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[truefriendship]

[Starlight's not used to these devices or much about this place, but it's just like learning new magic. She's sure she can do it. After a few minutes of fiddling with a hoof, she turns it on, using her magic to hold it out in front of her.

Slightly upside-down, but she hasn't noticed.]

Greetings. My name is Starlight Glimmer. I am a newcomer here. I have read all your pamphlets and other resources, it's all very informative, but none of it answers my real question.

[She hesitates, then pushes through.]

...is this a friendship test?

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[townwithoutme]

Magic is what I've heard, but I wouldn't know. My world doesn't have magic in it at all.

[That's not to say it isn't true, but she doesn't know enough about magic to prove it either way.]

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[truefriendship]

That sounds so... bleak.

[She's always had magic. It's so much a part of her that she can't even imagine being cut off from it like that.]

Not even the magic of friendship?

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[townwithoutme]

[Kayo just stares. What.]

We have...non-magical friendship?

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[truefriendship]

[Starlight looks just as confused.]

....like. Bad friendships?

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[townwithoutme]

No, like...

[It strikes her that she should absolutely not call it normal friendship, but the impulse is there.]

Like...friendship. Just friendship. Without magic?

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[truefriendship]

So... friendship can't defeat evil and change the world where you're from?

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[townwithoutme]

[That's...a tough question, considering Satoru has defeated the very specific evil in her life and changed her whole world because of it.]

They can't change the whole world, but...they might make a difference to the person you're friends with. So I guess it's just a smaller scale? Maybe?

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[truefriendship]

Maybe.

[This seems a lot like denial, but Starlight will let her have it. She's made her point.]

In any case, most friendships work on a smaller scale where I'm from too. It's just… one specific group of friends that keeps saving the world.

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[townwithoutme]

And they save it with friendship?

[That's still so mind-boggling to her, but at least she's listening and not just completely dismissing it.]

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[truefriendship]

More or less. There are these artifacts called the Elements of Harmony. They represent a specific facet of friendship each of them represents. And together, it gives them especially powerful magic.