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THE HORRORS OF SWEET APPLE ACRES (chapter 6)

Deliver Goods and Bring me Home a Treat.

Apple Jack crunches into an apple, the juices oozing out down her chin. She walks into the living area, where Big Mac is packing unmarked packages and apples into bags. 

"Are we about set to head off, brother?" Apple Jack asks finishing off her apple. 

"Yuuuup!" Big Mac replies adjusting the bags on his back. 

Granny Smith comes from the kitchen, " Now don't yall get too excited, this ain't no vacation. Yall got yourselves a job to do!" Granny Smith pushes her grandchildren out the door. " Now gon on! Get!" She yells slamming the door.

"Well I spose we ought to get goin!" Apple Jack said with a chuckle. Big Mac nods and the two set off for the train station. 

They step off the train into Dodge City, the sun just about set in the horizon. Big Mac gathers his things around him and the train leaves the station. Apple Jack fidgets anxiously not really knowing what to do, when her brother starts to walk toward the city. 

" So.. uh, where are we goin' now, Big Mac? " Apple Jack followed Big Mac through the streets.

" We'll be walking through the city to the Badlands, where we'll then have to walk a ways to meet our clients." Big mac replied as he continued to walk. They walked until the reached then end of the city. They walked until the dirt turned to dust and sand, when it was clear they were in the badlands. The sun had long been set by now and everything was covered in darkness. 

"Who exactly are we meetin'?" Apple jack spoke up, walking closely to her brother, kicking up dirt under her hooves. 

"Dragons" Big Mac snorted. " You just watch and say nothin'." He turns towards a group of cliffs and small mountains. They walked into what was a wide crack, shielding the outsides view. 

Big Mac let out a puff and two dragons stepped out from the shadows. There was a taller muted red dragon and then a shorter ashy gray dragon.

"You got the stuff?" The taller dragon grunts out in a gruff voice. 

"Yuuup!" Big Mac stomps his front hoofs on the ground. " You got the bits?" 

"Oh you know we have the bits." replied the short one, placing his claws on his stubby hips. 

Big Mac lays down his bags, dust flying as it touched the ground. He opens it revealing neatly packaged blocks of meat. A gust of wind blows the smell into Apple Jacks face. She breathed it into her nose and her mouth started to water.  

"And whos this here?" the taller dragon asked pointing to Apple Jack who was standing off to the side. 

"Yeah! Who's this, you didn't tell us about bringing no pony along!" The short one barked, transferring meat from Big Mac's Bag into theirs. 

"It's just my lil' sis'. Been teachin' er the ropes." Big Mac replied calmly as he gathered his bits from the dragons. 

"Ohhh" Said the tall one in a sly voice. " Well good luck to you" He eyed Apple Jack as they disappeared back into the shadows that they had came from. 

Big Mac saddled up once again and started walking back out into the Badlands toward the city. The moon was out and shining brightly now. The pair walked until they came back into the sleeping city. 

"Now what Big Mac? Everypony is sleepin' here. " Apple Jack looked nervously from window to window. All of which had the curtains drawn shut. 

"We need to bring home a treat for Granny Smith." Big Mac replied, turning down a street. 

"So that means were gonna be kidnapping somepony?" Apple Jack asked. 

"Shhh!! Not so loud around here!" Big Mac turned around to Apple Jack. "If we're lucky we'll end up with a treat. If we get desperate we might have to get one of the train. We can't go home with nothin'. Granny smith don't like it when I come back with nothin'..." Big Mac muttered. 

Apple Jack followed her brother. " The train seems quite risky.." 

"Not really, The night cars are usually barren and the conductor is usually too tired to keep track of how many ponies are on the train." Big Mac replied. The pair continued to walk down the street until lights had started to turn on and the area got much brighter and louder. They had stumbled into  night market, with streamers and lights everywhere. Stalls were set up and ponies were about in the wee hours of the night. Big Mac grabbed a crate out of an alleyway and sat it right in front. The alley way providing a dark place to disappear to. 

"Are we setting up shop here?" Apple jack asked puzzled. 

"Well I didn't bring all these apples for nothin'" Big Mac replied as he set out red apples onto the crate. He then sat out one green apple and sign that said 3 bits each.  

"Why'd you only bring one green apple? We had a whole barrel at home and we usually sell those for a bit more!" Apple Jack started to complain. 

" Whoever buys the green one we have to follow." Big Mac said.  " Hopefully they eat it tonight." 

They had sold a few red  apples before a green pony stopped at their makeshift stand. "wooooow! These all look great, and I sure am hungry!" The pony exclaimed. " I don't know if i should get the red or the green one,  they both look so tasty! What do you recommend?" She asks Apple Jack. 

"Well uh," Apple Jack started nervously. " They are both great, but the green apples are some of the ripest apples we have, its the only one left because of how fast we've been selling em their so ripe!" Apple Jack spit out. 

"Well you don't say! I think I'll take that one before anypony else does!" The green pony exclaims. She hands Big Mac three bits and starts to trot off eating her apple immediately. Big Mac rushes to clean up the makeshift stall. 

"Follow her and be careful no one sees her pass out on the street I'll find you shortly." Big Mac says as he pushes his sister to follow the green pony. 

Apple Jack looks back at her brother who disappeared into the alleyway and then back at the pony who was starting to sway as if she's tipsy from cider. The pony walks on and on into a quieter part of the city where less and less ponies are around. When the pony starts to stumble over her own hooves Big Mac has caught up to Apple Jack who was following a ways behind the green pony. 

The Green pony trips on her hooves and starts to fall, just then Big Mac runs and shoves the pony into a nearby alley.  Apple jack ducks into the alley after them. 

"What's happening" The green pony slurred out as her vision started to darken. Big Mac then shoves the pony into a large luggage. 

"I spose its time for us to head back now?" Apple Jack asks. 

"Yuuup!" Big Mac replies pulling the luggage as he started to walk to the station. 

When they get off the train in ponyville Apple Jack looked up to the sky. The sun was starting to rise making the sky streaked with orange and yellow. They arrive at Sweet Apple Acres with Winona greeting them at the door. Apple Jack nuzzles her and they go inside. 

Granny smith was waiting for them in the kitchen. "So how was your first trip, Apple Jack dear? "

Big Mac set down the luggage in front of Granny. Apple Jack followed Granny as she pushed the luggage into the side house. " Oh Granny! It was great I feel like I learned so much. We even brought back so many bits!" Apple Jack enthused. 

"Well that's wonderful dear!" Granny said as she opened a vault in the floor. Apple Jack stared down into the hole in the ground, which was a pitch black drop. Granny Smith opened the luggage and there lay the green pony in a curled up positioned. "Throw her in her for me will you?" Granny Smith asked.

Apple Jack maneuvered the unconscious pony to the edge of the vault pushing her in, shortly hearing her fall to the ground with a thump and burst of dust out the hole. Granny Smith Shut the door and locked it. 

"Bout time you had some rest now, dear." Granny Smith cooed at Apple Jack. " We have plenty more work to do on the farm, and you've been such help for me and your brother!"

"Of course, Granny! You know I love to help and this is just so excitin'." Apple Jack said to Granny as they headed to bed for some well needed rest.

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The Horrors Of Sweet Apple Acres (Chapter five)

THE OTHER FARM

Apple Jack walks into the house with Winona, and the newspaper in her hooves. She heads for the kitchen for breakfast and to greet her family for the morning.

" Mornin' Apple Jack!" Apple Blossom cheerily greets as she eats  her apple jelly toast.

"Hey Sugarcube! How's it goin'? Good breakfast?" Apple Jack replied, winking at Granny Smith, who winked back. 

Apple Blossom giggled "Oh it sure is, but it's nothin' compared to the treats I've been havin' at Miss Pinkie Pie's place." 

Apple Jack held her stomach, remembering the multiple and various treats she had eaten last night.  " Yall sure do make so many, who are you even selling them to?" Apple Jack eyed the updated missing ponies list in the newspaper. 

"Well we've mostly been eatin' em, but Pinkie likes to do door to door delivers to keep everyone happy." Apple Blossom giggles. 

"Well ain't that nice of her. Wonder why she hasn't delivered to us." Apple Jack bit into her toast. Big Mac comes in from the side house and joins the breakfast table.

"Mornin'." He says and grabs some toast. 

"Mornin' big brother! How was yer trip? Did you deliver everything for the ponies?" Apple Blossom bombarded him. 

Big Mac tussled the fillies mane. "Yuuup!" He replied with a chuckle.  " Just a bit tired." He bit into his second piece of toast. 

"I wouldn't mind goin' in your place next time! You'd be able to take a proper rest!" Apple Jack piped in enthusiastically. 

Granny Smith interjected " Now now, I'm sure you'd be up to it on your own but, maybe you should go together first." She started gathering dishes from the table. " Maybe bring a nice treat home" She said. 

Apple Blossom jumped out of her seat. " Ooh a treat! What kinda treat?" she asked excitedly. 

"Now don't you worry about that, besides you've been havin' plenty of treats with Pinkie Pie." Granny snorted. " Now get on to school!" She pushed the filly on . Apple Blossom groaned and left the house. Granny turned around and faced her other grandfillies. " Yall two can set out late this evenin'. So you should go and get some rest Big Mac, and Apple Jack be a dear and help me 'round the farm." She says starting the dishes in the sink. 

 Big Mac heads upstairs while Apple Jack steps outside.  As Apple Jack started to make her rounds she couldn't help but be excited and nervous at the same time. She was gonna get to deliver what she harvested yesterday and meet their clientele. She bucked another apple tree, apples falling into the grass. She would also get the chance to lure home some unlucky pony to hold here at the farm as product. She bucked and bucked and bucked every tree she came across, daydreaming about the night ahead of her. She'd been bucking and gathering apples for hours when Granny Smith approached her. 

" Well hey AJ! How's it goin'?" 

Apple Jack chuckled, wiping sweat from her brow. " Just workin' hard Granny. Its too bad we don't have  more help doin' this part of the farm work." 

Granny Smiths eyes lit up with Apple Jacks response and smiled at her. " Well have I something to show you then." She motioned for Apple Jack to follow her as she walked toward the barn. She turns and pulls a lever hidden by the shadows in the barn. Hay flies throughout the room revealing a large trapdoor in the floor with a long set of stairs leading into darkness inside. 

Apple Jacks mouth sits agape. Surprise written on her face. Granny Smith hoofs Apple Jack a torch and walks down into the abyss and stops looking back up at Apple Jack who stands holding the torch. 

"You comin' or not?" Granny Smith asks. 

Apple Jack gulps and steps down with Granny Smith. " Sorry Granny, I just didn't think there would be anything else round' here that I didn't know about ." Apple Jack said feeling a bit hurt from all the secret keeping.  

Granny Smith locks the trapdoor on the inside and she begins to walk down the stairs. Apple Jack follows her lighting the surrounding area. 

"What's down here, Granny?" She asks, as they reach the bottom of the flight of stair looking down an abyss of a hallway. Apple Jack trudges along, lighting up the the dirt walls with Granny Smith by her side. Apple Jack gazes upon a door with more locks than she'd ever seen.

Granny Smith sighs. "Well down here..." She starts to take locks off the door.  " Is where we hold..." The last lock falls to the floor and the door opens. "The Infantry." Granny Smith finally says.

Apple Jack starts down the flight of stairs, with each step down hearing the wails of little fillies. 

"Hey I could use some light up here!" Granny Smith shouts. 

Apple Jack chuckles sheepishly, heading back up the stairs with the torch. "Sorry Granny, I guess I got a little too excited." She says.

"Oh don't worry about it dear. I don't blame ya." Granny Smith says locking the locks on the inside door. The ponies walk down the infantry hallway passing multiple doors all locked from the outside. 

"Those little fillies aren't in there all by themselves are they?" Apple Jack asked.

"Oh no, of course not." Granny Smith replied reaching the door at the end of the hall way with significantly less locks than the last door.  "I've got ponies taking care of em'." 

Granny Smith opens the door shoving the locks into the next room. Apple Jack shines the torch down another set of stairs. After Granny relocks the door, the pair walk down the stairs. Apple Jack was astonished by how well hidden Granny had kept all this, Apple Jack had no idea about this for years. 

As they reach the bottom step and continue down the hall, lined with locked doors like the last, Apple Jack asks, "What's this floor, Granny?" 

Granny Smith doesn't respond. The hall is surrounded by an eerie silence, but if you listen hard enough, you can here the soft wails and cries of ponies emanating from the locked rooms.

"This is where you breed the ponies..." Apple Jack realizes out loud. She then thought to herself of what it would look like and started to feel herself become excited. 

"Yes...it is. I try not to go in these rooms very often." Granny states. 

The ponies reached yet another door, which was more heavily locked than the last one, but not as much as the first door. There was so much to the farm, Apple Jack couldn't think of anything else there could possibly be, but as Granny Smith opened the last door she was met with yet another flight of stairs leading deeper into the earth. The ponies descended, being met with a long empty hallway. 

"You sure worked hard today on the farm, AJ." Granny Smith started. " And I'd like to show you that its not just you working hard around here for the benefit of the farm. " They reach another door with two large iron locks. Granny unlocks one, letting it fall to the ground.

"This is where a good lot of our product comes from." The second locks falls the ground and Granny Smith opens the door, letting light shine into Apple Jacks face.

"Woah..." Apple Jack lets out as she stares at the farm in front of her, Granny locking the door back. Orchards of apple trees fill up the land in the room, wide fields of corn and even rows and patches of carrots, all being illuminated by bright light emanating from the celling acting as a false sun. 

" This is where those fillies get to grow up." Granny Smith said with a smile as she gazed upon the artificial outside. 

That's when Apple Jack noticed all the filles and foals starting at her, doing miscellaneous farm chores.  None of which looked to be older than 14. 

"I put the young'uns here until their old enough to be moved out and..." Granny looks around and then whispers to Apple Jack. " Harvested...and taken to the hole to wait out their days there." 

Apple Jack and Granny Smith walk around the perimeter of the land, Granny waving to fillies as they pass them. 

" This sure seems like a lot,  they really all stay here? This isn't too much work for you Granny?" Apple Jack asks worriedly. 

Granny Smith chuckles. " They really do stay here, In fact it seems that every is here as they should be, and even if they somehow miraculously found a way out, any way that's not the way came will leave em' stranded in the Ever Free Forest for dead. These young'uns know nothing outside these walls, I don't they'd ever  have any interest in it anyways. Now grab some of these baskets." She says pointing to a basket filled with apples. 

"Its about time we get out of here so you can get some rest before your big trip with Big Mac tonight. " Granny says grabbing a small basket of carrots. 

Once the ponies are back inside the barn, Granny Smith locks the trapdoor and covers it back with hay. Apple Jack sets and arranges all of the collected produce. 

"No wonder we always had so much fruit and veggies to sell..." Apple Jack said to herself.  she took an apple and bit into it, the juices squirting out and dribbling down her chin. "This is delicious!" She exclaims greedily taking another bite. 

" Oh it better be!" Granny Smith says. " I take the pig waste down there to fertilize those crops...and you know what we feed the pigs." Granny smith cackles walking into the house. 

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The Horrors Of Sweet Apple Acres (chapter four)

AWKWARD ENCOUNTER

Apple Jack trotted up Sugarcube Corner, the building seemingly looming over her. She looked around Pony Ville which was so barren it was basically a ghost town. The clouds looming over a usually sunny town. The Pegasus' not able to come out attend to the weather due to the fear of being taken. Apple Jack turned her attention towards the door holding up her hoof to knock, when the door opened to reveal a happy Pinkie Pie. 

"Oh howdy Pinkie!" Greeted Apple Jack. " I was just comin' by to pick up Apple Bloom, to make sure she gets home safe and all." Apple jack walks into Sugarcube Corner and Pinkie shuts the door. They walk into the kitchen where Apple Bloom and Derpy Hooves sit eating an assortment of cupcakes, muffins and other pastries. 

"Well, looks like yall really have been bakin' a lot!" Apple Jack exclaimed eyeing all of the dessert lined along the counter. Pinkie Pie walks around and picks up a platter of brownies iced with a gooey red frosting.

"Here! You should try some!" Pinkie says excitedly giving Apple Jack a eerily large smile. Apple Jack takes one of the brownies off the tray, some of the icing getting onto her hooves and dripping down her arm. The frosting remind Apple Jack of blood, its consistency and even its smell. She licks up the frosting off her hooves and arms, then finally biting into the brownie. 

"I've got to hand it  Pinkie, you always make the best baked goods!" Apple Jack says gobbling down the brownie as Pinkie hands her another one.

" Oh I couldn't take all the credit. " Pinkie says blushing " I had these two wonder ponies helping me!" Pinkie motions to Derpy and Apple Bloom who eyeing Apple Jack and giggling amongst themselves. 

"Oh yes! Yes!" Derpy exclaims smiling. " I come here everyday to help Pinkie Pie! It's the most fun I've ever had!" 

Apple Jack thinks of all the fun she's been having at the farm. "I don't think it could compare to mine." Apple Jack thinks to herself 

"I wish I was allowed to come here everyday." Apple Bloom pouted, crossing her hooves. 

" Now, now lil' sis'. " Apple Jack starts, wrapping her free hoof around her sister. " It's been mighty suspicious here in Pony Ville. It's for your own safety that your not out and about all by yourself." Apple Bloom continues to pout as Apple Jack is continuously offered various treats.

"If it would make you feel any better AJ, I could escort Apple Bloom from here to home or school. I really enjoy spending time with her, and after all," Pinkie smiles, " We are family." she says handing Apple Jack a red iced cupcake. 

Apple Jack takes the cupcake in her hoof hesitantly. " Well I wouldn't wanna ask for too much, It could be dangerous out there for you too." 

Pinkie Pie erupts in laughter. She falls to the floor holding her stomach. Her laughter bellows throughout the room, bouncing off the walls and into Apple Jacks ears. 

" Oh Apple Jack!" Pinkie says in between giggles and breaths. " That's the funniest thing I've ever heard!" She exclaims through her laughter. 

Apple Jack shifts her hooves, still holding the cupcake. The icing beginning to drip down off the top. Apple Jack can't help but feel uncomfortable as Pinkie continues to laugh on the floor gasping for air. She sees her sister and Derpy snickering as they share treats with each other. Apple Jack did not get what was so funny.

" I'm serious Pinkie. I don't want to lose you and my sister! I've come to take her home anyway...It's getting late and I have some special farm work in the morning." Apple Jack tries.

Pinkie continues to laugh manically in the floor for a few more seconds before she is just panting on the floor. Once she had caught her breath she stood up and placed an arm around Apple Jack. 

"No worries my friend" Pinkie said smiling a toothy grin. " No one is as dangerous as I am!" she then flexed her arms in a superhero fashion. 

Apple Jack chuckled. " If you say so Pinkie..." 

"I do say so! That's why i said it!" She cocks her head with a smile. An unusually large smile from the ones she had previously made. Pinkie gazed at the cupcake in Apple Jack's hoof. " Aren't you gonna eat that?" 

Apple Jack hesitates. " Uhm well I've had so many other treats I'm kinda full. I'm sure I've spoiled supper already!" She chuckles. 

Pinkie Pie stares blankly at Apple Jack. " That's too bad" She sighs. "We really worked hard making all these treats and we don't have anyone to share them with. She trots over to Apple Bloom and Derpy and pulls them into a hug. They all look at Apple Jack with puppy-dog eyes. 

" Well I spose' I wouldn't mind taking some for the road, but we've really gotta get goin' before it gets totally dark.." Apple Jack says eating the cupcake in hopes of Pinkie allowing her to leave.

" I suppose I'll see you later then, Apple Jack! " Pinkie smiles seemingly satisfied.  " Stay safe girls!" She says pushing the sisters outside to an almost set sun. Slamming the door behind them. 

" Awwh we didn't get any treats to take home." Apple Bloom pouted. " Do you think we could go back inside and get some?" She asked Apple jack

"No, no. It'll be ok, we need to head home now." She said pulling her sister with her. " I'm sure you can get more when you come back tomorrow"

"I can come back tomorrow?!"  Apple Bloom asked excitedly, walking with her sister.

" Well Pinkie Pie seemed very adamant about you being able to come back, so I guess it's ok as long as somepony is with you to keep you safe." Apple Jack sighed.

Apple Bloom hopped up and down. " This is great! Thank you Apple Jack!" She hugged her sister and took off towards the farm. 

"Wait for me, Apple Bloom!" Apple Jack shouted out running to catch up to her sister as they approached the farm.

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The Horrors Of Sweet Apple Acres (chapter three)

SOLO PROJECT

Apple Jack sits on her bed watching the morning rays shine into her bedroom, recalling the events of yesterday. The morning rooster crows and  Apple Jack dashes down the stairs, excited to get her day started, crashing into  Big Mac who is on his way out the door. 

"Are you leavin' Big Mac?" Apple jack asks. " Are you goin' to deliver some..."

Big Mac answers " Eeeyup!"  Already knowing what she was going to ask. Just then Apple Bloom walks in with a big yawn escaping her mouth. 

"Good mornin' yall !"  Apple blossom notices Big Mac all packed up and standing at the front door " Awwwwh your leaving again already, Big Mac?" The small filly goes over and hugs on her older brothers arm. "It seems your always gone on these deliveries" Apple bloom sniffles. 

Apple jack puts her hoof on her little sisters back, who is still attached to Big Mac. "It'll be okay, Sugarcube! He'll be back soon enough. This is just what it takes to run this farm. " Apple Jack then pulls in her siblings for a hug and kisses Apple Bloom on the forehead. " And besides, One day you'll be old enough to help! So maybe we wont be gone so much since you'll be taking a load off us!" Apple Jack chuckles. 

Big Mac says goodbye to the girls and heads off out the front door to deliver the Apple farm specialty goods.  The girls head into the kitchen eager for whatever Granny Smith had made this morning.  Apple Jack sat at the table with her sister while Granny Smith sat down a pot of gravy and a tray of biscuits. 

"Wow Granny! This looks just deeeeelicious!" Apple jack exclaimed, filling her bowl.

" Sure does, Granny! I'm gonna think about this all day!" Followed Apple Bloom already stuffing a biscuit in her mouth.  The three ponies gobbled down their breakfast like there was no tomorrow.  

"Oh my" belches Apple Jack, holding her stomach. " I'm ready for whatever the day brings on today! Speakin' of today... What are you doin' today Apple Bloom?" 

Apple Bloom grows slightly anxious and starts quietly muttering. 

" I'm sorry, Sugarcube, I can't hear ya!" Apple Jack nudges her sister. Apple bloom pushes her sisters arm away.

"I'm goin' to see Pinkie Pie again!" Apple Bloom shouts, quickly covering her mouth. " We were just gonna bake some more!" Apple bloom glances from side to side and taps her hooves together. " And... and Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were gonna be there!"

Apple Jack notices her little sisters squeamish movements and has flashbacks to Lavender Haze's body, cut open, organs hanging outside her body as their being pulled out one by one, all during her constant wiggling which only ended up causing her more pain. Apple Jack flashes back to current moment a little whirlwind and quite possibly turned on. She covers her mouth to try to hide some of her blushing. " Well as long as yall are bein' careful. You gotta remember there are ponies bein kidnapped around here." 

Apple Bloom giggled. " I knoooow, Apple Jack! Don't worry about it I'll be perfectly fine! Anyway I gotta get to school!"  Before Apple Bloom could hurry and run off from the table she was grabbed by her sister. 

" You be safe gettin' to school and Pinkie Pie's, but I'll come and get you from there this evenin'. Don't you leave there until I come and get you. It's not safe out there at night. " Apple Jack insisted. She let her sister go and the filly quickly ran out the door, sweating dripping down her face. Apple Jack walked into the living room to find Granny Smith mending some quilts while also seemingly falling asleep. 

"Well hey Granny! You look tired!" Apple Jack exclaimed, startling Granny Smith fully awake. 

"Oh my! Oh dear, My you startled me." Granny smith says squinting at Apple Jack. " Now what did you say?" 

Apple jack rolled her eyes. " I said, you look tired, Granny." She walked over and sat in the floor next to Granny Smith's chair. 

" Well I am quite tired. I was up late doin' chores around the lower farms and such." Granny coos as she affixes the quilt in her lap. " Its such hard work around here, I really am glad your here helpin' out now." 

Apple Jack scoots closer and taps her hooves on the ground excitedly. " So what are we goin' to be doin today? Are we gonna harvest another pony? "

Granny Smith taps her chin. " Well I reckon we could prepare the next shipment, that way when Big Mac gets back he wouldn't have to worry about gettin' it ready and he can just go ahead and get some rest." Granny Smith sets aside her quilt and gets out her chair. She walks over to a small cupboard on the wall and takes out a big key ring with multiple keys on it. She then walks into the kitchen.

Apple jack follows her into the kitchen feeling anxious. " Uhm Granny? " She starts. "Do you think maybe i could handle this? Since you look pretty darn tired and all. Plus you've been working so hard Granny, you deserve some rest. 

Granny turns back and looks at Apple Jack pondering the the idea. " Well I'm not too sure.." She trails off leaving Apple Jack to interject " I promise Granny. I got this!! You showed me what to do yesterday and I promise I won't cause a panic for the other ponies." Apple Jack pleaded. 

"Oh all right." Granny Smith said, tilting her head to both sides and handing Apple Jack the key ring.  "Now this key is for the first door and this key" She says holding up and big iron key. " this key is the key for the big steel door at the end of the hall. "

Apple jack familiarizers  herself with the keys she'd be needing, but she couldn't help but ask "What about all these other keys?" 

" Now don't you worry about all those, go on now and get to work" Granny spat out and shooed Apple Jack into the side house, slamming the door behind her. Apple Jack thought to herself, "Granny Smith must surely be hiding more than just this, But what else could there be than just this?" Apple Jack pushed aside the shelf in front of the door. She then unlocked the door and started her journey down the long, dark hallway. Once she reached the heavy steel door she stopped. Staring at the door she thought, " Ok AJ here we go. You got this. This is gonna be one of the best days ever. It's only gonna get more fun from here." She then unlocked the door and stepped into The Hole. Making sure to lock the door behind her Apple Jack marveled all around at the prison her family had made for these trapped ponies . She then started to trot around, feeling the gaze of the ponies as she went. She looked upon their hopeless faces wondering who she should approach. She continued to trot around as the sun shone down onto the land. She stopped and checked the crops of the small farms, albeit they weren't doing too well.  She then noticed a Magenta colored pony with shining silver hair. 

Apple Jack walked up to the pony. " Howdy there! How're you doin?"  She said smiling her best smile, which only creeped out the Magenta pony. 

"What's your name?" Apple Jack tried only getting a mumble out of the pony. " I'm sorry, I couldn't hear ya." She said digging her hoof into the dirt, looking back at all the enslaved ponies who were staring at the two. Apple Jack seen a bit of jealousy in their eyes.

"My name is Silver Sugar." Said the pony quietly, as she also gazed upon her peers.

" Well Silver Sugar!  It's your lucky day! You're gettin outta here! Doesn't that sound nice?"  Apple Jack exclaimed to Silver Sugar whose ears perked up.

"I get to leave? You're letting me out?" She asked excitedly. 

"Yep! Its your turn to go!" Apple Jack started to walk. " Follow me on your journey out of this dull ol' Hole!!" Apple Jack giggled. 

Silver Sugar followed Apple Jack who walked toward the shed. She took one last look at all the ponies she'd be imprisoned with. She could only wonder what would happen to them. As the pair stepped into the shed. Silver Sugar looked around the shed seeing there was no door out except the one they came in. Apple Jack locked the door and grabbed a baseball bat that was setting in the corner of the room.

"When do I get to leave?" Silver Sugar started before seeing Apple Jack swing the bat at her. " WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" She shouted before Apple Jack was able to hit her on the head knocking her out. Apple Jack wiped the sweat of her forehead and exhaled. 

"Phwoo that was almost bad." She chuckled tossing the bat to the side. Apple Jack pulled the pony onto the table, locking her in and moving on to the removing her larynx. As Apple Jack waited for her to wake up she arranged the tools she was going to use on a table. Her mind filling up with twisted ideas as she toyed with them. Suddenly Apple Jack heard some rustling and knew her victim was awake. It was time to bring those twisted ideas to fruition. 

Apple Jack turned around and greeted the now awake Silver Sugar. " Howdy!  I'm so glad your awake!" She smiled and watch as Silver Sugar started to struggle in her binds. The pony tried to speak to no avail. She tried and tried to scream for no sound to come out, blood spurting out from her neck wound from the stress. She then started to cry from the pain from her throat and neck and from the realization that she would soon be dead. 

" Don't stress yourself out too much there, that's what I'm 'sposed to be doin'!" Apple Jack chuckled while playing with Silver Sugar's long mane as she began to struggle in her binds again. " Don't try too hard, you'll hurt yourself!" Apple Jack exclaimed sympathetically . " But it probably won't hurt as much as what I'm gonna do to ya!" Apple Jack laughed. 

Silver Sugar stopped moving as harsh, probably already exhausted from the energy she's used. Apple Jack wipes sweat off Silver Sugar's forehead looking into her  fear ridden eyes with a loving expression.  Apple Jack turned around and grabbed her first tool of choice of the table. It was a hacksaw. Once Silver Sugar seen this she was back to struggling fear radiating off of every inch of her body and clear panic in her face. Apple Jack stuck the hacksaw right through the middle of the magenta pony's thigh pushing it in until she hit bone.  The pony's face was so wet from tears at this point it was like somepony had dumped a bucket of water on her face. Apple Jack played with the flesh around the saw watching Silver Sugars face wince in pain and her feeble attempts to scream for help. 

" I spose you might be wondering why your here. Why you were kidnapped and dumped in this Hole." Apple Jack said, dragging an empty bucket towards the table. " I bet you'd like to know. Hmm? Would you?" She asked searching the pony's face for an answer.  She began to saw at the pony's leg, through the bone, and eventually until it was entirely severed from Silver Sugar's body. She then holds up the severed leg in front of Silver Sugar. 

"You see this here? " She waves the leg, blood dripping on the magenta pony's chest. " This here is valuable product. " She drops the leg to the floor and she then runs her hoof all down the pony's body in a sensual manner. " All of this here is very  valuable product." 

Apple Jack grabbed a scalpel from the table behind her and turned back at Silver Sugar once again. Who once again was crying, tears streaming down her face. Apple Jack caresses the tool down Silver Sugar's face, leaving a cut on her cheek. She brings the tool down, sliding it across her body almost producing a ticklish feeling that caused Silver Sugar to wiggle. Apple Jack then quickly cut from her stomach to her chest, causing blood to splash across her face and exposing the magenta pony's insides to the air. Apple Jack inhaled the fresh smell of blood exiting from her warm body. She dug her hoof into the pit of organs that lay in front of her and sloshed around watching Silver Sugars eyes roll to the back of her head as she writhed in pain. Apple Jack then gently pulled out some of her intestines. 

"These here, these will go to out pigs! It's better than throwing it out and they really seem to like it! We save the good stuff for our paying customers." Apple Jack winked at Silver Sugar, yanking out the whole intestine. She then tossed the rope like organ across Silver Sugar's face. She walked behind her head and then wrapping the intestines around the pony's neck. She strengthened her grip and started to pull, effecting choking the pony with her own intestines. Apple Jack watched her writhe in pain and gasp for air for a few seconds before releasing and letting the organ hang at her neck. 

" You make the cutest faces." Apple Jack giggled. " So cute I could just sell you off to get eaten!" 

Apple Jack pulled out a few more organs before noticing Silver Sugar's eyes start to droop. Tossing organs into the bucket she said, " Well it seems our time has come to an end, now i gotta cut you up and prepare you for shipment and into happy customers bellies! Every creature has got to eat." As Silver Sugar's vision started to fade the last thing she sees is Apple Jack loving gaze with blood all across her face. Apple Jack finished hollowing out the magenta pony's body pushing the bucket of organs toward the door. She then began the process of dismembering the limbs and head from the torso, throwing the head to the floor. She laid all of the legs on the table next to the tools. 

After she had skinned the pony, pulled the meat of the bones, and carefully weighed, measured and packed up copious amounts of pony meat, she looked around the shed. Which was covered with blood. 

"Well this is just great!" She sighed as she started to clean up the mess and herself. 

When Apple Jack was finally done and had returned home it was already late afternoon. She walks outside with the bucket of organs dumping them into the pig's trough, calling them to come eat. Granny Smith came outside and trotted up to Apple Jack placing a hoof on her shoulder. 

"It's been awhile Apple Jack, dear. I've been worried something happened." Granny Smith said. 

"Oh, I'm sorry Granny, I was just making sure to take my time to get the job done right." Apple Jack exclaimed proudly.  

Granny smith smiled tenderly. " Well I truly do appreciate your help.   It really is gonna make things run smoother 'round here. " 

" Of course, Granny. I'm gonna wash up and head to Pinkie's to go pick up Apple Bloom, But we'll be back for supper!" Apple Jack said to Granny Smith who was heading back inside to start preparing said supper. 

"Alrighty then dear! Stay safe." Granny Smith said.

After Apple Jack had rinsed herself off with the hose she stood at the gate of Sweet Apple Acres. "Stay safe." Apple Jack mumbled to herself as she walked away from her home and onto her journey to pick up her little sister.

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The Horrors of Sweet Apple Acres (chapter two)

THE HOLE

Apple Jack jolts up in bed suddenly awoken by the farms local rooster. The early dawns sunlight fills her room. She puts on her hat and heads down into the kitchen, joining both her siblings at the table. She wiggles around excitedly, noticing Apple Bloom doing the same. 

" What have you got goin' on today, sugarcube? " Apple Jack asks her younger sister.

Apple Bloom practically lights up at this excitedly spilling out her plans for the day. " Well, Me and Miss Pinkie Pie were gonna do some more baking today! Recently Derpy has been helping us out, It's been so much fun! I'm real excited about what we could be baking today. Knowing Miss Pinkie it might be more cupcakes" Apple bloom giggles.

" You sure have been hangin' out there a lot here lately." Apple Jack comments. 

" Its just too much fun there, Big sis!!" Apple Bloom exclaims. 

Apple Jack laughs as Granny smith sets a plate of pancakes on the table and joins them. " That's Pinkie Pie for you, everything is fun when she's around. Bring me back a cupcake will you?" Apple Jack asks, only to be met with a nod from Apple Bloom who had already started filling her mouth with Granny's pancakes. 

" Remember to stay safe out there, Apple Bloom. With all these disappearances of ponies and such..." Apple Jack warns her sister who continues to scarf down pancakes. 

" Oh yes AJ! I know!" Apple bloom gulps as she gets up, putting her plate in the sink and rushes out.

" Go there and back, Okay?" Apple Jack yells out to her already gone sister. 

Granny smirks slyly. " She'll be just fine, dear. " Says Granny rubbing Apple jack on the back.

" I hope your right. We're really not the ones responsible for the missing ponies here? " Apple Jack asks. 

" Oh no dear." Granny Smith assures. " We've made sure to outsource for some of our product. We collect meat from all over Equestria. Anywhere but the ponies in this town." Granny smith says as she starts cleaning off the table from their quick breakfast. " I have a feeling of who is up to the disappearances here, but she'll get caught in her own time. "

" Then how do you know Apple Bloom will be safe? " Apple Jack  asked unsurely.

" I just know. Don't worry about it." Granny Smith assured. She motions for Apple Jack to follow her. They go into the side house with Big Mac entering as well. He then pushes aside a  large shelf up against a wall to reveal an old wooden door with a big padlock. Granny unlocks the door and opens it revealing a staircase that leads into pitch black darkness. The ponies walk down the stairs with the sound of the door being locked back behind them. Apple Jack reaches the bottom of the stairs and feels cold damp dirt underneath her hooves. " I can't see anything." She exclaims. Just then she hears a click and the hall is illuminated by torches along the wall, only to reveal just how long the hall is. 

"Oh boy.." Apple Jack chuckles. " We better start walkin'....where exactly are we headed?"

Granny smith starts down the hallway " Were goin' to the real farm!" 

The rest of the walk goes silently, until they come upon another locked door. Only this time the door was a heavy steel. Granny smith opens the door letting the sun shine onto Apple Jack as she steps out of the hall. Hearing Granny lock the door back. 

"This is what I like to call The Hole. I bet you can see why." Granny smith says gesturing to the land in front of them. Surrounded by tall dirt walls, only to be continued by an even taller stone wall. "There's no way out of here " Granny states. " And that's the best part about it!"

Apple Jack notices all the ponies imprisoned here. All confined to a heavy ball and chain. Pegasus's with their wings chained together. Unicorns...With horns broken off. The ponies really were trapped here. All the ponies were working, tending small farms and working water wells. Some ponies just standing around  moping, crying. Hay beds were scattered about the flat land. In the middle of The Hole stood a  large wooden shed. Apple Jack felt compelled to go towards it only to be pulled away with Granny Smith, leaving Big Mac to guard the Steel door. Granny and AJ walk around the premises, Granny greeting the captive ponies as they walked by. 

" Do these ponies know why they are even here?" Apple Jack whispers.

" Of course not. " Granny Smith replies. " That would cause them to panic even more than they already are just being held prisoner."

" Why are there farms here?" Apple jack asks, Which Granny quickly replies " Everypony has got to eat....even the livestock." Granny says, whispering the word livestock." What would i do if they all starved to death. I wouldn't have any product for a while. That wouldn't be good for business."  The wordLivestocklingers in Apple Jacks mind. A dirty thought popping into her head. 

" Do we...Do we breed them like livestock?" Apple Jack asks in a barely audible whisper. 

Granny smith stumbles. Shocked at the question. " Don't you be worryin' about that. Lets just focus at the task at hand now." Granny smith replies quickly as she continues to trot about the land. Apple Jack feels the eyes of the captive ponies on her. Apple Jack couldn't help but feel uneasy. Did these ponies really not know? Surely they must know. They should know, and Apple Jack wanted to be the one to tell them. AJ and Granny trot up to a Purple pony with short Blue hair, who quickly gets very nervous.  

" Well good mornin' dear. What'd you say your name was again?" Granny smith cheerfully expressed towards the anxious pony. 

" Uhm, My names Lavender Haze..." She replied 

"Well ain't  that nice." Granny cooed " Would you come and follow me and my granddaughter here?" Lavender Haze nodded and followed Granny Smith and Apple Jack towards the shed to which also had to be unlocked. The three mares step inside. Apple Jack waves sheepishly at Lavender Haze as she starts to glance around the room, hearing a locking sound behind her. As her eyes lay fixed in fear on a exam table in the center of the room she is met with the prick of a needle in her abdomen, quickly followed with a heavy feeling of drowsiness. As Lavender Haze collapses to the floor, Granny Smith orders Apple Jack to place her on the table. 

" Make sure to get her on her back. We want access to her belly."  Granny explains. " and lock her limbs into place with these. " Granny points to metal cuffs attached to the table. Once Apple Jack has her positioned correctly and locked into place she lets  Granny know she's finished. " Now wasn't that easy!" Granny exclaims attending to some tools and instruments on another table. 

"Now to make things stay quiet I like to preform a small surgery. " Granny starts. She cuts into Lavender Haze's throat with a scalpel. Blood spurting out from the incision onto Granny's face. 

" What are you doin' Granny!?" Apple Jack shouts. Only to be met with a loud shush from Granny Smith.

" Were gonna cut her open. When she wakes up she's gonna get all loud and screamin' and hollerin' if  I don't do this." Granny insists. " I'm removing her Larynx, so she won't be able to make any sound. "

" You like to keep them awake?" Apple Jack asks Inquisitively

Granny Smith removes Lavender Haze's Larynx, tossing it to the floor. " I feel its just more fun that way. They usually don't stay awake for too long anyway, So i don't bother with it." This made Apple Jack excited. Lavender was going to see what we were doing to her. She would see that she was going to die and how she was going to die. 

" We've got to remove all her organs from her body, so first we've got to cut her open."  Granny pulls a bucket towards the exam table and then handed a scalpel to Apple Jack. " I'm sure you can handle this. You'll just cut her right down the center." Granny motioned where to cut. As Apple Jack hesitated with the scalpel gently pressed into the purple pony's hide, her eyes opened. Apple Jack saw this and started to cut down the chest towards the abdomen watching Lavenders face contort in pain, clearly trying to scream as the blood from her throat started to bubble and spill onto the table and staining her hide.  Apple Jack giggled. She made a small but, deep cut on the pony's arm. Again watching Lavender's face contort and tears stream down her face.

"Now, now, don't cut her all up, You'll ruin up our portions. " Granny exclaimed as Apple Jack began to slice at the pony once again. Apple Jack did not know what this feeling inside her was, but it made her insides warm and she craved more. The look of pain on this pony's face was all Apple Jack could think about. She thought of other ways she could bring pain to the pony...mentally and physically. Granny Smith starts to remove organs out of Lavender Haze and drops them into the bucket. Apple Jack joining removing her Intestines, thinking of how much they reminded her of her own lasso. 

 " Well now my dear." Granny soothingly expresses towards the purple pony, " It's finally time for you to go, you're free from this place now. Your sacrifice will not go unappreciated. " Lavender Haze weakly continues to struggle in her binds

"You might even feed a whole family in need !" Apple Jack states excitedly while continuing to empty out the pony's insides while she starts to struggle even more with urgency.

"Now Apple Jack! No need to scare her!" Granny insists. 

Apple jack chuckles. " Granny, I'm pretty sure she's been scared the moment we've stepped in this shed. Plus she deserves to know where her sacrifice is going!" 

" Well, I spose yer right" Granny says as she pulls out Lavender Hazes last organ, Her heart. Apple Jack watches the last breath leave Lavender's lips. Lamenting the loss of her pain filled expressions.  

" This bucket of organs will go to the pigs, they'll eat anything you know. I'll have Big Mac come for it later." 

" Why can't we take it now and save a trip down that long ass hallway?" Apple Jack asked.

"Well for starters, we ain't done here yet. We still have to dismember, skin and strip the meat off this ones bones. Then we gotta  cut up the meat and package it by weight using this scale here." Which Granny points at. The two start by sawing off the dead pony's limbs, setting them to the side for now.  " And like I said, I don't want to scare any ponies here even more than they already are."

" But Granny, Don't they deserve to know? If we tell them their livestock and their only purpose is to die and be sold as meat won't they just feel even more hopeless and not even try to escape? It doesn't seem like there is any way out other than that steel door and dying in this wooden shed!" Apple Jack exclaims as she rips out pieces of the carcass' ribcage. 

" You need to be gentle, Apple Jack dear.." Granny smith said quietly. " I think the ponies here are going through enough, But i suppose they do have a right to know. I'll let you tell them, but only if they are inside this shed." Said Granny Smith as she removed the pony's head from her body, taking it to the corner of the room. She opened a trap door, releasing a foul smell into the air. Apple Jack walked over and peered down into the hole, sniffing in the horrendous smell with a very deep breath. Down inside the hole were hundreds, maybe thousands what what looked to be pony heads, in all stages of decay, some so old the skull bone itself had  started rotting away . Granny Smith tossed the head in the hole and letting the door shut, wafting one last layer of stench. Apple Jack strangely already missing the smell once it was gone. 

Once Granny and Apple Jack had finished packaging and cleaning themselves up they went to leave the shed. " Go ahead and grab the bucket, I'll just have Big Mac come back for the meat." Granny sighed out. Apple Jack grabbed the bucket with her mouth and they both stepped out of the shed, Granny making sure to lock it back. Apple Jack was then rushed toward the door by Granny Smith. Apple Jack took one last glance at all the ponies before the steel door was shut and locked and they had to make their way back up toward the house. Apple Jack was excited to come back and help out here some more she thought as they walked the long hall, and she wanted to come back very soon.

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The Horrors Of Sweet Apple Acres (chapter one)

THE APPLE FAMILY SECRET

Apple Jack walks along a path in Pony Ville with Winona by her side who hasn't been feeling well. They had just come from Fluttershy's home. They had ran into her at the veterinarians and she had invited them over for tea.

" I've been so scared recently you know" said Fluttershy " I barely feel safe to leave the cottage"

" I get what you mean. It's hard to send AppleBloom off to school somedays. I haven't seen Rainbow Dash in weeks." Apple jack replied.

" The poor dear...where ever she may be i hope she's safe" Fluttershy sniffled " I haven't been able to find Roseluck to get my floral arrangements. I'm worried she might be missing too. These disappearances are getting scary I can only fear who their going to take next. "

" Hopefully no one is taken next." Apple Jack states.

Apple Jack stops at the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres. The sun had started to set and there was a heavy breeze. She stares at the trees, which move and creak with the wind making Apple Jack feel uneasy and frightened. She gallops to the front door making sure to get Winona inside safely. When she comes in, there stands Apple Bloom in the living room. She shifts from one hoof to the other with an anxious look on her face.

" Everything okay, Apple Bloom?" Apple Jack asks. Apple Bloom snaps out of her thoughts replying " Oh yeah! Everything's fine here... I'm just not feelin' too well." Sweat drips down her forehead as she nervously to the side and back at Apple Jack.

" Well uh, okay then, maybe you should go on up to bed and get some rest. Hopefully you'll feel better in the mornin' ." Apple jack says.

" Okay then, Night! " Apple Bloom rushes out of the room and up the stairs.

" There's something goin' on with that filly." Wonders Apple Jack. " I hope she hasn't gotten into any trouble. " Apple Jack walks into the kitchen to find Winona's food bowl empty except for a slimy red residue covering the inside of the bowl. Apple jack looks in the cupboard to grab some kibble for Winona only to find that there is none. Apple Jack recalls that Granny Smith would take care of feeding Winona but hadn't actually seen Granny Smith feed her. Perhaps Granny had ran out this morning and has since went to get some. Apple Jack Trots into the Side house to find Granny, Instead she runs into Big Macintosh. He seems very out of breath and sweaty.

" Are you okay, Big Mac?" Apple Jack asks

Big Mac chuckles nervously " Oh uhmm eeyuup." As he tries getting around Apple Jack to go inside.

" Are you sure? Everythi-" Big Mac interrupts " Yuuup! Everything's fine, I'm goin' to bed!" Pushing around Apple Jack, Big Mac rushes into the main house.

Apple Jack stands in the side house, poking at the ground. " Everypony sure is acting weird tonight. I hope Granny will be all right." Apple Jack walks back into main house to find Granny Smith In the kitchen.

" Hey Granny, I've been lookin' for ya!" Apple Jack exclaims. She walks over to see Granny Smith filling up Winona's bowl. "Did you finally get some..." Apple jack stops seeing that Granny Smith did not have Kibble, but instead she had raw meat, Winona already greedily eating from her bowl before it was filled.

" Granny, is that... that is raw meat! Is that why Winona's been feeling sick!?"

"Well I spose I could start cookin' it for the dear..." Granny calmly replies.

" Cooking it? Granny, why- where? Where are you getting meat from? " Granny Smith sits Apple Jack down at the table. " Is this where all the missing ponies in Pony Ville are going? Granny, how could...Rainbow-"

" Now, now, dearie, don't get yer panties in a bunch. I'm not the one kidnappin' ponies from Pony Ville..." Granny Smith soothes.

" Then what Granny? Where did that come from!?" Apple Jack says pointing to Winona's again empty bowl. Only coated with the residue of the meat.

Granny Smith looks Apple Jack in the face. " It's time I tell you what kind of farm were really runnin' here. This is the Apple Family's deepest darkest secret." Big Mac steps out of the dark with a cold expression on his face. Apple Jack gulping as Granny Smith continued.

" We've been runnin' a lot more than just a regular ol' Apple Farm. There's been a much better way for us to earn our keep. It takes a pretty penny to keep this farm as nice as it is, you know. " Granny smith holds Apple jacks hooves as she talks. Apple jack nervously waiting for whatever secret Granny is going to tell her. " Now you can either help out, or you just need to keep yer trap shut, and don't make us have'ta make ya! That includes Apple Bloom!" Granny shouts, stamping her hoof on the table. Big Mac nodding behind her.

Granny Smith looked up as she started again a glimmer of nostalgia in her eyes " We've been runnin' this side of the farm for as long as I can remember. "

" What, What is it Granny?" Apple Jack presses, feeling as if she already knows the answer.

Granny finally says it. " An underground meat farm." she pauses. " Now I know you might feel a little uneasy but, Every creature has got to eat ,dear. Why not us to be the ones to supply and capitalize on it. It can't all be Salads and Cupcakes. "

Apple Jack chuckles nervously. " Do you think I could see this... meat farm?"

Granny smith shakes her head and lightly laughs. " I think it'd be best for you to go ahead and get some rest and we'll start sometime tomorrow."

Apple Jack and Big Mac stand in the hall outside their bedrooms. Apple Jack shifting nervously from hoof to hoof. "You knew about this?" She asks. " Eeeyup." Big Mac quietly responds.

"For how long? " Apple Jack presses, only to be met with a long silence. "How long have you known about this Big Mac?"

" Since...since mom and pop passed." Big mac pushed out. " Granny needed help."

The siblings stood in silence together before going to their rooms for the night. Apple jack closed her door behind her, hopping into her bed. She stares out her window into the night sky drifting off only imagining what would await her the next day.

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