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// Chapter 13, Wrap Up 
// Story: CSR Brush Pony 
// by shysage 
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Hi, this is Princess Twilight again.  This was a very fun account for me to work on!  And, yes, Fluttershy's help was invaluable.

Well, the Brush Ponies are now calmly settled, living in a vast forest East of Canterlot.  Princess Celestia called it a meadow, and that fits too.  It is not a thick, dense forest like the Everfree, and the trees, most of them, are not very tall.  Still, there are plenty of bushes there.  The Brush Ponies seem to prefer that for both food and shelter, and that seems to be working out fine.  My brother Shining Armor actually had a garrison built there, and the safety of the Brush Ponies is well cared for.  And I guess that Shining Armor and Prince Ma-gane, they are good friends now.  Overall, I think the Brush Ponies can relax.  Just reading some of Fluttershy's entries; it sounds like the Brush Ponies absolutely needed to be rescued from those vicious beasts.  Equestria's leadership has some concerns about how the Brush Ponies will deal with the coming Winter; it is late Fall right now, and pretty cold.  We just don't know how Winter here will compare with what they are used to.  From what Fluttershy decribed, the large, low area they lived in for a long time; the cliffs around the rim probably sheltered them from the wind to some degree.  I think we, Equestria is ready to build many shelters at least, for the Brush Ponies should that be required.  But the Brush Ponies are safe now.  That is what really matters, I think.

From a historical standpoint, it is rather intriguing how the concept of the "Shila", the deliverer, seemed to weave itself through the Brush Pony, Black Panther, and Cougar cultures.  (Using Cougar with culture won't ever look right to me!)  From what Fluttershy mentioned, the Brush Ponies had some very old texts that specifically described the events that took place on the day Equestria rescued them.  That sort of thing is always mind boggling, how something can be written many hundreds of years ago, then boom!  Well, it is hard to just explain that away as random chance.  And it sounds like the Panthers; well I wonder if they somehow had access to Equestria or something.  Their leader, Lady Grace, she seemed to have some sort of connection maybe, I don't know.  I know it was just a dream, but still.  And, the Cougars...  Well, that...  Maybe searing defeat is the only sort of "reasoning" they know, or remember...

I am honestly not suprised that... Summer and Shysage jumped so quickly in to help, even when they knew they could die...  That is just the way they are.  Both so deeply treasure the Magic of Friendship, putting others first...  I just wish...  Nevermind...

Well, I think this wraps up such an amazing account.  We now have close relatives of the Pony race living among us!  That should have amazing fruit.  I think we will all enjoy each other.  I think it was Ariel who said it was like Equestria finding a long lost cousin or something.  I agree with that sentiment.  I think the Brush Ponies belong among us.

Well, I need to get going.  A Princess' work is never done!  Well, this is so fun...  The girls and I have been watching the Magic of Friendship unfold around a young Unicorn mare that came to live here in Ponyville recently.  Well, she lives in a house out in the meadow, but still.  I have been helping her with her magic.  I sent one of the girls to see if she can come today, and I expect her soon.  Watching a Unicorn's magic blossom, that is always such fun!  And it just seems only right to collect a bunch of other Unicorns and have some magic fun together!

So, it's off to the printers with "Brush Ponies!"

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...Wait...  "...unofficial volume 13 of the Chronicles..."  What is THAT?!?!?