After the confrontation with Chrysalis at the changeling hive goes slightly differently than it might've, Princess Starlight Glimmer learns to adjust to her new life. Fortunately, she has practice with life-changing upheavals.
Maud meets an older filly who makes even less sense than other ponies. On the other hoof, she's more open to rocks than other ponies. This gives Maud an idea.
She flees into the night–hurt and afraid. On she runs until she collides into with a classmate who takes her in. Though confused, she gradually overcomes her inner barriers with a little help.
How did the festival in Starlight's village get its name? Perhaps a certain pony wandered into town one day, a pony who knows firsthoof about making a huge mistake, and what's needed for everypony to get over it...
(Takes place in an AU during "To Where and Back Again, Part 2" for obvious reasons.) Starlight ends up being transformed and turned into a changeling, making her the changelings' new queen. Starlight must now come to grips with her new position.
Twilight and her Advanced Projects team are asked to put on the Hearth's Warming Eve pageant. So they decide to modernize it a bit. And discover there's a lot more to the simple play than they expected...
Starlight's first friendship lesson is to help out the ponies of Ponyville to connect to the locals better. But what happens when they judge her on her past?