//------------------------------// // Letters // Story: Project Celestia // by decembuary //------------------------------// A week later, trees had been cleared for everypony’s houses, and some were already half way up. Luckily my idea for a castle didn’t need any trees cleared and my house was nearly complete. My castle was going to be a giant treehouse. A spiral staircase wrapped around the trunk of a huge tree. A huge box room encased the trunk. The tree came up though the house, making a natural centre piece. Rope bridges made a pathway between lots of different trees. All of the trees nearby had been converted into treehouses. My room was in one of the trees furtherest from the centre tree. It had a stunning view of the new town, and it was next to the house that was going to be used as a school. Both my room and the classroom had balconies. “Leafy! Can come here? Bring parchment and a quill.” “Coming” Leafy hurried in through the door. “Take a letter” “Okay” Dear Princess Celestia, Thank you for the seeds you sent. My subjects were delighted. We have started constructing the town. All of the houses are just about finished. Some ponies have even starting planting food. The council and I are trying to think of a name for this new town. It needs to be something fancy, because once we have more towns, this will be the capitol of New Equestria. We are thinking of calling it Gallopton. What do you think? It isn’t decided if it will be called that yet, but so far the response from everypony was good. If it’s not to much trouble, would you please contact my family? I would like to hear from them, and they would probably want to know what has happened to me. Yours faithfully, Moon Dust Not long after Leafy sent my letter, I got a reply letter. It said: Dear Moon Dust I am glad to hear your new home is just about finished. I would like to visit and see your progress. How about lunchtime next Tuesday? Gallopton is a perfectly fine name for the new town. It is good to hear you are getting your subjects opinion as well as your councils. I have sent a letter to your family, your sister is going to come with me when I visit you. You may want to prepare a room for her, as she has agreed to come and be a Princess with you. She doesn’t want you to be alone in your new duty. The next paragraph is written by your sister. --- Hi Dusty! I’m so happy you’re OK. I have been looking for you since your trip to Canterlot that you never came home from. I knew you were OK, just nopony believed me. Can’t wait to see you and your new home. I’m coming to live with you there too! Isn’t that exciting! Mummy wanted to come, but she had to stay and work here. She promises to visit occasionally though. I wish she could come, I’m going to miss her. School has finished for the term, but I’ll have to tell Miss Cherilee that I won’t be coming back. I can’t wait to see you again. From Sun Glow PS. Gallopton is a Terrible name for a capitol city, or a town, or pretty much anything! You might want to consider coming up with a new name for your town. ------ Your sister is very excited to see you. Is there anything you need for your new town? I can send stuff with your sister if you want. Yours Faithfully, Princess Celestia My sisters coming! Yay! Someone I know is coming to live here. I can’t wait until Tuesday. I better send a reply to the Princess. Dear Princess Celestia Tuesday is fine. I can’t wait to see you two. Can you please bring a couple of clocks? It’s annoying not knowing what the time is. Yours faithfully, Moon Dust I went over to Cumulous’ house to tell him to gather up the council so I can tell them the good news. “Hi Cumulous” “Oh, hello Princess. I wasn’t expecting you. Why do you look so happy?” He said “Gather up the rest of the council. I have some news for you all” “Okay” Off he went. A few minutes later everyone was here. “I have some good news for you all. Princess Celestia is coming on Tuesday, and she is bringing my sister Sun Glow to be a princess with me.” “Cool” Said Plum. “But what day is it today?” “Um.....Wednesday?” I said. “Actually it’s Sunday” Said Shadow “That means the princesses are coming in two days! We better get this place cleaned up a bit!” The council hurriedly left the meeting room. I better go organize a room for Sun Glow and Celestia. I can’t have them come and have nowhere for them to sleep. As I left the room, an idea hit me. Why don’t I organize a feast in honour of the two Princesses! On my way to set up their rooms, I stopped in the royal kitchens. A while ago, due to the fact the I can’t cook an edible meal, the council and I decided to hire a group of ponies to do all the cooking. Because there is no form of money in New Equestria yet, we decided that instead of wages, the ponies would have a room up in the castle and they would be given all the uneaten food. In the kitchens, ponies were to cleaning up the mess from building the kitchen. “Hello Princess. What are you doing here?” Said one of the ponies, looking up from her work. “Hello, I was wondering if you and the rest of the ponies working in the kitchen could organize big feast for everypony, Celestia, and my sister, by Tuesday” I said. “Yes. I would be happy to! I’ll send some ponies to gather food for it.” She replied. “Okay then. I’ll leave you to it” I left. This feast would be the first proper feast in New Equestria, and it would be for the pony who raises the sun. It had better be good. I flew over to the storage room next to the royal meeting room. The storage room was where all of unused things were kept. At the moment, we hadn’t had enough time to make any proper beds, due to all of the building, and we probably didn’t have enough resources to make one yet, so we were using hammocks. They were surprisingly comfortable. I levitated a couple of folded hammocks and blankets from the stacks, then exited the room. I trotted over the rope bridges leading to the group of trees supporting my room and a few others. First I went into a room next to mine. I set up a hammock and floated a blanket onto it. This would be Sunny’s room. I then went into the room next to Sun Glow’s. I set up everything. This room would be the one Princess Celestia would stay in during her visit. I flew back over to the storage rooms and found the fluffiest pillows there, then went back to their rooms to put the pillows on the hammocks. I flew back and forth, getting tables, flower vases, rugs and heaps of other stuff for their rooms, until the rooms looked, well, room-like. Satisfied with my work, I flopped down on the hammock in my room and fell asleep. ------- The next day I woke up to find that a thin layer of frost had settled over New Equestria. Unwilling to get up, I snuggled up into my blanket. It wasn’t the warmest blanket, probably because it was woven from grass, but I was grateful for the warmth it provided. Eventually I forced to get up, with the task of finding out if the frost had done any major damage to the town. I knew that it wouldn’t be good for the crops, but what about the houses everypony has been building? That wasn’t the only reason I wanted to visit town. I also wanted to find the best knitter in New Equestria, and order three big fluffy blankets, pillows that weren’t made of moss and 2 warm hats and scarfs. When I got into town I searched everywhere for a place that made woolen stuff. Eventually I found somepony who could make the items I wanted. All she wanted in exchange was wool to make them. Luckily I had an idea for wool. Rose had told me that Ursa grow a very long winter coat near winter, and it was getting very close to winter now. She also told me that the coat needed trimming everyday from the speed it grew. If I could get to the Ursas cave fast enough, then I could get the fur before she threw it away, and then spin it into wool with my magic. I quickly flew over to the cave. Just in time. “Hello Princess” Said Rose “What are you doing here so early in the morning?” “I want the Ursa hair you trim today. If you haven’t thrown it out already” I replied. “Why in Equestria would you want Ursa hair? Oh well, here it is.” I magically took the hair from Rose. She watched me curiously to see what I would do next. I used my magic to spin the fur into wool. The wool was dark blue, and surprisingly silky. I was amazed ponies hadn’t used Ursa wool before. Then I remembered that Ursa a usually very dangerous and live in the Everfree Forest. “Wool!” Rose said excitedly. “I’m amazed nopony has thought of that before. Now I have a use for the Ursa hair cuttings.” “Thanks for letting me use the hair. I better get this back to the knitter pony. See you later” I zoomed off in the direction I came from. When I got back to the house, the pony living there enchanted lots of sticks to act as knitting needles to knit quickly. I told her that she could use whatever wool is left, and that I’d come back later in the day. I left the house. This time I didn’t fly away. I walked around and looked at the progress the town was making and examined the signs that were made to welcome my sister and Celestia. The signs were mostly just pieces of wood with words carved on, but a rare few had coloured dies colouring the wood and making the words stand out. After exploring the town for a couple of hours, I went back to the knitting pony’s house. Surprisingly everything but the pillows were done. The pillows just needed stuffing with feathers. Something easily done. I took the items I had asked for and flew back towards my room. Back in my room I stripped my wings of a few downy feathers and stuffed them into the pillows. I then put the pillows and blankets on, mine, Celestia’s and Sun Glow’s beds.