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- >Glimmer's birthday is coming up
- >Which is why you find yourself halfway across the world in a Saddle Arabian market talking to a creepy ass zebra with one eye looking for a book you have a vague description of and a childish sketch
- >Miracously he actually recognizes the picture and procures it for you
- >One sack of your wife's gold later you're riding home with this funky ass time tucked under your arm
- >You swear the horse skull on the cover whispers to you between bumps on the carriage ride
- >The big day comes
- >You give it to her
- >You can practically hear the horseapples hit the floor
- >She starts reading it before she's even finished her cake
- >About two weeks later you come home late
- >Light up the lantern
- >Shadows slowly and sluggishly pour back from the light and refuse to be dispelled
- >You walk through the castle, black fog pooling at your knees and hiding the floor
- >Owlicious flies by nearly missing your face
- >Somewhat disconcerning since he died two years ago
- >Somewhere in the blackness you hear the mewling of her old cat too
- >You try not to kick it as you walk up the stairs
- >Shrugging off the cold hands weakly grasping at your arms and ignoring the grim whispers you trudge on to your daughter's room
- >Kick it open
- >"Ugh, Dad!"
- >She's channeling some bullshit from the time which is currently floating midair and serving as the head to some spectral horse leaning on a scythe
- >On a flippin' scythe
- "What time is it?"
- >"Nine-, uh-"
- >She realizes it's nearly midnight
- >"I'm uh, sorry Dad let me just clean up a little and"
- "No magic after ten, in bed by eleven."
- >"Dad come on let me just-"
- >You grab her by the shoulder
- >Leaning back onto her bed you topple her over onto your lap
- >"H-Hey!"
- >You clap them cheeks
- >The Skelton horse in the room sheepishly looks away as Glimmer fidgets and kicks
- >"Oh god Dad l'm 23 now stop doing this!"
- >You continue unabated
- >All the while reassuring yourself it was just another faze, like the two years she was super into potions
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