Heartwarming / The King is Dead, Long Live the Emperor

• "I, Emperor Pandinus Imperator The First, Ruler of the Crystal Empire And All Who Doth Dwell Within, do hereby grant you permission to go jump up and down atop the royal bed like a little madpony for the next five minutes."
• Urchin, later Shimmering Radiance. Just the idea of a ruler picking up an urchin off of the street, and just because he could, helping her out, up to and including giving her a name.