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// Intermission: A Letter to the Princess 
// Story: Stormriders: Dead Seas 
// by PonyMarine 
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Dear Princess Celestia,

I suppose I should really start writing "Dear Diary" instead but once you've been in the habit of something for so long I suppose you get in the habit and just can't stop. Whenever I sit down to write without a purpose, or a clearly defined goal, it turns into a letter for one Princess or another. Sometimes I send them, other times I don't, and I'd never send any of the ones I've written Luna to her diary... but you know about that.

There I go rambling off subject again diary, Rainbow Dash would get impatient and force me to refocus but of course she's not here. I miss them all so very much diary, thank the heavens that Luna's here with me to guide me and support me, this whole situation would completely overwhelm me if it wasn't for her. Just a short two weeks ago I was home with my friends, nothing was amiss, everything was just... good. Now I'm here with Luna trying to help her with a crisis that feels like it's so far above my level, so far above my head.

Diary, I just can't understand why Celestia picked me for this task, or if Luna did why she picked me. I know I'm Celestia's faithful student, a powerful mage, and extremely well read. (if I do say so myself.) I just... can't understand how much use I'll be here. We're flying into the face of danger on a scale I'm not sure I've faced, even after Discord, after Nightmare Moon I just don't know if I can handle it, if I'll be up to the task before me. Making peace between two disparate groups of ponies? The specter of so many lives lost aboard the TMS Courser hanging over it all...

I have made so many confessions in you my dear diary, of worry, unease, jealousy, anger, love, but now I must confess uncertainty with all my heart. Whatever Celestia sees in me.... I.... I just don't know if I have it. I will do my best for her as I always have and because.... Luna needs me, and I have to be there to support her no matter what. I just.... worry.

Wise thought for the day:
"When all world's mired in inky blackness and the storm clouds gather round, be a rock unto thine friends, and a light unto their skies, when love is the power you call upon you'll never fail in this regard. The magic of love and friendship is so much more then mere spells."
-Skyheart the Amorous, Third Treatise "Love as the Font of Magic”, Edition VII