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She didn’t know how long it had been, the days seemed to run together. Months at least… perhaps longer. Here in the depth of the forest it’s fairly dark at all hours, making it difficult to tell time on a good day. In the light she watched the plants around her sway in the breeze, listened to the drip of the quiet rain, and the calls of the birds echoing in the trees. In the dark she watched the blackness, eyes ever open, the occasional glimpse of movement or misty revenants in the night no longer causing panic or fear. Nothing in the forest bothered her, for she was merely an object of stone, a part of the very forest now.
 
The weight of her form had steadily caused her to tilt in the soft ground of the mucky forest, listing sharply to one side. She might have tipped over had she not also partially sunk into the ground, her forehoof beneath the dirt anchoring her in place. Small plants had grown up around her, the clearing closing in from when she first entered… she could feel the weight of dirt and moss built up upon her back, and the squeeze of a thick flowing creeper which sprouted and twisted all around her like a tangling rope.
 
The serpent that had cast her into this state lay nearby, steadily becoming enshrouded more and more in plants. She hoped that it would vanish, maybe sink into the ground and leave her sight, she had grown weary of looking at the thing- and worried that it would trap anyone that ever came and found her.
 
If somepony ever came to find her, that was…
 
… before the forest claims her completely.

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Agent Orange
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Mercury Shine
@Background Pony #9756  
I’ve been running some ideas through my head on both some good and bad (worse?) endings and I do want to continue it if Icaron is up for extending this set a bit. I’m thinking of possibly doing both, but idk. There could be the regular good ending and an alternate worse ending than what we see here.
Background Pony #055F
Would love to see a followup where someone finds her and turns her back to normal
Saga
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Permanently Petrified
@Agent Orange  
Swamps and similar marshy forests like Everfree tend to make things sink up until a point where they’re either buoyant or reach the hard ground a bit beneath- I’d imagine she’d be stuck up in the roots of nearby trees beneath her, might sink a little more, but would be dragged back up by the roots over time. It’s entirely possible that she might wind up stuck IN one of the trees with the wood around her if it were to sprout up where she was. ^^
Agent Orange
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Mercury Shine
@thps48  
It certainly made Mercury Shine hard.
 
@Steel Accord  
Why the hell do people make comments like that on images they don’t like? It’s annoying as fuck!
 
@Barhandar  
I guess that just depends. I can’t imagine there being enough of a build up of dirt to completely bury her. The other possibility is that she keeps sinking. I don’t know just how long the artist intended this last image to take place after the previous one in the set, since I didn’t give an exact timeframe (if I recall correctly when describing it I said it was a “years later” type thing,) but personally I like to think it’s been at least several decades…But I really like bad end scenarios so, really I imagine it’s a couple centuries. But from what I gather from the story, it’s only been a few years at most.
Background Pony #AA0E
@Steel Accord  
Some people are turned on by disturbing things. There’s a trope for it.  
I personally find it disturbing as well but I can’t seem to stop clicking them either. It’s a weird train-wreck kinda fascination.  
Although… as I said, some people are turned on by disturbing things, and many people would find people being turned on by disturbing things disturbing… does that turn any of them on? Ouroboros!
Barhandar
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@Agent Orange  
In just a few decades she will be completely buried. She better learn to enjoy being buried in dirt and then stone, because there’s no chance any archaeologist will dig for her.
Agent Orange
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Mercury Shine
@Background Pony #5FBD  
Possibly, lets hope someone finds her within the next couple hundred years or so…And lets hope it’s someone who doesn’t get caught in the Snake’s Curse as well and is also smart enough to realize that Mercury got turned into a statue and can reverse it.
Agent Orange
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Mercury Shine
@Ereiam  
Sweet, thanks and thanks for uploading these too! I was considering uploading it, but just haven’t had the time (screw 10 hour afternoon shifts, seriously.)
Ereiam
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Monde de merde
@Vye  
I guess that what he meant when he said that the first step to get into a fetish is to try and understand why it turns you on.  
The second step is to give up and enjoy.