What's the treatment for the loss of your most prized possession, your heart and soul in physical form? Lots of bad coffee, too little sleep, a crimson mug, and a healthy dose of unsolicited love.

"The Fall was hard on all of us. Civilization collapsed and we found that magic actually existed. It burned down the rules and made new ones that we couldn't understand. So no, Twilight, coming to Equestria wasn't hard."

The Old Times, when civilization was merely a dream, and the world verdant and primal. During the last years of the Old Times, a wolf-spirit is cursed to slumber, and falls into torpor spanning millennia. Awakening to Equestria is quite the change.