#equestriacross

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THROWING STELLA SOME CANDY.

“WUH.” She was very confused, but still managed to catch the candy. “Okay then…? You sure you don’t want some as well?”

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This anon challenges Sol to do a loaf too! I bet you can't do it like Stella does.

“You realize that Elysians are cat-like, right? Stella only imitates cats.” To prove his point, he lied down and loafed.

//Sadly, I don’t yet have art of Sol loafing, only Stella. Still, you can imagine it looking similar!

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"We will surely discuss the details in a bit...For now...." Aurora gave a nod towards Stella before drawing a sigil symbol for vitality in mid air using a magic quilt. As the mystical glow of the runic writings slowly dissipated, a sense of anticipation filled the air. With a graceful movement, she extended her hoof and gently placed it upon the Empress's back, causing the esteemed ruler to lean forward ever so slightly. There was a swirl of magic clouds as Empress Midnight regained her original petite healthy form, but she still retained that bloodshot eyes. "We have much to discuss, Aunt Midnight. And I have brought some friends."

"If only your insolent Master will think that way! I gave her another chance after that crazy fool tried something stupid in the throne room and she has to offer is this miserable thing!" Giving a scrowl, Midnight levitated a nearby potion, then crashing it on the ground. She narrowed her eyes on the duo, before leaning against the pillow, "Ah, visitors from another realm. Hello, I'm sure you have questions. Please, ask away. Don't stand there. Come, come."

As Sol uses his magic sense, he began to discover the Empress's magic circuits to be highly damaged, and having poor circulation, as though it had been blocked by something. He began to have a strong feeling, that it wasn't any trick but indeed she was getting weaker with the flow of time.

"You really need to calm down when it comes to Master Opaline.." Aurora levitated a nearby mop to clean the floor as Midnight splat more blood again.

The two foreign unicorns step back as the spell is cast. They were quite impressed. Still, the magic flow was a concern...

"Yes, I certainly have questions..." Stella hummed as she tried to think of something to ask. The mention of Opaline certainly had her confused. Wasn't she... evil?

Sol interrupted her. "Stellar, got any of those elixirs? The Empress needs one."

"Oh, yeah, I do." Stella nodded, and pulled one of them out of her PDA. It looked like something from Kingdom Hearts. "Uh... Here, Your Highness. It's an elixir I made. Drink it, see if it helps with your condition."

//Yep, finally continuing this! Remember that this is now months in the past compared to other posts.

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You spot a rabbit in a trap, what do you do?

“Sol and I may be meat-eaters, but we don’t just eat things we find in traps. I would personally help the poor thing. Sol would do the same, I’m sure. Besides, uh…” Stella appeared a bit scared of something that had just came to mind. “Fluttershy would be pissed if I didn’t help the rabbit…”

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Truth or dare?

"Uhh... I'm not super comfortable with these kinds of games... but... dare, I guess?"

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Psst... you guys ever do tax evasion too?

“No? Everyone here does their taxes. Right, Sol?”

Sol is silent.

“Uh… Sol? You don’t actually… evade your taxes, do you?”

“Mother does them for me. I just tell her what I want my taxes to go to. This year, I told her to put them towards Cyber Cross development.”

Stella breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh, thank Celestia… Well, you’re a Prince, so I guess you do get to choose…” She blinked. “Wait, how does that work?”

“Most of the ponies’ taxes just go to us to fund things that benefit the nation, but they can choose a specific thing for some of it to go to. Like I said, mine is going into developing our cars. I can actually have all of it go into that if I wanted, but I’d rather not. Other stuff is important, too.”

“Huh.” Stella is silent for a moment. “Your nation’s really cool.”

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Dear Stella

Anything goes with snuggles, right? -Aurora.

“Mhm.”

Stella grabbed Aurora through a convenient portal, and pulled her through for snuggles. She is a very affectionate mare.

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Hello: I heard there's a mare here who likes to study magic, Stella is it? Have you heard of Sacromancy or Holy magic? it's a subset of the restoration school that concerns invocation to heal wounds, drive away evil or even resurrect the dead if thier spirit is still in the mortal plane.

“Yep, that’s me!” Stella giggled. “I’ve heard of that form of magic specifically, and probably have dabbled in it before, but I don’t think I ever got that far. It’s hard to really get anywhere with that when you don’t believe in any deities. And yes, at the time, I was an atheist.”

“For a long time, the closest things to a god in my immediate area in the dimensional void that I knew of were those with god-like powers, and the Transcendents, who might not even be actual gods. But… I did make a discovery recently. Gods do exist, at least here in my universe. I even met a few of them. Pretty chill, actually.”

“However, things got kinda… complicated.” She refused to elaborate, looking ashamed of something she didn’t dare speak of.

She rebounded from this shame rather quickly. “Instead, I just use other methods of doing those three things. Namely, traditional healing spells, Sol, and… well, the last one is dependent on the situation.”

“I’ve done it twice in recent memory, and both in slightly different ways. Neither were proper resurrection, but instead just stuffing the soul into something that could act as a body.” A pause. “Yes, I had consent both times. I didn’t force them to do ‘get in the robot’ as the meme goes.”