Manehatten, for all intents and purposes, is the safest place to live. There's walls. Protection. The Wasteland doesn't seem to have an influence on what happens within the district. All is safe and well, there is nothing for anypony to worry about.
When the world needed the truth, they were locked away. Now a Bookworm of vast knowledge is freed after 2 centuries, and soon the very future of Equestria lies within the secrets he keeps.
During a thunderstorm, Cumulonimbus shares his tragic tale with a sympathetic bartender. A story that begins with him falling from the sky and ends with all his friends dying.
Everything changes for an enclave pegasus after she's stranded on the hostile surface of the Equestrian wasteland. Facing not only its inhabitants, but beings from long before the Great War, she seeks a way back home, to the sky.
Fifteen years have passed since Littlepip brought peace to Equestria. Now the shadow of an old question haunt's Fluttershy's mind, what happened to her friend Rainbow Dash?