“Because we didn’t know,” Sarah said, speaking each word very carefully. She stepped in front of James, trying to shield him with her body. It wasn’t hard, now that she was so much larger. She wasn’t sure what instinct prompted her to do that—maybe it was something about being an Alicorn. “Think back. We told you that we got attacked when we left. Now we can guess what that attack was. I bet if you go into the city, you’ll find out that our city got this before Equestria did. We told you everything we knew at the time.”