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Sunset woke up in her hospital room, her back aching from the discomfort of a crude hospital bed. She had fallen asleep surprisingly easily considering that she had been knocked out for three days straight, and the troubling thoughts about her new condition.

All of Sunset's friends had gone home the previous night after about an hour of talking, leaving Sunset to her thoughts. She had been thinking for most of the night about how her ruined eyesight would affect her social life, and affect her socially.

She opened her eyes, which would usually be hard to do since her eyes would normally adjust to the darkness from her closed eyes, but it was actually surprisingly easy. She felt nothing while opening her eyes, which was a relief to her. She usually hated the feeling she got whenever she opened her eyes.

But maybe that was because of the pure blackness that she was seeing since the room was silent.

She didn't like it when she couldn't see anything. Instead of laying there doing nothing, Sunset decided to try and sit up, and make as much noise as possible while doing so.

Audio pulses began to come from her general direction as she sat up, making the cruddy bed creak. She was also rustling the sheets just to make a little more noise.

As the room began to become outlined with white, Sunset noticed that her eyes still felt nothing. Maybe she had no feeling in her eyes anymore? Dr. Bright hadn't mentioned anything about that. Did he not know? Maybe Sunset was supposed to have feeling in her eyes? She hadn't noticed this before.

It was actually a little bit of an upside to the situation from Sunset's perspective, however. Since she had no feeling in her eyes, she'd be able to do some cool-ish things. They didn't make much of a difference, but they'd still be pretty nice. She could now open her eyes without having any struggle doing so right after waking up. Along with that, she could probably keep her eyes open longer than usual. Although, she'd still have to try that one.

Hopefully, it wasn't bad that she had no feeling in her eyes.

Sunset then began to wonder what color her eyes were. She figured that they'd be light blue, like most other blind people's eyes. She wasn't sure, though. She hoped that her eyes would be the same teal that they were before.

After a few seconds passed, everything began going black. Not wanting this, Sunset crawled on the hospital bed and towards the wall, and began to tap it. As the pulses returned, Sunset smiled a little bit.

It wasn't the worst thing that could've happened, at least. She could've gone totally blind, unable to see at all. She could've even had to lose her eyes! She could put up with the blackness with white outlines, right?

Sunset's positive chain of thought was interrupted when Rainbow Dash walked in, looking a little... shocked?

"Hey, Sunset." She said. Her eyes were as wide as the sun, and she looked a little freaked out, even. Sunset couldn't see that, though.

Sunset had to think of whose voice she just heard. When she realized it was Rainbow, she smiled wider than before. "Hi, Rainbow!" She said, trying to drown her worry with joy.

"So... uh... I'm not sure that Applejack will be able to visit you today. Something crazy happened at the barn." Rainbow said. Sunset noticed that she sounded off.

"Oh? What happened?" Sunset asked, her smile slightly fading.

"It's... pretty messed up. I'm not sure that you can handle it. Even I can barely handle it, and I'm me! I can take on just about anything!" Rainbow said, a smirk growing on her face, but not big enough to hide the shocked expression that she had.

Sunset couldn't see Rainbow's frown, but she could see her eyes. 'Huh... am I really getting better that fast?' She asked herself in her head.

"It can't be too bad, right? I mean... well... what kind of messed up?" Sunset said, wondering if she actually did want to know.

"Uh... how's 'gross', and 'bloody' for an answer?" Rainbow said, emphasizing 'bloody'.

"Bloody?! Did someone get hurt?" Sunset asked, her own eyes widening as well.

"Well... Applejack and her family are okay, but... it was something else. I'm not sure that telling you is the best idea, since.... uh... you kind of... are... what got hurt." Rainbow said, trying them think of ways to not tell Sunset what had happened.

"I'm what got hurt?" Sunset asked, thoroughly confused.

"Well... not you in specific... but your... species..."

"My species?"

"Look, are you fine with hearing it or not? I don't wanna tell you if you're gonna end up sick, or something." Rainbow said.

"Is it really so bad that I'd get sick?" Sunset asked.

"I don't know! You might?" Rainbow said, raising her voice.

"Oh... sorry." Sunset said.

"Ugh, look, I didn't mean to snap. It's just..."

As Rainbow tried to think of what to say, Sunset spoke. "I'm fine with hearing about what happened. If it's bad, then I need to know what happened of I want to help Applejack and her family with the situation." Sunset said, softly smiling.

"Are you sure? You might not-" Rainbow stopped for a moment. "You won't like it."

Sunset nodded, still smiling, despite the fact that she was worried.

"Is that a 'yes, I won't like it,' or a 'yes, I'm sure?'" Rainbow asked.

"Yes, I'm sure." Sunset said. Rainbow must've been stalling.

"Okay... here goes nothing..."

Sunset forced all of her attention towards Rainbow.

"One of the horses at the barn was found all... torn to pieces... this morning..."

Sunset's mouth dropped.

"W-what?" She asked.

"Well, I told you! I mean... you're a horse, too, right?" Rainbow asked. "Just... in a human body. And magical. A magical horse. Right? Or... were you a pony?"

"A horse was found... torn to pieces?! Not just dead... but torn to pieces?!"

"And whoever did it made a big mess out of it, too. We saw it when there was a bunch of police line around the stables... and poor Fluttershy. She just passed out. Didn't even say anything." Rainbow said.

"Why?! Who would do that?! Who has... such a terrible, terrible mind that it tears a poor horse to bits?!" Sunset said.

"The cops don't know yet, but they said they'd find out and throw their sorry butts in prison." Rainbow said.

"Wow... that's awful! It's sick, and disgusting, and... pretty much EVERYTHING bad that I can think of!" Sunset said, still stunned by the news.

"Yeah. Oh, and it got really warm around that area, too. Warmer than everywhere else, anyway. Maybe it was just the... entrails... and stuff?"

"Rainbow... I've heard enough. I don't need to hear about the entrails, too..." Sunset said.

"Sorry." Rainbow said. "Oh, and the other girls might not show up today. They're worried about you, but they're also worried about AJ. I decided to head over so that you could have some company for at least a little bit, but the girls said that I should also help out with the whole situation over there... y'know? So... I might be leaving soon. We're gonna try and spend more time with you tomorrow, though, so don't worry!"

Sunset just flopped onto her back, thinking about the news as she watched the pulses fly. It sickened her that someone would do such a thing. Even though Sunset was a pony rather than a horse, she was still equine. That just made it worse.

And who had the strength to rip a horse apart?