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// Auspicious Beginnings 
// Story: Flash Of A Reflection 
// by Moproblems Moharmoney 
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She stared at the small puff of lavender fur seated on her carpet, a drooling, stumbling, mess that she was expected to interact with. Was Celestia mad? Ignoring what the…thing was for a moment, there were her personal studies to consider. 

How would she reach that next stage, that next step to something better than cold nights and empty stomachs, if she became a glorified babysitter? Good for 'social development' her amber ass. 

No, she'd tell her teacher firmly. This was naught but folly, and she'd have nothing to do with it. Why should she share with this…mutt.

"You're an ugly little thing," she said, leaning over the creature, scowl in place. 

Despite her fearsome visage, the puppy took no notice, burbling away happily. Its lavender eyes, she noticed, were massive, just as oversized as the giant paws currently-

"Hey! Let go of my hair!"

The giggling began soon after.