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I only read about 1/3 of this week's reading so far, but I've been enjoying it plenty. The first few chapters were the best, I especially liked the little details thrown into the environmental descriptions that mixed in the ponies emotional state and what they were worrying about at the time.

There were still several annoyances, especially synch/sync and rapport/report.

I also like that the princesses were immediately called in, and that they seem to be a lot more central to the story than a typical mission briefing-into-adventure situation. The best princess's right-to-the-point efficiency was a lot of fun, and I'm looking forward to seeing a bunch more of her soon.

There have been some serious red flags already, though. I stopped right after AJ and FS were railroaded onto the wasteland path to presumably the meeting of the tribes. The way the road "disappears" was written unnecessarily confusingly, and it sounded like they were being Discordified or otherwise just having their friendship crushed by unnecessarily not talking to each other. Reminds me a lot of the worst of Perytonia, but this fic doesn't seem to have the good parts of Perytons to offset that.