For some time now, magic from another dimension has been leaking into the world of humans. And for all that time, no one outside Canterlot City seems to have paid it much mind.

University student Starlight Glimmer thinks that's a problem. And she thinks she knows how to deal with it. However, none of her professors seemed to take her thesis very seriously.

Unfortunately for them, she knows how she can deal with that, too.

An entry into the Horror category for the A Thousand Words Contest III. Pre-read by The Sleepless Beholder and Dewdrops on the Grass.

Featured on 9 July 2024.