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// Prologue 
// Story: My Little Pony: Infinite Night [ENG] 
// by Claud Melchior 
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“If somepony had told me, when i was a blank flank, that ill give a speak to a class at Celestia's School of Magic, i wouldn't have believed it, but …”


Twilight didn’t came further and forced herself to take a look at her notes. 


"I hope that I am up to the task because I can tell that all of you are and that the future of Equestrian magic is in good hooves." 


Lonely clapping interrupted the silence in the nearly empty seminar room.





"Wow. That was even better than the first ... eleven times ... "


After a cough, Spike forced a smile on his face and hoped that Twilight was finally satisfied with her talk. As exemplary as Twilight always tried to be, she also had the problem, that she’s never satisfied with herself, and it has not improved since she became an Alicorn and the fourth princess of Equestria. No matter how admirable it may be, going through the same speech eleven times in one morning gets even on the nerves of assistant number one. 


"Oh I don’t know, Spike. I'd like to be able to get through the whole speech without looking at the cards." replied Twilight 

"Come on, Twilight. You can’t be nervous about giving a speech to a bunch of magic students!"

"Oh, I'm not nervous, Spike, but I do have to set a good example, especially for magic students. Thats why this speech has to be ... " 


Twilight looked Spike with a raised eyebrow. He sighed. 


"... perfect?" 

"Exactly! Let's go through it one more time!" 


Twilight started with her speech from the start but Spike didn’t listen anymore and just layed down tiredly on one of the surrounding pillows. As it was Twilight's way, she didn’t even notice it and was already lost in her speech.