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// Los Pegasus Love Potion 
// Story: The End of the Beginning 
// by Uncle Knot 
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To my glorious and affectionate Princess Celestia, in the 5th year of thy reign, my 19th letter

In response to thy letter, I see thee unwilling to abandon the riddle of love, rather than address the riddles of time, luck or life.  So be it, love does appear to be the most important of qualities, only challenged by truth in prominence.  We both concur that justice without mercy is tyranny; however mercy in the absence of justice is meaningless.  So likewise, I must sadly report, that love when it eclipses all other values becomes choas.  As yea had sent me to Los Pegasus to confer and help solve a problem related to a lack of love, it was my unexpected duty to report on the comedy of errors that occurred there.  

I am so glad that you did further research into the concept of a love potion. Yet thy notes differ with what Star Swirl suggested.  Yea found that it was not a puff of cloud, but a tuff.  I see little difference, but I will experiment with size and density of cloud in this.  Yea also found more contradictory notes that it is not dew drops from a rainbow, but a bright rainbow’s glow.  And finally the ingredients should be stirred with a Pegasus feather, “fast not slow”.  It is interesting to speculate on this last effect. 

Los Pegasus appears to be a cloud city, but in fact is not.  There is a large vertical cliff rising up from the desert floor into the center of a perpetual cloud, so that at a distance one’s eyes are drawn upward into the white clouds.

Upon arriving I meet with “Prince” Golden Nugget, a very ‘down to earth pony’.  Indeed he is an earth pony who made his fortune as a gold miner, digging deep into the earth for veins of gold and buying or bulling out his competition; in this way did he earn his princely status.  His practical nature makes him a good leader, seemingly content to work with what he must work with and always pushing for improvement.  However, he seems to lack affection toward his future mare; the Princess Shyheart Whisperlisp.  She is an alicorn, like yourself, with strong magic, and interesting enough unexpected luck – a recent addition to our list of riddles.  Yet her quiet and reclusive nature is also damaging their relationship.  She has keen eyes and quickly determined my inner nature.  At which point she questioned me thoroughly on how I came to be in thy service. 

My first experiment with the love potion I tried on myself looking into a mirror.  It transformed me back into a dragon with my wings eclipsing the city, plunging it into night and chaos.  The lack of light proved circumstantially useful, for in the dark, my ridiculous feelings of romantic self-love vanished.  Thus did we later conclude that we could break the spell by denying sight to the participants.  Prince Nugget pressed me a 2nd attempt; which turned out well.  But the potion seems more of a poison as both Prince and Princess abandoned their duties, and eloped to hide themselves away in one of the gold mines, now abandoned.  Again a lack of light broke the spell and the couple later emerged and returned to their duties.

I found recent events most humorous and suspect that Los Pegasus will prosper, as the royal couple have commissioned unicorns to cast ‘cloud walker’ spells on all who enter.  As always, your loyal, kind, humorous, generous, and trustworthy esquire, the loveless Sum-po-neigh Knot Yew.