//------------------------------// // Chapter 71 // Story: One Hundred Ponies of Tambelon // by Tartarusbound //------------------------------// “Dear Princess Celestia,” the solar diarch read aloud. Celestia smiled, willing herself to savor the contact from her former student. Sadly, staying in touch was one more “friendship lesson” that the Princess of Friendship had yet to quite… Celestia froze, almost dropping her teacup from her magical hold. “Did she really…” Blinking several times, Celestia read it again. …Okay, then. Princess Twilight Sparkle was apparently entertaining a herd of unknown ponies who lived in the Everfree Forest… but who were they? The nomadic herds of Equestria had settled down centuries earlier. Who had been hiding? Why? How? This deserved investigation...