Six months after the events of the Crystal Empire, Princess Celestia finds that she must go to a place she does not want to be to perform a duty she does not wish to undertake. But as the steward of the world, it is both her duty and obligation to attempt to redeem one who has fallen. Doing so is always a gamble, but will her gable pay off, or will the butcher of the north show her his true colors once and for all?

[Rated Teen and tagged just to be on the safe side. Sex and Gore, however, are implied rather than full explicit descriptions. Still, I advise caution.]