Wherein Celestia continues her grand tradition of grooming Twilight for leadership/sending her into mortal peril to clean up her messes.

Oh, and please welcome Twilight Sparkle to the exciting new world of warring noble families. Producing such classics as the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War, as well as modern hits like A Game of Thrones, noble feuds are a rollicking good time. Think of them as Hostile Corporate Takeovers: The Early Years.

So it turns out that twelve hour work days take away things like 'energy to write' and 'ability to form coherent sentences'. The good news is the current crunch time at work should be over by the end of the week, but it has set back current chapter completion by at least that long. Fortunately, Thanksgiving vacation is around the corner, so look for a new chapter by the end of the month at the latest.

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So, writing in present tense was an experiment that kinda went awry. TBCiE has been edited to be uniformly in the past tense now and will remain as such.

New chapter should be out in a week or two. Until then, happy Halloween!