"Ravens," Black Hawk mutters. Her eyes meet Pepper's for a moment. "They're, um, called ravens."

She turns her head sideways and flicks a strand of mane out of her face. "It was...a whole other world up there. We had light, we had hope that tomorrow would be better. Every day, we worked hard to make it better. New technology, new houses, new schools. Sure, everything was rationed. And the military ran everything. And ponies that disagreed with command 'disappeared'. But it was..." She chokes. "It was really nice. No, more than nice."

"And then, we learned that we'd been hoarding it all to ourselves. That was where we went wrong. We tried to keep all the happiness to ourselves." She lets out a raspy chuckle. "I've...had a lot of time to think out here, I guess."