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[Cirrus Conference Room]

"I-I wasn't suggestin'...th-that is, that's what I was...o-o-oh my..." A luminesant blush spread over Sandy's cheeks, and she hid her face behind Rainbow's massive foreleg. She'd seen herself in a mirror, she hadn't been that noteworthy, so why was everypony acting so weird around her?!

Duty soon recalled her to the conversation. Though nopony directly posed the question to her, she could tell what was on everypony's mind; they wanted her - her, of all ponies! - to represent them in the pageant. To strut in front of dozens, if not hundreds of hungry eyes, performing for them, showing off for them, letting herself get judged by them, listening as they all booed, hearing the cries for her expulsion from Trottingham forever... "I-I-I don't rightly have m-much experience w-with pageants or stages or j-judges or...or any of that. I-I don't know how well I'll do, m-much less if I can win, b-b-but if it's for th' g-good of the mission..." She gulped audibly. "...th-then I'll do it."

"But if I do, then I-I want Rainbow with me!" she said with sudden force, before shrinking back once again. "Th-that is, if that's also for th' good of th' misison..."
"Mr Shores, none of us have any experience in a pageant, if that makes you feel better." Silverpine knew the irony of using Sandy's male honorific, but calling her Miss Shores just sounded plain weird... at least in the lieutenant's mind. Her eyes looked up to the giant that was Rainbow. "You definitely look the part of a bodyguard..."