They were much like the ones he’d seen on the island, although both of these had wings. At the time, their similar appearance hadn’t seemed too strange, but now that he’d seen the rainbow of coat colors that the ponies had, they seemed like the odd ones—even their manes and eyes matched. They were also, he suddenly realized, the only ponies he’d seen who had deliberately obscured the marks on their hips. It was possible they didn’t have them; they could have been bred or cloned specifically as soldiers, which would explain their unified appearance.