Everything in sight is red. Covered in frozen blood. I have been trying for a long time to evade meeting the same end as most before me. To my terror, I know hope of escape is false, but I still try to believe this lie. The lie that my mind has drilled into my soul. I do not know how everyone died, but I do know that their lives were ended in a long, drawn out, painful way.
I even watched as the last bit of life in my daughter’s eyes was extinguished. She told me, mere seconds before her passing, “No matter what you do you must evade it. The pain is terrible, no one deserves such a cruel fate.”
From that day up until now I have dedicated myself to attempting to discover the cause of all these deaths. Though I do not know for certain, I feel that I am getting closer every moment of my life. I have hardly slept these past few days. A sense of extreme urgency in the discovery of the cause of this plague of death overcame me, and soon I became obsessed.
In my mind I am constantly hoping for the cause to go away, but in my heart and soul I can feel that soon whatever the cause is will end all life, and leave Equestria an empty, lifeless shell. In fact, the end is drawing very close, life itself has but a few hours left. I am working feverishly now to try to discover why all living things are dying.
Finally, I have confirmed my suspicions. The cause of this multitude of deaths is the cold. But this is a different type of cold; a permanent type of cold. This winter is the last season Equestria shall ever know. The red winter has arrived which is the winter to end all winters. It is the winter of death, the winter of the end. In just a few hours this winter shall overwhelm all life in Equestria.
Even now I feel it creeping into my bones, starting to force my body to shut down. But I shall not let the cold take me. It’s been a few days since I started walking, but I am finally here. Standing at the edge of the world. A few thousand yards below me is a frozen river. Just one step, that’s all it will take. I have to do it now; if I don’t the cold will take me. Now I have done it. I am falling’ the world is going from red to black…