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// Griffon the Brush Off Part 2 
// Story: Letters to a Princess 
// by Sun Dial 
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My Dear Faithful Student, 

        Oh how I’ve always wanted to say that… do you think Princess Celestia swoons every time she says it too? Oh, this is so exciting, not your situation that is. Ponies just don’t tend to come to me for advice too often, unless its about friendship. They are always coming to me for that… which is what you’re doing. Oh great, I just walked myself into a corner didn’t I?

        Not physically walked you know…. Right. Library, you have your own library, sort of.  That’s great. You’ll be able to study all sorts of things! You should check out what they have on friendship.  We can compare notes with my own findings!  It would be interesting to see how friendships there compare to ones here and if humans and ponies have different ways in approaching magic of friendship.  Hmmm, I'd like base case study but I guess that would be kind of difficult to put together. 


        I know! You haven’t had much experience making friends, but this Ivory Scroll would be a great place to start. In fact, as your first assignment in your official role as royal student of friendship, I want you to befriend her and report to me on her likes and dislikes and anything else interesting about her.  What kind of classes is she taking? Do they even have normal classes in that world? Don't forget to take extensive notes after every encounter with her, even the slightest detail could be important to the understanding of how friendship differs there!

        Ugh, I’m a horrible Princess of Friendship. Here I am trying to get you to make another friend and avoiding finishing this letter because I don’t know how to deal with your situation with Gilda and Rainbow. We had a similar situation over here except it ended with Pinkie trying to cheer up Gilda by throwing her a party.  Gilda got mad at Pinkie because she thought she kept playing pranks on her. It was actually Rainbow Dash who had pulled the pranks and she stood up for her friends against Gilda. It turned out that Gilda had been really mean to both Pinkie and Fluttershy, and only recently have they made up.  I’ve never really had to deal with a situation like yours. I’m sorry I can’t be of help.


        I can help with Pinkie though, and don’t worry, its not that you’re not patient enough with her. You could wait a hundred years and she’d still have enough energy to annoy you for another six millenniums.  Pinkie can be strange, wild, bizarre and frankly, downright troublesome. Despite all that, she is and has always been one of the best friends one could ask for. When dealing with Pinkie, you need to give her an objective, something to do, and when she messes up, teach her. You’ll find an amazing mind behind all that energy, one that catches things you’d miss. Subtle things, and she’ll never let you down when things get rough, she’ll always have something to put a smile on your face. She also has an imagination more active than most young fillies and colts, so put it to good use and you’ll never go wrong.


She also has a penchant for heart songs like no other pony I’ve ever seen, so don’t be surprised if you wind up with the entire town singing with her.  Do try to keep her away from Fluttershy when she’s feeling embarrassed,though.  While I’m fairly confident that Pinkie’s been embarrassed….. once…. and not when she was stealing the Princess Celestia’s food… or turning Princess Luna into a terrifying monster for a bunch of foals and fillies, or when she’s the only one able to understand anything about her sister and doesn’t explain anything letting all her friends feel like idiots around her.


        Scratch that, I’ve seen her embarrassed once, and I’m not even sure that was embarrassment.  Because of this seemingly inability to be embarrassed, she has a really hard sympathizing with Fluttershy when the poor mare wants to do nothing but hide in log deep in the everfree forest.  In these events, keep Pinkie as far away from Fluttershy as possible! SHE WILL ONLY MAKE IT WORSE!

        I hope everything goes okay between you and Dash. Just remember that even if she is mad at you now, she’ll “never leave you hangin” as she’s always reminds me.  That phrase does not mean she won’t stand you up, help out without question or put you second on her priority list. It does however mean that’ll she’ll be there when you need it most, even if you don’t realize it. Its weird okay, she’s never there when you want her to be, only when you need her to be. It would be an interesting thing to study whether or not your Rainbow Dash suffers from the “Cloudsdale effect”.

        Would you be willing to have tea with me sometime? In this world? I’ll make sure no one else except Spike knows you’re here. I know that’s your world and its kind of stupid, but I want to meet the mare that Celestia saw so much in. You don’t have too, but it would be uhh… informative on the nature of the mirror how quickly one can become accustomed to a body they haven’t been in for over thirty moons…. and I would enjoy sitting down and getting to know you better.


        Your Friend,


        Twilight