The long night was a period of suffering for everypony in Equestria, but nopony suffered more then the very alicorn that brought an end to the sun. Nyx suffered all through her time as Nightmare Moon, locking the only mare she considered her mother in a dark cell to rot.

Unable to forgive Twilight, and angry at her betrayal, Nyx made a doll in the likeness of Twilight which stared at Nyx when she vented her rage and abuse towards it. But no matter how much Nightmare Moon abused and beat the doll, none of it would change it's smile, nor it's caring and loving eyes; both of which tortured the mare of the moon more and more.

With her duties as the queen of the night, Nyx as Nightmare Moon must fight with her own morality and past as Nyx, and find the courage to forgive Twilight, and to face her once again, whilst becoming the queen Spell Nexus intended her to be, but anyone who knows this story knows the outcome.