And she sets about settling into Ponyville.
She learns her way around - here's where she can buy carrots and bunched dandelions and clover sprouts; here's where she can get a case for her crown and cases for everpony else's necklace so they don't have to wear them or leave them lying around loose; here's a shortcut between Guiding's house and the tower the twins live in together. This is when this little town wakes up in the morning and this is when everything closes at night. This is what her friends do all day: Cherry Cordial farms and looks after critters. Brightblaze tinkers with gadgets kind of singlemindedly (though she also flies). Silver Streak plays violin and and reads and wanders around looking at things. Guiding Star does fortune-telling for spare bits and belongs to a dance group and volunteers for anything going on in town that could use amateur decorating (Joy is often with her when she does this). Joy also wanders around being sociable and helpful and cooks, itinerantly, for anypony who'll spare him kitchen space.
And Clarity learns the organizational system of the library, with Blueberry's considerable help, and she studies and explores.
And when she's been in residence for just shy of a week, she gets a letter from the Princess, which contains six tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. Aww, that's thoughtful. Clarity's never been before.
She goes out to see which of her friends she'll run into first if she takes a meandering path through town.
"I can write her letters, yes. And I could usually get in to see her in person if I wanted when I was still in Canterlot. That just doesn't guarantee that she'll pay attention to me over the hundreds of other things competing for her attention - or tell me why, if she does ignore me. I didn't know at first why she was telling me to go make friends when I was trying to warn her about Nightmare Moon."
"I mean, she gets lots of credit for it actually working," says Clarity. "It did actually work, and in that sense it's reasonably like you telling me to let go without explaining that I was going to land in a tree. I imagine if I asked her she'd say something about wanting me to make friends - authentically, instead of just recruiting ponies to go on a quest with me. Maybe the Elements wouldn't work if it was just quest-recruitment."
"And what has happened. And what may happen. And what could have happened but didn't. And why. I like knowing all sorts of things."