Dale had gotten a taste of a pony kitchen in the hospital, but he hadn't ever seen the whole process. Starlight moved with a practiced efficiency, dicing the soup's ingredients while also beginning to make a pie. Midway through the process—just after she'd neatly tucked the crust into a pie pan—she grabbed a cut of meat out of the icebox and slapped it down in a cast-iron pan, added some seasoning and a few herbs, and slid it into the oven. She didn't act bothered by it at all, although Diamond Mint was conspicuously absent by then.