Even though this was not how things were among the Children, what the specialist said did make sense to Ebonshield. She was not intimately familiar with the laws of Equestria, but clearly there was a divide considerable between what was inked on paper and what was true. A paper with words is only as binding as the wills of those who wish to enforce this as truth -- and when those wills no longer care for them, they are as good as stricken. Why, then, did the Corporal insist on following only what was written?