Spending another Hearth's Warming on patrol, Flash Sentry makes the rounds through the cold streets of the Crystal Empire. Bogged in his mind and body by the emptiness and cold, both within and without, he finds himself associating with a strange pony before the day is over.

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Written for daOtterGuy for Jinglemas 2021

Thanks to Scarlet Ribbon for helping proofread the story.