        Twilight had come up with nothing yet—even the Princesses had been woefully unprepared when they had first met with dragons.  She had informed Lyra that there was still some hope in one of Commander Hurricane’s treatises, but she had to have it translated, and that would take a couple of days.  The pegasus had done something to start up a dialogue with the griffons—had, in fact, started the peace process—but although the outcome was something every schoolfilly knew, the actual technique was apparently lost to history.