"You said you needed help with something, Pluck," said Sunbeam quietly, as she pushed open the door to the cottage which the unicorn and her older sister shared. The home was modestly furnished, and, on windy days such as this one, rather drafty, but it was a pleasant place for a filly to grow up, and Heartstrings had always made certain that Pluck was well provided for. "What, may I ask, is it?"

"I'm glad you're here, Sunbeam. Take a look at this!" insisted Pluck. Her horn glowed a brilliant silver, and she magically tossed a thickly-bound book at the pegasus's feet. Sunbeam flinched, though the volume had fallen well short of where she was standing. She was almost always afraid of being hit by things, particularly those things which flew or seemed to fly, and subsequently traveled by air as little as possible. "As you know, we need to find our special talents, so that we can earn our cutie marks. As you also know, the best way to discover your special talent is by undertaking a daring adventure!"

"Actually," replied Sunbeam, "I didn't know that second part. I always thought that—"

"Well, it's the truth!" interjected Pluck confidently. "I've been reading about it, you see, in this book, Myths and Legends of Ancient Equestria. Miss Twilight Sparkle loaned it to me. And, as it says right—" She paused, using her magic to flip through the pages. "—here, young ponies often went out on journeys to discover their special talents in the very earliest years of Princess Celestia's reign."

Sunbeam leaned down and peered at the page which the mint-colored unicorn had indicated. It did, indeed, relate a story regarding young fillies and colts who, either alone or in groups, ventured out into the vast Equestrian wilderness to discover their true calling in life. It was certainly an interesting read, but—"I'm sorry, Pluck, but may I ask what this has to do with us?"

Pluck hopped forward, coming nose-to-nose with the suddenly started Sunbeam. "What does this have to do with us?" she repeated. "Only everything, Sunbeam. Only. Everything."

"Everything?" repeated Sunbeam uncertainly.

"Everything!" confirmed Pluck, with a sweeping motion of her hooves. "You can't see it from here, Sunbeam, but there's a whole, wide world out there, full of risks and dangers and ponies who all know what their purpose in this life is! It's time we become one of them!"

The wind rattled the door, blowing the pegasus's sparkling pink-and-blue hair around across her folded wings and her blank flanks. "Become one of the—ponies who know their special talent, right?" she asked. "Not one of the dangers or risks, right?"

"Right!" Pluck said, nodding happily. She closed the book with a resounding thud—the noise of which made Sunbeam flinch again—and tucked it into a large, brown satchel that she wore against her flank. "We're going to be great, Sunbeam! With you as my squire, I will be the most famous mare-errant to ever travel Equestria!"

"Squire...?" inquired Sunbeam. "Mare-errant?"

"It's all in the book!" Surging forward, Pluck rushed from her cottage, mane swaying in the breeze, Sunbeam struggling to keep up. "Let's go!"