It was dark and cold, the void of emptiness surrounded the lone pony, she floated in nothingness, going wherever she went.
It had been like this for a long time, not that time actually mattered here, in the vastness of the beyond, she knew what had happened. How can she not when the moment kept playing itself over and over in her head? The slick rain, the lightning, the runaway cart rolling toward her...
It would be enough to drive anypony else crazy, but she was surprisingly calm.
Then it happened. A light, followed by a noise that pierced the silence. It was her own heartbeat in her chest, something she had not felt in what seemed like eternity.
She drifted toward the light.
"Gahh!" The pony yelled, lifting her head off the metal table. She took deep breaths and looked around.
"Oh, good. You're alive again." Spike said, looking at his claws. "Took you a few weeks longer this time, I was starting to get worried you would never come back."
Twilight rubbed her head and slid off the table. Cursing her own immortality as an Alicorn.