To: Anon, From HRH Sunbutt.

by Snow

From HRH Celestia, RE: Letter 86.4

To my most faithful student, Twilight Sparkle,

I knew you could do it, my little Twilight. I'm a little concerned with the amount of sleep you likely got and some of your methods, but I'm proud of you.

Your loving mentor,
Princess Celestia

PS. Thank you for getting the mage tower in order, I had not realized it had degenerated so severely over the past... few... generations. Oh.

Dear Anon,

My student continues to amaze me both for better and worse. I'll deal with the scientists myself. Don't tell my student, but it's possible to combine a temporal element to interdimensional thaumaturgy such that I'll be able to pluck them out a few seconds after they get there, relatively speaking. And then they'll actually have something to worry about.

Your friend,
Celestia

Dear Luna, Cadence,

Sister, niece, I'm beginning to worry about our nation as a whole. Twilight is showing... improvement at least, and there are a great many competent and effective ponies that are also empathetic, but strangely I keep finding ponies who possess at best two of those traits in positions of importance.

I cannot help but wonder if we too suffer from being only two of those three (competent, effective, empathetic) at any given time. Still, I ask your help to aid me in going through the high positions of Canterlot at least and determine which ponies should be seeking employment elsewhere. I'm even starting to wonder if we need to bite the bit and do something about the nobility too.

Love,
Celestia

PS. No matter how cathartic it would be, we are not going to execute or brutally maim any of the ponies we fire.

PPS. Unless they are intentionally evil.

Note to self,