Lyrica sat at her dressing table sipping lemon tea. It was midmorning, which was a bit earlier than she had planned to get up. Unfortunately, there had been a few problems with the costumes during a dress rehearsal for Aida last night. She had been halfway through her favorite aria when her headdress had literally fallen apart on her head! After the finale, the company had inspected the rest of the costumes and discovered that nearly every piece was on the verge of disintegrating.
Lucky for the company, opening night wasn't for another week. They were supposed to have a special preview performance tonight, but they could make do with what they had for it. Next week was a different story, though. The real performances had to be as perfect as they could make them. Especially the command performance for the four royal princesses in two weeks!
As a result of this emergency, today Lyrica had to make a trip out to Ponyville to see what could be done before opening night. Lyrica's friend Sapphire Shores had been at the rehearsal last night and had recommended a designer from Ponyville that she had hired for costumes in the past. Lyrica was hoping that this designer would be able to help them. The original costume designer had been a young pony from Manehatten, but they were wary of asking her to fix things after seeing the quality she had provided so far. Lyrica had no doubt that the business office would take it up with her at some point, though.
And so she had picked out a small selection of pieces to take with her to see if Sapphire's designer would (and could) help them out. She would much rather be resting for the performance tonight, but she wouldn't leave this errand to anyone else. It was far too important.
A knock heralded the arrival of the hired porter who would accompany her to Ponyville with the box of costume pieces. With a sigh, she stood up and squared her shoulders, ready for the day's errand.