In service training, you were told to rarely expect sympathy from a VIP. VIPs were demanding and self-interested to a fault. Anonymous was full of compassion, though. Artemis had really lucked out. And Ebonshield was right to have taken a liking to him! The old stories about batponies being miserable villains couldn't possibly be true; no scoundrel could as quickly take a shining to so charitable a pony as the Royal Engineer!