Illustration from chapter forty eight of ‘Expedition to the Cloudbreak Islands ‘, based on an online RP. More of a sketch to be honest: this is the cover image for Summer Scribe’s trashy romance novel, ‘The Outcast Prince’. A classic tale of a young earth mare and her unlikely romance with a mysterious alicorn stallion from a faraway land, dispossed of his throne because he fell in love with a common pony etc etc. Rated ‘teen’ and bestseller for three years running in the ‘romance paperback’ category. When Reef Skimmer the hippogriff stallion comes to Summer for advice on courting ponies, he leaves convinced that the only way to woo that cute pegasus mare is to practice shapeshifting until he can look just like this…