Private Gig
by NavyPony
Intermezzo 1
A Memo Between Castle Servants
FROM: Office of the Head Steward
TO: Bottom Line, Royal Financier
SUBJ: Misfiling to the RSF
Mister Line, I’m writing to inform you that one of my subordinates recently filed a royal expense report incorrectly, and it needs rectification. Which is to say that it needs alteration. Which is to say that it should never have been filed, and the expense itself needs to disappear. You understand.
To be brief, Princess Celestia desired the services of a certain musician to be hired for her protégé – the musician is apparently a favorite, and was to appear and perform at the protégé’s party as a sort birthday present. One of my proxies met with the pony’s agent to negotiate the contract, but she wrote the expense to the CCCB versus one of the more suitable accounts. In her defense, she was actually too junior to know how these things are normally filed, and the culture budget was probably the next best choice.
This effectively being a luxury request by the Princess Celestia, without boon or benefit to country, castle, culture, etc, ad nauseam, it has no part in the accounts. Therefore I, based on my authority as Head Steward, hereby ascribe this expense to the Royal Slushie Fund.
The musician and her company have already been paid and the accounts have already been charged, so this isn’t the typical matter of paying from different accounts. Instead, I need you to have the Canterlot Castle Cultural Budget reimbursed from the Slushie Fund, and then have records of these payments erased. If you file a Form 2583 Mundane Incident Report marked for immediate routing to my chief clerk, I can see that the official records land in your hooves. I’m trusting you to take care of it from there.
V/r, S.S.
P.S. You’ll be glad to know that my Lunar counterpart just informed me that he located the final batch of forms his previous assistant filed while trying to implement Princess Luna’s attempted tax overhaul. They’re being destroyed now.
P.P.S. Remind me to tell you of the RSF’s creation sometime, and why it’s called the Slushie Fund as opposed to the Slush Fund.