Not all friends are made by choice. Some are found purely by accident in places you'd never think to look. After being tossed around by a storm, Rainbow Dash makes just such a friend in a town too small to be worth putting on the map. And she's not the only one meeting new ponies, either.

But even as daily life plays out, events set in motion centuries ago begin to unfold. Things that were lost and buried are stirring, things older than even the princesses. After all, when ponies came to Equestria, who knows what they left behind?

It all begins on a spring morning shortly after the Royal Wedding.