Celestia asks Twilight to move back to Canterlot for a year to work on her magical research, and to help her get better adjusted to life as a princess of Equestria. With all her friends being very busy, they'll barely have any time to see each other any more. Well, all of them except one. After all, what kind of Element of Loyalty would Rainbow Dash be if she didn't make time to be with her friends? But both of them will quickly learn that life doesn't leave much time for traveling, and distance is a hard thing to fight.
What's it like trying to keep in touch with the ones you care about only through writing?
A story about trying to deal with distance and love.
Thanks to HankOfficer on DeviantArt for the cover art!
Chapters (3)
Good story can't wait for more
3973488 Why don't you like TwiDash? I am just wondering because I've never really learned why people dislike TwiDash
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Twilight and Rainbow Dash are very dissimilar to each other and it can be hard to reconcile the idea of those two getting together. I don't disagree with that premise. I don't know if I want to say that those reading the story purely for shipping will be disappointed, but this is going to be a story more about the relationships between people (ponies) than a more character-driven take on shipping. At the end of the day, I don't want to think of this as a shipfic; I want this to be a story that uses its characters to say something about us as emotional beings.
Not to bad so far...
Trad light full. This story can be over before it even began
Great job!
good, i'll be waitin for the next chapter.
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I can answer that. They just don't have personalities that go well together. If you think the whole daring do thing helps, I agree! But what other evidence do we have that they would be good together? I don't mind twidash, though I only read it for the rainbow dash romance that isn't appledash. I prefer flutterdash.
I expect one thousand chapters
3977351 to me I guess it just seems that the brash nature of Rainbow Dash can only be sated by Twilight's caring nature... Or maybe it's because I just like how Rainbow seems to be more tempered when I read stories about her with Twilight than my impression of AppleDash and FlutterDash
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*Sees name, starts crying*
3973864 thing is, I look for stories that either are a straight shipfic (that sounds like I'm saying M+S instead of M+M) or ones that lead in to the love in a more elaborate fashion such as you are planning to do. I however avoid stories that conflict deeply within themselves as a whole.
Celestia seems really cold in her letter. Otherwise I really enjoyed this and it was an excellent connection between Rainbow Dash and Twilight. Tracking this.
Also, the Spike bro-code is strong in this one. 
Holy prologue, Batman! Lol, but seriously, I'm liking this a lot. The fact that she has to go back to Canterlot for an entire year hits home with me. I left my friends and family to join the military, and I know how hard that is. It seems cruel to me, for Celestia to send her there to make friends, have her build these solid relationships, then make her leave them. A year apart from some one can seriously strain any sort of relationship you may have with them. I'm interested to see how far you go with this concept. Please, take my like and fave with a smile, knowing you made someone feel a flurry of real emotion with just your prologue.
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Oh look, a pointless ship hate comment. Alright, maybe not hate, but dislike. Seriously, what the hell was the point of this comment? You don't like Twidash? Good job; who cares? Now, had you given a reason why you were letting it slip, or perhaps some helpful advice on the story itself, I'd have left you to your devices. But could you do that? No. Instead you left a pointless comment where all you establish is you are reading a fic (something that can easily be determined by either a favorite to track the story or a more useful comment) and the fact that you dislike a ship.
Sorry, but I really hate pointless comments like that,
*ahem*
As for the story... excellent start. Don't have any problems with grammar and no noticeable punctuation errors. Like the monotonous beginning mixed with the ending. Like the style.
All in all, very good start.
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I'm not about to argue with you over a comment I wrote as masked compliment, sort of comment. So I'll simplify this again as to the reasoning of the, now deleted comment,
It is about something I hate, but I like the story so I'll read it anyways.
Take your time, love stories always will be like treading in thin ice. One wrong sentence and you will destroy the story. So no pressure
Thus far... Really enjoying the story... Its sad though in the beginning. But this also makes it conpelling... I can't wait to see what happens next in the story. Its going to be intersting...
I'm thinking about some out comes the story mite go though right now... I'm not sure if they will come true... But just the thoughts... Maybe something happens and RD don't get into the Bolts... And on a rainy night she shows up at Twi's bedroom window weaping... Oh man my heart just died a little inside...
Anyway Its a great story! Keep it up!
With each chapter, I love this story more and more. It's amazing how much it already pulls on the readers' heartstrings. Keep it up. I can't wait for the next chapter.
liking it so far, can't wait for the next chapter... no realy give it to us NOW, or later, you can't rush a righter, unless you want crappy stories, so take your time, quality over quantity, I always say.
You really need to work on developing a distinct voice for each character. Right now, all the dialogue has a common blandness to it, with each character letting words flow out of them in a stream-of-consciousness that lacks style. Very little of the dialogue in this chapter read like something that anypony would say, let alone the specific characters that were supposed to be saying it.
I like this, really well written.
Buuuuuuut... Where's the TwiDash? I was promised TwiDash!
I joke, you'll get around to it I'm sure.
I'm suuuure....
the idea of making power from amulets is cool but id be worried if i was a Pegasus and suddenly everypony can walk on clouds, that is Pegasus territory and quite possibly a threat to them. and everypony teleporting... yea hope those amulets come with a guide don't want anypony porting into a wall... ouch
I can imagine the misuse of the amulets xD
4098904 How is that any more a threat than Pegasi being capable of walking through the streets of Earth Pony towns and Unicorn cities? If anything, it levels the playing field.
am I the only one who read the first letter in an emalgamasion of all 5 of the mane 6's, excluding twilight, voices?
4099694 if everypony can touch clouds it can kill jobs for pegasi as well as weather factory work and other cloud city jobs.
4101734 Oh, well that's a good point.
This story is simply divine! Take as long as you wish to post the next chapter
but you better post it or there will be tartrus to have
when the chapter is done mind you dont rush it............please dont rush it
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I'm regretting that option...
This is an interesting beginning... Too bad it seems to have been abandoned.