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It was too late now.

Mercury had been petrified for longer than she could remember, the days and nights flying past in her mind's eye like the pages of a rapidly flipped book. With each coming and departing of the sun, the thick swampy mire upon which she rested sucked her lower and lower, the action of the roots and vines that grew all around speeding the process until the very swamp of Everfree itself swallowed the stone mare up, sinking her into pure and utter darkness. All that remained was the chilled sensation of the mud and the dense, crushing weight of the ground that closed in around her.

All was black… and yet she remained, her thoughts forever entrapped in this unyielding prison of jade.

As time ticked on in the depths of the swamp, she slipped further and further into the blackness until her mind sent her into a restful torpor, incapable of anything else.

And there she'd remain.

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This is the first of a few bad endings planned for this. Each bad end is separate from the others.