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>"Damnit Discord stop messing things up its like you don't even care if Anon is happy or not!" Cadance snapped as the Draconneques ruined yet another moment they'd planned
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>The group recoiled at Discord's sudden glare
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>"Don't care? Oh I just don't care if our dear nonny is happy do I?" he snapped
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>Discord never got mad, irritable yes but they'd never know the self-proclaimed lord of chaos to get angry
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>"Time for a history lesson my little ponies!" He snapped the fingers of his lion paw and the world went white
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>The 7 of them dropped behind school desks while a stern Discord marched past the bewildered mares to a chalkboard
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>"Miss sparkle pay attention this is going to be on the test!"
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>Deep down Twilight knew he was just screwing with her but the mention of tests was enough to get her to meep and pay attention to the board
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>"Now, Year 107 of the Anonymous reign is considered by many historians to be the single most baffling period of Alicorn rule in ponykind's history." He started drawing squiggles on the board with a permanent marker
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>"The King appeared to be in multiple places at once, both withdrawn and simultaneously giddy with wild proclamations and festivities that the King himself was never seen partaking in, do you know why fillies?" He asked twisting his head around without moving
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>Fluttershy raised a hoof
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>"Correct!" he said without looking at her
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>"The King wasn't the one in charge back then, but I was! someone had to take the reins from dear Nonners after his wife died."
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>The last part of his lecture was punctuated by stomping hoof and claw as two of him loomed over Twilight and Cadance respectively.
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"H-his wife?" Cadance mumbled confused
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>Discord huffed and snapped his claws once more
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>This time they were in the gardens, the girls were each wearing dresses complimenting their looks, sat spread out amongst a dozen or so chairs either side of a green carpet
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>Twilight and Cadence were in matching baby-blue dresses with flowers tucked in their manes, both of them either side of Anon himself
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>Anon who was dressed in a well-tailored black suit
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>Anon who seemed completely oblivious to his sudden guests
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"Do I look alright? I know theres nopony here except us and her parents but still..."
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>"Yes you look every bit the handsome ruler now stop fidgeting shes coming" Discord said, stood next to Anon beneath an arch decorated with the same flowers adorning Cadence and Twilight's manes
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>Cadance made the realisation first and seemed to deflate a little
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>They were at a wedding, a wedding not one of them had known about.
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>This must have happened centuries ago
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>A gorgeous mare, foreleg-in-foreleg with a proud looking stallion then began to stroll down the carpet towards the Prince and Discord
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>Discord of all creatures was officiating , Vows were exchanged, he even gave them rings.
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>Rings that didnt explode or turn into snakes or anything else similarly chaotic
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>As Anon and the mare kissed Discord snapped his fingers and fireworks lit up the sky
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>The world went white and the girls were suddenly back in present day canterlot
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>He crossed his arms and looked down disappointedly at the girls "Now what did we learn?" he asked
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>....
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>"You can insult me all you like girls but I do care, I've known our dear ruler much longer than the lot of you. his wife meant a great deal to him and when she passed on I played his role for an entire year."
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>"An entire year without even a single cotton candy cloud or day and night forgotten about." He frowned
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>"I do care. I care much more than you all seem to, I've seen what that kind of heartbreak does to a pony and I don't want to him to go through it again."
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>Prince Anon's version of the GGGala was a bit different to Celestia's, not that anypony would remember since sunbutt hadn't been around for awhile to host one
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>Rather than it being an event for the rich and famous of Equestria, the royal-hosted ball was to be a 'festival to bridge all trots of life'
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>At least a 3rd of the attendees nowadays were simply common ponies, who could win an invitation with a plus one
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>The invites were sent out to towns and cities with a public lottery held to offer anypony the chance to win a ticket to the ball, their small entry fee being sent to a charitable fund
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>The Gala became a charitable event as well a party for ponies from all over equestria to meet, network, socialise and make some friends!
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>Even some creatures were invited to improve relations between ponykind and its neighbours
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>Its harder to want to invade a place where you've made friends after all
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>Rather than stand at the top of some stairs all night the Prince greets V.I.P guests personally then mingles with the guests himself once the Gala is officially opened
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>Half a dozen tables or more of a range of food from sugary sweets and quaint confectionaries to fine foods and choice cuts for the carni to omni vorous guests
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>A full band playing throughout the night in the ball room, private zones for quieter discussion away from the crowd and the entirety of the gardens opened for the attendees to explore and enjoy themselves in
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>the gardens decorated with bunting, banners and lights with games, kegs, blankets laid out on grassy knolls and even a full DJ set-up for anypony who wanted to dance the night away to a more lively soundtrack
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>The Girls couldn't be more excited
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>Excitement for the 'best night of the year ever' built up between them for weeks since the Prince had been kind enough to send Twilight 5 whole extra tickets after a little fiasco about who she should bring with her
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>Fireworks bursting in the sky with white, green and orange sparks that lit up the sky as they left their carriage announcing the opening of the ball to the city
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>Of course the moment they got across the drawbridge they'd cantered off in every direction to chase their ideal night
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>The Prince was atop the staircase leading up to the ball room, dressed and groomed to immaculate regality
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>Black-on-Black long coat with his favourite bronze tone in small floral patterns and swirls on the forelegs and along the trim.
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>He was even wearing his crown! shiny bronze hooked around his ears and holding back his swept back mane
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>A royal purple sash about his neck held by a bronze roundel with his emblem upon it
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>The prince liked bronze, it did look good on him to be fair
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>Twilight dashed right up to the Prince tittering about how they had so much to catch up on
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>"Prince Anonymous!" she tittered reaching him "Oh I'm so exicted to be here theres so much I want to catch up with you on."
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>"Twilight! You look lovely!" He beamed down at her
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>"Let me greet the guests then we can spend plenty of time together this evening."
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>She nodded excitedly and took her place beside the Alicorn
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>The guests came and shook hooves, curtsied, bowed, A yak of all things even arrived and then headbutted the prince which nearly made Twilight incinernate him on the spot but Anonymous just laughed and headbutted them back
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>Just as Twilight was getting a little fed-up with waiting and not having a single chance to speak to her teacher he spoke up breaking her chain of thought
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>"Alright! thats all the ones I had to say hi to, come one Twilight lets go enjoy ourselves." He twisted on his hooves and started trotting off, pushing her along with a wing
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>Twilight, as they began to walk to wherever the Prince wanted, started yammering about the past few months of friendship lessons, her research and the day-to-day of life in Ponyville since he'd sent her there
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>This was what she wanted, just to talk to her teacher one-on-one, he was always such a good listener and he never seemed to mind how, as much as it could embarrass her after, long she could go on for about this or that
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>They progress into the gardens as she struck up a story about how their dresses for tonight were designed and the lesson she'd learned from it
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>He held a hoof to her mouth as she was about to describe one part further
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>"Hear that?" he said
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>She pricked her ears up to listen. Music, conversation, laughter but nothing out of place
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>"Ooh I'd almost forgot I let Vinyl set up out here" He then pranced. Pranced, off from her to a make-shift dance floor set up out in the gardens
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>He came to a stop in front of the booth, huge speakers either side of the DJ's station and a screen just below where a Unicorn sat tuning and fiddling with some form of console
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>He whistled to her and waved a foreleg, she looked up eyes hidden by opaque glasses and gave a grin to the Prince of Equestria
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>Music start kicking in, speakers thumping as the beat picked up
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>The prince stepped back to get a better view of the screen and quickly gestured for twilight to join him
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>She quickly came to his side like the star pupil she was
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>"Alright so theres gonna be directions on the screen right there, just follow them as best you can and try to beat my score!" he explained to her as the music picked up and small glowing ponies came alive on the magic screen
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>Twilight had known her teacher since she was a filly and to this day he'd never failed to find ways to shock her, the nicknames like twiggle or purplesmart were enough to make her blush but the sight of the tall Alicorn dancing was a new one
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>He wasn't great
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>He wasn't bad either
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>But he was keeping up with the on-screen directions, doing a half-good job at matching the dance moves displayed before him
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>Twilight kept stumbling and missing the timing
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>Almost tripping over her hooves at a few points
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>Face flushing from the mix of embarrassment, exertion and the fact her teacher, the centuries old ruler of all Equestria was 'breaking it down 'in full view of the entire Gala with her right beside him
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>Its worth it she told herself, you wanted to spend time with him tonight so just go with it
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>Be you
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>Princess Mi Amore Cadenza
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>Or just Cadence is fine
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>You got your horn and 'ascended' to an alicorn! the first alicorn in centuries since the prince emerged and took the throne.
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>maybe the only other alicorn EVER. outside of those silly foal's stories about the sun and the moon
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>You've been living in the palace for a while now
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>Its been amazing, living in the capital city with all the beautiful streets, freedom to come and go as you please from the palace (with a guard of course)
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>You just wish you and the Prince got to spend more time together
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>That and knew more about the stallion who took you in
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>You didn't know a lot about him but then again nopony did, the ruling prince of all Equestria was as much an enigma as his cutie mark.
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>A question mark. fitting for a pony who seemed to always remain aloof and separate from everypony else you guessed.
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>You do see each other at dinner sometimes though , when he's not too busy
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>>When he can make it to dinner, he compliments you, asks you about your day, how school was and how you're settling in
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>You respond politely like a princess is supposed to
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>The Prince is nice, nice but distant
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>Like he doesn't want to upset you when he speaks, which doesn't make sense
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>He's been nothing but kind to you, why would he think you'd be upset by him
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>Does he not like you? you like him. you listen, you say thank you and do all your lessons.
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>You even started foalsitting his student like he urged you to do
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>Which has, to be fair, been super fun, she's so cute and smart, even if it took a while to bring her out of her shell
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>The only ponies she spoke to before were her parents, her handsome brother and the Prince.
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>and the dragon hatchling but he just babbles so you're not sure if he counts yet
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>Today you went to pick up twilight from her lesson to watch her for the afternoon while her parents finished up work, she pranced up to greet you with the silly dance you two made up
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>Right in front of the Prince.
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>It was the first time you saw Prince Anon smile so genuinely
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>As you walked, Twilight yapped your ear off about star swirl, again, seems today's lesson was about him
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>Then she casually brought up she snuck into the palace library's forbidden section trying to find out if the prince and star swirl knew each other.
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>she'd swiped a book with his cutie mark on the spine thinking it was a history book about him
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>Turns out, it was something halfway between a grimoire and a journal
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>Twilight.
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>As smart as she is, often 'misses the forest for the trees' as the Prince would put it
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>To her she found a spellbook belonging to her teacher, not paying much attention to anything that wasn't the Prince's notes on the arcane
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>You asked if you could borrow the book for the night
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>She actually seemed ecstatic you wanted to borrow a book from her
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>She gets so giddy about the strangest things
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>That evening once you dropped her off, didn't blush when her brother said hello and headed home you get your chance to read
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>Its old. really old, the leather is cracked all over the place and the edges of the pages are frayed and yellowed
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>It must not have been touched for decades at least
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>Just lying forgotten in the shelves of the library
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>You run a hoof over the cover, feeling a tad guilty
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>You are prying into the Prince's business after all but... he had , clearly, forgotten about it and if its as old as you suspect maybe the prince that wrote it is completely different to the one you know which makes it okay?
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>You gingerly open the old tome and start reading
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>…
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>The Prince really must have changed a lot since he wrote this.
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>Outside of the pages absolutely coated in magical sigils, arcane ramblings and self-arguments the rest of the book is just pages upon pages of the strangest things
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>Lyrics to songs you've never heard of
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>Small sketches of ponies, a few with faces that made you giggle
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>Drawings of animals, weird creatures and weirder buildings and machines, you think some of these are machines anyway
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>Theres a few drawings of slightly warped circles with smaller circles over them attached to some of the weird creatures he drew, weird.
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>You'd just about given up reading, ready to pass the whole thing off as a collection of random magical stuff and scrawls
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>But then the next page, a third of the way in, is where it gets juicy
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>Real diary entries!
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>Some of them are separated by days, others by weeks and months, a few by years, lots and lots of years.
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>You greedily drink up every detail you can about the Prince's thoughts
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>Your eyes practically glow with interest on the page you land on
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>In a rougher form of his hoofwriting the entry reads
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>'Met the xenomorph queen herself today. WOULD. I told her as much, that i'd give her all the love she could want, that she could be the evil queen that steals my love and my heart. The handsome prince to her wicked dragon like that Disney movie. She spat some green stuff at me and told me i was a disgusting, impish beast in a crown. Gosh. I want her, is that bad? no one has spoken harsh to me like that since I got here, not since star swirl but his beard didn't exactly spark the imagination like her fangs did. Would it change things too much? No, she wouldn't like me back, she'd transform if she did and I doubt she'd look as nice sharing love as she does stealing it. sigh.'
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>The prince had a...crush. on somepony.a 'xenomorph queen'
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>What was a xenomorph?
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>Who was this pony he had a crush on? why did she have fangs? what in Equestria is a Disney?
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>You aren't sure if Prince Anon liked this pony or not even after re-reading the entry a few times, she sounded very mean but the prince liked that?
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>...Maybe you'd be better off reading other entries to understand the Stallion.
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