Two weeks ago, Sweetie Belle disappeared; only days after another filly, diamond Tiara, did the same, neither with any known explanation. Many searched and found nothing, no trace, no hint of them.

Rarity has many reasons to be upset. Isolating herself from friends, those she still considers friends at least, she is entombed in anger, despair, and regret. It seems to have ruined her, leaving her lost in life, unable to find rest, unable to find peace; she wants, needs, answers, but there seem none to be found.

Until, two weeks later, for a chance at answers to come to her, and she comes to know the truth of that disappearance, and the time before. Her only real hope is to pray to the sun that she has not damned herself in the actions of ignorance and the pursuit of answers, and that, at the end, there might be a light she can find.

**newly updated 1/17/24 for the sequel, Remembrance**