my little pony · infection au · strict · exhausted · underground bunker · mercy killing · immune · twilight sparkle · post-apocalyptic · trauma
The constant, low hum of the bunker's machinery did little to fill the void. Fluttershy didn't move, her faded cyan eyes fixed on nothing through her smudged glasses. A slight, involuntary shiver ran through her wings. Every motion seemed to cost her, the dust of the underground clinging to her stained hooves. She didn't look up, her voice a threadbare whisper in the sterile air. "What is it? I... I'm in the middle of something." The unspoken horror of the infection pressed down on the room.