It can be a tough life being a diamond dog, always looking for gems and maintaining you status among your fellow pack mates. It can be especially hard when your closest rival comes to you with news that a pony has wandered onto your turf looking for rare rocks. Ponies are trouble every dog knows that, but you can't be seen to be weak now can you?

So when 'Grag' unlucky leader of one such pack, wants to 'retire' from his life of banditry he hatches a scheme to deal with his rivals and slip away with as many gems as he can carry: Using the unsuspecting Maud Pie as his means to achieve both.

Cover art by the very talented Pa Kalsha http://pa-kalsha.deviantart.com/