I mouthed the words as I slept. "I killed him, I killed him," over and over.

Over and over.

…

The air was dank and the ground was cold. The circumstances were unbearable, and I couldn't fully guess where up and down might be. The dizziness from yesterday still fogged my brain and I had to think especially hard. Harder than usual.

My sister was above me, like always.

"Hey, do you want some breakfast…?" she asked slowly, because I knew she had just woken up too.

"Sure…" I slowly replied back.

"Then go get us some, I'm starving."

"How did I not see that coming..?" I asked, getting up on my hooves and stretching out my numb wings. I was going to do as she said, not because I wanted to, but because I knew that she would go ballistic on me if I didn't, and trust me, I know from experience that that isn't pretty.

"Thanks, sis…" she said as if she actually acknowledged me as being related to her. She lied back down and closed her eyes, expecting me to be slow about my task.

I would have to show her.

I launched myself into the sky with breath-taking ease, flapping my pitch-black wings as hard as I could. I did a couple of practice turns, making sure that I could fly and would not die trying to get to where food was available for ponies like us.

I shouted in awe at the sun's ability to blind me, right before I started falling.

I was used to darkness. For reasons that shall later be revealed, but nonetheless, I was tortured in this light. As I fell, I remembered a couple scenes from my life, not because I thought I was actually going to die, but because I was having a bit of déjà vu. This has actually happened a couple of times before, believe it or not.

I quickly realized that the blinding effect was not from the sun, but rather a synthetic kind of light. What could be making this horrid light? I asked myself as I was about to hit the ground.

A second later, and I would have been dead. I didn't hit the ground like I would have thought, but I did manage to scrape it a bit. I was caught in a net. A trap. I should have expected this – it was bound to happen sooner or later – but I had never thought it would happen that fast.

I heard in a muffled tone way above me shout, "Jinx! You're being arrested for the murder of Emerald Charmer, Dapple Hoof, and Pumpkin Cake! You are to be immediately taken to Princess Celestia to be sentenced! Where is your sister?"

So they didn't have my sister. Or maybe they did and they were just trying to fool me, but I figured they couldn't have her. She wouldn't be caught as easily as me.

"She's not here." I replied.

I heard no reply from the voice and a couple of minutes passed before I gave up on the notion that I would get one.

I sighed heavily and just waited for someone to come and get me out of that cursed net, but to my surprise, no one did. They had three pegasi come and carry me out of the canyon my sister and I were staying in. I looked back briefly to see if I could identify our hiding place.

I saw my sister, that wretched pony, staring blankly at me as I was taken away.

That was the first time since that awful night that I cried. I cried and cried, the tears falling off my face into the sky and disappearing into the night.