well for yourself in life. So like I said I'll just keep an eye on you. Plus it's nice talking to you, and I wouldn't mind doing it more often."
I stay silent for a moment thinking it over. "I don't have a problem with that. But I do have one thing to ask of you. Like I said I have things I may never talk about and secrets I may never tell you, all I ask is that you accept that, that may never change."
She gives me a sad but understanding look. "I can't promise I'll never ask, but I can accept that you may not answer. That I can promise you."
Hearing her say it fully and with certainty I feel the last bits of uncertainty leave me. "Then it would be my pleasure to talk with you more," I say, showing her a smile. "Also, how long do you have before you need to leave?"
"I thought this would take longer and cleared my schedule for the day, so we still have quite a while. Why?"
"Well, I was wondering if you wanted something to eat? I'm hungry and would like to eat lunch."
She just shows me a new smile. "I'd love to have lunch, what are you thinking of making?"
"Nothing amazing, just something simple to eat. Although I do have to ask, are you ok with eating meat?"
She raises a brow. "You eat meat?"
"Yup, most don't seem to like it, but I do."
I take a quick glance around the room and see Philomena decided to sleep on Celestia's back after our demonstration, not that she seems to mind. While Entropy is sleeping in the Iron Oak.
"I don't mind it, but I also don't get to eat it often."
"I'm going to just guess it has something to do with nobles and weird politics," I say in a dry tone.
She chuckles at my dry tone. "Yes, that's about right. Do you need any help?"
I think for a moment before getting an idea. "Not with cooking, but I do have a project I never really found time to complete that I wouldn't mind a second opinion on."
"I'd love to." I nod to her, before heading back into my workroom and grabbing several things. A pot with soil, some wheat seeds, my mortar and pestle. And my notes on the Moon Glow plant and my experiments with it. I pass her the notebook as I get to work on the food.
Celestia keeps an eye on me as I start growing some wheat. I grow and harvest enough to make some bread and start grinding it down. It takes me a few minutes before I'm ready to add the other ingredients. As I make my dough Celestia reads through the notebook while watching me work.
I leave the dough alone to rise and start on the fish. I take it and just slice it into thin slabs. I preheat my pan and add a little olive oil, before adding the fish. And while it's cooking I fill a baking pan with the dough before putting it in the oven.
"What was the plan for this project?"
I turn to her. "Not much really, I just wanted to see if I could extract the Moon Glows magical properties for other uses. But because I never got that far I never really had a use for it. The only idea I did have was for an ink that you could only see if you fill it with magic."
She nods. "Well, I've never seen Moon Glow used for that. But I can tell you why it failed, but I also want to see if you can figure it out, so I'll give you a hint. What is the most common way to store magical ingredients?"
"Drying, why?" But I cut myself off as I realized the problem. "Most of the plant's magical properties are in the plant matter itself aren't they?"
She gives me a smile that I've seen a lot today. "Yes, while the fluids of magical plants have some magic in them most of it is in the plant itself, and by filtering out everything but the water the effect was massively reduced."
I just sigh at that. "You'd think I'd have realized sooner considering how much I work with plants. Thanks for pointing that out."
"No problem, also there is a way you could achieve a type of ink like that." That gets my attention so once again I turn back to her from my cooking. "If you dry out the petals and turn them into a powder before mixing it with a fluid you'll probably get a better result."
I add several seasonings to the fish while thinking about that. "I think you're right. I could also write on something that isn't paper to have it be less noticeable. Thanks again, I think I'll try that." We both went silent for a while as I continued cooking. The fish is done first so I put it to the side.
But the bread will take a while longer so I sit back down at the small table. I'm about to talk about something I'm not sure I should, changelings. It's been clear that they have more going on than the show ever said, and to be honest I find it unlikely that Celestia doesn't know about them at all.
So I'm going to tell her my first two encounters, but only that and nothing else. "I did have one other thing I wanted to mention." She puts down my notebook to give me her full attention again. "I think it's best I start at the beginning, I was experimenting with an enchantment to detect illusions."
That isn't a lie. "And I succeeded." I leave the table and grab the bracelet out of my bedroom, before returning. "Here." I passed it to her. She takes a few moments to examine it. "But that's when things get odd, do you remember my mood at the Gala?"
She nods. "Yes you seemed distressed, that was part of the reason I wanted to visit you and check on you."
"Well I wasn't stressed about the Gala, but rather what happened. But I'll get to that. All this started in the park. I was sitting on a bench enjoying my day when I saw a pony enter a restroom nearby, I didn't think much of it at the time. But that pony never left."
"A different pony came out, but no matter how long I waited, the other pony just didn't. Normally I'm not the nosey type, but I do have moments when my curiosity gets the best of me. So I head into the restroom and find nothing. No pony was in there, it was just empty."
As I talk I see her face shift into a neutral form. This is the face she shows to many others, this isn't Celestia, this is Princess Celestia. "There was only one entrance and exit, and nopony could fit through the windows. Now I thought this was all weird and just went home."
That wasn't a full lie, but definitely not the full truth. Her face stays the same so I continue. "The next incident involves the bracelet. I took it to the Gala as it was my nicest looking bracelet, but I also forgot to turn the enchantment off." Celestia seems to know where I'm going with this.
Her face might as well be stone right now with how little it's moving. "And while there, it detected an illusion. I'm not sure if either of them are connected or how powerful the illusion I detected at the Gala was. And honestly, this is all probably just my paranoia getting the best of me again. So you should probably take what I say with a lot of skepticism, I just thought I'd mention it."
She's silent for a moment before her face relaxes back to normal. "Thank you for telling me this, and I would appreciate it if you did the same in the future." She doesn't say anything more than that for a moment. "Do you mind if I get a copy of the enchantment on this bracelet?"
That I expected, so I just nodded. I may be messing with the future here, but I need to change things. And while this has the potential to change a lot, I think it will probably change less than I expect. If the face she made was any indication then I can say almost for certain that she probably already knows about the changelings.
I grab some paper and copy down the spell before going back to check on the bread. It's done so I take it out to cool down. When I look back at the table again the piece of paper is gone and Celestia's mood is somewhat better. I let the bread cool and start cutting it into slices.
I take them and add a little mustard and the fish on top, it's not fancy or that special but it should do. I make us both a plate and bring them to the table. "If Entropy tries to steal any just pick her up."
She smiles again at my small joke. "Thank you." We eat in relative silence. And after we are done I spend a moment cleaning everything up. She's about to speak again but stops. "It seems I may have to cut my visit a little short sadly."
I look at her to ask why, but I'm interrupted by a knock at my door. Celestia takes a moment to cast an illusion on both herself and Philomena before answering the door. Outside is a guard waiting for her. I walk over and say my goodbyes.
"Have a good day, and when should I come to talk to you?"
"Same to you, Shade. And I'll send you a letter with a schedule, please tell me if it will work for you when it arrives. Also if you ever need something don't hesitate to ask, ok?"
I nod. "Of course." And with that she leaves my home. I close the door behind them and sit down staring at the door.
My thoughts are still a little messy about this whole day. But I think I feel a little better.
Author's Note
This Chapter I've been planning for a while now. And boy was it fun to write. If you ignore my pain from having to actually write it.
As always thanks for reading.
PS I might take tomorrow off.
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