The Diary of Celestia

The Diary of Celestia

        Dear Diary, I am starting today's entry off as I walk up the mountain.

        Today Clover the Clevers students arrived and we began the first steps to construction of the city. As soon as I rose the sun, I and the Earth ponies began pulling the stone, marble and wood up so we will not have to do it after all of the terraforming.

        One thing to note though. Before we left to climb the mountain everypony gathered around to see me raise the sun. I had done this before in front of ponies but it somewhat caught me off guard. They looked all so amazed and happy as I was doing and that positivity had helped me get through it despite how nervous I was. Trying to prove myself no better than them though is now going to be twice as difficult.

Dear Diary, the waterfall is beautiful from here!

        I am sorry, it is just. We reached the place where we will begin terraforming and the the view and the waterfall is just amazing.

        Anyway. The Earth ponies will begin digging into the wall and the unicorns and I will start lifting the frame into place to help give everypony an idea of how we want this done.

        I am very pleased with Private Pansy’s team so far, they seem to be taking the place of the jack of all trades. They helped bring all of the equipment up and are now helping us with the frame and the terraforming.

        The thing that most impresses me is Private Pansy’s hoofhold on the the team in general. Everypony seems to have this undying loyalty and respect to her, it is odd seeing as every order she gives sounds so timid and worried. I will have to ask Pansy about it later.

        I managed to pull Private Pansy aside and asked her why her team respected her so much. The only answer I got from her is “We just understand each other. We have  been through enough that a lot goes without saying.” I asked her what that meant but she dodged the question in her usual timid manner.

        Either way I hope one day to have this kind of bond with all of my little ponies.

        It seems the Earth Ponies have dug into some kind of cave. I will have to check it out.

This was unexpected. It is a cave that spans both far up and down the mountain. I asked Clover the Clevers thoughts on it but it seems she has no idea how a cave like this can form naturally.

        Clover the Clever, Smart Cookie, Private Pansy, myself and three other ponie have decided to explore and map out the cave. We took one pony from every race to help explore.

        As far as I can tell this cave seems to span the whole mountain, but right now that is only a guess. We started by heading down and have not even gotten a chance to fully explore the area around the entrance and above.

        This place never seems to end. Just when we think we can start heading back another path is discovered. Clover the Clever seems to be worried about and her student seems the same way.

        Private Pansy and her soldier have been flying around together exploring down long paths to help make things go by faster but even then it feels so useless. Luckily Smart Cookie has been drawing a map of the place as we go or I fear that we would never get out of this place.

        I will write again when we leave or if even get to explore the upper areas.

        We decided to leave the cave as it seems to have been a good while since we entered. It took a good while to get out of the cave but eventually we finally got out of there.

        Once we got out the ponies greeted us and helped us as best they could. After we got out one of the ponies somehow managed to pull my attention to remind the sun was still up and it was eight PM. So I lowered the sun and raised the moon then made our way down the mountain for dinner. I would work us longer only send only a few back to start preparing dinner but the cave exploring made this day odd.

        Note to self bring more food for these  ponies to cook with they do so much with so little! what could they do with more!?

        Just before bed Clover the Clever pulled me aside with the map Smart Cookie had drawn out for us. She looked me in the and told me something could be very wrong.

        She told me that the formation of the cave and the sheer size could not be natural, and certainly not pony made. She also said that with the way the mountain and cave is formed that the mountain is almost just a shell and will not be able to hold the city the way we wanted it to.

        Though she also said now we have a back up story if ponies get suspicious. We can just disguise it as a mining job and any buildings that show up are for the miners. though construction will now be much longer we now have to actively fill in the mountain so it can actually hold the city itself. On top of that we get some very nice Crystals to release and sell to the market.

        She left me with this information to think about. I thought maybe we should pull out, whatever creature made that cave must be huge. Though I think it is too late to leave the job undone now. So many ponies have left their homes for this and are relying on this payment.

        I told her I would make the decision tomorrow but I believe I have made my decision.

-Celestia