....dann....

This chapter was pretty well written, but the heaps of "Snickers is special" that have been bandied about don't quite feel justified by the narrative and the contemporary context of the story telling.

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Totally get it, like other things in the last story, this one has run its course and is just reasoning why colts are wanted and guarded.
It actually plays more into the future, just so you know. ^_^
References to come and events to happen, and all that.

judging by the story I've been told, it contradicts their treatment of Snickers.

That or for some reason Snickers is suddenly being treated like he's the chosen one to the point that Rarity is getting shamed by fluttershy on her parenting methods which were working to my knowledge.

Huh the story of One Thousand Sorrows, sounds somewhat close to Day Of Sorrow in Truthseeker's story The Unity Pact 2: Shaking Foundations ( Chapter 11 B: Dark History & Chapter 15: Learning From The Past)

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I take inspiration from many stories, often with the original author's permission.
His is better in detail, and I kept it that way to show respect to the reality he created, and is still bringing to us.

In fact, I intentionally made a timing error (which I detest), to pay a little homage to his overall habit of having groups of people stare into space for several minutes while the world continues around them, oblivious.

Notably, when one person has to think in a heated moment, when points of stress arise, when there's a conversation while eating at a meal...

Mine is nowhere near that, but it's there, if you look.

their mark would be removed from the stallion once the next year’s had summer had come.

and only a nine were spared the fall.

setting up over years by stallions that would escape their mare herds

single mare was used for sexual pleasure through this event.

and had a more potent bonding with our own tribes’s abilities