Interlude: the Bookshelf
A small shelf of books hung over an empty plush bed.
One of the books- the leftmost one on the shelf- glowed softly with a violet light. All of the books had a slight glow, but that first book stood out compared to the others.
The light slid off the book and onto the next book on the shelf…
… but before the light had completely left the first book, a spark, like a static discharge, leaped from the spine of the first book to the spine of the second.
A moment’s flash, and the spark was gone.
The books remained.
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Yeef. Of course there’s no respite.
So is she starting with Storm Front, or jumping ahead to something with a larger HSQ?
Gym “Yeah, yeah... I’ll find out soon enough...” Quirk
No rest for the weary, eh? Please tell me that spark wasn't Hornsparker. Is Twilight going to end up with literally a dozen voices in her head? She has enough trouble staying sane with just her own.
Harriet Daresden? Oh my! With her old fashioned attitude towards stallions and weird speculative fiction about a world with secret magic and monsters...
So yeah, really looking forward to seeing which book in the Dresden Files she drops into. The series changes so much over time.
At least Twilight isn't going to have Dresden's biggest problem, refusing to trust his friends at the worst possible times.
But yeah that's interesting, how is this going to work? Because a key part of Dresden Files is that magic is (more or less...) secret. But not only is that weird for Equestria in the first place, she's got a horn coming right out of her head. I'm intrigued. Maybe most unicorns have a mark spell and telekinesis and that's it? Maybe she's an Earth Pony but uses magic like a unicorn? We shall see!
...Of course, Dresden also has experience resisting possession and mind control. Unless Twilight explains herself very well very quickly, that could go bad.
Maybe she replaces LASH...
9536461 Yeah, well, the "magic is secret" thing just isn't going to fly. What other changes I have to make... well, you'll see.
9536452 The original novel continues a little longer, showing the journey south along the Andean coast, and Hornblower and Lady Barbara growing closer. Hornblower finally pushes her away out of loyalty to his wife the day before they reach St. Helena in the southern Atlantic, and Barbara is taken aboard an admiral's flagship for the rest of the voyage back to England. That's where that book ends.
But Twilight was never going to go down the road of romance herself, and she was in a bad place emotionally and needed to share with someone, so you got today's chapter.
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And I can't wait.
Oh, this is going to be good...
And I find myself hoping it was Iron Press following Twilight. She could use the support.
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Ah. I just figured it was one of Sunset's loaners.
Oh, this gonna be GOOD.
(depending on what point in the series, we may have a Snarkle Synergy Event.)
With this, I realized that there is a new possible way to read this story. When you are doing an interesting book, THEN read that section.
So, if I'm not that interested in a naval story where the ship is having to deal with war and mutiny, but I might find an X-files type of story interesting, I can read that. And in fairness, Dresden Files is on my "worth considering" list. Here I'll get a ponified version.
But have you considered redoing this story as a series of stories, instead of one giant one? For example, relabel this as "Haycartes Method, Volume one: Bray to Quarters", call this story complete now, and then start "Haycartes Method Volume 2" as a sequel instead of as the same story?
1 down 19 to go.
That said, I haven’t read the specific book Bray was based on but I’ve read similar novels of the era. I kept thinking of Heart of Darkness and wondered what it would look like if Twilight ended up in Apocalypse Now.
But I digress. Great adaptation of the original work but the source material was obviously, for lack of a better term, trash. The ‘mind merging’ is wonky as hell though. It obviously wasn’t going to be something you dragged around forever but halfway through the story I wouldn’t be surprised if people forgot about it.