A memento to my first attempt

Chapter one

The militia

The day started like any other day, Quicksilver was working at his desk, reviewing reports and paper work, he sighed as he looked out the window at a bright summer afternoon

"How can ponies do this all day without stop?" he thought "I would go crazy if this was all I did." shaking his head and trying to focus on the papers in front of him.

He was trying to decide whether or not to increase  the salaries of the guards.

"Were already paying them to just stand around all day, and now they want more for it? he thought.

A knock on his door brought him back to reality.

"Come in" he said, the door opened reveling that Princess Celestia was his surprise visitor.

"Your highness what is it" Quicksilver said looking up from his work.

"I came to see if you had finished that report" she said, the report she was taking about was recruitment report, a report of all the new recruits of the last month,

"Ah yes here it is" Quicksilver said levitating a scroll to her, she opened it and started reading over its contents, it didn't take her long the list was very small.

"Not very many this month is there" she said rolling up the scroll and returning it to him,

"I'm a afraid not, outside of ceremony there hasn't been much need for a standing army," Quicksilver said rubbing his temples.

"That is true but, we cant just ignore the possibility of war," Celestia said sitting down on a couch in the room, he knew that she was worried, that something is going to happen, and soon.

She sighed "I don't wish for war its just" - she paused trying to get her feelings and thoughts together - "we must be ready to defend are selves, twilight can't keep solving all of are problems," she said her tone slightly rising.

He could see the tiredness in her eye's, this was a subject that had weighed heavily on her mind,

"well I have to agree that is true" he said sighing.

"I'll commission a training yard for the training of the militia" he said grabbing a pen and a blank piece of parchment and began writing the request.

"Thank you Quicksilver," she said rising and walking to the door, but just as the door shut, it opened again

"oh one last thing," she said with a small smile

"After you're done with that, you're going on mandatory extended vacation" she then shut the door and left him process what just happened,

"Do I seriously have that many unused vacation days" he thought.

He shrugged and left to take his request to the blacksmith for the training weapons.