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// 06:30~Raising The Sun~ (Celestia) 
// Story: A Day in the Life 
// by ADRNEL 
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06:30

It is a quiet morning in Canterlot as the ruler of Equestria, Princess Celestia has just finished her most sacred of duties; raising the sun each morning. She smiles with acomplishment as the sun is now up in the sky, signalling the start of the morning and a new day. She then walks back into her chambers to begin her morning routine.

Celestia goes over to her desk to see another stack of paperwork in the "in" box and a smaller stack in the "out" box. She decides to wait until after breakfast-dinner with her sister Luna before starting on the paperwork. 

The princess enters her bathroom and gets the large bathtub ready for her warm twice daily bath. It is very unbecoming of a princess to smell, especially when holding court to her subjects.

After about 10 minutes of batheing, Celestia gets out, uses her magic to dry herself off and begins to brush her teeth, fix her mane and make herself look presentable for her subjects. After checking herself in the mirror to see everything is perfect, she walks out of the bathroom and back into her chambers only to see her secretary, a brown unicorn mare named Penny Wise, waiting for her. Most likely to go over today's schedule.

"Good morning your highness, how did you sleep?" asked Penny Wise.

Celestia just answers her usuall response. "I slept well," she then goes to the subject at hoof. "How's my schedule looking today?"

"Well," responded the secretary, looking through her planner. "After breakfast-dinner with your sister, you have the weekly meeting with your advisors, followed by lunch reception with centanarian subjects, and then in the afternoon, and meeting with your financial advisors about reforming the tax code."

The last response grabs Celestia's attention. "TAX CODE?" exclaims the princess. She hates having meeting about taxes, they're boring and last for hours.

"You've been putting this off for months already, and with tax day coming in several months, they need to meet with you now in order to implement any reforms before then." explained Penny Wise.

Celestia was in for a long, and boring day, so she gets an idea to make the day interesting. "Maybe we should a drill today, to make my impending boredom more worth it." said Celestia to the secretary. Penny Wise knows exactly what she is talking about, and she takes out a folder and gives it to the princess.

Celestia opens the folder to find a paper with a list of drills that the royal guards can do:

Fire, Tornado, Changeling, Dragon, Griffin, Discord, Deranged Subject, Rebellion, Coup d'Etat, Apocalypse, Royal Madness, Twilight's Magic, Fluttershy's Estrus and "Caught the wrong end of the scale".

The princess looks over the list and thinks. "Hm, I think we'll go for the good old fashioned fire drill today at noon." She closes the folder and gives it back to the secretary. "You may go know." ordered Celestia.

Penny Wise just bows and walks off, leaving Celestia alone.





7 o'clock. 

Shining Armor is leading the guards through their daily morning drills. A messager comes up to him to give him a letter for Celestia. Shining Armor salutes the messager and the messager gallops off. Shining Armor then opens the letter and silently reads it. After reading it, he puts the letter into his uniform pocket.

"Okay men," announed Shining Armor. "We have a fire drill today, so you know the procedure, assemble here at 1200 hours for further orders, dissmissed!"

The guards salute and walk off to their barracks for breakfast.

"At least it's not the 'Wrong end of the scale' drill." said Shining Armor to himself before leaving to have some breakfast.





Celestia is on her way to her sister's chambers, to spend some time with her, she is then joined by one of her senior financial advisors Money Bags, a light-green stallion pony with a monocle and a white handlebar mustache.

"What it is Mister Bags?" said Celestia, not in the mood with dealing with her advisors.

"It's about the proposed changes to the tax code you wanted." answered Money Bags, unable to 'read the air', as Celestia would say. Best financial advisor she had in decades though.

"What about them?" asked a calm Celestia, trying to hold on to her royal poker face.

"Several rich and powerful ponies in Equestria are worried that you'll increase their taxes, and demand that you focus on spending, especialy the amount of money spent on you, your sister, castles and land." explained Money Bags.

"Tell them that it takes more than cutting spending to keep the economy at a surplus and that I also do my taxes, and once Luna masters the tax code, her as well." announed Celestia. "Besides, I make sure the economy of Equestria is at a surplus, and I kept it that way for over a millenium."

Money Bags just nods in agreement and walks off. 

"This is going to be a long day!" exclaimed Celestia to herself, she hates dealing with her advisors.

08:00