Off in the distance, over Ponyville, she could see faint flickers of lightning in the clouds. They haven't had any rain since the creatures arrived—the farmers must be having fits. A delayed rainstorm was the only reason the pegasi would set up a nighttime storm. They might have been getting pressure from Cloudsdale, too. Unfulfilled cloud orders had a way of rippling out over Equestria, and it could be weeks before the weather was back on schedule.