Author: Karrakaz
Quotation: "Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends." ~ Czech Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Words to live by Twilight thought to herself as she closed the book. She remembered the days she'd locked herself in the library at Canterlot castle, losing herself in her books and studies.
She'd been content, mostly anyway, but sometimes she'd felt lonely in her library tower, even with spike there to fill some of that void.
But it had been better than before she'd been accepted into the school for gifted unicorns, she'd always been an outcast, smarter and definitely more mature than most foals and fillies her age.
An outcast -Twilight shivered- that was exactly the right word for it, kept out of the group by her peers, ponies of the same age as her, she didn't think she'd ever understand how children could be so cruel.
Shunned by a lot of adults as well, who were afraid that she would be smarter than them, or make them look bad in front of others.
The lavender unicorn was glad the princess had sent her to Ponyville when she did, her life would've looked a lot bleaker without her best friends there, to share in the pains and the joys, and above all to stand by her when she needed them the most, going so far as defying the princess herself to save her, a bookish unicorn with little to no experience in friendship, from the perceived threat of being sent back to magic kinder-garden.
The lavender mare shook her head and smiled as she picked up a quill with her magic.
time for a letter to the princess.
Dear princess Celestia, even though I haven't learned anything noteworthy in the past couple of days, I wanted to write this letter to you.
Because I wanted to say thanks, thank you for sending me to Ponyville all those months ago, and thank you for giving me friends in my life.
And last, but certainly not least, Thank you for being my friend.
Your faithful student and friend Twilight sparkle.