friendship is magic part 2

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The forest is dark (Clarity and Guiding Star light their horns to see by, but it's almost worse than nothing, making the distant shadowed spaces darker by comparison; they soon give up). The plants that make it up are closely spaced, not all of them have friendly textures, and it is full of scary noises, only some of them the harmless snapped twigs and disturbed leaves of their own passage.

Before they've fully adjusted to the darkness, and are aware via anything but the feel of earth under their hooves that the path has sloped downward a little, it has given way under them, some of the flora and some distressingly large rocks along with it. Clarity can't even teleport. It's too dark to see where she might be going.

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[magicalfriendship]

"I, Princess Celestia," Princess Celestia says aloud as she writes, "hereby decree that the unicorn Clarity Bell shall be reassigned to take on a new mission for the land of Equestria: she will continue to study the magic of Friendship, and report to me on her findings from her new home - in Ponyville."

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Clarity collects her reassignment decree, smiling.

"Thank you, Princess."

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"Awesome!" says Joy.

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"...Do I go on staying in the library?"

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"I think that would be best."

Presently, the princesses are drawn away together in their chariot to general cheering and whooping.

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"Gonna be a librarian now?" inquires Joy.

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"I suppose! Maybe Blueberry will help."

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"Yeah, that sounds like a good plan."

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"Do you know if there are more of those truffles left?"

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"There were plenty, last I checked! I'd offer you some of mine, but - quartz dust," he says, with a shrug and a smile.

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"I know, that's fine."

And Clarity traipses off to join the party.

After it is over, back to the library she goes.

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Someone is waiting for her inside.

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"Hi, Blueberry."

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"What did you do?" inquires Blueberry.

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"I bluffed my way into activating the Elements of Harmony," says Clarity, floating the bell-festooned crown onto the nightstand next to the bed upstairs, "and we defeated Nightmare Moon with them, and now she's Princess Luna again, and I have been reassigned to stay here and continue investigating the magic of friendship."

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"I think it would be a really good idea to write down everything you know abuot how you did it and put it in that book, in case someone else needs to know later," says Blueberry solemnly.

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"I was planning to write it down, and I suppose it would be a good idea to tuck it inside the cover of that book," agrees Clarity.

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"Good," she says, nodding. "I just wanted to make sure. Are you going to be staying in Ponyville?"

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"Yes. In the library, probably managing its... librariness... although I was hoping you might help me with that, since you know more about it than I do. At least whenever you aren't in school." Clarity produces a notebook and starts writing an outline of the events of the... night.

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"I'd love to help!" she says happily. "That would be just perfect."

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"Awesome."

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Blueberry rears up and kicks her forehooves in giggly excitement.