The vampire had seen many, many things over his many years. So much so that his emotions have effectively been numbed, aside from an occasional homesickness. Nothing, however, prepared him for the discovery he'd make in those frozen wastes: an old friend - who's help he desperately needed - had died long ago, his bones exposed to the elements. Now, despite his despair, he must go and tell another friend the sad news. One that many had asked him for the whereabouts of.

He never answered them - he simply claimed he didn't know where they were. That was a lie, of course: he knew exactly where they were. They had just gone back home to live in peace. The problem wasn't that his friend needed defending:

The problem was his inquisitors would never believe what or where they were could even exist.

A My Little Pony/Magic The Gathering oneshot. This ignores the recent revelation of the official Lithomancer for Commander 2014. I debated using the "human" tag in this, but since the human gets transfigured while in the Plane, right at the beginning of the story, I decided against it. I may write a version two where they keep their form, but I doubt it. I have also only marked "other" in the characters, as showing just who is being visited would of course be more spoilers.