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// Interlude  
// Story: The Lost Legends of Equestria: Star Swirl the Bearded 
// by Silver Inkwell 
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Meanwhile Back in the Present Current Day and Time…

“And that’s about it for my ten-year journey and the Alicorn Kingdom,” he said, “If you want more details then you should search through my journals and read them, they are a whole lot more detailed than what I am saying.”

“Alright then, fine,” Twilight said, “But what about your second apprentice?”

“I was just getting to that,” he said, “You see after Pearl died Celestia tried out new ingenious ways for me to be happy, all failed, all except for one.

You see I spent the next twenty years after she died looking for a way to heal and revive her, I found nothing, and then I spent the next ten years in complete isolation with my despair and woe and pain and sorrow, but it was not until one very special day that I finally received word that I was getting a new apprentice appointed to me by the princess, naturally I was reluctant at first but I also knew that I had no choice in the matter and so I waited for fate to come knock at my door and for disaster, danger and peril to come save me.”