This story is a sequel to The Second Nice Thing

Takes place a month or two after 'The Lost Treasure of Griffinstone'
Gilda's scone selling business is booming, and is being credited with jump starting the run-down village into a semblance of order. As her business becomes both increasingly popular and important to the town, the griffoness finds life becoming actually easy. With this newfound freedom, Gilda has to tackle another issue, which continues to rear its ugly head. When your only interactions are that of how Griffinstone used to be, harsh, gritty, dismissive, and uncaring, it changes griffins.
Gilda is no exception, and she knows it.
But how do you nurse a heart that has fallen ill due to malnutrition of a different sort?

That's a difficult question on its own, and getting stuck in an old abandoned mining project won't help sort out any of these problems....or could it?

Art used with permission; thank you Kristkc!
http://kristkc.deviantart.com/

Quality time is pretty rare when you've got a country to run.

Edited by KidKolumbo.

Troy is a Gryphon who moved to Equestria to pursue a new life; however, his seclusion has left him feeling unsatisfied with how his life was going. All of that changes when he becomes involved in a storm prepping job outside of Ponyville for Princess Twilight Sparkle. Before the storm, Troy finds Canvas, a badly injured Earth pony, lying on the ground near death. As time goes on and wounds start to heal, how will the Gryphon's life change as he helps the stallion struggling to regain control of his life?

I want to give a big thanks to Bad_Seed_72 for her assistance in editing and proofreading. Also, major props to JackAnarchy for the cover art.

Princess Celestia tires of constantly being surrounded by decorum, deference, and formality, and decides to take a day off from being Princess. But visiting Ponyville incognito is harder than she expects. Will she be able to fit in and make friends without blowing her cover?

When the rebellion overthrew the king of the Griffin Empire, everyone thought that things would be better, that there would be more food to go around, that the people themselves would have a say in politics. But that never happened. The new 'democratic' government started passing laws, small things first. No concealed weapons, no staying out on the street after one without good reason. The citizens never got their half of the bargain; they were forced to watch as the government transformed into an ironic sham of its hopes. And yet, never once did any of the council members miss a chance to say that they were only acting in the interest of the people. But for two griffins, actually trying to escape won't be the smartest, let alone the easiest option. In fact, it'll probably be one of the hardest ones out there.

So this got featured. I'm amazed, especially since it was the last story I expected to get featured.

Many thanks to the amazing thewookie1 for being around to make this story good.

Here goes for a story mostly devoid of canon characters and the entire canon environment in the beginning. Let's see how well this ends up faring out there. Mane six included because they come up later. This isn't like a chapter one bad place chapter two Ponyville story, for whatever that means to any of you. I've seen the whole, immediate magnet effect to Ponyville as a little clichéd.