Lightning Dust didn’t know what to say to that. She was afraid of this Alicorn. Twilight Sparkle had only ever known her as a threat to her friends. Maybe before the last few days, Lightning Dust might’ve stood bravely before her and gloated that she wasn’t afraid. But Lightning Dust had learned pain in the last few days, learned it in a way that her younger self could never have imagined. That braver pegasus was as dead as Celestia.