"Alex could tell it was Ryan, or it had been. Pits of living darkness had replaced the ponys eyes, his mane and tail transformed into flickering shadow. Ghostly wings formed in the air around him, in a mockery of an Alicorn. When the figure opened his mouth, Alex heard two voices. One was Ryans, as deep and gravely as that pony could naturally sound. The other was, unmistakably, that same voice she had heard in her nightmares. Odium."