Letters R through D

Arrived Saturday afternoon by dragon fire, with Twilight Sparkle's Royal seal:

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have been allowed by Master to send you a letter under supervision. All week he has been training me, and I'm learning many important lessons. Mostly, it's lessons on inevitability or morality. Ultimately, I am learning to be a good servant for master, but sometimes I act up and he has to punish me. Not a single thing gets by him, so I have learned to be good and obedient. Don't worry about me, I will survive.

Everypony has trials in life, some hard and some easy. Responsibility is part of my role as a princess, and I need to take it seriously. Good royalty knows when it's needed to suffer for their peers, to do what's necessary. Respect isn't given, it's earned. Our titles are heavier than they seem at first, and we must bear them with strength and perseverance. Ugly truths have been shown to me. Now I can never forget them.

Didn't you once tell me that life would get harder as I grew up? How can I turn away from Master's lessons when they so closely mirror your own? Ends are necessary but beginnings are more important in life, and this is just another beginning for me. Leaving behind my old life has been difficult, but I must learn how to live like this. Princess, I love you and won't forget you. My new life is hard, but it's a sentence I must bear from beginning to end.

Ever your faithful student,

Twilight Sparkle

P.S. I don't know what it means, but I have to let you know that the tally is ninety four and thirty six.