But she knew that to run would be to invite suspicion. The Royal Guards were trained to never run when there weren’t lives hanging in the balance. A lot of ponies were reactionary, so when a lead pony was running, others would follow, and nothing said ‘in charge’ quite like the guard’s uniforms, which tradition had kept the same for a thousand years. Even Luna’s thestrals wore the same uniforms as they had a millennia ago.