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// I'm Nobody! Who are You? 
// Story: The Mulberry Mare Disappears in the End 
// by Yuu 
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The mulberry mare put her friend on a pillow in the main hall of the library and ran out to the street. She passed several empty streets and reached a circular building. She stopped before the front door, paused for several seconds, and knocked.

After the lack of response for about half a minute she knocked again, this time more forcefully.

“Go away!” someone said.

“Please open the door.”

“Go away.”

The mulberry mare waited for a minute for another response, and, as she got nothing, she opened the door.

Pieces of cloth littered the floor, there were prototypes of outfits scattered in disarray, there were even stains on the floor and pieces of broken cups or dishes. 

She looked around several folding screens and found a slightly shivering pile of cloth on a number of pillows on the floor.

“Hello?”

“I said go away!” the pile said.

“Would you please come out? I can recognize your voice, so please stop hiding.”

The pile moved but said nothing.

“I have enough problems with disappearing ponies around here, so I don’t want to lose another friend.”

A head of a mare with a light grey coat and an unkempt indigo mane appeared from the pile.

“Do you remember me?”The grey mare asked.

“Well, yes. The only thing I forgot is your name. I’m sorry for that, but unfortunately, I can’t even remember my own name.”

“That’s great. I mean, that you remember me. The names are another story. But that’s great, I thought everyone in town forgot about me.”

“I see, that’s why you were in such a bad mood.” The mulberry mare sat on the pillow near her friend.

“Bad is an understatement. It started yesterday, when a pony I knew came to welcome me to town. Then another one, then another. I thought it was some kind of sick joke, but I started to ask questions, I asked ponies on the streets, and all of them had forgotten me and were treating me as a newcomer. It was horrible! I finally hid here without any idea of what to do. I thought that even my friends had forgotten me — sorry, I shouldn’t have.”

“You went through a lot, so don’t be sorry. Could you please come with me to the library? I’m gathering all our friends so we can find out what happened.”

“I think I can.” The grey mare moved out from the pile and stood on her legs. “You said ponies have been disappearing? I wondered why they stopped coming to greet me.”

“Yes. I don’t know what is going on, but I intend to find out.”

“Good. I hope you will. Let’s go.”

The mulberry mare nodded and went to the door. They left the circular building.