p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="aa0401edd7452800ccf4d0e77b784901"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"No One's P.O.V/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="4b2e9c4ac42ba3c09937437b53d1d535"The very next day, both Abohaty and Glitz took a train ride back to Springfields. Kelsey had gone to Twilight's and Written Script and Gabe went back to their own homes. The train ride was silent because it was so early in the morning when they left. Glitz understood completely since Abohaty would have to get back to her princess duties right away./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="ff6fd425ac02fc0fccf37dd73bb517cf""Not exactly. But that's only because I've never been in a deadly war or anything. Just those small battles that come from time to time. Sure they leave little scars, but it's nothing to me. Especially when I know em style="box-sizing: border-box;"why/em I'm doing my job." He nudged me a little, making me smile./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="6850ffebdb429b1a89d23e007718cf15""I know, and I'm sorry! I didn't think it was a big deal...well actually I knew it was a big deal, it's just that Nom Nom didn't want anyone knowing about this for some reason and forced me and Dusk Shine to keep quiet from you, the high commission, the princesses..." Glitz frowned and thought for a bit./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="7094600f3867e6671e7aa2d0952c9761""Forget about Nom Nom!" he yelled. "You are the princess. You are in charge and you shouldn't take one opinion to be automatically right. I know Nom Nom probably just wants to protect us, but see that's what I think you guys are doing wrong. If we keep hiding like this, everypony is going to be at high risk of death." Glitz quieted down when he realized the mare in front of him was shaking slightly out of fear. "I'm sorry, it's just...I don't know. That isn't right to keep something like that a secret especially when it could cause some ponies their own lives! Including yours!"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="02cd408652aa0b31902588e772e5d3b8"The two friends headed back to the kingdom in complete silence. Abohaty has never felt so bad in her entire life until now. Glitz made it obvious that he was mad, but was holding his frustrations in. Both were greeted by the guards standing outdoors when they got to the castle's main entrance. One bowed their head and opened up the door./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d9e7471459505bee6fd0e4b31a9d382d"Since running to the kingdom wasn't any help, she decided she'd run to the entrance where she'd find Glitz again. She refused to let Abohaty handle the situation alone. But first, she needed to relax. Her heart was pounding, her voice was sore, and she was out of breath completely./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="ff6fd425ac02fc0fccf37dd73bb517cf""Not exactly. But that's only because I've never been in a deadly war or anything. Just those small battles that come from time to time. Sure they leave little scars, but it's nothing to me. Especially when I know em style="box-sizing: border-box;"why/em I'm doing my job." He nudged me a little, making me smile./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="6850ffebdb429b1a89d23e007718cf15""I know, and I'm sorry! I didn't think it was a big deal...well actually I knew it was a big deal, it's just that Nom Nom didn't want anyone knowing about this for some reason and forced me and Dusk Shine to keep quiet from you, the high commission, the princesses..." Glitz frowned and thought for a bit./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="e91956b16782eb8cc84e4c22747cafe1""That's alright." Flora exited the room slowly and Abohaty looked at the last few guards left standing. "You stallions should be with Glitz." Without a word, the three guards obeyed her and went to go find Glitz. All who was left in the room was Abohaty, alone. She looked out of the large window and saw the sun shining bright as if everything was going wonderfully. When the truth was, she was nervous. Nom Nom being gone left her in charge as of right now (though technically she had always been in charge). But she knew what she had to do to help make things go smoothly. Abohaty teleported out of the room to the security room where the siren lay enclosed in a glass box. Abohaty shattered the glass with her hooves and pulled down the siren. This siren hadn't been pulled in so many years, she had almost forgotten how loud it was. But it certainly did the job to inform ponies to hide. Abohaty slowly walked out of the security room and made her way to the balcony through the loud sirens and screams of ponies. When she made it outside, she watched crowds of ponies running off to their homes and loads of guards heading towards the entrance together in sync./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="d07a797a1f80bc7646b88ec364abb105"Abohaty then began to walk to her bedroom. Before doing anything, she wanted to make sure she hid some of her most important or valuable items. But the more she looked around, the more she started to notice that a lot of her stuff was missing or scattered around. It was like the pony who came inside didn't even try to cover up the fact that they stole a bunch of things out of her room./p
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