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// Canterlot: Day 18 
// Story: Diary of a Soldier 
// by TheCamel 
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Celestia help us all... this war is becoming worse than anypony could have guessed.

Swift Wing told us at morning chow one day that Cloudsdale was attacked and is now cut off from all contact. He must be right, since no messages from Cloudsdale have been delivered or received in a few days. One of the Wonderbolts stationed here says that the griffons attacked the weather factory and a thunderstorm has swallowed the entire city, and that the death toll is close to two hundred! I hope Blue Skies is okay; nopony has heard from her or her squad since they left for Cloudsdale.

There’s also report that two celebrities from Canterlot have been attacked while on a train. Again, nopony knows if this is true or not, or who the two ponies who were attacked are. But for some reason command is freaking out that some small place called Ponyville was attacked recently, and Princess Celestia herself ordered an entire company to protect the town. Because of that deployment Canterlot now barely has enough of us guards to protect it, but all the officers insist that Ponyville is extremely important for some reason. 

Rumors, it’s all that seems to be spreading. Always rumors, never facts. There’s talk among the guards that Princess Luna snuck out with her freaky guard ponies and attacked the griffon army while they were attempting to launch a sneak attack. One of the corporals is claiming that Discord is fighting the griffons single hoofedly. I dunno... the only fact I know is that me and my squad guard the north-west corner of Canterlot for 10 hours every day, and we haven’t seen a single sign of any griffon. Only sure thing is that Princess Celestia is tirelessly trying to negotiate peace with the griffons, but the griffons are claiming that Celestia ordered an attack on their kingdom and had their king assassinated. That claim is obviously absolutely insane; Princess Celestia and Princess Luna would never, ever allow that to happen.