“None I ever knew ate ponies,” Lightning Dust said, shrugging one wing. She took one last look at the fabricator, then walked away. It might be the strangest thing she’d seen since coming to Othar, but it wasn’t as though Equestria didn’t have weird magic of its own. If there were magical pools that could make two ponies come out when only one went in, if there were magic-eating monsters and storms that raged across the whole country, then why not a machine that did something similar?