After losing her eyes, her family, and her faith in ponies who once she could have mistaken for sisters Apple Bloom is alone. Unable to stand Ponyville and all the memories it drags up the filly decides to leave for the zebra lands. Hoping that somehow, someway she will be able to learn the magic of a shaman, the same magic Zecora once showed her. The zebra had once said that she possessed a true gift for nature, and that it might just be possible for the earth pony to learn the zebras magic. So armed with nothing more than a shamans musings and her own hope, the newly blind filly makes her way to the zebra lands to try and relies a dream.