fluttershy, while working in her sanctuary, has begun to teach the slightly younger & more spry treehugger the workings of sanctuary care, & they're gently & tentatively exploring a queerplatonic relationship rarity, due to quarantine was stuck in the capital & stuck with coco; they're dating, now

poor, sweet, dear apple bloom does not know what she has done when she concludes her report to her beloved friend & mentor, princess twilight, about what the meaning of life is while she cares for a tiny sickly weird creature in her back garden - who dies suddenly, leaving pestilence in the ground.