A devoted mother leaves her young filly safe in the forest while she goes to earn money for food in the nearby town, but she is very late returning. Suddenly, the scared little filly hears strange voices and hoofsteps approaching ...
Starlight and Twilight drink a potion which reveals the downward spiral one of Starlight's alternate universes took. Meanwhile, Twilight watches Starlight take a downward spiral of her own.
The bugbear found me. I don’t know how. I don’t know who or what it’s working with, never mind what’s happening to me, but I’ll get to the bottom of this if it’s the last thing I do. Forgive me, Lyra.