Captain Lightning Dust of the airship [i]The Washout [/i]has everything she wants. Everything but a cream-coloured mare who plays the violin like a soul possessed.
It is a terrible thing, to lose the pony you love. Lightning Dust has been alone since Fiddlesticks died, and she can no longer conceive of any other way to be.
Lightning Dust’s life has been a perpetual mess. As she struggles to put her life back together and repair her relationships, the last thing she needs is another version of herself appearing on her doorstep.
When Rainbow Dash discovers that the supposedly unforgivable Lightning Dust is loved by a mare in the Apple Family, she learns an important lesson in compassion and forgiveness.
As the sun rises across Equestria, ten ponies muse on their lives. Princesses and farmers, fillies and athletes, they are as different as can be imagined. But for one fleeting instant, the common thread of the sunrise they watch links them together.
When you can't trust your eyes, when your ears are lying, when your memory itself seems suspect, how can you trust your suspicions that things are not as they should be?
The Solar Corporation would like to remind all employees that the incident involving Fiddlesticks and Lightning Dust was an isolated one, and would like to direct all further inquiries to their Incident Help Desk for an appropriately timely response.
For years after an accident that took her ability to fly, Lightning Dust has struggled to find something to fill the void. Fiddlesticks found something that appeals to Lightning, and it involves two long sticks and a lot of white powder.
Fiddlesticks watched the two ponies in the gif embrace over and over again, and wondered how that would feel. How anything that Twilight Sparkle experienced would feel.
At an apple family celebration, lonely Coco Pommel meets a boisterous mare who's very interested. The only problem is Coco discovers that she has her own doubts about whether she may qualify in the mare's eyes.
Running from herself, away from her mistake, Fiddlesticks found herself drawn to a country inn. There she meets Sunset Shimmer, sparking a night of introspection.