Ten years.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

One minute, me and my friends were all laughing. The next, Equestria had fallen. The griffons fell, the minotaurs, and the dragons only recently fled. There was no hope of fighting back. Life was very simple.

Stay inside, survive, and run.

None of us ever went against this... but one day we were forced to. I was forced to. And it was from his help that we all remembered our old lives. And he taught us one important thing.