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exactly, Sweetie Belle's come a long way from the days when she burnt breakfast, clearly there's something going on there - so the fact that our man finds it hard to believe that any unicorn not under Twilight's tutelage has any knowledge of defense spells or magic blasts seems kinda silly -
as I said, I'm sure they dcan use those spells, they just haven't had much of any reason to usedo them
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