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// Epilogue 
// Story: Kingdom of Friendship 
// by SkyFlare 
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	“Twilight?  Twilight?  Wake up!” Twilight felt her body being shaken in an attempt to wake her up.
“What’s wrong?” Twilight grunted back, rubbing her eyes with her hooves.
“You’re going to be late to the speech!”
“Oh no!” Twilight leapt to her hooves.  “I’m such a featherbrain!”
“We’ve still got twenty minutes, but you need to hurry if we’re going to make it on time.”
“Thanks for the heads up, Spike.” Twilight smiled down at the little dragon.
He was bandaged up with a decent amount of medical tape.  Possibly a bit more than what was necessary, but Twilight wanted to cover all of his wounds.  He looked almost like Lyra had the first Nightmare Night that Luna was back for.
Twilight brushed out her mane and tail, making herself look presentable.  She then peeled off the bandages from Spike’s body, revealing some mostly healed wounds.  In fact he looked as good as new.  He’d given her quite a scare during the fight with Sombra.  Twilight had been so panicked when checking to see if he was all right, she hadn’t been able to feel his slow pulse under her own racing pulse.
The pair walked out the door, looking forward to a speech from Princess Celestia, whose eyesight had just returned a couple of days prior.  She was going to each town across Equestria to calm the fears of her citizens.  Letting them know that everything was going to be all right and that something like this could not happen again seeing as Sombra was no more.

When the pony and dragon arrived back at the library after the speech had ended, they started relaxing for the first time since everything had begun.  Twilight had spent most of her time nursing Spike back to health or helping to rebuild some of the parts of Ponyville that the Heartless had gotten to.
She finally had some time to just sit back and read.  It was something that she missed greatly.  She looked across her collection and saw a book that was part of a series that would never be finished, Mist Valley’s Geography of the Northern Equestrian Border.  It was the fifth book in what was meant to be a six book series that detailed the geography of all of Equestria.  Twilight had an empty place that was being saved for the sixth volume, Mist Valley’s Geography of the Everfree Forest.
It was Twilight’s intention to go into the forest and take some notes and possibly aid in this halt of production.  He was her friend and he knew that she would have wanted for his series to be finished.  It was her duty to help with that, and besides, she knew the Everfree Forest pretty well and she was very familiar with his writing style.
For now though, Twilight was just going to relax.  She levitated a stack of six or seven books with her as she trotted up the stairs to lie down on her bed and read.  In a couple of hours, she’d already finished half of her books and she started looking out her window at the forest.
To do anything for Mist Valley’s last book, she would need to find samples of soil and plant life.  Animals were also part of the book, usually taking up at least one or two chapters.  She would also have to use a pulsar spell, something to get a full out map of the forest.  The spell would work out to be very similar to sonar, with the waves bouncing back to her upon impacting a surface.
Twilight packed up a couple of books for some of the spells that she would need to cast, but wasn’t as familiar with.  She also dropped a couple of small snacks in her saddlebags, just in case.  Once she felt prepared enough, she stepped outside at about noon, not planning to return until dark.  She still didn’t feel very good about being out at night.

As the sun set in the sky to the west of Ponyville, Twilight trotted back toward her home in the Golden Oak Library.  Not ten minutes after arriving in the library, after removing her saddlebags and putting up the books, there was a knock at her door.
“One minute!” Twilight called back.  Any other time, she would have had Spike answer the door, but he was busy with one of his seven hour bubble baths.
Twilight opened up her front door with her magic.  A grey stallion with a white mane and wearing a mail pony uniform held out a package for her.  She took the package, noting the address of Canterlot Castle, shutting the door without noticing the pony pulling out a clipboard for her to sign off.
She pulled a book out of the box, dropping the empty packaging and holding both the book and a letter that had been attached.  Her eyes started to run across the letter.
“Dear Twilight Sparkle,
“The spell contained on the last page of this book is Star Swirl the Bearded’s secret unfinished masterpiece.”
Twilight paused to look at the book with a gasp.  “Ooohh” she smiled.
“He was never able to get it right, and thus abandoned it.  I believe you are the only pony who can understand and rewrite it.
“Princess Celestia”
Twilight was happy that the princess had so much faith in her, but she knew that it was going to take a decent bit of effort.  If her hero couldn’t make it work right, and he was the most powerful unicorn ever, she would have to try harder to fix it than she’d ever tried before.
“From one to another, another to one.  A mark of one’s destiny singled out alone, fulfilled.” Twilight paused, looking down at the page again.  “That doesn’t make any sense.  It doesn’t even rhyme.”  She’d never seen a spell that had to be spoken that didn’t rhyme.
Twilight brushed it off, planning to return to it in the morning.  She walked up her stairs, leaving both the spell book and the letter on the case that held the Elements of Harmony.
Spike left his bubble bath in time to see Twilight lie down on her bed.  They exchanged “Good nights.” and started to try and sleep.
When morning came around, Twilight had completely forgotten about the journal of Star Swirl and she darted over to her window, feeling something great about the day.
She shoved the window open and her voice rang out like a bell.  "♪Morning in Ponyville shimmers, morning in Ponyville shines.♪"