Across the valley stood tall 1 large mountain, which was lair to a unnamed Deity the changed it's appearance every 1 year.
Each year the Deity would change the law of the valley forcing it's inhabitants to constantly change their way of living, making their lives harder for no apparent reason. One day 2 small dragons came across said valley, the first just passed by while the other seemed to have other motives....
It was a rather small dragon, some say it was a baby dragon. He had purple and green scales, with a rather innocent look to his face, nothing seemed out of the ordinary for the valley folks after all it was normal for creatures of all sizes and shapes to pass trough the valley at least 3 a week. Yes three times especifically, the reason for such bizarre phenomena was unknown.
The dragon walked around the valley seemly aimlessly but to some it was clear he had hidden intentions. After about an hour the dragon stopped at a small wagon, it was owned by a pink gypsy mare, she was selling all kinds of goodies but a few things in particular caught the dragon's attention, jewelers. He bought 5 of them and left the wagon. Slowly nibbling the jewelers away, he walked towards the large mountain the the center of the valley. While others had trouble climbing it, the dragon manage to hit the top in just a few seconds thanks to his surprisingly strong wings. At the top there was a huge palace with a roof made out of jade bricks, it had huge white walls and small stone statues here and there.
On the other side he could see the entire valley from the top, he didn't noticed until then but the inhabitants looked rather sad or extremely tired. They didn't seem to have motivation to do anything, simply living for the sake of living. The dragon was filled with great sadness from the view, he wanted to do something about it but he was unsure of what exactly was the cause of the problem. He decided to jump down back in the valley and started asking around, looking for an explanation. There was no clear answer to the problem, some said it was the Deity's fault while others simply blamed themselves. However there was a name that was constantly mentioned when talking about the valley's problems, "Tear Away". It was a rather strange name for the inhabitants but the dragon payed no mind, it looked like he was very interested in this "Tear Away" guy. He found out were Tear lived and knocked on his door 8 times, but there was no answer, no one was in sight the area was completely silent. However dozens of creatures could be seen from very far away minding their own business. Looking around the dragon found a bunch of letters on the ground, praising Tear for his amazing work on a certain book.
The dragon investigated around a bit more and found out that Tear Away was a rather famous author, he wrote a book about Princess Twilight, said book seemed to be rather popular across the valley, but only the valley. Still after all that investigation he was still nowhere to be found, after 5 hours just aimlessly walking around again he was starting to annoy the inhabitants of the place, They were beginning to be extremely annoyed at his presence "Why doesn't he just give up?" creatures thought to themselves. He persisted on his search and he ended up finding out that Tear left the valley a few days ago, he was looking for reviews for his story, and that's what made some creatures sad apparently because Tear simply ignored their letters.
Still only a very small minority were sadden by that, there was still no clear answer to the general levels of unhappiness so the dragon decided to talk with the Deity. Once again he flyed to the top of the mountain, he avoided the guards and went straight through a open window in the Palace. Inside he found a small mare with a luscious black mane, she looked rather weak and didn't really react when the dragon barged in her room knocking down 3 bottles of ink while he was at it.
He asked her if she knew the reason why the valley was so unhappy but she couldn't answer either, not because she didn't know the reason but because she was far too weak to do it. However she did gave him 2 green sticks without explanation on what he was supposed to do with it.
He took the sticks and sat down beside her for about 1 hour, wondering what to do. Eventually he got up and went to leave the palace.
"You're on your own." He said it and left 1 of the sticks behind.