Endings come to everything, even for the unending. At the threshold of change, two ponies search for the way forward, and for what waits beyond goodbye.
Twilight Sparkle has lived a long life. Maybe too long. Now Twilight realizes that all things must come to an end... And that some ponies are too important to be forgotten.
On one of the last nice autumn days for his first fall in Ponyville, all Spike has to do is collect late fees and a lost book from a unresponsive library patron. A pony who isn't answering letters. A pony who might as well have never existed.
The greatest displays of strength are not always the most overt. Fluttershy is not whom one would consider to be a strong pony. But when Rarity digs a little deeper, she discovers in her friend a strength that carries the weight of hundreds.
A young filly befriends an old dragon taking residence on a mountain looking just over Ponyville. Who is this dragon and what exactly is he waiting for?
There is no more love. There is no more queen. There are only the silent echoes of a dying hive, as a lonely changeling, cut off from the hivemind, ponders the fate that has befallen his brethren.