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// Jun.-Jul. 20 - A Town's Story 16.2 
// Story: RoMS' Extravaganza 
// by RoMS 
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Dear Luster,

I can only guess Mrs Cheerilee and Mare have welcomed you well, and that you’ve been the utmost respectful student. I hope you will enjoy your next few days in Ponyville. Yes, you’re right. I have cleared your schedule!

You have absolutely no excuse not to stay and enjoy the apple of my eye. No pun intended. :)

Is a smiley okay? I don’t know if it’s hype or whatever. I really think this will be a great opportunity for you to discover new things, and get some great countryside air. Canterlot can be quite the bear on your mind.

If you’re reading this, I hope you’ve heard the story from Mare, Cheerilee and anypony who has by now swung by her home — unless you’ve opened this letter before-hoof like you did that one time… But I am quasi certain you did go through the to-do on this one.

This is both a punishment, and a lesson. But I am confident you already know that. What I am also quite sure of too, is that you must be finding it jarring. Strange. Out of the norm.

Well… You’d be right. 

This story is about ponies and responsibility. And I hope that with time, you’ll come not to understand it, but appreciate it. Experience must be passed on.

We are not heroes of our little stories. Sometimes, ponies have to rise to the fore and face the situation, the hoof, they’ve been dealt with. 

Look around you. 

Stories are made of ponies. Ponies we impact, hurt, save, forget, and often pay no heed to. They are still there. because they are part of the story too. Not your story, or mine, but of a whole in which we share a common destiny.

It’s a way of looking at the world I want to impart to you. It may seem a bit vacuous for now, I am sure, but in a sense you will come to understand its ramifications, Luster. You are a great student, a wonderful unicorn, but you are lacking something that I once lacked too. 

Friends.

I would love that you make friends, Luster.

This is your next assignment. And no! The punishment is not making friends. Stop making that pout of yours! Tsk-tsk.


Education comes also from how you embed yourself in pony life. A proper worldview does not come from adventure or surmounting dragons. It comes from building yourself, and finding an authentic way to take part in this wonderful world, not as a driving force, but one of its many puzzle pieces.

And friends are the first step.

Go make some. And have fun on the way.

Your devout teacher, Twilight~