These last several years had been going extra fast, with everything she'd needed to do. Her people had previously kept to themselves, only passing through other nations on migrations or when searching for a cave to sequester themselves in for their rests. Those times were long over, as the world was becoming ever more interconnected. Creatures who were used to seeing other sapient creatures at a distance or hearing about them in stories were now regularly seeing ponies, griffons, yaks, changelings, hippogriffs, kirin, donkeys, cattle, zebras, diamond dogs, abyssinians...