He ignored the stares from ponies walking through the streets. Some of them knew him, but most were probably just curious about what a well-dressed unicorn was doing walking through town. He couldn’t know that he was following in the hoofsteps of the professors, or that their behavior had been odd by anypony’s standards. Even without overhearing conversations, there were enough turned heads that he knew the townsponies were watching him carefully indeed. He would have to make some time for them later—they would be his strongest allies. The case would largely be tried in public court before it even got before Luna—and while that wouldn’t influence the younger diarch’s judgement, it would mitigate her sentence if the trial went badly.