With the orange glow of her magic, Sunset Shimmer opened the great, carved wooden doors of her family's mansion as she returned from her daily session with Princess Celestia, her saddlebags lifted form her by a close-by unicorn butler, and her father rushing to greet her in a hug, which she accepted in indifference.
"How's the day been, my prettiest ray of sunshine?"
She sighed, patting him twice on her back to return the gesture. "It's been fine, we've taken a break today and we've had a picnic together. No, there's been no new lesson this time. Yes, she has complimented me on the icefire sphere spell," She droned through the routine questions, "Can I go to my room now?"
Her father blinked, releasing the hug. "Oh, but of course! Dutiful, please escort her," he gestured to the butler standing by.
Shimmer would have snorted in mild annoyance at having to be led to her room, hadn't the whole daily routine simply worn her emotions to mere tedium.
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Once in her massive bedroom, she slumped in her bed, and took deep breaths.
"I can't believe this."
Her cat was by the window, snoozing in the sun's rays, so she thought of distracting herself a little, and channeled her magic.
A small pot plant nearby grew abnormally and slithered towards the unknowing feline, enveloping him and lifting him off his comfortable spot, which earned some disgruntled growls, soon put to rest though as the branches started scritching him in various places, earning her a satisfied purring routine at last.
"Just how long does she think she can go on denying me to know? Isn't it thhe entire point of what she's doing?" She tossed and turned on the bed, hooves batting on the elegant covers, trying to find a comfortable position on the pillows.
"Who does that old hag think she is anyway to hog all that knowledge? To make sure that entire schools of spells get forgotten the moment she has a memory slip? Or a fire starts in the library?
"She thinks I'm not ready, Fuzzykins. Can you believe it? I can recite every lesson she's given me practically by rote by now!"
She only received contented purrs in response.
Her frown deepened. "Like she's one to talk. Never moves a hoof out of the castle, not if somepony's life depended on it. Wastes all her time on those ceremonies. Pfah."
"And let's not even mention all those bucking nemeses of hers she keeps in her backyard as stone decorations. Can't she even manage the common sense to carry out her decisions to their consequences? She's gonna have her flank handed out to her sooner or later, her soft heart's not made to last.
She telekinetically shove a pillow to the wall in frustration as she kept rambling. "Is that how you get to be a Princess? Really? By not making decisions as important as these?"
Sunset shimmer huffed, spun some more in her bed, and pondered. She always knew she was born for greatness, ever since she had cured her father of that magical mental illness, and had been called to be Celestia's protegé shortly after. She was to become a princess herself, Celestia had told her that much, but now the white horse was only slowing her down with all that secrecy and that stalling.
A princess had to make important decisions, and she figured that Sunset Shimmer, Future Princess of Equestria, had to start somewhere at some point. Like right now
Firstly, she got bored with playing with the cat, so with a glow of her horn, she implanted into him the strength and the rage to cut the vines off himself.
Secondly, she jumped out of the bed, a burning determination in her eyes to take the matter of her advancement fully onto her hooves.
"I am ready."