It's been a few years since we were taken, and everything's much as it used to be. It's funny - with all that went on back in that world, I would have thought that things changed massively back here. It's like the Earth forgot who we were and continued on without us. But, we know better.

Our world and their world are connected by an ancient bond spanning back hundreds of millenia. Although at first good beings crossed back and forward, a great darkness somehow took hold of it. In our world, its impact can easily be measured by the malice and evil that in one guise or another goes on each and every day. In the other world, we met it head on.

The darkness chose us personally, for one part or another in its machinations. At one time, each of us even were completely fooled into doing its bidding. Yet, by chance, its own plans backfired on it. The good beings of old were not entirely dusted away like any of us thought they were.

I am speaking in riddles, but the story I'm about to tell is no less true, despite its curious setting. After all, what darkness could there be in a world populated by colourful ponies?

- Andrew