When her sister dies, Starlight Glimmer returns to Trottingham and reconciles with her father. While there, she visits an antique shop and, hoping to impress Sunburst, the shopkeeper, buys a silver walking cane. That same night she kills a wolf with it, only to later learn that she actually killed a pony. A gypsy explains that it was her son, a werewolf, that she killed, and that Starlight is now one herself.

First Story of the Dark Equestria series