“Lyra!  I was so worried about you!”  Bon Bon threw her hooves around Lyra’s neck, yanking the unicorn into a tight embrace.  “You didn’t come back last night, and there were all kind of guards flying around.  At first, everypony thought that it was just part of the training exercise we’d heard about, but then a rumor got started that there were monsters coming out of the Everfree.”