In an age of unrest and inter-tribal tension, Twilight Sparkle flies to Cloudsdale to talk down a faction of radical young Pegasi. It would be a lot easier if their leader hadn't been petrified for fifty years.
Spending Hearth's Warming with her marefriend is wonderful, yet Sunset can't help but feel reminded that she's not truly of this world anymore. Strangely, Twilight can relate.
Rainbow Dash was beautiful, the most beautiful pony to be born in a century — and so her fate was sealed. Beauty must be sacrificed, and so Rainbow Dash must die.
Rarity’s eyes were shut, and the velvety darkness behind her eyelids was soft and comforting as Opalescent’s fur. The only sound was the crackling of the logs on the fire, and the only sensation the delicious rise and fall of her marefriend’s chest.
As an ancient alicorn trapped inside a library, Princess Twilight spent many a century dreaming of being rescued from her prison. Now, finding herself in an entirely new Equestria, she realizes she'd never planned for somepony to actually succeed...