Joachim was none too pleased at Handy’s treachery, but it was all worth it in the end, even if Handy had to pay back the twenty bits Joachim had given him and help him pull the innumerable detritus out of his wings that he had gathered during the day’s shenanigans. Handy had it explained to him that it was Hearts and Hooves Day, which apparently explained the ponies’ erratic behaviour. When he was asked if humans had a similar holiday back where he came from, he was at a loss for what to say. What should he tell them? That they did and it was originally a religious feast day celebrating a Christian martyr who was imprisoned and executed for trying to convert the Roman Emperor of the week, but not before he fell in love with the daughter of the warden? Thus the day the Church moved it to as part of its ongoing process of converting an entire continent became associated with romance and celebrating lovers? That had since became a sickening Hallmark holiday of cynicism and disgusting consumerism? Like all of their other holidays?