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[inmylight_commander]

[So guess who also shot at the Moogles and guess who also got to experience a stop spell stasis field, and who's less than happy about the whole thing?]

[This girl.]

[A video feed opens on another fully armored personnel, her Israeli accent edged with frustration.]

Noble Two calling Noble Actual. Come in Noble Actual. Colonel Holland? Auntie Dot -- Someone needs to tell me what the hell is going on.

[Some brief, jerking movements as she tries to brush off the Meow Wow that keeps rubbing up against her leg and snuffling affectionately.] Stop it. If I'd known you are what I was making I wouldn't have bothered. Go away before I shoot you.

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[raisethemoon]

Ah, a friend of Emile's! [That's enough to actually cheer the exhausted alicorn up a little. She likes Emile.] Welcome! I trust thou hast already heard of the nature of this place several times over.

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[inmylight_commander]

Something like that, I think I've got the gist of it.

[Kat's tone is deadpan. Another pony. Another pony who's friends with Emile. She's going to have to have a talk with him about that, it seemed unnatural and ... highly irregular for him.]

[visual]

[raisethemoon]

Good! I am Princess Luna. Do let me know if you need aught, I hath been here some time now.

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[inmylight_commander]

Right I'll ... keep that in mind.

[Well obviously the strain of war has gotten to her, if she's talking to psychedelic ponies now.]

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[raisethemoon]

...incidentally, thou shalt be having terrible nightmares tonight and every night for the foreseeable future. Unless thou findest dreamless sleep to be acceptable.

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[inmylight_commander]

Nothing out of the ordinary, there. [There are no happy things in Kat's life. Ever.]

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[raisethemoon]

Very well, I shall put thee down for dreamless. [Not that that's a guarantee that she'll get there in time to ward off any nightmares, but she'll be around.]

[visual]

[inmylight_commander]

Wait -- you can do that?

[A dreamless sleep sounds like a fantastically beautiful thing to someone who's grown up surrounded by war. ]

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[raisethemoon]

'Tis not my preference. Ordinarily I would enter and divert the dream onto more pleasing subjects, but my workload has been...more intense, these past weeks. [There are far fewer people here than ponies in Equestria, but their dreams are more violent than she's seen out of her ponies in years. Not to mention the fact that she can't even keep her own mind safe any longer...]

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[inmylight_commander]

I think I would prefer dreamless sleep, anyway.

[She couldn't imagine having a pleasant dream abiut any other memeber of Noble and having a good day afterward, without them.]