Doctor Maud Pie, on the heels of a wildly successful year teaching in Stalliongrad, returns to Ponyville to give a lecture at the School of Friendship, and very nearly bores the children to death. However, Gallus notices something strange; every time Maud Pie speaks, his principal Starlight Glimmer lights up! What's that about? Gallus is determined to solve the mystery of the extremely boring lecture, and perhaps reveal ... a secret relationship between professor and principal?!

Written for the StarTrixMaud shipping contest, this is just a sweet story about an established relationship between Maud Pie and Starlight Glimmer, with some of that sweet, sweet mutual pining after a year spent apart!

Contest: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/957718/startrixmaud-shipping-contest-24-july-31-august-2021
Winner of Tenth Place, and Best StarMaud!

A straightforward little slice-of-life that gives you exactly what it says in the longdesc: a snapshot of an established relationship between headmare Starlight Glimmer and Dr. Maud Pie that is very short and sweet. What makes this Guest Lecturer stand out from other works of this light and fluffy genre is the introduction of the characters and the ship through the eyes of the students, for whom school administrators and guest lecturers are categorized somewhat closer to textbooks and lockers than fully-rounded people with lives of their own outside of school, which makes the peek behind the curtain all the more intriguing to them. This really grounds the presence and reality of their relationship and love by contextualizing it as part of the observable world that third parties can deduce; a fact about the universe as mundane and as obvious as the difference between igneous and metamorphic rocks. And that mundanity is just what makes this type of story so pleasant to spend time in.

--Bicyclette