Hm... that easily forgotten waiter--could he be a reporter for the Post? Perhaps even the bellcolt from the hotel? Working at a big-time hotel would provide plenty of opportunities for juicy twistible celeb-gossip.

I'll be interested in seeing where this goes. They don't look like anything more than friends at the moment and it will be fun to see how that turns into love. We still have two days left...

I look forward to them.

I know the focus is on rarity and twilights interactions but I'd love to learn some more about the event and the hopes for it.

Let's see where this goes!

Thank you for writing this story.

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Maaaybe he is.

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It's more of a backdrop, but you find out a bit more about it as things go on, yeah.

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The extrovert/introvert dynamic was something I had in mind a lot while writing this, actually. Rarity's not so extremely extroverted (unlike, say, Dash or Pinkie) that she can't really grasp the idea of Twilight needing alone time -- after all, her work is often fairly solitary and she has a bit of downtime alone at the spa -- but she's leagues more comfortable in unfamiliar social situations than Twilight is. I too relate a lot to Twilight, maybe that's why I have so much time to write all these horsewords.

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And thank you for reading it.

I'm loving the character interactions in this. You've got the personalities down pretty darn well.

6421942 Maybe this is actually a spy thriller story in disguise! ... Okay, probably not.

6425921 He's actually a Cthulhu cultist, and is the secret turning point the author intends to use to shift this into a Lovecraftian-horror/comedy/erotica fic.

I'm really enjoying this. The rapport between Twilight and Rarity, as you present it, is very engaging. I'm eager to see how their friendship (so far) develops! All the elements of world-building--the different newspapers, the OCs that feel totally natural--are well used and add a lot to the story. I'll be following this one for sure.

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New chapter coming later today*!

* Maybe be "tomorrow" depending on individual timezone.

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Well, there's no tag for thriller/Lovecraftian-horror/erotica/comedy/musical, so...

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Well, thank you. There's a couple more OCs appearing in the next chapter that hopefully go over just as well. And more slightly-more-than-friendshipping for Twilight and Rarity, of course.

Her gaze lingered on Rarity, and for a moment she thought she had committed some kind of minor social faux pas. But then Cadance sighed and swept her gaze around the gardens.

Behind those gazing eyes lies a mind that is always shipping.

Your writing style is strangely... non-distinct, at least to me. With other authors that are similarly good, I tend to find a set of properties about their writing that I recognize in all of their stories, here there's not really anything, I don't think I would recognize that this is from the same author as other stuff you made. That's not a bad thing though, just an observation.

You also have a habit of dropping random thought provoking things, such as this:

"I picked up the habit of reading multiple newspapers from my father. He swore by it, said it was the only way to know what was really going on."

That has, in my opinion, enormous relevance for the world we live in right now. I'm curious if that was intentional?

Also, I loved this line

Twilight nudged Rarity's shoulder. "Freak out a little."

I know this is kind of besides the point, but what do you mean by "Ruler of Ponyville"? That confuses me so much like, is it canon or am i just looking a bit too far into it? Please explain and i thank you for your time and patience.