The moon is still there, yet She is gone.

The sun hangs high in the sky; charred bodies lay piled beneath it.

Whispers cling to my hooves, pleading that I may yet somehow save us all.

But I am no hero. I am no great spellcaster that may move Equus to smother the Sun.

I am only a coward, and all I have is all that I know.

Maybe that is a kind of salvation.

Hiya! It's me! That... er... you know, that guy who... I think he wrote about ponies or something?

Anyways, today's the three-year anniversary of The Stereotypical Necromancer—everybody party—but to be honest, I didn't prepare anything in advance for this year. Suffice to say, I've been having a pretty bad series of days as of late.

So I took a look through my big folder of writing stuff for anything I could half-heartedly throw into the internetspace to celebrate, and my focus happened to land on an in-universe book I wrote for the future!

Problem is, this book spoils a lot of really cool plot details I intended on introducing way later on. What you're currently looking at is a small portion of the book that I went through and cherry-picked for neat stuff that wouldn't completely blow out any sense of narrative tension from the main story.

There's still some very intriguing things to be found within these short few pages, though. It's a day of celebration, after all!

A'course, if you don't want to spoil anything about Dark Magic, then you can feel free to ignore this for the time being. Sometime probably very far into the future, I'm going to make this book in its entirety available to the public. When that happens, it'll lose the Anniversary suffix, and the missing chapters in-between will be slotted in. I'll also probably erase this whole AN—or maybe I'll just shift it down and mark it as old.

Either way and regardless of anything I just said, happy birthday TSN!

also, fimfiction absolutely hates the cover art for whatever reason, so here is the high quality version

I have to go lie down now TvT