"Road's long, and you're not grown up just yet. I feel better knowing somepony's on the road with you."
With Cutie Mark revealed and Talent firmly understood, Rarity knows that she has found her destiny. Over the protests of her mother, who had her own vision of Rarity's future, she has quit boarding school and staked everything she has — all of her personal savings, all of her skills, ''everything — on a stall reserved at the biggest fashion trade show in Canterlot. Full of hope, she knows that she just has to set up her property and wait for somebody to Discover her.
Alas, as she is about to learn, the world of fashion is never quite that simple...
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Tropes found in this story include:
- Heroic RRoD: Rarity strains herself to the point of physical agony trying to save Coco Pommel's things from the runaway gale.
- The Kindness of Strangers: It's impossible to overstate the importance of just how much Rarity's future was saved because Coco Pommel chose to help her. Without Coco, for example, Rarity would have had her designs stolen by the first smooth-talking opportunist to claim to want to register her. Without Coco's warnings, Rarity would have fallen for a too-good-to-be-true contract. She may not have gotten what she wanted from the show... but at least she got to continue pursuing her dream.
