A short detour

Took another detour before heading back in on Equestrian Horizon.

I had a discussion with one of my friends about writing for and roleplaying powerful characters and I'd forgotten how much fun it was. Limiting character power and making them fit into part of a war machine is gritty and more believable, but it's also limiting in the types of stories that you can tell and the manner in which you can tell them. The result was pitting two of our premier characters against each other without requiring a ship.

If I find energy and inspiration later I might enumerate some more on the Cold Dark. It mostly serves as a plot device in this piece but it might be interesting to turn it into an actual character (of sorts).