Dear Diary,
Sorry I haven’t written in a while but so much has happened in the past few months! The main thing is that I have a new best friend. She’s my new foalsitter and she’s really really nice. Her name is Star Sapphire, it’s because her coat sparkles like a star and her mane looks like a sapphire, she’s really pretty. After I got sick trying to see the Heart Mum and Dad got really worried because I didn’t feel better for weeks and was even more sick than the last time! At first I didn’t want a foalsitter, I’m a big filly, but that was before I met Star. She doesn’t treat me like my aunties do, or like the palace ponies do. She treats me like a friend. She wants to play with me and not just watch me to make sure I don’t get hurt. The best thing is that if I go with Star I’m allowed to leave the palace grounds again and go around Cristamera, and even further out into the empire!
Just last week she took me to the seaside at Amethandria and we used our magic to have a snow waterball fight. She's a unicorn just like me! She was sure she was going to win but she forgot that I’m just as good at magic as she is, at least when it comes to stuff like that. Just picking up water and throwing it is easy! Star has been showing me some really advanced magic that she learnt from Mum a long time ago: Love Magic! Apparently she had lessons from Mum a long time ago like Espera did.
I miss Espera, we used to play hide and seek except she would disguise herself and I would have to find her in a crowd of ponies. She used to win all the time but after a long long time I found a way to get her. If I just waited long enough she would do this little twitch every so often. She said it was because she was trying to concentrate and the hivemind was really distracting. I found out that all I had to do was be patient and I would see where she was. Sometimes I let her think I didn’t know where she was and let her win. I liked making her smile when she thought she’d tricked me. That’s what I’m doing now diary because (Now of all the secrets I’ve told you diary this is the most secretest secret that ever was a secret, so keep this a secret) Star Sapphire is Espera! Nobody knows I know, especially Espera and Mum. I know Mum and Dad just want me to be safe and that’s why they asked Espera to look after me, because she’s the coolest pony ever and they think I won’t notice. As long as I pretend that I don’t know that Star Sapphire is Espera Mum and Dad won’t have to worry about me and Espera won’t have to leave. The only problem is that I won’t get to see the heart. I still don’t know what it is diary but I need to touch the heart. I don’t know why, but I need to get up there. Each time I’ve gotten near it I’ve felt something, the heart wants me to get to it, I know it. On the other hand though, I don’t WANT to get sick, that would be silly. Maybe Espera coming here is the perfect opportunity for me to get stronger, learn more about magic and the Heart, before going to the Heart again.
I gotta go now, Espera Sapphire Star and me are gonna go to the market to buy some ingredients. Second Helping says I can cook dinner today for Mum and Dad as long as Sapphire Star is there to stop me from giving everypony food poisoning again. Who knows? I might get my cutie mark from this, I’m getting to the age where it should appear. Would be weird having a cutie mark for cooking if I'm empress though. Auntie Pinkie was only a little bit older than me when she got her cutie mark so it can’t be too long. Auntie Jackie, Rarity and Dash told me about ‘The Cutie Mark Crusaders’, Jackie and Rarity’s sisters and Dash’s ‘almost sister’ used to get into lots of adventures in Ponyville trying to get their cutie marks. I don’t have any friends trying to get their marks too so I'm gonna have to work two, no, three times as hard to get my mark. Now that I think about it I would really like to go to Ponyville too, maybe Star will take me for a surprise visit for the aunties. Maybe Mum and Dad would want to visit Auntie Twilight too! I’ll have to ask later but for now I need to get some crystal berries.
Bye Diary
Dawning Song