Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.

You probably can't. You know the months, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or atop your office desk. You have a schedule, a calender, a time for dinner or a movie.

Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Bears do not fret over passing birthdays.

Ponykind alone measures time.
Ponykind alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, ponykind alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures...

A fear of time running out.

With this mantra running through mind, I make my final pilgrimage to the throat of the world as one, sole thought courses through my mind. I know this is it...

...Ultimatum.