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// Friendship Report 
// Story: Natureshy: RotE Episode 11 
// by Dream Volt 
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Dear Princess Celestia.

I learned something so very important.  There are lots of ways to work though fear.  I've tried all of them.  Most don't work for me, but there is one so powerful it works every time.  Friends.  Friends can let you push through any kind of fear.

But it isn't just if they're right there pushing or pulling you forward.  There are other ways too.  They can give you confidence because no matter how you think yourself, they believe you can do things you are so sure you can't.  And you can just do things for them.  I think rainbow taught me that.  Discord and at the time Chrysalis, were both scary.  But someone had to do something.  With Chrysalis it didn't have to be me, but it seemed like it.  So I did something.  Both times I pushed past my fears for the sake of my friends and it worked.

Maybe there are even ways they've helped me I don't even understand, but it doesn't matter.  Friends can make even the most terrifying things seem less, so, but they can do more than that.  They can make it not matter.  The fear can be just as bad as ever, but it can't pull you down.  It can't stop you.  It can't limit your happiness.  Friendship can push you forward lots of different ways even as fear tries to hold you back.  I have to try and remember that.  Remember and move forward best I can, no matter how hard it is for me, because I can do that.  I can do lots of things.

Your loyal subject, Baroness of the Everfree and High Queen of all fey, Fluttershy

(Then she immediately started worrying about that sounding too formal, or that she might have been bragging about the high queen thing, and Twilight joined in.  I walked out of the room the second they weren't paying attention to me and after finishing this note I'm going to send it, because I know you don't care.  I just think you should know what happened is all.  Also if there is some fey that feeds on panic, we are totally doomed.  There isn't, right?)