As the last of Songbird Serenade's performance concluded and oddly plasma-shaped fireworks thundered over Canterlot, the crowd of Equestrian denizens applauded loudly with hoof stamps. Among them were a green stallion with a find-the-difference picture for a Cutie Mark and a blue stallion with an unidentified curio for a Cutie Mark, the former of which kept rubbing his overdeveloped cheeks every once in a while.

"Well, that was a great concert!" The blue stallion said at the end.

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Knock-knock-knock.

"Yeah, yeah! I'm coming! I'm coming!"

There was a sound of fumbling over the locks before the door was yanked open. An unshaven, groggy-looking green stallion with a Find-the-Difference picture for a Cutie Mark grumpily looked outside. He blinked for a moment before he recognized the blue stallion with a worn out sedimentation for a Cutie Mark looking back at him.

He grumbled for a moment before wiping his eyes. "Sam...what are you doing here?"

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Somewhere over the waters of the Celestial Sea, a lone airshift slowly drifted along, blown about by the wind. On board the deck of the ship were an assortment of sick and half-dead ponies. While some of them were seriously ill, and looked on the verge of death, everyone looked dirty, tired, dehydrated, and emaciated. Among the few that could still move, one of them, a gold earth pony mare, vainly went about caring for those who were especially sick.

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