Diplomacy, Blue in Ink and Blood

Dear Prince Blueblood,

Pharynx told me that you were in large part responsible for unraveling the recent conspiracy against me and bringing about my eventual rescue. If so, I owe you both gratitude and an apology. It should of course never have come to pass that a representative of Equestria was endangered on our soil, but given that failure I’m glad the one to face the danger was you. If there is ever anything you wish of me or the Hive, please don’t hesitate to let us know; we would be glad for the opportunity to repay you even in part.

On a more personal note, thank you for befriending Pharynx. He has trouble getting along with others sometimes, and I imagine it was very difficult for him to make the decision to trust an outsider to the Hive, however necessary circumstances made it.

I expect I will be very busy for the foreseeable future. My impostor used my position to enact a number of policies beyond the ones that brought him to your attention, and undoing such things will undoubtedly be a thornier problem than it has any right to be. And of course Pharynx is going to want to enact as many security reforms as he can manage, and I can hardly refuse him, and the Hive will have to reach some new policy for dealing with Chrysalis’s old loyalists - the current one clearly isn’t working.

But I digress. What I meant to say is this: once things have quieted down around here, however far from now that may be, I hope to visit Canterlot myself. When I do, would you permit me to call upon you? I would very much like to meet you for real.
Yours,

King Thorax