Life's hard enough for a city filly who's just trying to do research on Magical Theory. There's the hustle of getting your research in, making sure you're published, and not to mention trying to actually discover anything new.

But life is about to get a lot harder for Moondancer, who finds herself transferred out to the hinterlands of Appaloosa to work at the Center for Applied and Theoretical Magic. Away from the bright lights of Canterlot, she'll have to find her own way through career advancement and, even more terrifying, make friends with the new ponies she meets.