6. Truce
“Happy birthday, Ditzy Doo!” Everypony else exclaimed.
“Happy birthday, momma!” Dinky instead shouted, as her mother blew out the candles on her birthday cake, which had been baked in the shape of, and with frosting dolled up on it in such a way as to suggest, a blueberry muffin. There was a cheer as the candles flared and died.
Ditzy Doo was not normally one for parties, but after the shock she’d received earlier in the week, she was for once perfectly willing to just let herself go in the collective will of everypony present, each of whom seemed determined to make this her best day ever. The gathering was relatively small, at least – in addition to Dinky, there was Lyra and her marefriend BonBon; Trixie, who was doing her best to remain on the other side of the table from BonBon at all times for some reason; Carrot Top, Raindrops, and Cheerilee, who together rounded out the Elements of Harmony; and Silver Script, the post master of Ponyville. They were all gathered in the party room of Sugarcube Corner. Against all odds, Pinkie Pie, Ponyville’s Party Pony Par Excellence, was not present, Ditzy’s friends having somehow arranged things with the Cakes to have her be occupied somewhere else in Ponyville for the day. This suited Ditzy Doo fine – Pinkie’s perpetually positive attitude could become grating very quickly.
“What’d you wish for?” Silver Script asked as Trixie used her magic to grasp a knife and began cutting into the cake, though not before looking at it thoughtfully for a moment.
“What could I wish for?” Ditzy asked, a bright smile on her face as she looked around the room. “I have everything I want right here.”
“Ow, momma!” Dinky said, smiling brightly as though she had finally figured out a particularly vexing math problem. “Toothache!”
Ditzy laughed at that, even as the cake and the slices were moved aside for the moment while Trixie worked on them – still pondering the knife a bit too closely for Ditzy to be entirely comfortable with the situation, but Raindrops seemed to be keeping an eye on her – and instead everypony got their gifts ready.
“Okay, this one first,” Ditzy said, taking out a long, thin package. “From…Silver Script?” Ditzy unwrapped it with hooves and teeth, and found it to be a plain brown cardboard tube, closed at both ends. Opening one, she took out a large sheet of paper – a map of Ponyville in exacting detail, with a multitude of lines drawn across it in various colors, numbered one through thirty-three.
Raindrops, who had come up behind Ditzy Doo, looked it over. “I bet it’s what you’ve always wanted,” she observed in a dry voice.
“It is!” Ditzy exclaimed as she looked over the map, then glanced to Silver Script. “New routes? When do they start?”
“Next Monday,” Silver Script answered proudly. “You will not believe how much the Postmaster-General didn’t want the routes in Ponyville re-organized – I have no idea why, it’s not like she has to deal with them – a but I convinced her in the end. Your routes are in green.”
Ditzy looked over the map again. The new routes were, more-or-less, now all of roughly the same length, and could be split nearly evenly amongst the seven mares and stallions who delivered the mail in Ponyville. It would take a little bit to commit them all to memory, but this, at least, meant no more stupidly long trips – and the green routes even all had, as their end point, Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Thanks,” Ditzy said, rolling up the map and sliding it back into its case, then passing it over to Silver Script. “What’s next…” the package she held was small, wrapped up in bright purple, star-studded paper, and… “is…is it glowing?”
“Oh! Mine!” Trixie said, setting down the knife and coming over to the collective of ponies. “And yes, I made the paper glow. Just a little.”
Ditzy considered asking why, but then again she suspected she knew the answer – even in wrapping gifts, Trixie, without even realizing it, saw it as a competition: it was just who she was. The mare resisted shaking her head and chuckling knowingly, instead opening the present and finding herself looking at a paperback book, entitled De Ditionibus. She looked to Trixie, asking the question with her eyes.
“Of Sovereignties,” Trixie translated. “Don’t worry, it’s just the title that’s in Old Unicorn, the rest of the book is in modern Equestrian. And you probably know it better by the title The Sovereign.”
Ditzy was silent for another moment. “Um…no, actually, I don’t.”
Trixie blinked several times for that. “Really? By Silver Raventongue? Never heard of it?”
“I have,” Lyra stated, casting a slight glare at Trixie.
“So have I,” Cheerilee noted, then looked to Ditzy Doo. “Trixie, why would you think that Ditzy would want a book on power-politics? Especially this one?”
Trixie whickered. “I like it. It’s my second-favorite book after Don Rocinante.”
“Explains a lot,” BonBon noted under her breath.
Trixie didn’t hear her, instead looking to Ditzy Doo. “It’s a great read, even if you’re not going into the Night Court, or any kind of politics. It’s not just one of my favorites, it’s one of Princess Luna’s, too. And look!” she used her horn to open the book to a random page. “Large print!”
Ditzy offered a slight smile. Being afflicted by strabismus as she was, reading the small text size of most books was difficult for her to do, at least for a prolonged period. The large print at least showed that Trixie’s heart was in the right place. “I’ll read it, I promise,” she said. “Thank-you…”
Ditzy’s voice trailed off when she heard the door to Sugarcube Corner open, and looked up out of curiosity – several ponies had come and gone already, of course, given that the Cakes still had a business to run, but despite being in a separate room of the bakery, from where Ditzy was sitting, she could clearly see the entrance and countertop. It was mostly just to see if it was anypony she recognized. And, as it turned out, it was.
Amethyst Star, wearing a deep blue winter cloak, stared at Ditzy Doo. Ditzy Doo stared back, her eyes coming into focus as she did.
Everypony else gathered noticed the change of atmosphere immediately, looking to the unicorn that had entered, then back to their friend. Ditzy realized that she hadn’t told anypony what had happened earlier in the week.
This was bad. This was going to be very bad. There were only a couple of things that Amethyst Star could do right now, and absolutely none of them would end well for Ditzy. Not that it was anything less than what she deserved. Ditzy braced herself for the inevitable –
“Sparkler!” Dinky exclaimed happily, bounding on over to the older unicorn. Amethyst Star’s gaze was torn away from Ditzy Doo’s at the exclamation, as she watched the filly come up to her. “What are you doing here?”
Amethyst Star did something then that Ditzy would never of, in a million years, anticipated – she smiled down at Dinky. It wasn’t much of a smile, but it was an honest one as she leaned down so that she was looking the filly in the eyes. “Are you kidding?” she asked in a soft voice. “After everything that happened? I want to see how this goes as much as you.”
Ditzy realized that she was standing, wings slightly flared, only when Amethyst Star looked back to her, gaze lingering for a moment, before she looked over everypony else as well. “Um…hi,” she said. “My name’s Amethyst Star, I just opened a jewelry shop a few blocks from here. I…I won’t be long, I’ll be out of your manes in a few minutes.”
“You’ll be out a lot sooner than that,” Raindrops said, taking a few steps forward, muscles tense as she looked between Amethyst Star and Ditzy Doo. “I don’t think Ditzy wants you here.”
Amethyst Star’s eye twitched slightly at that, and she opened her mouth to say something – probably something pejorative – but then a filly who’s sense of self-preservation was apparently on the ebb positioned herself between her and Raindrops.
“Just a few minutes, Miss Raindrops?” Dinky asked, as she closed her eyes and her horn glowed. From the collection of presents waiting for Ditzy, a small, rectangular one came out, decked in floral-pattern wrapping. With effort – she was doing this from a further distance than she was used to – she levitated the gift over to her mother. “Sparkler helped me with momma’s present.”
“She what?” Ditzy asked, eyes wide in shock and confusion. “But…I…what?”
Amethyst Star just waited, as did Dinky. At length, Ditzy took the present in her hooves – eliciting a slight sigh of relief from Dinky as she released the present from her grip – and slowly opened it, cautiously, like there was a ticking time bomb inside. Instead, all she saw was a black case, though emblazoned with a silver, stylized A.S. Jewelers on it. Opening the case, Ditzy found herself staring at a yellow gemstone, the color of which matched her eyes, set into a light silver pendant, with a matching thin chain. She took it out delicately with one hoof, blinking and still confused.
“Wait,” Carrot Top objected, looking over the necklace. “That’s from Dinky?”
“How?” Silver Script asked, looking to the foal.
Dinky smiled brightly. “I saved up all year!” she explained. “I help out Miss Fluttershy every weekend, and she gives me three bits, and so I spend one and saved two, and so then I had – ”
“Wait,” Ditzy interrupted. “Wait, wait, wait. The bits you were saving up? Under the floorboard?”
Dinky stared at her mother in shock. “You knew?” she demanded.
“I clean your room, Dinky, of course I knew. I didn’t know what you were saving up, for, though. Not…not for me, I didn’t think you were…” Ditzy hung the necklace on one of her wing’s feathers as she came up to her daughter, drawing the unicorn filly into a deep, tight hug. “That’s…that’s so…Dinky, why would you go through all that effort for me?”
Dinky pulled away from her mother, looking her in the eyes. “Because I love you, momma,” she said, as though she were stating a basic fact of existence, like water being wet. “I didn’t know what I was gonna get you at first, but then I heard that Sparkler’s jewelry store was opening and I know you didn’t have any jewelry so I thought I’d get you something from there, and – oh!” she exclaimed, putting her front hooves to her mouth. “Momma, I’m sorry for lying about why I was in Sparkler’s, but it was supposed to be a surprise so I couldn’t tell you and I’ve lied to you all year about what I was spending my money on, too, and I’m sorry, and then I lied about going to Scootaloo’s ‘cause I needed to talk to Sparkler and I’m sorry – ”
“It’s okay, it’s alright,” Ditzy assured her daughter, drawing her into another hug. “I just…” she looked to Amethyst Star, still utterly confused.
The pink unicorn was watching, again with a slight smile on her face. “Okay, then,” she said. “I…I guess I better go. Leave you to your party. I guess…happy birthday?”
After pausing for a moment more – as if unsure as to whether or not leaving things on that note was enough – the unicorn turned around, heading for the door of Surgarcube Corner. She was half way out before Ditzy Doo managed to speak. “Wait!” she exclaimed. Amethyst Star paused, looking back over her shoulder at Ditzy. The pegasus’ mouth opened and closed a few times before she was able to say something intelligent. “Can…can I talk to you? For a few moments? Outside?” Amethyst Star nodded, stepping outside but leaving the door open as Ditzy stood up, looking back to her friends. “Just – just wait here, I won’t be long.”
“Wait!” Dinky exclaimed, before her mother could go outside. Ditzy did so, and Dinky again closed her eyes, concentrating hard as she took her mother’s necklace from where she had it suspended on a wing, undid the delicate clasp at the back, and strung it around Ditzy Doo’s neck, before at last closing it again. Upon doing so, the filly let out a long breath, wobbling back and forth slightly at having performed such fine manipulation with her nascent telekinesis. She nevertheless offered a bright grin as she looked up to her mother. “Happy birthday, momma!”
Ditzy forced a smile – the intent was genuine enough, but somehow she just couldn’t summon up the emotion for a real smile right now, not with Amethyst Star sitting just outside. Dinky didn’t seem to notice, however. “I’ll be right back, muffin,” she promised, heading outside.
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The silence that stretched between Ditzy Doo and Amethyst Star was palpable enough to of been cut by a knife, and not even a particularly sharp one at that. Ditzy had, between where she’d been standing and the door, come up with a million ways to begin the conversation, but all of them fled her mind the moment she stepped outside and set her eyes on Amethyst Star. The unicorn was, for her part, looking at everything other than Ditzy Doo, right front hoof scuffing the dirt and lingering snow beneath her as the awkward moment stretched and stretched.
“I’m sorry,” Ditzy finally blurted. Amethyst Star jumped slightly at the sudden break to their silence, and finally looked directly at Ditzy Doo. Like most ponies, she saw the pegasus’ strabismus, tried to look at Ditzy like a normal pony, and failed by overcompensating, staring intently at just one eye. Ditzy didn’t let that bother her, though, as she pressed on. “I’m sorry for what I did, Amethyst Star. I…I was young, and I was stupid, but that doesn’t excuse anything. It’s my fault, and I’m sorry.”
Amethyst Star’s face remained neutral for several moments, before looking away. “I…” she began, then closed her eyes. “I talked to Dinky. We’ve actually talked a lot over the past week…she told me you're sorry. Told me I should forgive you. But I can’t. I just can’t.”
Ditzy nodded. “I don’t blame you. What I did to you and your mother can’t ever be forgiven – ”
“I didn’t say that,” Amethyst Star interrupted. Ditzy started at that, blinking several times, as the unicorn looked back to her. “I can’t right now. But maybe one day.” She glanced at Sugarcube Corner, into through its window, where she could see Dinky Doo. “I haven’t talked to my dad in years…and I’m not too big a fan of my mom, either. She wasn’t exactly blameless in driving my dad away. It’d be nice to have some kind of family in Ponyville…even if it was a just a half-sister. If that’s alright,” she added quickly, looking back to Ditzy Doo. “I mean…I’d like to get to know her better. And…and you, I guess. She loves you more than anything, so you’d kind of have to be part of the equation.”
Ditzy Doo’s mouth was hanging open slightly. After a moment, she shook her head, grasping that she had actually heard everything Amethyst Star had just said, that it hadn’t been a hallucination. “Of…of course,” she said. “Of course. Dinky seems to like you…that’s enough for me.”
Amethyst Star nodded. “Okay,” she said. “Okay. Let’s just leave it at that, then – ”
“Momma!” Dinky Doo exclaimed. The two older mares nearly jumped out of their coats at the sound, as they both turned and saw Dinky standing at the door to Sugarcube Corner, eyes wide. “Momma! Miss Trixie was telling Miss Carrot Top that for the Eventime she wanted to put on a magic show like she did for the Longest Night, only this time without Corona interrupting, and she was thinking of doing something really cool and complicated and she says she’d need an assistant and then I reminded her that she owes me a favor and now she wants me to be her assistant! Can I, momma? Please? Please?”
Amethyst Star couldn’t stop herself from letting out a long groan. “Trixie…” she moaned. “Stars, I really picked this town well, didn’t I?”
Dinky’s look of jubilation turned to one of concern and exasperation. “Do I have to try and make things better between you and Miss Trixie too?” she asked.
Amethyst Star and Ditzy Doo both burst out laughing at that, as well as the look on Dinky’s face. The filly smiled brightly at the sight. “It’s a…well, not a long story,” Amethyst Star said. “But…well, I guess in hindsight, it’s kind of funny, actually. Trixie probably wouldn’t think so, though.”
“Can I hear?” Dinky asked. “You could come in and tell me. We have cake in here! Well, Miss Raindrops was saying that she might eat it all if we wait too much longer.” Dinky’s eyes widened. “You two have to come inside quick before she does! It’s your birthday cake, momma!”
Ditzy laughed again at that, trotting into Sugarcube Corner and nuzzling her daughter as she did. “I’ll stop her. And I’ll make sure she saves a piece for everypony.” She paused a moment, looking to the older unicorn. “And…if you wanted, Amethyst Star, you could come in. I’m kind of curious about that Trixie story myself.”
Amethyst Star was still a moment, considering Ditzy, and Dinky. “Cake,” Dinky intoned in a serious voice, as though that was the only convincing that the older unicorn needed. At length, she smiled. “Call me Sparkler,” she said, as she trotted into Sugarcube, closing the door behind her. “And as for what happened with Trixie, well, it was about a month before the Longest Night, at an ice palace…”
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ALTERNATE ENDING.
Yay! I really like this story, even if i can't get into the Lunaverse, but the idea behind the story is really touching to me. I like so far, so keep writing!
And once again, the day was saved, thanks to CAKE!!
I was worried that this story was gonna have a sad ending. Glad I was wrong.
Though now I'm curious about the what drove Castor away from his wife in the first place...
768162
Of course! You can't leave without cake!
And now I really want to hear about this ice palace story.
Fantastic tale overall.
Lovely ending.
The alternate ending is great, have to keep up with the Lunaverse tradition after all.
768162
I was actually surprised she said yes. It wouldn't have meant anything bad. There's time enough to take things slow, and it is Ditzy's day, after all. It's Dinky she mainly wants to bond with, and Dinky would probably be pretty occupied anyway at the party. Sparkler's presence would just raise awkward questions from her friends. But it was a pretty sweet ending.
768162
Meeh, I like the original better. I'm a sucker for happy endings; in pony land, at least.
606444 don't you mean, "Sibling Rivalries"?
just saying.
A very sweet ending, in more ways than one. I like that you didn't just have Sparkler decide that everything was all better; it was a more realistic ending and I think it worked great.
Aw, Dinky is so incredibly cute here. I like how she was all, 'what, I have to make you friends with Trixie too? Does everyone in town need me to solve their personal problems?" (Answer: yes).
768162
So she's been studying under Twilight in that alternate ending?
AWwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Yaaay! This is...this is just an awesomely super amazing story. Everything seemed credible and really thought out. And Dinky is just..... squee!
Also, would REALLY like to hear about the ice palace....or will this just be a running "noodle incident" gag?
Great story!!!
Yay, cake!
And that alternate ending... 
Looks like we might have an entry in the 'Heartwarming' page for the tropes page. Excuse me...
D'awwww, now I have toothache
That was a great story all around. I said more than once already that I really enjoy your LunaVerse, I especially love the fact that it's no only a alternate universe, but also a little more grown up than the CanonVerse.
768323
I considered that, briefly, but frankly after the ambiguously-moody ending of "LNLD" and the depressing end of "Boast Busted," I just really wanted this story to end on a basically happy note all around.
768484
Among other things. Here's our group!
So, the Ice Palace incident. We've heard of it before.
Did it happen to involve pasta?
Well, congratulations. So far this is the first Lunaverse story I've honestly, unquestionably liked. And considering my general dislike for the universe at large, that's saying...something, I guess?
What I liked most was how believably the story was presented. Things aren't perfectly pitched together at the end - Ditzy will still have to live with what she did the rest of her life - but at the same time the possibility that things will get better between her and Amethyst is still there. I actually got to feel for all three, and seeing as how I REALLY don't care at all about the Ditzy/Dinky fandom at all, that's quite an accomplishment. Even better, I like the idea of fully original stories over simply revising the actual episodes. This is what your Lunaverse needs more of.
Mind you, there were still a few bits that made me go "huh," but other than that it wasn't too bad. I wasn't going "Oh...okay, then," like with Boast Busted, nor was I frothing at the mouth like with LNLD. Good job.
Well, it's a start of something other than blind hatred. My gut tells me that Amethyst might make her peace with what Ditzy did before Ditzy does. Respectable types who used to be wild children get like that.
768162
Heh. Well, she's hardly a villain, eh? More like somepony still dealing with a lot of personal stuff.
768823
From here on out, my goal is pretty much entirely original stories, though they may have existing background as a part of them (for example, an episode set during the Grand Galloping Gala, but with a completely different plot).
You continue to taunt us with this Ice Palace... But i'm not even sure if I want to know.
768818
HAH!, "noodle incident" amirite?
768847
Or 6 different plots, amirite? Ok, probably need to stop with the puns now. a.deviantart.net/avatars/t/r/trollunaplz.png?1
768295
I think the problem between Castor Cut and May Bell was just that they probably should never have been married in the first place. They probably thought they were in love, got married, and had a kid, and only realized later, slowly, that they actually couldn't stand to be constantly around each other, while at the same time intellectually wanting to be in love with each other, because they were married, and married ponies are of course in love. They probably both thought that they'd stay together for their kid, and if not for Sparkler being around might have had a fairly amicable divorce years earlier.
Speaking as someone who's had "stay together for the kids" parents, I can say that, at least sometimes, a divorce really would be better for the kids than the parents staying together.
770445
Huh. That makes alot of sense.
First I was like
Then I was like
Then I was like
And Then I was like
Actually, screw it. Those don't even come close to describing my expression, let alone the warm campfire you created in my heart.
This is my favorite Lunaverse story as of now.
that was a really heartwarming tale and I'm happy it ends on a positive note!
768162
But what's going to happen whe nthe villain doesn't have the ability to teleport? 
770829
Magic item that allows for teleportation. Produced from hammerspace, if necessary.
770840 You know, we need to introduce a bad guy who uses NINJA PONIES as mook! That way even the bad guy's underling can vanish into thin air
771184
NINJAS! WHY IS IT ALWAYS NINJAS,.
Ok, obligatiry joke/reference out of the way.....
actually, I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen ninjas yet. I mean, you'd think Luna (TRUE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT) would have a squad of ninjas.
771372 The Shadowbolts!
768162
Dinky sighed, and donning Horatio Caine's sunglasses muttered "I guess she just had to.... ....take the cake."
YEEAAHHHHHHH!!!
Seriously, what did we do deserve bonus extra scenes?
770445
1) Ditzy did leave one thing out in the "Be all my sins remembered" speech she gave Dinky: why she rebelled against her parents. It seems to me that Daddy Doo is a belligerent loudmouth who seemed to regard her as more a disability than a pony and Mama Doo seems to be the my-beloved-smother type.
2) May Bell isn't going to see Ditzy as anything more than the something fluffy her husband chased down a rabbit hole. To do otherwise would mean admitting that she should have taken advantage of Luna's fairly generous no-fault divorce laws years ago. This means that whenever they do meet, Ditzy can probably count on somepony to help smacking her with the clue-by-four. Oh, wait. Sparkler's telekinesis is also defective.
Alright, I really am kind of speechless here. Just about everything I can think to say about this story and how it makes me feel I already have in previous chapters. This chapter is really all just tying up the final loose stings so the story can wind down to a close.
I enjoyed the presents. Silver Script seems like the best kind of boss. Trixie, well she was Trixie, good intentioned but with poor forethought and pretty much unable to see past her own narrow world view. I was maybe a little disappointed we didn't get to see more gifts though.
768823
Glad to see you're still giving things a chance and that you enjoyed this story. I almost suggested it to you, but by the time I thought of it the conversation had seemed to move past the point where such would be appropriate.
772131
I had intended more presents, but couldn't think up something for everypony, and really it would have just been padding the chapter.
Yay, happy ending! As happy as could be expected, anyway. Sparkler's attitude sounds like "I've made the decision to forgive you, because it's obviously the right thing to do, but I'm still really angry at you, so trying to be best buddies isn't a good plan right now". It was very mature of her to make the step that she did to reconcile with the Doos. And Dinky deserves a lot of credit for the risks she took to patch things up, even if the scene at the jewellery store did qualify as a bit of juvenile delinquency. To reiterate: Dinky is best daughter, and Ditzy is best mother. Also, cake! Everypony loves cake. It was nice to have all the Elements together at the end, too.
772139
Yeah I know how that curse works. Trying to come up with all the different pranks and tricks in GOtL was rough, and there were quite a few times when I felt like I was stretching just to get them all in.
Dinky is the cutest reconciliator ever.
That is all.
great story, i like this idea of how Dinky and Sparkler are sisters
This ice palace story, you'll have to tell us someday.
768162
Best ending. Another villain out there, this one stealing CAKES. Who knows when or where she will strike, hidden in her incredibly secluded Ponyville jewelry shop.
She'll rank right up there with Corona and Twilight in terms of potential threats!
780964
Personally, I'm happier with never learning just what happened. Having it remain a Noodle Incident means that there is no inevitable let-down from discovering that what we've built up in our heads doesn't match the reality. So cocktease away, RDD.
790468
Guess it's just up to RDD to decide whether or not to tell us.
791060
790468
I think I want to keep it as a Noddle Incident.
Sorry!
791065
Hey, it's your story, so you don't really have to apologize. But at least give me this: What exactly is/was the Ice Palace?
791081
More or less what it sounds like. It was located near Canterlot, and due to the timing of Lyra and Trixie coming to Ponyville I think it was probably assembled to hold some kind of final celebration for the graduating class of Luna's magic academy (which apparently graduates in winter).
Both Trixie in LNLD and Sparkler here mention flooding, so we can assume it melted. And we can also assume that Trixie is somehow responsible. Other than that, we've got nothing.
791102
Alright, that's all that I wanted to know. Thanks!
757924
(clears throat nervously)
Uh. hi.
I've been falling behind on fics that I've been wanting to read or finish reading, but now that I'm on semester break, I've been doing a lot of catching up. I've already commented on LN,LD (which I love, love, loved), and I recently finished this as well.
Wow. Just... wow.
This story was absolutely heartbreaking, but (for the characters) in a necessarily cathartic way. Like Ditzy and Sparkler both had long-festering boils that were finally lanced and can begin to heal. I loved the ending, the way Sparkler is still too hurt and angry to immediately forgive Ditzy, but doesn't want to hold onto that bitterness any longer. She just needs time.
I also like that you used (intentionally?) a quirk of Dinky's I came up with for my fics: her tendency to ramble in long, unbroken sentences when she's emotional.
Oh, and of course Ditzy knew about the stash. It's tough to get anything past her.
(I need to write more with her just so I can give some spotlight time to her intelligence and perceptiveness... for anything besides social subtleties, anyway.)
EDIT: As for Ditzy Doo being the Element of Kindness? As I said on RPGnet, NOT ENOUGH YES IN THE WORLD.
793498
As mentioned:
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Though I think I need to send some thanks to 768648 as well. Thanks!
I wish...that's actually just how I tend to write kids. Run-on sentences just seem to say "kid" to me for some reason.
But no, seriously: geeking out. I wasn't precisely trying to write a Lunaverse version of a prequel for your DDDDDuology, but the two were certainly in the forefront of my mind as I wrote, so getting positive feedback from you? Awesome.
768162
This... this is CLASSY. I'm glad to have this Lunaverse series.
795008
So I guess now you can say your story has gotten you... praise from Caesar?
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A very nice ending to a good story.
Dinky is best Lunaverse pony.
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Boy are you in for some twists...