Chapter 8: Ashes to Ashes, Bones to Paste

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Dream Micheal kept on working day after day after day, shoving the bodies into the furnace one by one. After his final body shoving for today, Micheal heard something, the chorus to another song. It was sung by Rainbow Dash.

In the Rainbow Factory, where fears and horrors come true.
In the Rainbow Factory, where not a single soul gets through.
In the Rainbow Factory, where failures pay their toll.
In the Rainbow Factory, where fears lose all control...

Rainbow Dash then started to laugh maniacally. Micheal started backing up slowly. Suddenly, he bumped into Absentia. "Micheal! Good job! You just got the last body into the furnace. Here, take this." The orange filly handed the young boy a golden coin. But it looked more like an arcade token than actual currency. "We call those bits! For every time you shove the final bodies in the furnace, Rainbow Dash decided to give you one each day. You can buy a lot of great things with those." Absentia walked off and Micheal just stood there with the bit in his hand. He didn't move until an employee had to snap him out of this strange trance. He walked out of the factory, still having that dazed look on his face, never changing until the next morning...

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