Lily took a deep breath, but before she could lay things out, Corporal Bound recovered from her stupor. "Sparkshower, what Glamerspear is trying to say is that the Royal Engineer is an alien male -- not a pony male. His species could have completely different standards of beauty, and he may not have paid any attention to your tuft simply because females of his species don't have tufts to look at. A stuck-out tuft maybe doesn't mean anything at all to him, no matter how impressive it would normally be in Equestria. How many other colts have you shown your bush to?"