“Princess Luna refuses to punish you,” Twilight went on, as though she hadn’t just committed a capital crime. “She agrees that Princess Celestia did not… give us any alternative. She’s even…” Twilight whimpered, wiping a few tears from her face with the back of one hoof. But when she faced Lightning Dust again, it was all ice. “So you won’t go to Tartarus for what you did. Guess… guess it never really existed to begin with. But you should know—I hold you responsible.”