"Overlooked by the the great mountains lay the lands of Hollow Shades, home to a race of ponies known as the thestrals, bat ponies, creatures of the night. And on a hill, overlooking a great forest of redwood sat a manor, its exterior showing signs of a long age. Inside empty halls lay its sole occupant, a Countess with a dark secret, her heart heavy with loss for the one she held most dear. She drifted through life, night by night, longing for her one true love.

While in the lands of Equestria,in a town called Ponyville, lived an Earth Pony whose head always seemed to be in the clouds. He went day by day, looking upward to the sky. And yet life always seemed to keep him on the ground.

Two different ponies, born of different backgrounds, and never knowing of the other. A chance encounter may forever chance their fates in ways neither could have thought possible..."