Scroll Scrivener, Scribbles to his friends, is a Pegasus with a lame wing. That's okay, though; his passion is archiving old texts within the Canterlot Royal Library...not something that requires strenuous flying (his second cousin, Daring Do, he is not). He spends his days deep in the dust of the back shelves, searching for any little tidbit of information that may lead him to some small discovery, which makes it all worthwhile.
However, even as isolated as he is, Scribbles cannot help but catch rumors of the disappearances across Equestria. Fillies, some not even out of infancy, disappearing from cribs as close as Ponyville and as far away as the Crystal Empire, even from out-of-reach Cloudsdale, vanishing with no trace, and not just little ones. The last he sees of Daring Do is when she, bearing a Royal Letter of Marque, asks him if he can search for something, anything, on Restoration, leaving when the results are less than informative.
That was a month ago, and now the Princess of the Day and the Princess of Friendship are coming to see him...
Little does the mild Scroll Scrivener know, even as he futilely dusts the old bookshelves in an attempt to make them presentable, that soon scrolls will be the last things on his mind...