Welcome to the Show, Twilight

Twilight started to slowly stir awake with a small groan and yawn against Shining Armors neck as she cuddled closer.

Tuesday. That meant Princess Celestia today.

Forcing her eyes open, she gave her sleeping brother a quick nuzzle before she scooted away from him before rolling onto her stomach before she sighed and opened her mouth wide.

Gack!

Coughing slightly, Twilight jumped off the bed and moved into the wardrobe to find today's outfit only to fit the small room empty.

She blinked and looked around. What?

Master flashed into existence before her, “Congratulations, Slutlight. You have reached your first milestone. You have been in the show for a total of one month now.”

Twilight looked at it in surprise. Had… had it only been one month? It felt like she’d been here forever.

“O-oh.”

“With each milestone you reach, you receive a reward,” Master said, “You can choose something in your life to change or adjust. As this is the first milestone and one that anypony would reach, what you pick may be minor.”

Twilight slowly nodded and sat down and looked down at the floor in thought, thinking things through. What was the worst thing about all this?

Feeding? Maybe, but it was over in moments every morning… and it kept her from needing to actually buy food.

Corset.

She could be free of the corset!

Twilight quickly looked to Master, “The corset, can I take it off?”

“Completely removing it is too major for the first milestone. However, you can replaced it if you like with something else?”

Twilight frowned, “Like?”

“As you can not remove it, any option you pick would have to be as limiting. You have currently three options available. Ring gag, blind fold, magic limiting ring.”

“Oh…” she said and sighed, “Well, that’s not going to work. Even the magic limiting…” she said before she frowned, “Magic limiting? Not blocking?”

“Indeed. It limits the wearer to the most basic unicorn spells, such as telekinesis and light. Things any unicorn can do. They are also harder to do, but it does not block magic completely.”

That made Twilight hesitate.

She’d be rid of the corset. But in turn she couldn’t teleport if she was late. But she could be rid of the corset!

“...I’ll take it,” Twilight finally said, “Magic limiting ring instead of corset.”

A flash of light filled her view and Twilight blinked, stepping back before she looked back at herself, running a hoof along her coat. It was gone!

First thing she did was bend at the waist. It didn’t even ache, even after so long. It had clearly been a magical corset.

Magic.

Twilight glanced up at her horn. She had a golden ring around it at the base with gold filament running up along her horn through the grooves spiraling along it until they reached a small gold cap over the tip.

Reaching up to touch it with her horn, she then looked down at the items laid out for her now. Stockings and a little thin and white dress and little else.

Twilight reached out to pick the stockings up with her magic, only for the spell to fizzle out. She blinked in surprise and looked up at her horn before she tried again. Fizzle.

Focusing her magic, she reached out and grasped the first sock. This was ridiculous! It was harder to pick a sock up than to teleport halfway across town!

“Master, the ring is broken, it can’t be meant to be this hard!”

“It working like expected, Slutlight,” Master answered her, “It is calibrated to put your spells at a level that is equivalent to an average if untalented unicorn.”

Twilight turned to stare at him, “Are you serious!?”

“I am. You are uncommonly talented with magic. This is how difficult it is for the lower third of unicorns,” it answered and flashed out of view again.

Twilight glanced up at her horn for a second. She suddenly had a lot stronger understanding in how ponies found her magic impressive.

She turned back to the socks. Let’s do this!