When she has everything to lose, Big Macintosh is the difference between Rainbow Dash sinking or soaring. Shame he doesn't talk much, and she isn't much good at listening.
Death is a known subject to almost everyone, but to experience it is like something no-one can describe, but Ponyvilles local farmer has come down with an uncurable sickness, and these are his last moments.
When Granny Smith lay on her deathbed, her grandson confesses his darkest secret from his foalhood. About the unsolved double murder of his parents. He tells what and why it happened.
The hundreds of trees of Sweet Apple Acres silently hold many secrets. The deaths of Big McIntosh's parents and the origins of his cutie mark are only two. One more is about to make ponies wonder what is in the Blood of Apples.