Luna nodded, her expression distant. "The shadow is indeed malicious. It always has been, ever since the dawn of time." Twilight remembered the world of shadow she had seen in the pool of moonlight, and the creatures it had spawned, and she had to suppress another shudder. "And I believe it always will, till the end of time itself. The shadow looks upon anything connected with harmony with scorn, and stops at nothing to see its destruction."