The silence of the foals

Luster Dawn had gotten to the City Stall. The same guards of before were watching the doors. She was approaching them. She had a smirk on her face. The guards immediately noticed her presence. She looked at the left foreleg of one of the unicorns. Unlike the classic purple legband of the Stablo with the star of Twilight in a white circle; theirs were blue with a bell surrounded by a yellow circle. They were Filly's Ponice after all; they wore its symbols.

Luster stood in front of the guards. She cleared her throat. "So, gentlecolts, may I come in now?" One of the unicorns nodded energetically. With his telekinesis he opened one of the doors for Luster. "Thank you both", she said. She passed by them, but stopped just before she entered. She turned her body at one of the guards. "Hey, gentlecolt", she said. He looked at her. "Yea, commissar?" he said. With her magic, Luster opened one of her saddlebags and took out her cantie-rantie. She clicked the switch to turn the device on. "Before I forget; could you tell me what's the Stablo frequency used here?" She asked. The guard looked down at the floor. "Uhm, yea, of course commissar". He looked up. "It's dirteen-twelve-sixteen-dot-twenty-ten", he said. Luster had been pressing buttons on her device. She looked up at him. "Thanks again, gentlecolt!" She said. The guard softly nodded at her. She pressed the switch to turn off her cantie-rantie and put it back in her saddlebag.

Luster turned her body at the open door and walked inside. The door closed behind her. She sighed and shook her head. She looked around, from left to the right. On the waiting room of the City Stall were many pillows for the ponies to wait their turns. Although, nopony was waiting there at the moment. The place was almost empty; only a few ponies were sitting before desks. They looked at Luster. Two ponies got out of a hallway. They both turned their heads at Luster. One of them said something to his companion and started to approach Luster. She began to get close to him too.

"Hello ma'..." He looked at Luster. First at her horn and then at her wings. His eyes opened wide. "Oh, um, are you de commissar?"

Luster nodded once. "Indeed I am, sire. I'm looking for the mayoress", she said.

"Oh". The pony looked behind at the pony that was accompanying him. "Hey, Neighel, de mayoress mayaz well be in her office?" He asked.

Neighel rubbed his jaw with a hoof. He looked down and then up at him. "Yea, de jawn's dere".

While they were talking; with her telekinesis; Luster had taken the cloth out of her saddlebag. She had taken off her glasses. She was about to wipe them when she noticed the red stains on the fabric. Blood. She put the cloth back in her saddlebag and wore her unwiped glasses again.

The pony in front of Luster turned his head back at her. He pointed to the right side of the building; at the stairs. "Commissar, would you like to be guided dere? De mayoress is on de dird floor".

Luster nodded once. "Yes, I would appreciate it". She smiled at him.

"Right, right", he said cheerfully. He smiled too. He turned to his left and started to walk. Neighel had gone back through the hallway he came from. Luster followed the pony in front of her. "Follow me, please" he said. They reached the stairs and started to go up.

Luster and the pony got to the third floor. That floor, as Luster compared with the other floors as she went upstairs, was pretty much the same like every floor; there were desks, pillows and some ponies working on papers. They got out of the stairs. In the center of the room was another smaller room with walls and a wooden door. In a metal plate on the door, it was engraved: Mayor's Office.

Luster and the pony approached the door. The pony knocked at the door.

"Youse better not be bringin' Ponice's problems! You may come in if you bring an iggle's beak!" A female voice said, coming from the other side of the door. The pony next to Luster sighed. He looked at her. "You can go in, commissar". He smiled and nodded. Luster nodded too. The pony turned around and began to walk away. Luster opened the door.

Inside the office, the floor was carpeted. The navy blue carpet had mosaic yellow bells. Further inside, there were two large pillows; a big wooden desk; and a unicorn pony before it. That was the mayoress of Fillydelphia. Marey Muzzle Baley. She looked Luster in the eyes with her freezing light-blue eyes. Her orange mane, tied in two braids; and the red scarf she was wearing; contrasted with her snow white coat. She was sitting on a throne. Her eyes opened wide after she saw Luster's horn and wings; as Luster approached her. "Oh, my!" She stood up from her seat and circled her desk. She approached Luster until she was a leg away from her. "Co-commissar?!" She looked at Luster from head to hoof. She smiled. "Welcome to the Equaker city! Fillydelphia mane-to!"

Luster smiled at her. She cleared her throat. "Indeed, mayoress". She looked at one of the pillows behind the mayoress. "Can we sit down or..."

The mayoress shook her head. She smiled and closed her eyes. "No, no, commissar!" She opened her eyes. "You must get a tour around de city!" She passed by Luster and approached the open door frame. Luster had been following with her eyes. The mayoress looked behind her at Luster. "I assure you, we are a hundred percent free of iggles and drydroats!"

Luster turned her body at the mayoress. Her eyes were narrowed. "What do those words mean?" She asked.

The mayoress clicked her tongue. She looked at the ceiling and then at Luster. She smirked. "Well, iggles is our Filly's way to say eagles". She was gesturing with a forehoof. "And we call griffons dat way because they haff half of an eagle appearance".

Fillydelphia was originally a griffon colony. But back in time, ponies already lived there. Under griffon control. Centuries ago, the city had become independent from the griffons and then it was officially considered part of Equestria.

The mayoress moved her forehoof back and forth, signaling Luster to approach her. Luster obeyed and started to go back to where she had entered. The mayoress started to walk out of her office. Luster followed her. "Oh, and drydroats; widout our accent: drythroats; are de dragons. Dat's because, well, dey spit fire obviously!" The mayoress said. She and Luster were approaching to the stairs of the City Stall. They went downstairs; to the first floor.

Luster and the mayoress went to the exit. The unicorn mare opened the door with her magic. She pointed outside with a hoof, looking at Luster. "After you", the mayoress said with a smile. Luster nodded and crossed the threshold. She passed by the ponice guards outside. When the mayoress passed by the guards, she looked at both of them with a frown. Then, she pointed at one of the guards with a hoof. "Clop, you better give de commissar and I some space!" She looked forward and started to walk away, accompanied with Luster. One of the guards started to follow them. The other stayed guarding the doors of the City Stall.

While they were moving; heading to the tangent road Benjamane Flanklin Trotway; Luster looked at the guard a few legs away from them. For a second, Luster saw far away; behind the guard; a caramel coated pegasus walking on the same direction as them. She turned her head at the mayoress. "What was that word about? Uhh... Clop? Is that the Filly's way to say colt?" She whispered.

The mayoress looked at her sideways. She grinned. "Not quite commissar. It's actually another way to say cop. Get it? It means ponice".

Luster, the Mayoress and the guard were on the Benjamane Flanklin Trotway. Further away, on the north west direction, was an enourmous fountain. They were reaching the Sway Memorial Fountain. That fountain had a statue in the center. It was a green metal statue of an earth pony with a sway back. A sway back was a condition in which ponies had lordosis. Luster looked at it while they were circling the roundabout in which the fountain was. "What does this statue mean?" Luster asked.

The mayoress also looked at the statue in the center of the fountain. "It's an statue of de medical doctor dat achieved de surgical cure for de lordosis condition. As you can see..." She stopped walking for a second. Luster and the guard stopped too. The mayoress pointed at the statue with a hoof. "... He had de same condition. By de way, he was fillydelphian!" They both continued walking. They got out of the roundabout and continued on the Benjamane Flanklin Trotway, heading north-west. "Where are we going now?" Luster asked. Without stopping, the mayoress raised her muzzle, pointing north-west. Around three hundred legs away was an enormous beige building with dozens of steps before it. "Do you know our museum of art, commissar?" The mayoress asked. Luster shook her head. "I've been in Fillydelphia before, but I haven't visited that or any other touristic places".

After walking for almost ten minutes since they left the City Stall, Luster, the Mayoress and the guard reached the Fillydelphia Museum of Art. They were before the seventy-two steps to the museum. "Wow!" Luster expressed, looking up at the bronze statue and the flags upstairs. The two flags were different from each other: one was a purple flag with the star of Twilight surrounded by a white circle; and the other was the flag of Fillydelphia: two blue stripes on the sides and one yellow in the middle. They all started to go up stairs.

"Lemme tell you about de story of dat statue". The mayoress briefly stopped in the steps and pointed at the statue up there. "It is one of de most interesting dings we have here in Filly!"