You see, this is why you shouldn't keep secrets of taking some kind of fertility enhancer. 'Cause then you find out your partner and all their friends have been doing it too and you end up with octoplets.

Cute first chapter, especially the build-up of the everyday life of Spike. Although... two things. They're Starswirl's Treatises on Magic, not Treaties. And why would Spike custom-order socks all the way from Griffinstone, when one of his best friends is a renowned seamstress, and one that lives much closer at that?