"I had just gotten back from the market and I was cutting up some vegetables to feed the animals later and I nicked my hoof, and as I looked down it just felt… right; and then I-I shattered, it's not like I was really all that sad, I was just so tired of being scared and weak and helpless all the time. I… just… wanted to not feel that way anymore." Fluttershy stared intently at the ground tugging at the bandages around her wrist; she knew how silly it sounded when said out loud. "It didn't hurt you know; it was all so easy, and before I knew it I was lying on the floor thinking that at least I never had to be scared again. And then…I woke up in the hospital." The yellow pegasus looked up at Twilight, bracing herself for a look of disapproval, or maybe a lecture about how she should have been more considerate of what effect this would have on her friends but instead the purple alicorn was choking back tears.  Suddenly Twilight leaped across the couch/bed and hugged Fluttershy fiercely, burying her face in the soft pink mane of her friend.