When Shining Armor invites Sweetie Belle to go with him on a day trip to the Crystal Empire, she finds herself developing romantic affections for the handsome stallion! How can he tell the poor filly that there can never be anything between them without hurting her feelings? He'd better figure it out soon, because her crush on him is growing rapidly!

How far would you go to eliminate your enemies? What would you do just to make your life the tiniest bit easier? Who would you hire to get the job done? And what consequences would you be forced to live with? Backed into a corner, one desperate pony is about to confront those questions...and the answers bear a powerful, ugly, awful, horrific truth, the likes of which very few have seen.

On a seemingly ordinary day, six ponies and one dragon go about their usual business, but long before the day is over, tensions will rise, exhaustion will kick in and some of the things which they thought to be true...will be proven wrong. Unbeknownst to them, their respective situations are all loosely connected...

This is a multi-chapter story with each installment focusing mainly on two characters, but all of the chapters run parallel to each other. To be more specific, the entire story spans a single day, but every chapter displays it from a different perspective. Enjoy!