A thousand years before Nightmare Moon, the first equine kingdoms were founded in the Riverlands.

A thousand years before that, the first ponies wandered south.

For these scattered nomads there was no such thing as war, for there were yet no kings nor armies to wage it. There were no guns, no swords, no states, no nations to conquer, and no ideologies to die for.

In Tarkā's world, there is only the herd - and what lies beyond it.

First place winner of the Seventh Annual EaW Writing Contest.