Dear Diary,
Everything seems to have happened at the palace while we were away camping. Uncle Alicorn greeted us back but then he keeps disappearing every day and not coming back for a long time. Mommy’s spent a lot of time with him recently, trying to help him. His Royal Advisor doesn’t seem to know what to say to him and has been getting really stressed with what she’s having to do to keep the Kingdom going while the King deals with his own problems. It's good for her that she always has Sir Shimmer nearby to make sure she doesn’t work too hard. I know he takes her out of the Palace most nights so she can get away from her work. I’ve never seen her frown before now. Everypony seems really on edge at the moment.
Tia always has dark circles under her eyes and Miamore gets really tense in moments when somepony mentions his Father. Gallophad’s getting the worst of anypony. Miamore doesn’t seem to know what to say to him, and Gallophad doesn’t know what to say to him either; so there’s just this never-ending silence between the two of them. Galloway spends most of the time at training at the moment to stay away from everypony and concentrate on his work.
And every time I go round to the Palace all I can hear is crying. Whether it’s Tia or the Queen or Marelin or even the King, there’s always bound to be one pony at least found balling their eyes out. I can cheer Tia up no problem, all I have to do is do a funny little shuffling dance and she laughs her head off. But I can’t do that with the King or any of the others; they’re older than me and not so easily impressed.
You can hear really little baby foals screaming as well from being ignored. And I don’t just mean Loony. That’s where the problem’s come from. There’s a new baby at the palace. A Unicorn colt. The new little Prince of the Kingdom. You’d think everypony would be happy about that right? But they aren’t, and I don’t get why.
I tried to ask Miamore but he wouldn’t tell me. He said it was too much for me to understand. King Alicorn didn’t say that when I saw him though. He was sat all by himself in the ‘Little Everfree’ garden muttering under his breath. I thought it best to leave and let him be by himself but he saw me out of the corner of his eye and called me over. Well I had to listen to him; it’d be rude if I didn’t.
“What do I do Diddy?” he’d asked me. I was both excited and scared that he’s asked me for help, but I didn’t even understand the question, let alone know the correct answer.
“What do you do when somepony you love betrays you?” He looked really sad when he said that. I couldn’t let him be sad.
“My Daddy always said that love was infinite,” I told him proudly. “You can never run out even when they’re gone. And you have to try and forgive them for the sake of the love.”
I’ve got to admit that I still don’t understand what that means, but it sounded clever and Uncle Alicorn certainly seemed to feel better hearing it. He turned to me and smiled.
“Your Daddy was a smart stallion Diddy.”
“I know.”
And then he hugged me. It felt nice to be hugged again. Maybe I’d actually managed to make things all right again. I thought so at least.
Yet, even though I’d made him feel happier and the family started being together a bit more you could tell they still weren’t happy together. There were a lot of arguments that we could hear even in the gardens when the Queen and King were in the palace together. Uncle Alicorn didn’t even like going anywhere near the new foal’s room which the Queen now slept in too saying she couldn’t bear to leave him at the moment. Uncle Alicorn spends a lot more time by himself, with my Mommy or with us at the moment and really seems to struggle to be anywhere near Tia’s Mother.
On the brighter side I’ve started taking some private magic lessons with Aunt Marelin when she has some free time. So far I can turn a stone into a gem; a really neat trick but not exactly the great magic I wanted to learn (like the chocolate milk cloud, hint, hint). However Aunt Marelin says that if I practice the really simple stuff first then eventually she’d be able to teach me all sorts of other stuff. She wasn’t used to teaching a draconequous- -whatever that may be. I don’t know what teaching that had to do with teaching a little pony like me (oh and do you like me being able to spell that? Marelin made me practice spelling it at home as many times as possible until I could spell it all by myself. I can’t yet—but that counts as another time copied I think).
Soon I’ll be able to do all sorts of magic and then I’d be able to make everypony smile properly again with all my tricks. I promise I’ll make them smile again. I just have to. After all, who else can make ponies have fun like Diddy Lion? Nopony.
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