The kelpies arrived in Aquamaris today to a lot of confused and mystified reactions from my public, just as planned. I ensured that the kelpies saw the rest of Aquamaris, but they had limited contact with the seapony public.
It helped that the alien appearance of the kelpies meant that many seaponies that did see them were… scared of them. It didn’t help that many of the kelpies were incredibly wary about being in a seapony city.
In short, I won a pretty good propaganda victory. The public is very confused about the kelpies and the kelpies have the potential to look really bad to Aquestria, or look really good. It’s all in my control.