Being alone can be terrible, especially once you've realised you are. Celestia has beeen cursed with this knowledge and it eats away at her. But as her sadness reaches its peak, she finds a friend at last. But this friendship is fated to end..
The stories here are tales passed down many generations to the colts and fillies of generations, and the morals in them are studied by many ponies, young and old. This is a collection of those stories for public viewing in the Canterlot Library.
Why won't you tell me a story... about before? Why, when I ask my questions, do you not tell more? Why do you hide, and why do I seek? Why will you not release the memories you keep?
A phoenix lives in the brief second of a raging fire, vivid with energy and massive, powerful strength. The warmth is overwhelming and immense, but not eternal. When a new spirit rises from the ashes, the previous must embrace its inevitable end.
Zecora, at last, her own story unfurls of her youth in a distant part of the world. Danger, rebellion and the quest of her life now revealed in this short tale of strife.