Immediately, you drop your barrel and face to the floor of the concrete staircase. “Your Highness,” you plead. “It is I who must apologize! Please forgive me for my failure to communicate timetables, Princess Twilight Sparkle.”

“Oh,” Twilight responds in shock. You can’t see her face, but she sounds flustered. “P-please, there’s no need for that. I may be a Princess, but I’m not better than anypony else because of it.”

You peek open a single eye and see that she is holding a hoof out, presumably to help you up. Cautiously, you take it and rise back to all four hooves.

“Now then,” she says brightly. “No more of that! For the next eight weeks, you and I are colleagues; and after that, friends!”

Now, it’s your turn to get flustered.

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