A bright and beautiful day in Canterlot, perfect for picnics, goes sour when a dark fog holding nightmarish things rolls in without warning. Ponies everywhere are suddenly cowering in fear or fleeing in terror.

Abandoned and lost in the darkness, a small filly comes across a reason to fight back and knows just the friend to help her do so.

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Flagging this as "Dark" because it deals with fear, though it should all fit under the "Everyone" rating as it's bloodless and at worst a little scary.

This was an exercise and experiment for me, an attempt to write something a little more descriptive and evocative than the usual 'adventure' stuff bouncing around in my head.

The seed of the idea for this story came to me late May from reading another story, The Monster in Twilight by Georg and the author's recurring use of Smarty Pants in both it and its sequel as a source of comfort for troubled ponies. I began thinking, 'what if the little doll was so good at her job that she became an artifact?' and from there the rest of the setting and story sort of fell into place and wouldn't stop bugging me until I'd written it all down.