I awoke to darkness outside, in what appeared to be our town’s hospital. From what I could tell, it was night time.
 
What… what happened? Did I pass out? And what was up with that creepy dream? I thought as I scanned the room for a sign of, well anything. My eyes finally rested on Violet Iris, who was sleeping peacefully on a makeshift couch at the other end of the room. I stirred in my bed, and her eyes slowly opened.
 
“Hey,” she said, smiling at me as she rose from the couch and made her way to my bed side. “Don’t move around too much. Doc isn’t totally sure what happened just yet, and he wants you to rest.”
 
“What happened?” I asked.
 
“Once you touched horns with the Elder, you cried out, then you fell over and didn’t respond to anything,” Violet said softly.
 
“I don’t remember crying out… how long have I been out?” I asked.
 
“Umm… two days?” Violet replied sheepishly.
 
“What?! Two days?” I cried out, as I brought my purple hoof to my face. Wait a second, I wasn’t purple before, I thought.
 
“Violet,” I said nonchalantly. “Why am I purple?”
 
Violet looked away with a blush and pointed to the mirror in the corner. I arose from the bed and strode over to it.
 
I was floored by what I saw. Where I had been proudly blue, my coat was a dark lavender. Even my wings were purple. My mane, once a crowning glory of navy waves, was straight and dark purple. A pink streak blazed its way through my mane and tail like wildfire. My eyes made their way down to my cutie mark and that is where I lost it completely.
 
My cutie mark was gone. Where my beautiful night star had shone against the darkness of my flank, an intricate design, a white six-pointed star surrounded by six smaller pink stars, now rested.
 
They later told me my screams could be heard throughout the town.
 
“What the fuck happened to me!?”
 
Prolog chapter From Fallout Equestria: Starlight.
 
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