"Wow, everything is so white here!"

Pinkie looked around at her surroundings. The other mares seemed more confused than her. It hasn't gotten through their heads that they indeed were floating around in a field of white.

Slowly, the whiteness dissipated, revealing a river flowing with pure water. The friends heard shrieking noises. They found the source of the sound in the river: fillies and colts frolicking in the pure water. Rarity and Applejack started crying.

"Applejack! Rarity! What's the matter?" asked Twilight.

"Just... just seeing those fillies... Oh! I just miss Sweetie Belle!" The dressmaker sobbed into Twilight's neck. "It's just that I haven't thought about her at all while I was here. I am such a horrible sister!"

"Sorry, Twi." said the farmer as she looked at the young ponies playing. "Its jus' that seein' those fillies playin' jus' got me thinkin' 'bout mah family. I never gotta say goodbye to 'em."

Twilight thought of Spike. The last time she saw him was at the train station, unaware of what fate had in store for them. How did he react to her death? She also thought of her parents. She was their only daughter. She cried at the thought of their anguish over her death. Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw a bright pink colored filly looking right at the group.

They froze. She raised a hoof and beckoned them to come to her. The six friends reluctantly did so.

"Hi!" she chirped. "I'm Tulip!"

"Hi Tulip! I'm Pinkie Pie! Are you having a party here? I love parties! GASP! Where are the balloons and streamers and..." the pink pony was cut off by a purple hoof stuffed into her mouth.

The group looked in the river. The ponies were still in the water, rubbing stones on their bodies.

"What are you doing?" inquired the purple bookworm. Tulip smiled.

"We're taking our baths! This is how we take our baths where we are from!"

Rarity smiled. She saw a tree nearby. Using her magic, she broke off a branch and made a topiary of a unicorn. She gave it to Tulip, who giggled with joy.

"I do hope you like it!"

"You burned me."

Rarity's was taken aback.

"You burned me."

"Darling, what do you mean?"

"You burned me. You set me on fire."

Rarity looked at the others in confusion. Tulip said nothing, but walked to the edge of the river. The reflection faded away as a new scene unfolded before them.

"Heh, heh! Who's daddy's little filly?"

Tulip squealed as her father played with her in the living room of their hut. A stallion ran in the door.

"What is it, Steelblade?"

"You gotta see what this one prisoner is doing!"

The father gave a skeptical look at the soldier, but looked down at his daughter. "Stay here, Tulip. Daddy will be back."

The little filly watched as her dad went with his fellow soldiers to the wooden shack nearby and walk inside. After five minutes, she watched as a different group of ponies walked out of the shack. None of them looked like her father. She was scared. These ponies were the bad ponies that her father told her about. She ran from the window.

Hiding under the bed, Tulip listened to the conversation outside.

"Let's burn this place!"

"OK, everypony! Back here in five minutes. Understood?"

Tulip trembled. Did they hurt her daddy? She heard a whooshing sound and felt a wave of heat hit her. The hut was on fire!

The filly cried out as the fire started to burn her. Eventually, she was overcome by the flames and she collapsed to the ground. The last thing she saw before she died was a grinning white unicorn mare unleashing another stream of fire from her salvaged weapon.

Next time:

Did Twilight save the filly before she died?