[Miranda_]

Ponyville was a hive of activity, as normal. Again, Star found it ominous that the days and nights were progressing properly; it seemed to suggest that Avarice had a more sinister plan to take over Equestria than the normal tyrant plan. She probably aimed to implement taxes, slavery and all kinds of awful laws while in control of the castle, thru whoever she had gotten to replace the princesses.