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(This chapter was done in rp between myself and Dudey64.)
Moonbounce couldn't focus on dining now! Something caught her eye... something she couldn't ignore. In the darkness her keen eyes spotted movement, a curtain blowing open and showing behind it a squirming and struggling sack. Rope tied it to the claws of a dragon who was clearly lugging it along, from a back entrance and what looked like towards the kitchens. If it was something shady it was her duty as a guard to investigate. She stood up, making it look like she was heading for the toilets but veering off at the last second and slipping behind the curtain, keen to follow the sack and find out what was up.
The hallway was dark and only dimly lit by the very far spaced gems that lined the walls at natural seeming heights. There were no signs or any furniture as it seemed to round about the edge of the restaurant. A slight incline brought it close to an area just above where the kitchen seemed to be. She heard a few muffled groans from the bag, whatever was inside moved slowly, seemingly tired.
The dragon pushed open a fake wall and stepped through into a rather large room containing some kind of box with an opening, a few tables and what seemed like cooking utensils lined along a wall.
The dragon huffed for a moment before tossing the sack onto a table and opening it up to reveal a bound pony. The pony moved about sluggishly, their face inching aside as the dragon looked them over before tossing it onto their back and proceeding into another room. There was the sound of some shuffling, possibly other dragons and some metallic clangs.
Moonbounce looked around, this corridor even darker. Dragons must have pretty good dark vision too... makes sense given them living in caves and all. Gems seemed to act as torches, the fires higher than Moonbounce was tall as she gazed between the two walls. There was nothing here, just a featureless corridor that circled around from the back entrance to the kitchens near the front... a secret entrance perfect for some illegal activities. Her eyes flicked at a groan from the bag, it moving in a way that most bags would most definitely not. There had to be an equine inside.
Suddenly the dragon stopped, seeming to take note of a gem that was a slightly different colour. With a push it slotted into the wall, and the wall slid open revealing some kind of secret room. Moonbounce's eyes went wide, then even wider as the sack was tossed onto a table and opened up. The canvas fell away, and a pony was revealed, a grey earth pony mare with a two toned green mane. She looked pretty rough already as she was hauled up and carried through a side entrance in the secret room and off to another room. Moonbounce could hear the sound of dragons grunting and clanging metal from beyond and she swallowed. It would be difficult to follow that dragon deeper. She chewed her lip a little, pondering her next move.
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