The shudders suddenly stopped as Twilight's mind froze, the words stabbed into her like a knife. ...Dead...? Her eyes widened as her lungs stopped working, heart skipping a beat as the implication made its way through the frozen hell of her thoughts. Dead... dead... d-dead...? No... s-she means something different. She has to! Th-There's no way this could be true!! Scootaloo... h-how could she possibly die!? She screwed her eyes shut and started ripping open every dictionary she could think of in her mind, seeking out some alternate definition of the damning word. Dead, there has to be another meaning! Something just as bad, but she's still alive! She has to be! She has to be! She has to be!!!