Dear Scholars of the Sevenfold under the Order of One,
Hello and good graces to you and the lords of our land who hold our lives with their existence. My name is Dr. Pierce Halo, though some call me Dr. Pr. Halo. I am a kind hearted greatly adventurous stallion of good age and young mind who live in the edge a little-known town called Grace Ville in the far end of the Earth Pony Conglomerate. I have lived here many years and least to say it’s been too long for this soul. This is why I send you this letter, I wish to get out into the world.
When I was young I would hear stories of the world around us. So many strange things, unique species, weird places, and odd objects. It filled my mind with wonder and imagination but most of all longing to see and hear more.
As I got older I studied many things to sate this desire. I was at the top of my class through almost all my twenty-two years of school and college. I pushed myself to learn as much as possible. I graduated from high school and college long before my peers and now hold three doctoral degrees; in biology, geology and psychology.
Nowadays I am a scientist by trade, but I love to explore and catalog, and though my hometown is quite large there is only so many places to explore and catalog here before it becomes boring. This is where my letter comes back to the point I am longing for. I want more.
My mentor Starswirl the Bearded is a well-known associate of the alicorns we all idolize and in particular, the group of alicorns you work under so I’m hoping this at least gives me some leniency. What I’m asking of you, Scholars of the Sevenfold, send me on a mission, any mission as long as it gets me out and about. I wish to learn from the world around me and not just read about it. I want to help the world around me. This world is a true beauty that goes beyond my wife own heavenly grace… but don't let her know that. She is the ever so jealous type.
Please I wish to explore, I wish to help and I wish to be useful. I know I’m asking a lot of you, maybe more than most have ever considered, but please listen to me. I want to do so much and learn as best as I can. Starswirl has already sent my credicails ahead of this letter, but that doesn’t tell you how I truly feel, and what it means to me if you should accept what I am asking. I know the road ahead will be long, but I'm willing to walk it if you just give me a chance.
-- Dr. Pierce Halo
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Dear Dr. Pierce Halo,
We are pleased to have received your letter. We have looked through the forward sent by Starswirl and your credicails show great promise. We can see a magnificent future filled with adventure ahead of you.. If you are willing…
With this letter are your instructions. Your mission is to explore and catalog as much data as possible on the ten tribes under alicorn rule.
This mission is of the utmost importance and absolute secrecy. Please be careful on your trip to the first destination. Food and other supplies will be given to you at every checkpoint.
May the grace of alicorn power shine your journey out of the darkness and into the light. The road will be long but if you are ready, then the path is open to you.
-- Representative of Scholars of the Sevenfold
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Dear Scholars of the Sevenfold under the Order of One,
I am truly happy to receive a reply. Heck, any reply would have been incredible, but acceptance is truly astonishing. I am in your debt and I will do my best with the mission you have given me.
I’ll be leaving as soon as this letter is picked up.
Thank you,
-- Dr. Pierce Halo
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Dear Scholars of the Sevenfold,
I am the wife of Dr. Pierce Halo. I have been his wife for many years and have loved him since childhood. Yes, we’re best friends in love. As corny as it sounds it is very true. And because of that, I know him best.
I know I can’t change his mind, not because he is stubborn, quite the opposite in fact. If I were to say anything at all he would drop everything. That is why I won’t tell him about this letter. I am very weak when it comes to guilt.
I don’t want to hold him back at all. Yet as a wife I can’t help but be concerned. I will miss him greatly but I know stopping him from leaving would only bring him great pain.
Though I don’t have the zeal of my husband, I am truly happy that you accepted his offer. He is a good stallion with a great heart. I know I might be overstepping especially since I could have asked him directly but please no matter what you put him through you make sure that he returns home to me soon enough.
He has a life here, despite what he thinks. He has a wife here and a son here. So please… I want one thing above all that when this is done my beloved can come home.
I’m sorry and thank you,
-- Haven Halo
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January 26th, Year 1101 EG, Friday, 6:00 am Alicorn Flying Citadel Time,
It’s the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Equestria, the land we all live in and love, or at least I wish it was that day since I missed it working.
But I figure I should write something on what is actually the day of the founding of the EEA. That's right, the educational system that is said to change our world is having it’s grand unveiling today and I missed it too. I just have the worst luck.
Here I am, one of the founding members of this group and I’m not surrounded by food and adoring mares… but, tons and tons of dust.
I guess that's what I get for drawing the shortest straw. Anyway, you are probably wondering what work has me pulled away from fine food and maybe a lucky night with a mare, well it’s cataloging old letters.
I have been sent up to the remains of the old Alicorn Flying Citadel to gather up any remaining information left in this old place. Yeah, I know this was once the home of our princesses’ parents as well as the home for all alicorns or at least that is what legends say but right now I would rather be anywhere else, the worst part I’m stuck here for the entire day. Things would have certainly got more annoying it hadn’t been for me finding this old letter by… Dr. Pr. Halo.
Yeah, I don’t know who the stallion is at all. However we share the same last name. This caught my attention and pulled the curious strings in my head. It has led me to read more of his letters and though there is only a little here I want to know more. It’s better than digging through more dust.
-- Bold Halo, Bookkeeper of the EEA