John Faust is desperate. So desperate that he's willing to make a deal with an eldritch abomination in return for a trip to Equestria. Unfortunately, there's a catch. A really big catch.
Den is a pegasus of the Equestrian Royal Guard. Echo is a high class infiltrator of the reviled changeling race. Can their love flourish in an Equestria under threat? Which bounds are stronger love or loyalty? What dark designs lurk in the backdrop?
After Fluttershy commits suicide, her friends must fall apart and put themselves back together in order to move past it and see that life really is worth living.