Dear Princess Celestia,
It’s hard to believe only a week has past since I arrived here in New Equestria. Already we have found sources of food and water, and we have built makeshift huts. So far there has been nothing harmful here.
I have learnt to fly, thanks to my new friend Cumulous, and I will soon learn to control the weather. A brilliant animal expert named Rose has got the Ursa used to its new environment. She has even found it a cave to live in.
We are about to start planning a more permanent village, but the Earth ponies need some seeds so we can grow food besides apples. Could you please send some?
Yours faithfully,
Moon Dust
“Send it Leafy”
Leafy blew sparkly green fire onto the letter. The letter disappeared as soon as the flame hit it.
When Leafy appeared here, she had a bag full of parchment, quills and ink so I can keep in touch with Princess Celestia. I hadn’t put it to much use yet. But that would change today. Today we were going to start planning a permanent village, and divide up land for ponies to make houses and farm. Yesterday the pegasi had mapped out the area from birds eye view, so we could have a map to make dividing land easier.
“Leafy, can you please summon the council?”
“Sure”
Leafy headed off to search for the council.
A few days ago, I had decided that I didn’t want to plan everything and lead a country alone, so I had recruited a few trustworthy ponies into a council.
The council consisted of: Cumulous - He was in charge of the weather and buildings in the sky.
Rose - She deals with any wild animals we might come across, and was in
charge of the Ursa.
Pumpkin - She’s in charge of anything to do with food.
Shadow - A strange unicorn who is very adept at magic. She helps with
any big spells or magic stuff.
Plum - He’s in charge of all the farming and gardening in New Equestria.
Soon the whole crew was gathered in the official meeting hut. (It’s a normal lean-to with more room than a normal hut so it fits more ponies in it!) Now that the council was all here, I spread out the map the Pegasi had made.
“We need to divide this land up among 180 ponies, then set markers between each of the ponies properties.”
“Well, this map shows 2 million square meters of land, how about we give each pony 10,000 square meters of land. Then there is 200,000 square meters left that we can use for a castle and a school and whatever else we need.” Said Cumulous
“That’s a brilliant idea” I said
“Yeah, but do the pegasi need land?” Said Pumpkin
“Well if you have a better idea I’d like to hear it!” Exclaimed Cumulous
Pumpkin stayed silent.
“Okay then, all in favour of giving everypony 1 acre of land, raise your hooves!”
Everypony’s hooves shot up into the air.
“Brilliant” I said.
“Now does anypony have any idea how we can divide the land?”
“We could build fences” Suggested Rose.
“Good idea. Cumulous, take a group of ponies to build fences and measure out the land. I’ll go announce the situation to everypony else” I said.
“Council dismissed”
Everypony left. I headed out too.
When I was outside, I headed towards the clearing where everypony usually hung out.
“Attention everypony!”
Everypony looked at me.
“The council and I have discussed creating a more permanent town and we have decided that everypony will get 10,000 square meters of land. Cumulous and a group of ponies are dividing up the properties now” I announced.
“Once the section is divided, I will send you all off to choose a property. You are in charge of anything that happens on your property. If you want to live with another pony, choose properties next to each other and just knock down the fence. Any questions?”
There were no questions.
“I will tell you when you can choose a property”
The next day Cumulous came and told me all the properties were fenced off.
“Attention everypony!” I yelled.
“The land has been fenced off. You can now choose the place you want to live. Off you go”
It only took a second for the clearing to be clear of ponies.