“Some food historians believe pizza predates even Equestria, though there’s some debate as to whether or not the earliest of pizzas can be considered pizza by modern standards.” Starlight commented.

Why are we suddenly talking about pizza more than what's important?

“Never flown? Oh goodness…” Fluttershy said, her ears folding back. Fluttershy tended to keep her hooves on the ground, but even she would be heartbroken without her wings…

Wait wait, why are they discussing this in a restuarant instead of going to Twilight?

“Well, on the upside, if you did do something terrible, at least nopony remembers it.” Starlight pointed out.

You are seriously not helping Starlight.

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Because what's important hasn't necessarily been established to anyone yet. Starlight doesn't know this pony, she's trying to learn more about her. And Chapter 2 ended with trying to get Skyset to warm up to her, and on top of that they were hungry, so the suggestion was made then.

As for why we're talking about pizza while eating pizza? I like to think of it as... characters getting to know each other. Having a casual conversation. Trying to warm up this Skyset who was and is clearly in a panic.

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As stated in another comment, dialogue. They are having a conversation and learning about each other. I feel like having them skip talking with each other would have DEFINITELY been "rushing", as was indicated in a previous comment. It would have severely hurt the pacing even worse.

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No, no she is not.

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Yeah but like, its more of a thing that makes sense that people will to do first.

"Somepony from the future time travelled here, and unicorns and pegasy hate each other? This is a serious issue.

We need to immediately tell Twilight about this."

I feel like swapping the Get-to-know interaction and Conflict problem interaction feels better.

(I'm not trying to be mean, just trying to explain how I feel how it can be better.
I can explain of the flaws I feel to help improve better)

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No I totally get it, definitely love constructive criticism.

In this case, she'd already seen Twilight once, and about had a panic attack when she saw her. One could argue that it is a pressing issue, yes. That being said, (bear in mind this is co-authored, my husband was actually the one writing Starlight, so I'm not 100% certain?) I feel like Starlight's goal here was twofold.

One, calm the mare down, she's in a panic. And two, in Starlight's mind, it didn't seem to be any immediate danger. Definitely something that needed addressing, and talking to Twilight was definitely intended, but it wasn't something that couldn't wait until after lunch. From Starlight's perspective, this mare is freaking out just at the sight of a unicorn, what is she gonna do when she sees an ALICORN? And having a conversation over food definitely helps me personally.

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Ok yeah..... that does make sense. But bringing her to a restuarant where there are other unicorns and earth ponies doesn't really help or a good idea....
(And I knew that the pegasus was your oc)

And I believe Starlight should actually be worried of this Time travel situation, because of what she herself did and the consequences it caused. One small change in the past can change the future.

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Tagged Alternate Universe, as this story is part of a greater series of stories that have yet to be made public, known as the Friendship is Limitless universe. It holds a lot of canon events, but also diverges into lore ideas and topics that differ greatly from canon.

Is it a series of multiple stories, or a story that we should read first?

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This is a series of multiple stories, yes. However others have not yet been made public. We're doing some HEAVY editing on them before we release them, because they were written a long time ago and it... it shows...

I'm trying my best to provide some context where I can, but this story I felt was a bit more contained and most things were simple enough to explain or didn't need prior knowledge.

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I'm trying my best to provide some context where I can, but this story I felt was a bit more contained and most things were simple enough to explain or didn't need prior knowledge.

correct.

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I'm definitely looking forward to getting all of our stuff on here. It's gonna be a process, but I'm very excited.