A elder dragon finds his family ambushed and his children taken. Nearly killed by manticores, a chance meeting intertwines his fate with another. Taking shelter secretly in ponyville, will he save his family, and at what cost?

Some said cockroaches would survive a nuclear apocalypse, but now we know not without some changes. But, we are forced to ask, what happens to a changeling?

A story of a humble bard in the first years of equestria, a story of one of the greatest—and most dangerous—discoveries in equestrian history.