Believing it to be an easy job, two thieves broke into Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle. With no Royal Guards protecting the castle and Twilight herself gone, her valuable possessions were as good as theirs.

Or so they thought.

Last but far from least, special thanks to Little Tigress for drawing the great cover art.

EDIT: Featured through 09/09/20--09/14/20!!
#1 story with mature mode enabled on 09/09/20
#1 story w/o mature mode through 09/09/20--09/11/20

EDIT on 10/19/20: Has an audio reading done by the youtuber Enharmonic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWs46--nTo

Starlight Glimmer has regrets. Ghosts of her past continue to haunt her. But is there really such a thing?

Heavily inspired by "Starlight's Worst Fear" by Art Inspired so credit where credit is due.

Takes place in the Reassurances 'Verse right before "A Royal Problem".

Starlight's village is coming along just fine. With fifty ponies following Equality, everything is going well. However, she still needs more ponies, especially earth ponies, to help build Our Town. Fortune favors her when she comes across a strong earth pony mare scouring the ground for unique stones.

Now the only thing left is to recruit her into the cult, right? Well, it may be harder than Starlight anticipated.

During the friendship journal fiasco, Starlight defends her friend against the ponies who for some reason have developed a vendetta against her.

Spike has been slacking on his chores recently due to all the mayhem going on in his life, it’s a struggle for him, but Starlight’s there to help, unfortunately Spike decides to take advantage of that(replaces Every Little Thing She Does as an episode).

(An AU where Discord is not reformed but Starlight is)

When Twilight suggests to Starlight that she should take a look at the Canterlot Gardens, she is surprised that a certain statue appears to be speaking to her, a very mismatched and clever statue to be precise, but this confuses Starlight, what does Discord want with her?

Ever since Hearths Warming Eve, Spike is acting distant around Twilight but Twilight can’t seem to figure out why so she tries to get Starlight to help her figure it out. The unicorn will be surprised to know what caused Spike’s discomfort and knows she’ll have to explain to Twilight the reason for it.

Spike is currently going through his little identity crisis due to his new wings, and suddenly an adult dragon known as Sludge shows up, claiming to be Spike’s father, Starlight finds the whole thing fishy and is noticing how Spike is starting to be taken advantage by him. Will Starlight end up being proven right about Sludge’s manipulations? And will Twilight be able to keep Starlight from blasting him to the sun? Actually, we all know the answer to the first one, but let’s see how things turn out.

(Takes place after "Rock Solid Friendship". Proofread by yodajax10 on FiMFiction and Smity1038 on Deviant Art.)

Starlight has put up with a lot having Trixie as a friend. Nopony ever said friends were perfect, and Starlight has been willing to give Trixie the benefit of the doubt for some time now.

But after Trixie accidentally infects Starlight with poison joke when she doesn't listen to Starlight's warnings, Starlight starts to question if being friends with Trixie is really worth it, and threatens to break off their friendship if Trixie can't learn to listen.

While Maud tries to help Starlight calm down and reconsider her actions, Trixie seeks help from Twilight to figure out how to best apologize to Starlight and show that she's changed. But are Maud and Twilight up to the task of healing a broken bond? Or will Trixie lose her closest and best friend?

Double Diamond has always been the right hoof of Starlight Glimmer, a cruel dictator obsessed with the idea of radical equality. He meekly shared all her ideas and followed all her orders. What was behind this blind devotion all this time? Will he now be able to reject old ideals and get used to a new life in the village in order to become a good mayor for its citizens? Will he dare to reveal to everyone the most important secret of Starlight? Will the other ponies forgive him, and most importantly, will he forgive himself?
He will try to find answers to all these questions...