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// Dear Rainbow - April 5 
// Story: Dear Sister 
// by Silver Tongue 
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April 5

Dear Rainbow Dash,

Can you believe it? I’m actually out here! We flew through Saddle Arabian dessert! The thermals there are awesome! You can just glide everywhere to save on energy. At least, that’s what Aunt Rose says. I guess I understand. It’s hotter than Tartaurus out here. 

See, it would’ve been fine if Aunt Rose didn’t get us lost… I mean, how do you get lost when your name is Compass Rose and your cutie mark is a compass?! Yeah, well… It happened. We were lost. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESSERT. I don’t know how, but we were. 

That’s not all! We found this group of camels (a real camel!) while we were trying to figure where we were. It was bad… They called us bandits and chased us out, and to top it all off, we dropped a bunch of our stuff. So not only were we lost, but we had no food or water, and angry camels wanted our heads. I’m not kidding. They were yelling it and blamed us for their stolen stuff. 

And guess what Rainbow? It didn’t stop there. They kept chasing us! Wasn’t it bad enough our stuff was gone and we’re lost? No. It wasn’t. 

That’s when I saved the day! 

Sort of. 

I saw something sticking out of the ground, and guess what? It was my very first tomb! It was all brown and old and stuff, but we could hide in it! 

This is how it went down. Me and Aunt Rose made this dust devil. It’s like a tornado, but in the dessert with sand and stuff. Since the camels couldn’t see where we were, we jumped inside the tomb. It was really dry and musty. Kinda gross if I’m being honest. 

Anyway, we went in even deeper when Aunt Rose saw the writing on the wall. Said it was from some lost tomb or something. I’m not quite sure yet. 

Sadly, our luck just got worse. The place was booby trapped. I almost turned into pony on a stick. Giant. Spikes. Shot. Out. Of. The. Ground. We survived though. So that’s good. We got past the floor spikes. But we stumbled into a room full of the real bandits… You remember? The ones the camels thought we were with? 

So we beat them up!

Well… Aunt Rose beat them up after they tied me up… They took me deeper into the tomb, and I waited forever! I thought I was a goner, but then Aunt Rose came in and saved me! We grabbed the thing they stole (it was a bottle of…something…) and left the place. 

Turns out the camels were waiting for us. They were gonna attack us, but Aunt Rose was awesome again! She gave them the bottle and explained everything. That bottle was magical or something. I don’t remember what it was, but that’s what they all said, so I’m gonna believe them. 

My very first adventure. Can you believe it? I’m still trying to figure this whole thing out. Keep thinking that it’s all just a dream. I don’t want it be just a dream… This? The danger? The Excitement? This is what I’m meant to do Dash… I can feel it all the way down to my bones. 

This is me, and I don’t want it any other way. You’ll get this same feeling too one day. I just know it.

Your sister,
Daring Do

P.S. We’re gonna stick around here for a bit. Explore the tomb a little better. Maybe we’ll find something really cool. Like a mummy! Or treasure! Or more bandits! Aunt Rose says we’ll be here for another month or so. Says that we’re going to the Frozen North. We’ll just freeze there in the arctic after almost dying from no water in the dessert. No big.

P.P.S. Sunburns hurt. A lot.