The hardest part of any new chapter in your life is to let go. You get so used to a routine, to things being a certain way that, when it´s time to close that chapter and open a new one, you feel like you don´t want to go, like you don´t want to let go of the last thing in your old life.

It can be something tangible like a set of keys for a new office or something less obvious, like a life with your family and friends in a farm being replaced by long hours of paperwork.  Both Apple Bloom and the former Mayor Mare knew all of this very well, and that´s why one couldn't handle the keys and the other couldn´t accept them.

“You know…” Mayor Mare said, playing with the keys. “You know what the former Mayor warn me about, the day I received this office?”

“That the left leg of the desk is loose?” Apple Bloom said, looking at the law book that was holding the broken desk.

“No, I figured that out of my own. With a nasty hot coffee accident. But she said…” the Mayor continued, trying not to get contagious with Apple Bloom´s giggle. “She said that the hardest part was going to be to have other ponies calling her by her real name. So many years wielding the title of Mayor and now she was going back to her old name and she couldn´t imagine how that was going to be. I can´t imagine how is that going to be…”

“Ah understand…” Apple Bloom said and then coughed to correct her accent. She didn't feel like it was proper for a MAyor to speak so thick. “I understand but let me assure that I have no intention to replace you as Mayor. I want to be my own Mayor, with my own name because...you will always be the Mayor to me.”

The Mayor smiled and caressed the young mare´s cheek, handling the keys to the office. She started to slowly walk out but Apple Bloom stopped her.

“Wait. Ya need...I mean, you need to sign the transference papers.”

“Oh right, of course. Of course.” The former Mayor took a quill and started to sign but then stopped. “Silly me..” she said and corrected her signature.

“Thank you…” Apple Bloom said, taking a look at the paper. “Ivory Scroll.”

Ivory smiled and exited the office but right before leaving she said, “Keep the accent. Locals will like a Mayor with the Ponyville´s accent. It will be a refreshing change.”

“Ah´ll keep that in mind.”

With a final smile, Ivory Scroll left the room and went downstairs. Apple Bloom sighed and moved next to the desk, she took the law book off and the desk fall down. She then opened her saddlebags and took a hammer from it, smiling at the trusty tool that always carried with her.

“´kay. Let´s get started…”