Lighting Dust lifted her head with one wing. “No, sweetheart. Don’t do that. I figured this would happen eventually. I didn’t want to leave, but I knew I’d have to. It’s just… life moves on. Othar needs me more than Equestria ever did.” She giggled. “It’s like a city full of you. In… more ways than one, I guess. Some of these ponies look grown up, but they’ve got no cutie marks and they’re as helpless as foals.”