Twilight had speculated that he had come to observe the stars. She’d been wrong about that—the tube which Twilight supposed had contained a telescope instead was filled with coffee. Dale had almost spilled it when she started laughing as he poured a cup. Was he an explorer, or could he have just been taking a vacation in the woods, as ponies sometimes did? She hadn’t seen anything on him which could be a cutie mark—if his kind even had them—so there was no clue there. Besides, not every pony had a job which was reflected by their cutie mark.