Tragedy and hardship are, sadly, facts of life. There are those who spend nearly every day in peace, with only the occasional megalomaniacal tyrant to disrupt it. Others are subject to cruelty and unfathomable horrors on a regular basis. Even those who try to avoid trouble as best they can sometimes get swept up in events outside their control. One such person arrives in Equestria from another world entirely, after a string of traumatic experiences, just to get away from it all for a while in someplace calm. She'll make new friends, and leave with plenty of stories to tell.