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Glad to see you like my little story :D

It appears my attempts at creating the worldframe have yet to be improved, if you are this confused. Its hard to judge ones one work, because I already have the icture in my head, but i need to get it in yours! :D It will become clearer in the future, when the story reaches its middle part, as i have planned Gleaming to talk about her family a lot there.

So far and to not spoil anything, Gleaming is replacing Shining. There are no further offsprings in the Sparkle family.

As for how and why Gleaming is just a rookie at this point, you will have to wait and see, as the reason for that is part of the story.

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So far and to not spoil anything, Gleaming is replacing Shining. There are no further offsprings in the Sparkle family.
As for how and why Gleaming is just a rookie at this point, you will have to wait and see, as the reason for that is part of the story.

Okay, cool! That's part of your worldbuilding--so in addition to Gleaming being a sister to Twilight rather than her brother, she's a slacker, too! just kidding
At the very least, Gleaming is suffering from mana burnout and is going to need more than a few days to recover from that before trying to make a move to escape. I at least hope the DIs in her bootcamp taught her that proper POW escape procedures do NOT involve taking reckless risks to attempt a breakout, and she should recognize that trying to do so when her health is compromised is just such a reckless risk to her freedom.