We see what we are shown. Behind every mural of ageless kings and shining cities stands the horrors of history untold. We see nothing but pleasure from the inside, they see nothing but horror we have gone blind to on the outside. Reality is what we except, without exception. What we may call science is magic to another; our reality is another's dream. We wish to go where we see harmony, but what if harmony is a lie? What if our world is the utopia, and what we see on the screen a horrible nightmare? A traveler is forced to see Equestria not from behind a screen, but first hand.

Rated M for eventual depictions of sexual acts, violence, political upheaval, and other possibly upsetting situations. You have been warned. Set before Alicorn Twilight.