What's it like to fly?

Commander Hurricane knows, and in this famous extract from Mere Player's Winter of Discontent, she lays out the hurt in her hate-filled heart, and epitomises a view of ponykind which we must be glad to see consigned to history.

(An entry for EQD WTG #4, with some fun stuff tacked onto the end because otherwise the whole thing was just too much a bloody downer).

Once upon a breezy night, counting the stars and snuggling up close for warmth atop a low-hanging cloud somewhere over Ponyville, two young pegasi who had always been friends first admitted the true depths of their affection for one another.

But that was eighteen months ago, and Rainbow Dash isn't sure she understands Fluttershy anymore; what she wants, what she's afraid of; what she really feels. Frustrated and sworn to silence, all she wants is what she thinks is best for them both - but can she work out how to reconcile their differences, and after she's been through so much to get to this point, does she even want to anymore?