Princess Twilight Sparkle secretly takes a trip to the Crystal Empire to go on a date with Flash Sentry. Ever the perceptive student, Twilight learns a valuable lesson about love and friendship in the process.

It just might not be the lesson you'd expect.

[size=0.75em]A rough draft of this story was an entrant in The Writeoff Association's "Distant Shores" contest.[/size]
[size=0.75em](Spoilers on why I wrote this are in this comment.)[/size]