Dear Mother, Father,

I know you all are worrying about me being around the fighting and stuff. I'm doing, well, I'm pushing through all that is happening here. Currently I'm stationed back in Seaddle with one regular cohort and the unicorn cohort of the eastern legion, helping and planning out with the other medics around here, for if the battle comes here we'll be ready. The regular cohort are making trenches and barricades by the wooden fort that was built by Seaddle. Basically anypony would have to go through the fort before the city since mostly everywhere is covered by barricades and magical mines.

Also, Father, do not be upset. I know you probably are regretting your decision on letting me go enlist and I know if you knew that there was gonna be conflict, you wouldn't have let me go after much of me asking. Instead, be proud of me for fighting to protect everypony here in Equestria from harm.

Everypony here kept asking me how it was like to actually fight, asking if it was like all the stories we've read from when we were in school and stuff. I didn't really say much, only that the stories we've read leaves out a bunch of detail that one pony would experience physically and mentally. There's no adventure, there's no magic to revive somepony, and there's no back-up once you're pushed to the wall. It's just you, your fellow guards that are still alive, and much bloodshed. From my current experience, that is. It frightened a few guards, some saying they'll probably resign.

But if there is one thing I can believe, it's that we're very adaptable. In Las Pegasus on the second day of fighting, everypony knew what to do and what to expect. We went from being cheerful, to crying and begging for it all to stop, then to having emotionless looks yet feeling determined to fight back. Many ponies don't approach me because I just stare off to nothing, but I'm still myself.

I hope I am.

Say hi to Mr. Ember for me. He may not show it, I know he is worrying for Althalos as you all are worrying for me. I hope he's doing okay.

From Your Loving Daughter,

Sunshine Petal

Cohort I, Century IV - 1st Legion