Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash secretly love each other, but have trouble admitting it. Discord must choose between fighting for Fluttershy's heart and letting her go. Fluttershy, having had an advantage over depression, may soon take a turn for worse.

Ember, now knowing the tragic history of her kind, grapples with her doubts as the Dragon Lord.

Starlight Glimmer, after spending Hearth's Warming in Ponyville, goes to the Crystal Empire to spend the New Year with her old friend, Sunburst, for whom she has also secretly has feelings. Can she tell him how she feels?