Nopony remembered the day of her death very well.

It had begun with a regular day in her home. Where her home was she no longer remembered. It had been a small building that had very little charm, a box she lived in from day to day. It didn’t matter about the flowers around it, nor the orange tree out the back. Nor did it matter how she barely had any furniture to speak of. That was all in the past, her house had been demolished long long ago.

Nopony had been writing at a desk, working overtime to care for her husband, a stallion with a bright auburn mane and a Cutie Mark of an eagle. Attached to his brown body was a set of wonderful wings. Nopony had once gone flying with her husband, soaring over the landscape. Not anymore, her husband had died of old age long ago, with a new wife mourning by his side.

Nopony said goodbye as her husband left for work, moving the clouds or something like that. Digging into her reports on...she couldn’t remember, Nopony didn’t hesitate to let a weary smile fall on her face. The work had something to do with her Mark, not that being a teacher helped her now.

A thump at the door, followed by two more. Nopony stood up, and slowly walked over to the door, levitating it open. There was her newest friend, an orange pony by the name of Sunset Swirl. They had become close after realising both had similar destinies. Nopony always loved when Sunset came over, it meant she needed help with her magic experiments.

“Are you ready? This one is bound to teleport!” Sunset turned and trotted away, and Nopony smiled softly in response. Quickly packing up her things, leaving a note for her husband, she followed Sunset back to her friend’s home. They went straight to the basement, and looked to the lump of coal.

“I don’t see why you’re trying to invent a different means of teleportation, we already have one.” Nopony rolled her eyes in irritation as Sunset growled, annoyed at hearing the same question a second time.

“I told you, that spell is inefficient! My ancestor admitted to it himself! If I can do this right, even the worst magic-user in the world will be able to use teleportation.” Sunset smiled and gritted her teeth, beginning to cast the spell. Nopony rolled her eyes, quickly looking over the spell. From the looks of it, only one syllable had been changed.

Nopony concentrated, joining her magic with Sunset’s. The coal began to float, and as they both winced under the strain, it vanished with a pop. Nopony collapsed, gasping for breath. Sunset fared slightly better, grinning like a mad dog as she saw the coal had teleported to the correct location.

“We did it! We-” Sunset cut herself off as the coal imploded, collapsing in on itself. Sitting down, she sighed and rubbed her forehead, mumbling something about equations. It all went over Nopony’s head. Standing up, she approached the coal, and shrugged.

“At least it teleported this time.” Nopony cried out in surprise as Sunset grabbed her by the shoulders, spinning Nopony around, and gasped, smile returning to her face.

“You’re right! If I can just find out why it imploded. Maybe it’s because of the magnetic field I imbued it with.” Sunset dived onto the table, writing down her thoughts as she spoke them. Nopony giggled and smiled, unaware that the coal fragments behind her were shaking. Behind them was a table of beakers and medical equipment. Including one knife.

Nopony didn’t know it at the time, but the magnetic field of the coal had attracted the knife, sending it directly toward her back. It had taken her two months afterwards to hear Sunset talking about it, crying over it. Nopony had blinked, and looked down as her body fell away from her, thudding to the ground.

Nopony had died instantly, and Sunset blamed herself. The research into efficient teleportation had been scrapped. And eventually, the notes were buried as Sunset’s house was crushed during the battle of the two sisters. Nopony was glad for one thing though, Sunset had moved on, becoming a worthy successor to her ancestors.

Even if she wasn’t aware Nopony had been beside her the entire time.

Applejack was working the stall as usual, selling apples to the ponies that passed by. Beside her, Nopony watched them pass, sleeping silently. If anyone had been able to see her, they would notice she was floating. Nopony didn’t like to do it, due to the memories it invoked, but she could fly even higher if she wanted to.

“Howdy Spike, here to pick up lunch?” Applejack smiled warmly at the baby dragon, who nodded and held out the money as Applejack handed over the apples.

“Twilight’s been working on that experiment of her’s again. You’d think she’d remember to at least eat, let alone sleep, but that’s Twilight for you.” Spike waved goodbye, and continued along his way. Nopony opened her eyes, watching him leave. Yawning, she stood up, and slowly began to follow after him. However, Nopony didn’t walk, she just silently flew after him, hovering above the ground.

Nopony wondered just what experiment Twilight was doing today. Really, the mare reminded her a lot of Sunset, always finding something to dig her nose in. Nopony closed her eyes and smiled, passing through somepony, who shivered in response. Spike opened the door and entered the castle, Nopony phasing through it without care.

“Twilight, I’m back.” Spike fell forward as the apples were torn from his grip, and a purple Alicorn dived straight into it, devouring them instantly. Spike rolled his eyes, and pointed toward the ‘science lab’.

“What are you doing in there anyway? You’ve been locked up for nearly 48 hours now.” Spike waited as Twilight wiped her face, and grinned eagerly, pushing Spike into the room. Groaning, he took as seat at the desk as she began to show him notes.

“You won’t believe what I found buried in the library at the ruins. A diary from somepony related to Starswirl! Her name was Sunset, and the beginning half is filled with diagram upon diagram of an experiment related to teleportation.” Twilight’s words immediately caused Nopony to stiffen, and look at the diary. It was indeed Sunset’s. Shuddering, Nopony ignored her anger over the fact Twilight was touching her old friend’s personal property.

“So you want to try her experiment.” Spike made a motion with his claw, bored beyond compare. Really, ever since Twilight had discovered the secret section filled with magic-protected books, she had been gaga over them.

“No, see here’s the funny thing, she stopped it suddenly. I can’t find out why, but from what her diary says, it was a dead end. But I’ve been looking her working over, and I think I could get the spell working. It uses old magic tricks like magnetism to boost the spell, but I can probably use newer magic tricks, such as a ping-pong effect to multiply the magic instead!” Twilight continued speaking, barely stopping to take a breath. Nopony decided it would be nice to see her friend’s work completed finally, and lowered herself to eye level, looking over Twilight’s notes.

Spike shivered, and hugged himself tighter as Twilight continued speaking. Must be a draft or something.