Her tongue stuck out one side of her mouth as the eleven-year-old alicorn tapped into her magic. Flurry summoned it up around her horn, a glimmer of yellow quickly building into a seething golden maelstrom, and grasped the rock.Cognitive learning disability she focused hard on lifting it right up off the ground, the whole pony-sized mass of it, and squinted and strained and poured in magic, careful to maintain her grip, to not let it slip, to keep the direction and speed even.Cognitive learning disability it slowly began to wobble up off the ground. An inch, and then another, and then a third, and stars above, she was doing it.

When the smoke and light cleared away, flurry heart saw fragments of burning rock spread out over a wide area of garden, with a few bits of flaming shrapnel stuck in the crystalline trunks of the remaining trees, having hacked in a fresh batch of scars.Cognitive learning disability the wind blowing through their branches sounded a lot like grumbling. She’d kept the royal gardeners busy, lately.

“but I’ve been practising!” flurry hunted about for another bit of rock to kick, and finding none, elected to slump down onto her hindquarters and pout at the world.Cognitive learning disability “you’ve been helping me, and mom’s been helping me, and, and auntie twilight taught me some breathing exercises and gave me tips for remaining focused, and, and so did aunties celestia and luna and … and everypony!Cognitive learning disability and I’m trying, and I can’t! I just want to use my magic!”

“stupid rocks,” she muttered to herself, getting up on her hooves and looking around at the garden.Cognitive learning disability the battered crystal trees and their glittering leaves chimed in the breeze. From around, the songs of birds who’d long since learned to hide behind the trunks and only re-emerge when flurry was done practising her magic began to fill the air.Cognitive learning disability

Some of said leaf fragments grew little arms and claws to pull themselves back together, and a couple grew bright red-yellow eyes, and the whole of the leaf reassembled and reshaped itself, growing taller, longer, serpentine.Cognitive learning disability the little arms and claws bundled themselves together to become bigger, mismatched limbs, and eventually, the creature’s long, goaty head looked down at flurry with a peevish expression.Cognitive learning disability “the youth of today. Honestly,” he said.

“discord, spirit of chaos, draconequus at large, and a poor sleepy elder who was most uncouthly awoken from their nap.Cognitive learning disability well, I say ‘nap’. Others might say ‘lying in wait for twilight sparkle and her friends so I could prank them by jumping up unexpectedly and pulling scary faces and shouting ‘bwooga’ a lot’ but never mind those hypothetical others.Cognitive learning disability what woe is the world coming to?” he wiped away a theatrical tear, even as he leaned down closer to flurry’s face, and he squinted. “hmm, it’s been a while since I’ve been up here.Cognitive learning disability and I say, I think I recognise you now. Horns, wings, small size, all clues. You’re flurry-something, correct?”

“well, generally speaking, everyone knows the princesses.Cognitive learning disability hard to not,” discord replied airily. “and specifically, I’ve had occasion to dandle you on whatever knees I grew for the purpose, make silly faces at you, and sing you songs.Cognitive learning disability you might have been three the last time? Good songs too. Some of my very rudest limericks, and I’d have taught you all of them if fluttershy hadn’t yelled at me to stop.”

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“don’t fuss about it. That rock probably well and truly deserved it. Why, the reports of its sins against its rock colleagues turned my hair whiter than it already was.” discord still looked thoughtful.Cognitive learning disability “still though, this seems like a problem with your magic control. If I were to offer you a hand, claw, appendage, thingumy with that, would you keep word of my planned prank on the down-low?”

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Discord shrugged so hard his arms fell off, and he had to quickly dip down to the ground to retrieve them. “A lot of my great ideas sound dumb, granted.Cognitive learning disability maybe it’s something in my inflection. Maybe I should wear a labcoat more so I look and sound smarter. And you know, that’s a fair question.Cognitive learning disability here’s mine. Is my method at least worth trying?”

Discord looked like the absolute epitome of a being you ought not to trust. Both looked, and in a lot of the stories she’d heard, was.Cognitive learning disability but in a lot of those same stories, he pulled through in the end. Auntie twilight and all her friends were much too smart to be friends with someone who was really wicked, who couldn’t be relied on in the end.Cognitive learning disability

No forethought, no breathing, just the deed. Magic built up and flashed forth from her horn in an eye’s blink, and as it passed through, it almost seemed to sing.Cognitive learning disability it sounded like snowflakes tumbling, like the cheery roar of a burning hearth, like winter winds and bonfires and jangling icicles all at once, like the whole of the world tumbling in through her ear.Cognitive learning disability

And when it passed the instant after, she found she was levitating the rock. It hovered in the air in a casual sort of way. With a flicker of thought, she floated it one way, then the other.Cognitive learning disability it tumbled where she directed it, and when it flew through the air in the perfect figure-of-eight she wanted and didn’t explode into flaming shrapnel once, she giggled with pure delight.Cognitive learning disability