#astralgate

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Panel 1:

Astral is respondingthoughtfully.

Astral: Planeswalker?I haven’t heard that one before. I like it though… But let’s see, I got mycutie mark about two years ago. The first time I teleported.

Panel 2:

Astral is ona beach, cowering before a cream-colored Pegasus several times his height anddrawn in a more realistic style, which is rearing.

Astral,narrating: I ended up on a beach near a city called “Castor.” I… badlymisjudged which locals were sentient.

Panel 3:

Avicious-looking monster which may once have been a deer stands in a clearning,mouth and neck covered in blood. A doe’s head lays at its clawed feet, muscleripped open and the body nowhere to be seen.

Astral,narrating: Everything was being corrupted by a curse that warped their bodies…and their minds.

Panel 4:

Astral andthe dragonling Kiiri are at a table together, lit by torchlight. Kiiri is aboutas large as Astral’s head.

Astral,narrating: I worked with a very small dragonling named Kiiri to study it. Turnsout, the curse was spread by another like me, what you called a “Planeswalker.”

Panel 5:

A crouching humanoidwith large, spread wings is silhouetted against a lightning storm.

Astral: He wasa harpy called Nerrocen, a victim of the curse himself. I don’t think he wasevil, though, and we parted on good terms… After we found a way to stop thespread, of course.

Panel 6:

Twilight issitting at her castle’s main room table, noticeably excited. “Oh my gosh” iswritten around her, as if being quickly and quietly said.