Whispers are traveling around Ponyville of late. Whispers about a strange, tall shadow, lurking at the edges of sight, never lingering for long.

Some ponies dismiss these rumors. Some don't. And some don't have to decide whether to dismiss them or not, because the lurking shadow has found them.

Notes: Contains mind control, M/F, and M/M. The story is not humanized, but merely contains a human. Of some form.