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Red Queen Dilemma
Oct. 13th, 2016 11:20 pmI received a communication book message from Sunset Shimmer. It's been so long between messages that it took me a while to find where that weird rattling and buzzing noise was coming from. I had to track it down by ear to the miscellaneous books shelf in the corner. She wrote to say that her class kicked off summer with a camping vacation. The Starswirl reflections of me and my Ponyville friends all went, as did the alt-Celestia and alt-Luna entities. I'm almost jealous.
She said that she's bonding well with both the reflections of my friends and the alt-me. My doppelganger is feeling inadequate and introverted and Sunset is teaching her strength and confidence through friendship! She also wrote to tell me that the magic wielded by her and the reflections of me and my Ponyville friends is getting stronger and no longer requires music to be activated. This is not good.
What really struck me, even more than the rise of magic in a magic-free pocket universe, was the last sentence in Sunset's note. She wrote, "So far, it's been an eventful year". It's been way more than a year, and in Equestria, summer is long gone. Time, in Starswirl's mirror universe, is slowing down.
She said that she's bonding well with both the reflections of my friends and the alt-me. My doppelganger is feeling inadequate and introverted and Sunset is teaching her strength and confidence through friendship! She also wrote to tell me that the magic wielded by her and the reflections of me and my Ponyville friends is getting stronger and no longer requires music to be activated. This is not good.
What really struck me, even more than the rise of magic in a magic-free pocket universe, was the last sentence in Sunset's note. She wrote, "So far, it's been an eventful year". It's been way more than a year, and in Equestria, summer is long gone. Time, in Starswirl's mirror universe, is slowing down.
