Hazel Wind enjoys having a soul. She is also desperately exhausted by it.

After being separated from the hivemind, the wayward changeling Hazel finds she has developed sentience and individuality. She lives a secret life among ponykind, finding friends and making precious memories. For a time, Hazel cannot help but love it; but soon, she finds the choices, consequences, and profound joys and sorrows of life are far too intense for a changeling to endure.

But before Hazel can end it all, a cranky donkey invites her on a journey—one that could save her very existence.

A foreigner from a distant land sends a letter to Princess Celestia, detailing an important discovery: that anymoose can do magic.

Princess Celestia is a living legend, but much of her life is shrouded in mystery. Records have long since been lost to the decay of time, and the tale of her triumph over Discord has become a fable. The Princess's memory of the event has long since faded... or has it?

Her faithful student lending an eager ear, Celestia recounts the true story of a war-torn Equestria, the struggle against Discord, and the early years of her own life.

Before she was the Princess of the Sun, she was merely a stranger.

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