Under the profaned light of the Nightmare’s Moon, things still for Centuries begin to stir once more.

On the night when her faded powers are at their peak, and her mind can touch those that lay within her domain, a prisoner long forgotten hears three words, brimming with a simple sincerity at the cusp of dreaming.

She Laughs.

Another, trapped in stone for crimes incomprehensible to any mortal, committed for reasons even more so, a demon, a creature of the Red, is emboldened for a brief time by the appearance of something in this world of White and Order that Should Not Be. A single crack in its prison manifests, a fragment of the beings’ power unsealed.

IT Laughs.

At the center of all things, a thing that still calls itself a man, a King, smiles upon the works he has wrought from his prison, from The Tower. He plots as he always has to escape. He has always sought a key to a door with no locks, and so this time, he has simply made one himself.

He Laughs.

A Celestial Diarch, a Champion of the White, a benevolent warden hewn from the soul of what was once a gentle and kindly filly, wakes with a start from her always uneasy slumber, her nightmares flitting from her mind as quickly as they had entered, but the raucous laughter of foes long slain echoes for long moments more in her troubled mind. Something is Not Right. There is something that Should Not Be.

She Weeps.

And With that we have reached the end of the first day.

I hope you are all enjoying this new version as much as I am enjoying writing it. I am really happy with my personal growth as a writer, and from what I hear in my comments, those of you who have seen fit to discuss the matter seem to agree!

I might take a little break here just to relax and start brainstorming how I want to approach the next section of the story, so if I don't post anything here for a bit, don't worry. I haven't fallen off of the face of the earth again just yet.

In the meantime, please do tell me how you are feeling about the rewrite so far. Stuff you like, stuff you wish was still there, stuff you want to see return, stuff you hope will be different when the time comes, all that good stuff. I love discussing it with you all, and the feedback is always super helpful!

I'll be back soon with more soon enough, so stay tuned >:3