‘Beyond our darkest hour…’ Tommy smiled sadly, a tear forming in his eye as he wrote. His hand shaking uncontrollably, tears running down his cheeks and splashing onto the page. He had been here for two months. He thought briefly to the ponies that had pulled him from the burning wreckage of all that was left of Requiem. Humanity had given it their best shot but the Valkyries were too strong. He had watched as Earth burned and humanity was lost forever.