When all you've got is time, power, and political influence, how do you keep yourself from getting bored? For Twilight Sparkle, the answer was simple: hire a love sla-er... apprentice.

Spike, being a young male, notices certain things. Certain, awesome things about the world. Like the fact that every mare he knows is naked. And he can't stop thinking about it. But hell, who'd want to?

Schadenfreude is a butler to Blueblood and he's no stranger to being tossed in the dungeon for ticking him off. He decides to tell the story of how he got there this time.

As some of Luna's personal subjects are sent to assist in the preparations for a festival, they learn to realize through friends and stories that there is more than one power in a pony's heart.

There's a chair in the corner of the room. It's not there when you look at it. Only out of the corner of your eye. It's only there... when it wants to be. Take a seat.

A short, internal monologue of the Captain of the Guard as he faces the tides of war.