Sometimes, to ensure that something - or someone - is safe, we resort to drastic measures.
Sometimes, those drastic measures have long reaching consequences.
And sometimes, for good or ill, those consequences fall on ponies who don't have any choice but to accept them.

Cover art created by the brilliant Manifest Harmony

Edited by the wonderful and talented:
Cynewulf
Wobble
Axolu/Sepia
Troposphere