The Sparkle Letters

Dear Princess Celestia,

There is one other thing I must mention, which I forgot to bring up in my previous letter. I've been very busy, you see. But first...

Barack took me aside shortly after Rainbow Dash arrived. Already, local news organizations were reporting her arrival. Our diplomatic introduction to Humanity has been...complicated. And there's one more complication: Barack is not actually an important human. His name is not even Barack. He has asked that I not reveal his true name here; he wishes to remain Anonymous, as he worries that these letters might be published later.

He only wanted to help, and to feel important. He apologized deeply for lying to me. I reassured him. He only wanted the best, and besides, he IS important--he was MY introduction to Humanity, and he has been both incredibly kind and unbelievably helpful. I told him he was forgiven, and that I would always consider him my friend; and he cried as I held him, right before the police banged their fists on the door and demanded to see us.

I write this letter from a small room in a Human government building. I am still struggling to understand the structure of their government, as it has many, many layers. It isn't quite as Barack described it, either. They say that the negotiations will be...complicated. No Human has ever met a talking, thinking being which isn't Human, though many claim to have met otherworldly beings.

I hope that I will still get to speak with Barack.

Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle

Dear Princess Celestia,

You have no idea how hard it was to get this letter to you. It took hours of arguing with the guards at the embassy before Twilight stepped in and made her demands. They're letting me send exactly one letter across, so I gotta make it count.

I wanted to say I'm sorry. Twi says I've done a good job explaining things to her, but honestly, I was just playing around--and I could have ruined the whole thing in the process. I came THIS close to diplomatically making all Hell break loose. All because I thought this was just like My Little Dashie (but you don't know about that one, do you?).

You need a guide--and I don't think any of the stuck-up pricks in the White House are gonna do a good job. Our politics aren't like yours. We talk a big game about evil and fighting for what's right, but the reality is, anybody who has any power over here took it out of someone else's pockets. You can't trust them.

Oh, shit, I almost forgot--RD's getting pretty good treatment, but I think someone who watches the show was involved in the decision-making, because Chryssy's been put in a cell. They told Twilight they just wanted to take precautions, and Twi agreed, because Twi doesn't know what happens when humans get to lock people up without a trial or a time limit.

I'm not feeling too optimistic about this whole thing, but you ponies have pulled through worse, right? You can handle Cozy Glow, I'm sure you can handle a room full of Cozy Glows.

Fingers crossed,
Anonymous

p.s. "fingers crossed" is a good-luck saying over here