Do you know what’s the life of retired members of the Royal Academy of Magic is?
I wouldn’t like, but the time has no mercy, and everything comes in its place.
Well, royal wizard’s life is not boring at all, I can tell. This is a secret for most of the ponies living, but what adventures we had! We fought dragons and timberwolves, the very Ursus Major was firstly defeated by us. We discovered hidden treasures - literally, rivers of gold, flickering seas of gems and jewellery, mostly everything that is now contained in the Canterlot treasury. We travelled beyond the known Equestria boundaries with a mission of retrieval the rarest plant in the world. Celestia’s personal finance assistant lost count of rooms exploded during experiments with uncalibrated spells.
No, I can’t say that we were bored, but when we were younger, we were less wise but more willing and powerful. Suddenly, we are not anymore and what we are left with is just lecturing to fillies and little meetups. It surely is more serene life than we used to have, but also less exciting, that we just didn’t manage to get used to. So we were making fun from gathering up from time to time in different places, exchanging news and discussing politics (though, you know, what politics is there in Equestria?). But even in such circumstances we were actually able to find some adventures… Probably not the funniest ones. So, now something pushes me to take my pen, spare a sheet or two of paper and lay a story down, a weird story with uncertain end. It bothered me for the whole time since it happened. Here it is...