Dust pulled her close with one hoof, embracing her with a wing. "You lost me again, squirt. You're a liar if you don't think you're an egghead... maybe ponies just have different standards for being smart where you're from. All I need to know is that you didn't come to hurt anypony. La aŭtoritatoj estas wrong, as usual. You just wanted to make friends, and they goofed up. A hundred bits says they got so scared they attacked and it’s their propra stulta kulpo that poneoj malsaniĝis." She released James, and together they started walking again. "We'll see when the next train is passing through. Hopefully you don't mind a little weather—we'll have to catch it even if it's portanta kargon aŭ poŝto. Maybe I can find you some smart ponies your own age up in the Crystal Empire. Homeschool estas mojosa kaj ĉiu, but... I bet you'd learn quicker if you had a whole library, instead of one book with ĉiuj paĝoj falantaj eksteren."