This story is a sequel to Duty and Choice

It has been two weeks since the assassination attempt.

An investigation has been carried out and the results are in. However, Princess Celestia is not happy as she reads them.

Jack, resident human of Equestria, is very grateful. Grateful for his living conditions, his occupation and most importantly, his companions.

But, after many vivid nightmares plague his mind, he discovers how deep he feels for those around him. Namely the twin princesses.

Notes

There will be switching POV's throughout the story, these will be highlighted with bold titles. All personal thoughts to characters thinking to themselves will be in italics to highlight them.

Trigger warning, reader discretion is advised:
Depictions of self harm is present but not intentional by the one causing it to themselves
Graphic descriptions of injuries and death may appear at some points

Cover image - Invisible Illness: Be Still, My Broken Mind (2017)

Apple Harvest lives her life in the shadows, on the fringe of society, fighting to keep her tribe alive. The Summer Sun Celebration approaches, and with it arrives a letter that will change the course of her life, and the lives of Equestrian society. A reckoning is to be had, but first she needs to teach a Princess how to use a fork.

Set between The Elements of Harmony 1&2 and Luna Eclipsed. Part of a prequel series to Fallout Equestria.

Witten for the Seventh Annual Equestria at War Writing Contest. "a long time away"

It's year 1038. The 11 years after the end of great war, and Equestria, like the rest of the world was finaly rebuilded. But some scars can't be cured.

Celestia, previosly streching her powers to the limit in time of war, now suffer from long lasting exaustion, as her own magic of alicorn now wasn't even enough to keep her away from the effect of time. One cruel morning, the whole equestria, and her close ponies need to live with the fact that Pincess of the sun...has died.

When Ponyville forgets to pay their water bill, the Cloudsdale Weather Bureau cuts them off in the middle of a heatwave.

Every story has different ways to end.

These stories make up an anthology of semi-connected short stories set in a possible future of the Restoring Harmony Universe.

Funfact: I submitted these for a University Course over the course of an entire semester!

It has been a week since Princess Cadence Sparkle returned to her Crystal Empire after enjoying her adopted uncle's time in his Foot lounge. He helps her relight her Crystal heart magic in her with a caring gift of a heart-shaped pendant. Now with World Summit taking away from her Crystal Empire because of an incident with a human republic ambassador that happens in the Crystal Palace. Lord Justice Silverlight returns to the Capital city of Canterlot and his Canterlot castle office to begin the reassigning of Solar Guards and Lunar Guards resources to the new location for the World Summit, unfortunately, Princess Celestia has not given him the new location yet.

As he waits for his fiancée Princess Celestia to give him the new location for the World Summit, he (or she) has decided to spend time together in secret why he there waiting for the new location. In an attempt to finish her overflowing royal paperwork's (back up by the eastern summit) Princess Celestia accidentally signs her name to a proposed royal budget in which it calls for the firing of her personal guard and fiancé Lord Justice Silverlight and replacing him with a small squad of royal guards (who might not be so loyal to her).

No pony knows that Princess Celestia pays her Personal Guard and her fiancé salary from her own personal account (which is quite vast from her one thousand years of life and continues to grow at this time). Her safeguard protects her from those noble wanting to use her personal guard to control her by threatening to fire her personal guard and denying his pay. That safeguard has huge risks for her personal life with her fiancé went Raven Inkwell. Her assistant discovered the accidentally signs royal budget that calls for the fire of her fiancé Lord Justice Silverlight.

Raven Inkwell took the signed document to Lord Justice Silverlight's Personal royal maid and private secretary, a Pegasus mare name Diane Sheer. Both mares are shocked went they see the signature on the pink slip. Both mares quickly plan to keep this information from Lord Justice Silverlight. This works for a while but soon goes south went Justice discovers the torn up pink slip in his trash went a pen falls into the garbage. He put together the torn pieces of the pink slip and using a fixed spell to fix it. Upon seeing the signature on the pink slip, he upset about it.

Celestia Has made mistakes, Harmony nose she has, Despite what her little ponies might think she has made mistakes, Terrible ones That cost her dear and lack any sensible pony She has tried to fix them, and with her greatest mistake returning on this very day, she praise to harmony to be able to fix it.

Once every three hundred sixty space cycles, the head of the Timekeeper Administrators of Great Library Citadel station, Lara Borealis, randomly chooses an Epoch volume from the lower Timekeeper administrator to review and assess whether that Timekeeper Administrator is ready to advance to the second or third circle of Timekeeper Administrators in Great Library citadel station.

Once that Timekeeper Administrator ascends to that level, a higher level timekeeper Administrator of Great Library Citadel Station must choose them as their own apprentice and take over for them when they retire from the duties of a timekeeper administrator. Only the head of Timekeeper Administrators of Great Library Citadel station is allowed to pick their apprentice. Every head picks as their apprentice is the timekeeper administrator who will take over all the duties of the head of the Great Library Citadel Station.

So, all the low-level timekeeper administrators try to gain the favor of the head of Timekeeper Administrators of Great Library Citadel station by creating a unique Epoch volume for her to review and possibly choose them as her apprentices. One day, taking over as the head of the Great Library Citadel station. Only four Heads of the Timekeeper Administrators of Great Library Citadel station have retired. One of them was the Timekeeper Administrator of the tenth Circle Lara Borealis master.

At this space cycle, Head of Timekeeper Administrators of Great Library Citadel Station Lara Borealis's own daughter-in-training Timekeeper Administrator Celestia Silverlight (Borealis) Epoch volumes are up for review and assessment. To see if she can advance to the third circle of Timekeeper Administrator in Great Library Citadel station, rumors have swirled that Celestia is going to take over for her mother as the new head of Timekeeper administrators when Lara retires. As customary, Lara randomly chose an Epoch volume for her daughter's collection, and this is the one chosen.