Twilight walked briskly down the road her braided tail swaying slowly side to side and the occasional ear flick being the only signs of her joy. Several ponies going about their day stopped and waved to the timber mare which she returned with a small smile before her face became neutral one more as she cantered on to her goal, a camera hung round her neck. " Getting these last pictures could be difficult" she mused, Convincing Rarity to pose with her new amulet and snapping a photo of Applejack as she worked had been simple enough. Getting Pinkie's photo had been a bit harder, convincing her in both pony and her new draconequus form to sit still long enough was almost as frustrating as talking with the nobles who would try and convince her to sign a contract for her daughter.
Thankfully discord had been off visiting the Pie family farm to check up on (read annoy) Limestone so he was not around to interfere. Convincing him to visit the Pie family the first time had been surprisingly easy once he learned they were descended from Puddinghead and Surprise, who had been his best friends back when he was just a unicorn. That story had been both fascinating and terrifying, it was by far the 2nd scariest thing she had ever gone though. The only thing scarier she could think of was her first date with Mooney, AKA Princess Luna.
it had taken all or her training to prevent herself from hyperventilating when she got the invitation to dinner complete with all the old equestrian wording and nuances the message said it was a thank you dinner for taking care of Spectrum while she could not . But Twilight could see Spectrum's hoof prints all over the plan "that little rascal had been planning on getting us together the moment she decided to start calling me dad." Becoming the parent figure to the mythical pony of shadows had been quite a surprise back when she was first getting use to living in the Everfree.
But after that rocky start their relationship had gone quite well, to the point she was invited to the gala as Luna's date leading to many nobles looking trout-slapped. "The looks on their faces when they saw the same earth pony they used to mock for trying to get in to a "unicorn only" academy showing up as a date for one of the Princesses is one of my favorite memories". After her trip down memory lane Twilight noted she was almost to the door of Fluttershy's cottage, as was common after the Ironwill incident Dash had her cloud house right over the cottage.
"Okay convincing Rainbow to let me take a photo should be as easy as showing her the camera, of course after that I will have to drag Fluttershy out from her newest hiding spot, (thank you Photo Finish). Lets see today is Tuesday and Dash is here so she should hide from things that scare her in the closet whelp here we go." With a fortifying breath she stood tall before knocking on the door. Several minutes latter after Fluttershy had been convinced to leave the closet and Angel had been assured she was not under attack Twilight left with her last set of photos to pen the letters to her new friends, she could not wait to hear their response and found herself wishing she could see their faces when they each opened their letters.