Rainbow Dash and the Noble Jury continue to fly east.
Rainbow flew east... or else the east sailed towards her.
She blinked wearily against the wind. A full night of tossing and turning had worn her muscles to stiff rubber bands. She didn't wear her goggles, in hope that the bare elements would wake her.
She was wrong.
More than once, she nearly plummeted, falling asleep in mid-air. She hissed through her teeth, flapping her wings harder and harder in order to remain aloft. She felt as though it was taking four times as much strength to ascend than the last few days previous. She chalked it to her weak strength, or at least she wanted to.
Her stomach growled. She was hungry, famished. But there were so few bits of Heaven's Slices left, and she wasn't about to consume them all too quickly.
So, with a wheezing breath, she pressed eastward, piercing the heights above the craggy canyons and their valleys.
Rainbow lay on her back, staring up at the night's sky.
She brought a hoof up to her neck for the umpteenth time, rubbing it across her Loyalty pendant.
The ruby lightning bolt glowed, shimmered, and went dead.
Nothing else happened.
The pegasus' bleary eyes remained locked on the moon shimmering overhead.
Her nostrils flared.
Again, she raised her hoof to her pendant and gave it a stroke.
Light glowed, dimmed, and all was dark again.
The moon lingered, silent, waning.
Rainbow shuddered in a cold breeze.
She refused to think, refused to move.
Without wasting a second, she reached her hoof back up and stroked her pendant, eyes on the moon.
Rainbow Dash veered north and south in her flight. She wasn't doing it for the thrill, or to get a better view of the landscape. The winds were getting stronger—that, or Rainbow's wing muscles were getting weaker.
But nothing made sense. She had eaten a Heaven's Slice that morning. She should have had the strength to keep aloft, but the effort was making her sweat profusely. So, more often than not, she simply glided through the air, which left her aerial movements highly susceptible to the wind.
The mare winced, flicking her tail left and right in order to steady herself. She knew that she was losing her eastward velocity, but anything beat trotting across the Choke by hoof.
Rainbow clenched her teeth. Taking a deep breath, she flapped her wings for the first time in hours, ascending herself into the upper atmosphere—straining the entire time. At last, once she felt that she was high enough, she relaxed her wings, gliding into the wind currents in anticipation of descending slowly over the course of the rest of the day.
That night, Rainbow Dash refused to look at the moon.
Instead, she curled over on her side, hugging herself under several blankets.
Her eyes hurt from tearing up, and the salt formed a layer of dry grit against her muzzle.
She gave up on trying to stop crying ages ago.
Besides, it didn't hurt until she started imagining their smiling faces.
Clenching her eyes shut, Rainbow Dash pulled the blankets over her, desperate to shut out the cold, howling world.
She failed.
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She ought to know what is happening; so I can only assume that she just doesn't want to acknowledge it.
Double update puts a dent in Arcanist's plan, unless April 1st is now going to be on first day of new book.
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Does that mean that the seventh book is gonna be a joke?
She seems to be in some serious denial at this point.
That might just be the most painful thing I have read.
East is a beast and flight is a blight
That hurts like a sucker punch
Poor Dash. I hope she doesn't end up painfully turning into Chaos Dash and getting stuck that way.
I'm going to correct my previous statement, dash, like Dante, is still going into hell. This is layer 2 or 3.
This whole chapter hurts.
Dashie, you know your suffering is here.
It's going to get worse and worse until it kills you, little horse.
So, East Horse once full of power now full of fear,
Give up your fruitless struggles and let go, my dear.
Here's some poetry I thought up on the spot to make up for missing the last couple of chapters!
y so many sads
I know she'll make it, but it still hurts to see her like this.
-Spirit
Keep it together, Dash. Jesus, this is depressing as all hell.
shit, this got dark swiftly. Not even afforded her monthly rendezvous with Luna? smh
5930296 We knew it was coming though, Dash doesn't get a happy ending like the others. At least not yet.
If I have to go through 36 more chapters of desert...
Keep pressing on, Dash! You're not as alone as you think.
6108668 Don't think of it as desert. Think of it as Dessert! These chapters are awesome as they demonstrate the largest true regression arc this story has seen!
Also I just realized the Heaven Slices are a reference to RD's friends. She went too far east and they could not follow. The only ones left are those contained in her memory; however, thought alone is not enough to quench her hunger. If she were to bring her friends this far east they would die like the slices did.
So if the Choke takes all magic, is her pendant going to fail? That would mean the chaos would take over?
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I don't think so, alicorn magic, remember?
Her pegasus magic is being drained, yet Austraeoh flies on.