But in the absence of any details, Lily had to imagine that those more outlandish theories were probably wrong. If she really did grow five hundred hooves tall, for example, she ought to have been visible back in Ponyville. Heck, they might've even seen her from the Watchtower -- though Lily supposed they would have been too busy fighting off the batponies at the time. The multi-wing metamorphosis idea was just a racist fantasy, and the 'independent horn' idea, while engrossing, was just body-horror fiction. There were tons of other, smaller, lesser rumors, but one of them had stuck out to her at the time.