It's morning in the human world, and Sunset wants to show Twilight something before the sun comes up.

6/20/2016: Now with cover art designed by the very generous Novel-Idea! Thank you so much!

Sweetie Belle leaves school early to let her sister know a few important things.

But she'll have to do it quick, because she can't stay for long.

One night Sonata comes home in a love-struck daze, and Adagio decides it's up to her to figure out who (or what) has caught her fellow Siren's fancy.

Thanks to the ever amazing AShadowOfCygnus for pre-reading.

Cover art is Cute Sonata by DANMAKUMAN.

Seriously, a lot.

(Now with a Spanish translation by the generous SPANIARD KIWI!)

Sunset Shimmer spends a quiet, ordinary afternoon and evening at home.

He could have said no. He should have said no. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to stop her right there and then. She would have understood. She would have forgiven him. The spell would have been gone forever, and everything would have gone back to normal.

But he didn't say no. He didn't, and now it feels too late.

Having accepted Twilight's offer of apprenticeship in the magic of friendship, Starlight Glimmer returns to the community she founded long ago, in her first attempt to make amends.

Sonata Dusk: A bimbo, an airhead, a moron, a fool, a girl without even two brain cells to rub together to generate thought... right?

...Right?

This story is a sequel to In Their Town

Starlight Glimmer has been taken under the wing of Princess Twilight Sparkle.

Now, with parchment in front of her, she tries to empty the broken heart she has carried for two decades, and writes to the only friend she had growing up.

(Written on a whim in the waning hours of Finale Fever.)

I am the greatest and most powerful unicorn that ever lived.

(Very small spoiler for Season 5 finale.)