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(from official records: Royal Guard)

To: Princess Luna, Diarch

RE: Staffing(response)

Princess, I regret that we are unable to assign mares to your personal guard due to their absence within the current ranks of the Royal Guard, or in Cadet status at the Academy.  If you so desire, we will begin work on a process to eventually begin to accept mares into the Academy, but changes such as this take time, perhaps even a decade or two so that cultural barriers will not provide an impediment to this undertaking.

Please feel free to contact us regarding this modification to existing procedure.

Sincerely,

Buttercup, Commander of the Royal Guard, Night Division

Swift Wings, Commander of the Royal Guard, Day Division

(request: Canterlot Archives)

To: Miss Pince-Nez, Supervising Archivist

RE: Research project for Princess Luna

Please begin researching the archives immediately for a spell that can transform a stallion into a mare, in particular the rock-headed idiotic kind who run the Royal Guard.

Princess Luna, Diarch

(Canterlot Archives records)

To: Princess Luna, Diarch of Equestria

RE: (response) Research project

I’m sorry Princess.  If such a spell exists, we cannot find it anywhere.  We did find one that would turn them into a cactus or a frog, but they would still be male.

We will continue our search, but I doubt we will find what you want.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pince-Nez, Supervising Archivist

P.S. I sympathize with you totally in this regard.  I married one, and I’m tempted daily to turn him into a cactus.

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