Lyra: I’m happy for them. Ecstatic even! Sweetie Belle and her friends worked really hard and they deserve their cutie marks.

B: Sure.

Lyra: It’s just… No. I’m happy for them. Nothing else. That’s it.

[Pause]

B: This has never happened before.

Lyra: No it hasn’t… In all of recorded pony history there has never been such a thing as a shared cutie mark.

B: Unique cutie marks are rare as is. Even a pony like Twilight doesn’t have one.

Lyra: I know. Rainbow Dash’s tri-colored lighting cloud is unusual enough. But three unique cutie marks, all bearing an obvious connection?

B: More than strange. But compared to the last thousand years there’s been more reality shaping events than ever before. The Nightmare, Discord, Tirek. Magic and Cutie Marks being stripped away and restored. Dimensions crossing. Harmony being disrupted. The unseen forces that guide us may be reacting to it all.

Lyra: But why this? What does it all mean?

B: Our world is in flux. Magic is changing.