Lightning Dust is trying to adjust to laying low in a new universe with a new identity.

And then Twilight Sparkle shows up to bring Octavia to justice, and the temporary calm all comes crashing down. And Twilight is so convinced that the creature she's hunting is a monster in Octavia's skin, that even Lightning begins to doubt that she's really fighting on the right side.

But after everything she's thrown away, could she really have been wrong the whole time?

Originally written for the Expanding Universes 4 contest in Quills and Sofas.

Cover art by Silent Whisper.