Hey ladybug, how’ve you been? Are things still good between you and Star Tracker, Shiny’s offer to beat him up still stands. In all seriousness, the press conference on the Pacemakers went well, Serenade’s real proud of himself over his part on their development. You do remember your middle nephew, don’t you? I don’t suppose Honor Roll is going to be a big brother any time soon is he?

Speaking of little ones, Cypress has started speaking in full sentences regularly, and he’s completely taken with farm Big Mac and Sugar Belle have started up here. Specifically, he’s obsessed with the trees. I don’t know how they get anything done with a little Alicorn jacked up on excitement and wonder asking questions all of the time.

Flurry Heart has started studying abroad over at the Mareton University of Thaumatology. She sparked quite a bit of interest from the most recent delegation from Maretonia that we hosted when she started talking about the unique emotionally powered magic of the Crystal Ponies. The Thaumatologists were so impressed that they offered her a whole semester at the University. MUT only takes the best students of magic from the world, our family is so very proud of her. Though Shining and Serenade share a fear that Crown Prince Saber Song arranged this in the hopes of ‘arranging’ something with her. But would a marriage between two lines of royalty be so bad? So long as he actually comes to love her, the Maretonians will have bigger issues than my family to deal with if I find out they took advantage of one of my babies.

Speaking of, I need you and your friends up at the Crystal Capitol at once. I can’t talk about why in a letter, not a secure enough method of communication. Besides, we get to see each other again.

Princess-Sovereign of the Crystal Empire, Cadance.

P.S. You may also want to bring Spike with you. It’s been a while since he’s been up here and I’m sure he hasn’t let himself take many holidays. I’m sure he needs an extended one by now.

Author's Note

Everything from Shadow Play onward is non-cannon for this story. This is mainly because I haven't had the time to look for a way to watch the rest of the episodes that either fall beneath my personal privacy standards or are of such poor quality that it is not enjoyable to watch. Everything from EQG is non-cannon because I hate it and everything from the MLP Movie is non-cannon because I haven't seen the movie.

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