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Crossed Quills


Writer, poor artist, and voracious reader.

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A thousand years ago, a series of popular bodice-rippers were published by a mysterious writer who wrote under the nom de plume of 'Gibbous Eclaire'. Books in the series ended rather suddenly, and what exactly had happened became one of Equestria's many mysteries.

Meanwhile, in the modern day, a burnt-out Luna frets over palace paperwork, and looks fondly at a spare inkpot and a pair of crossed quills.

(Tagged teen for innuendo and implicit writing: altered as per community guidelines)

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This story is a sequel to The Night Princess and the Day Off


It's difficult to be a Warrior Queen in an age of Legislative Princesses.

Luna has found a place in Canterlot society, braved social awkwardness and even managed to legislate unpopular changes, but she finds herself ill at ease with the day to day running of a government. She craves adventure and excitement, but perhaps the vicarious enjoyment of same through an evening of theater will do.

Poor princess. Nothing ever seems to be quite so simple. A murder mystery might well become... two.

Starring a Canterlot cast, new and familiar, international espionage, murder, and Luna doing her best to turn everything into a story of Hay-Cules Pear Roll.

(As this is a sequel to the previous Night Princess And... stories, it diverges from the show canon shortly after the beginning of Season 5.)

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This story is a sequel to The Night Princess and the Graveyard Shift


Backed into a corner by her own political maneuvering, Princess Luna is forced to try and find a way to take a day off... from being a princess. The only problem is, being a princess is more something that you are than something that you do. And Luna was never all that good at taking time off from work to begin with.(1)

But with the aid of her sister, her secretary, and a hoofful of friends, she's got to try, for the good of the realm.

Join Princess Luna for a week of taking a day off, in the last story of the Night Princess And cycle!


(1) To those considering a joke about taking a thousand years off, shame.


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This story is a sequel to The Night Princess and the Day Job


Luna got a day job to help her better relate to the ponies of Equestria, and all was well. But when a niece she knows next to nothing about is getting married, the Princess of the Night offers to take a night shift at the StarsBucked near Canterlot University as a way of blowing off a little steam.

Pity it's the Night Shift of the Living Dead.

This piece is a sequel to The Night Princess and the Day Job, and should probably be read as such.

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Luna's having trouble. She doesn't know where she fits in, and she can't run night-court until she can at least understand the modern problems of modern ponies. In an effort to find a place in this brave new world, the Princess of the Night decides there's only one solution.

Get a job.

After all, how hard could it be to get a job working retail, with Hearth's Warming Eve coming up?

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The few.

The proud.

The only ones who were available at the time.

When the royal budget is blown, Luna needs to show that the disasters that have so drained Equestria's resources aren't going to continue. Reforming the Lunar Guard on a tight purse means that she doesn't necessarily get the ponies that she would have chosen, but how bad could it possibly be?

They're reckless, dangerous, they weren't even supposed to be here today, and they might well be Equestria's last hope.

(Featured and flattered!)

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