Fan-made sequel to Mare of Many Hats. Might make a tiny bit more sense if you read that first.

To this day, it holds the record for 'Most Members of the Apple Family Killed Off in a Six-Hour Span'. Equestrian scientists are at a loss to explain or even understand the totality of the catastrophe. They say it cannot be comprehended, that those who seek to remember shall have their brains burned to mush, drained out through their ears and fed to strange bugs that live in the hearts of sparrows.

This is the Night of Knives. May Celestia have mercy on our tiny little brain cells.

I'd like to thank Skywriter for writing the fic that inspired this, warning me multiple times not to write this, and ultimately standing aside and giving me the go-ahead when I proved too stubborn to stay away from the idea.