It was the same as always. On her birthday since she was born on the Summer Sun Celebration, Mother and Father would release flying lanterns into the sky just before her mother raised the sun. She would have a special lantern with her cutie mark on it and got to release it into the sky before anyone else would release theirs. But before she did, she saw her lantern had a different cutie mark instead. It was a sun colored orange and red, almost as if it was setting…
It was the same dream every year before her birthday. Twilight couldn't quite figure it out, but she just let it go, knowing that it would go away like always until the next year. She didn't realize it, but another mare was having the exact same dream, only the cutie mark she saw was a purple twelve-pointed star with five little stars around…