>Sand. Noun. An endless fine particulate resulting from the erosion of siliceous and other rocks and forming a major constituent of beaches, riverbeds, the seabed, and deserts.
 
>Deserts. Noun. . .
 
Twilight Sparkle did not enjoy sand. Twilight Sparkle did not enjoy desert. Twilight Sparkle was a pony. Twilight Sparkle did not enjoy sand.
 
>Sand. Noun. An endless fine particulate resulting. . .
 
Roseluck stepped on a land mine.
 
>Deserts. Noun. . .
 
Changeling ambush. Twilight Sparkle dropped into the sand, which she did not like. Sand dropped into Twilight Sparkle's rifle, which she did not like. An endless fine particulate dropped into Twilight Sparkle's rifle.
 
>Ambush. Verb.
 
Somepony screamed. Somepony screamed again. Somepony was screaming.
 
Twilight Sparkle sat on the sand and cradled her rifle. Sand streamed out of Twilight Sparkle's rifle. Twilight Sparkle sighted her rifle on a changeling. The changeling was three hundred yards away. The changeling was in range.  Twilight Sparkle pressed the lever. Twilight Sparkle's rifle fired.
 
>Lead. Noun. A chemical element in the carbon group with symbol Pb. . .
 
Lead travelling at eighteen hundred miles per hour entered the changeling's ocular orbit. The bullet fragmented. The bullet fragments passed through the changeling's brain at less than eighteen hundred miles per hour. Bullet fragments and aqueous brain passed through the back of the changeling's skull at less than eighteen hundred miles per hour, blowing out over the sand. Twilight Sparkle blew the changeling's brains out.
 
Twilight Sparkle did not care. Somepony was screaming. Twilight Sparkle's rifle's bolt refused to go forward. Twilight Sparkle's rifle had Failed to go Back into Battery, which she did not like. Twilight Sparkle lifted her hoof and kicked the bolt closed. Twilight Sparkle did not care.
 
Twilight Sparkle sighted her rifle again. The changeling was gone. The changeling disappeared back into the sand.
 
>Sand. Noun. Somepony was screaming.
 
Twilight walked over to Roseluck, who had stepped on a land mine. Roseluck's front legs were not to be found. The land mine blew Class-1 acid all over Roseluck. Twilight Sparkle peered into Roseluck's chest cavity.
 
Twilight Sparkle remembered that she was thirsty. Twilight remembered this while watching Roseluck's lungs breathe in, and then breathe out. Somepony was screaming, but Twilight was watching Roseluck's lungs through Roseluck's dissolved rib cage.
Twilight Sparkle remembered that she was thirsty.
 
Somepony was screaming.
 
Twilight Sparkle looked at Roseluck.
 
"Do you have any water?"
 
Roseluck was screaming.