The batponies flank you in silence as you make your way through Canterlot Castle's labyrinthine corridors. Your eyes roam over every surface in quiet awe, drinking in details both hauntingly familiar yet subtly askew. As you pass beneath a soaring archway, the same thestral guard from earlier clears his throat in a gruff baritone rumble. "This way, sir. The east wing residential quarter lies just ahead."