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Today's Horoscope (Aries): You might hear things you don't want to hear today. You need to listen and not let your anger and prejudice get the better of you.

Evening

When I get to the camp, I gather up my stuff from the tent I've been sharing with Rarity and head over to the tent I guess I'll be sharing with Sunset for the rest of our stay.

Fuck you, Flash. Fuck you so much...

"Well, here we are," Sunset says as I spread out my sleeping bag. "You and me, just like old times."

"We don't have old times," I snarl. "And if you piss me off, I promise you won't wake up tomorrow."

"Hey, calm down," Sunset says. "I..." She sighs. "Look...I'm sorry, okay? For everything. For bullying you, for harassing you, for blackmailing you, for forcing you to do things you didn't want—"

"Fuck off." I turn and glare at her. "I'm not buying this shit. I know you, Sunset. You're a monster. You've always been a monster, and you'll always be a monster." I smirk at her. "Hell, your Persona is even a monster, and that's a reflection of your true inner self."

Sunset raises an eyebrow. "Oh, you mean like Eris?"

I kick her in the face. It feels really good.

Sunset grabs her nose and grimaces. "What's with you people and all the violence?" she whines in a muffled, nasal tone.

"Oh, don't even go there." I sit down on my sleeping bag, folding my arms. "How dare you try to play innocent with me? ME, of all people? I know you, Sunset Shimmer. You're rotten through and through."

Sunset sighs again, wiping at the blood on her nose as she looks away. "I don't want to be," she says in a rough, weary voice. "I want...I want to change..." She looks up at me. "Like you did..."

I spring to my feet and kick her hard enough to knock her flat on the ground. "STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO ME! YOU'RE NOTHING LIKE ME! YOU AND PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU MADE ME WHAT I'VE BECOME!" My vision is hazing out and my chest is heaving...I can barely breathe, I'm so furious...

The tent flap opens. "Y'all okay in here?" Applejack asks.

I glare at her.

She looks at Sunset, then at me. Her eyes shrink to pinpricks. She backs away. "Umm...Ah'll help you dig th' grave in th' morning...we don't need t' tell nobody..." She closes the tent flap and shuffles away.

I look at Sunset, who's still laid out flat. I kneel beside her and check her pulse. While I'm doing so, she coughs, spits out blood, and slowly sits up, groaning. "Ugh...you really need to stop kicking people," she says. She probes the inside of her mouth with her tongue. "I think you knocked a tooth loose..."

"I kicked you in your stupidly huge tits that time," I point out.

"Then I think you knocked one of those loose," she says. She looks up at me with a sullen gaze. "I swear I'm not up to any of my old tricks," she says plaintively. "I just...I want to put all this fighting and hate behind me, behind all of us..." She takes some ointment out of her bag and dabs it on her face. "I'm tired," she says. "I'm tired and I'm alone and I'm tired of being alone. I just want..." She sniffles. "I just want to start over."

I watch her for a long time. I take a deep breath. "Goodnight," I say. I slip into my sleeping bag, turning to face her. "I'm a light sleeper, by the way."

"I know."