Hardships, trials, strife. These are part of things we call life. And in this giant whirlwind of life, there are the little that we so hardly notice. It's the fore-front we see, not the back-ground. Until unbidden secrets and past actions come back to haunt us, whether we've done them wrong or not. I'm sure this is a story you've heard before.

It's scary, really, when one thinks about how a loved one can change so much in so little time. How when one sees a friend, a sister, or mother go from loving to stone-cold within the span of just a few years. It's scary how deeply words can scar us, even when we never let it show. How actions speak of who we are, no matter how we go about them. And how the past will always be there, lurking in the backs of our minds. The past came back to haunt them. To shred them. To bury them, using just a few tools. Jealousy, miscommunication, oversight, gossip, to name a few.

After all, only one in a million receive tutelage under one and only ruler of the known world on Equus. And how much envy and rumors would this cause? How many would try to ruin her? How many would kill her for that spot? And many times can one's heart be broken before it refuses to fixed? How many times can a friendship be broken before it can't be healed, no matter how thick that bandage is?

Princess Twilight has always struggled to make time for her family and friends. To maintain her friendship with her sisters in harmony. And even after a few years of being in royalty, she succeeds. But one session of gala planning could ruin all that. After lost feathers, a broken bridge, a few spoken words, missing marks, a sacrifice made via magic, and an evil seed planted in one heart, the girls find themselves behind closed iron bars. Unhindered, their anger begins to grow, directed at the one who earned her crown only three years ago.

How far is the daughter of a supposed lost kingdom willing to go to save her friends after years of torture and conflict? How deep is that pain going to dig, leaving no room in her heart for others? How many innocents is the Element of Magic itself going to hurt in order to keep her secret? And how long is that shadow going to linger in the corners of one's mind?

And how did six constantly fighting siblings get in the mix of all of this?