Discord seemed to notice her expression, because his grin had softened a little. “Here, let me get that for you.” He brought his claws together, and the little crystal shattered. It stopped glowing. She also found she wasn’t sunk into the floor anymore, though the metal still looked warped and bent. “Harmony will still have its dogs on you. But Celestia is remarkably set in her ways. ‘Harmony’ sounds so lovely on paper, but we might as well just call the whole thing ‘stagnation.’ And let me tell you, Lucky, there’s enough stagnation on this ring to supply your primitive civilization for a billion years.”