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// Appledashery 
// Story: Appledashery 
// by Just Essay 
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	Rainbow Dash had been through some tough straits.

She fought her way out of a diamond dog cavern to free hundreds of prisoners.

She got herself entangled with the mob after a stressful week spent in Manehattan.

When Apple Bloom got sick, she went on an epic trip to a faraway land, encountering griffons, venomous cave spiders, and all manner of ferocious dragons.

She did battles with behemoths and brushed with death, courtesy of a psychotic assassin.

And yet...

No amount of danger...

No amount of peril could have prepared her... could have even shaped her...

For the sheer depths she was about to plunge to now.

Even today, when she recounts the scenario to me, I have a hard time believing her.  Celestia knows that, if I didn't know Rainbow Dash personally, I would have given up on the story altogether at this point.  And I certainly wouldn't blame you for doing so as well.

Because, you see, not everypony has the same sort of absurd patience that Rainbow Dash does.  It's a masochistic thing... a lonesome thing.  Or—at least—it once was.  Things are very different now, after all.

But at the time...

When she sank as far as she did...

... it boggles my mind to contemplate how she even survived.