‘But if that's the case, why is she here at all? If Celestia was telling the full truth, why did she not let me know she was here? Was she protecting her? No, that’s stupid. I couldn’t so much as lay a finger on her with the princess and the preponderance of guards here,’ he thought desperately. Was she going to shadow him into Griffonia as well? What for? What purpose would that serve? Was that entire talk just a ruse? A set up in some other grand game he was not seeing?