Is blood truly thicker than water? No one could answer that question better, or in more exhausting detail, than Candy Stripes. As a talented doctor in Stable 76, Candy nursed more ponies back to health than most of us will ever know. But the patient that she spent the most time healing was none other than her brash little sister, Nohta.

When their caravan is ambushed the pair are separated from the only ponies they have ever known, forcing Candy and Nohta to fend for themselves in an unforgiving wasteland. But survival in the wastes can change you, and not always for the better. Now facing a world that seems to defy everything she has been taught, the young doctor is going to learn one of the harshest lessons of her life:

We must fall before we can rise.