Dear Rainbow Dash,
I thought this week couldn't get worse. I mean, I put up with the fact that Luna and I had lost our substitute pillows to her pets' dragonfire. Shortly after that discovery, half of the nobles in court that day are sitting in the burn ward after unceremoniously deciding to stage the single worst castle raid in the history of castle raiding. With dragons roaming about the halls. The outcome was pretty much mandatory.
Other than the pillows, the castle was perfectly fine. No burn marks anywhere except for a few spots in the garden! Our fireproofing did the trick, so outside of paying for a few noble medical bills with their own tax money, issuing a VERY stern warning to not go snooping around my castle ever again without my express permission, and going around the castle replacing what must have been over a hundred potted plants and vases, the castle still stood tall. Nothing as permanently damaging as a destroyed tower or anything.
I believed that would be the end of the damages this week... until Cloudsdale piped up with a special report on you, Rainbow Dash. Specifically, somepony saw you in their factory wrecking their machinery, and eventually causing a meltdown that had not only brought winter to Ponyville too quickly for reasonable preparations, but singlehoofedly crippled the ONE town capable of generating winter for other towns not in the proper climate regions!
Winter is now delayed for every other town they haven't visited for a few months, at minimum. That is the extent of the damage you've caused, Rainbow Dash. And, simply put, there aren't nearly enough funds in the Harmony Fund to cover even a fifth of the costs at present time--it barely covers a fifth of the cost of rebuilding a new factory from scratch.
This has left me with little options--putting you through the court systems on crimes of extreme weather tampering and destruction of city property, is one method that would most certainly see you visit my cells in record time. While the city of Cloudsdale would see their justice done, you and I both know that doesn't suit either of us. I don't want to see you in court, and you don't want to sit there in a fancy suit with your wings tucked in like a restrained pigeon.
However, I have a far better option, one that will directly fix the damage you caused, in addition to providing a safety net in case something like this ever happens again. Simply put, Rainbow Dash, you will assist in the relief efforts for damage the factory explosion on Cloudsdale (lucky for you that Ponyville only got snow, and not hail, or you'd be helping there too). In addition, I've crammed a proposal down the Cloudsdale Council's throats in the creation of a second Rainbow Factory, separate from the town itself. Once they realize exactly how necessary that is--and how dumb I told them it was for them to just keep one and pray it doesn't fail--they'll approve it, and you will further repent for your misdeeds by aiding in the construction of this new factory.
This will, quite obviously, take place over a period of time far longer than the winter season, and you'll be spending a great deal of time away from Ponyville whilst on the job. However, I think this a far better solution than seeing you cry yourself into a puddle in my dungeon. Plus, you'll get to be with your pet turtle on weekends! You know, as opposed to meeting them through reinforced mythril bars once a month for visiting hours.
I think the choice is obvious here, but it's yours to make in the end.
Best regards,
Princess Celestia
Hello, Luna. What's wrong?
...what do you mean the sugar is all gone? You're telling me you DIDN'T fireproof that?!
Well, you thought wrong! Come on, let's get going to the store before it closes! I need a cake tonight, and I'll be sent to Tartarus before letting a sugar shortage curb my craving! You keep watch over your sugar-melters while I fly away from this balcon-YYYYYYYYYY!
...yes, I'm fine. These bushes are quite cozy. Also, whoever put that carpet over the hole in my balcony is going to get a VERY important lesson on why covering up problems just makes them worse when they're discovered!