When Sundancer is accused of killing a royal guard, she is brought before the Empress of all Equestria to face judgement. Though the blue bloods of Canterlot call for imprisonment or even execution, Empress Twilight senses something almost familiar in the defiance of the accused and decides her punishment will be something all together different. A fitting punishment, surely, and not simply a means to satiate her burgeoning curiosity?

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