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[sidhe_king]

Over in one corner of the bar today there is a young man with a tiny, very sharp carving knife and a few pieces of bleached-white bone, finessing them into a filigree pattern vaguely reminiscent of a long-tailed bird, something like a peacock or bird of paradise. He's fairly engrossed in his work, not looking up very often, but he's gently, fluidly rocking in time to the tune he's humming under his breath, something dark and haunting but beautiful at the same time.

Come see how far he's gotten?

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[seat_five_girl]

OOM: A short winter's nap .
Ako is frowning at a pad of blank paper and writing and scratching out different titles.
This isn't nearly as easy as looking for language teachers and the thing with Sarah-san was deeply creepy.
Also, sleep deprivation sucks.

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[no_vampires_plz]

Twilight Sparkle may have a direct line of communication to Princess Celestia via Spike's magic fire, but she still makes use of conventional mail from time to time. After all, she gets mail from ponies other than the Princess... and there are some pieces of mail she receives that she doesn't want to open in front of the baby dragon.

Like the thin, flat paper parcel that Ditzy Doo dropped off half an hour ago. Twilight immediately slipped it into a saddlebag and took off for the Everfree Forest, on the path that goes to Milliways.

She bursts through the back door and heads straight for the darkest, most secluded corner of the room. Only after she's settled in there, and is satisfied that no one's looking, does she pull out the package and remove its brown paper cover.

The cover of the slim volume depicts a brown stallion with a cutie mark resembling a stylized hourglass, confronting a herd of menacing metallic horses. The title proclaims it to be Doctor Whooves, issue #175: "Rise of the Cyberponies."

Everypony has a guilty pleasure or two. Twilight's happens to be comic books about a time-traveling alien equine.

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[needs_fern]

Back in Ponyville, it is well and truly winter. The leaves are off the trees, the animals are migrated or hibernating, and the first significant snowfall happened last night. So when Fluttershy comes to Milliways, she's expecting it to be basically like at home.

And it mostly is, she'll admit that. But not quite. Some of the trees still have some of their leaves, for instance.

She knows this place runs itself, and without being as scary as the Everfree Forest, but it's still kind of unsettling. So she's in a booth, with a mug of hot chocolate, staring out the window with a vaguely puzzled look on her face.

(She's also circumspectPsyche, if anyhuman wants to get in touch with her that way.)

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[mogget_cat]

The sounds of winter, chill and soft, sing from the piano this evening. The lilting melody is quiet, slow, frozen-over with the year's darkness. But still, it already holds the seeds of the new year. Soon the cold notes, falling like drops from the ends of icicles, gather strength and warmth as though the sun had suddenly risen from behind a cloud, rushing forth into color once more. Though everything be asleep and wrapped in a blanket of snow, the music holds to the promise that everything will wake again soon, and burst into spring.

The Bright Shiner plays, eyes mostly shut, caught up in the music.

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[ostro_goth]

[[OOM: Teja and Sameth go to Gotland for a yule-time celebration and a small surprise.]]