Every chapter is a different story. Each story is a different concept, with different characters, and a different rating. Anything goes, so tread lightly.

This story is a sequel to If You Must

When something bad happens to you, you often wish to forget it ever happened.

That doesn't always make things better, and Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle find that out the hard way.

Thanks to Josephdalepony for the great editing job.

This story is a sequel to If You Must

Down and downwards.

This story is a sequel to Sit Still

Twilight would never harm a book under most circumstances. Twilight would never harm a pony under most circumstances.

Sometimes those circumstances arise, however, and action must be taken.

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My unicorn parents called me a worthless mud pony. They pushed me every day to overcome my lowly status. When I woke up one morning with my cutie mark, I thought they would love me. I couldn’t have been farther from the truth.

It was not destiny or enjoyment that led me to discover the cello and composing. My parents made that decision, deciding before I was born I would continue their family legacy of famous musicians.

They did not realize what that decision would cost them.

Special Thanks and Links:

Cover Art: Dreampaw. The inspiration for the story.
Dramatic reading of Act I-III by Malao567. June 2013
Reading with music by ObabScribbler. June 2014
Song: Hooks and Strings by Reverb Brony. May 2014

Style inspired by H.P. Lovecraft
TypeWriterError: Editor & Rating Board
Gage of Grandiloquence: Editor
The11thWonder: Pre-reader
Nharctic: Pre-reader
Breath of Plagues: My Pinch Editor.
ArgonMatrix: Bad Grammar Exterminator
Daemon of Decay: Advice, also inspired me to write fan fiction. Blame him!

Things don't always go as planned. In the future, you can look back and see what went wrong. Retrospect, that's what it's called. Now, Spike sees the horror that has befallen Equestria, and writes to anypony willing to take up friendship again.