All she had was this one last chance. After a long succession of accidents and failures, rookie guardsmare Amber Shine is given one final task that her commanding officer hopes won't lead to her finally being discharged. All she had to do was work the night shift protecting the newest Alicorn Princess's precious library, a mission that anypony could do. But an attempted foalnapping followed by an accidental run in with a magical mirror changes all that. Now, Private Amber Shine finds herself stranded in a strange, violent place in the throes war and caught between the tenacious rebels of a shattered country and the powerful empire that conquered them. With the help of a small band of mercenaries, she fights to survive and maybe one day go home.

The story itself is a sort of Elseworlds tale for Amber Shine and is in no other way connected to the story Dependable Blades.

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