Graduation Day. The day which every student at the School of Friendship looks forward to reaching. After the speeches are given, the diplomas are received, and the caps tossed high into the air, the reception begins in earnest. Every creature is excited by the prospects of what might come next in their future. Everyone, except for Sandbar.

He has made friends like none he has ever had before and wants them all to remain as close as they have been. But now Sandbar wonders if they have the strength and willpower to maintain those bonds, now that they are losing that which brought and held them together.