Pony Joe frowned at the little dragon. This is the first time in quite a while he had seen Spike so upset. The last time was around five years ago, whenever Twilight was having a particularly long night at Celestia’s School of Gifted Unicorns. The poor fellow thought that his adopted sister had abandoned him and was crying his eyes out in the very stool he was sitting in, with a donut and Joe’s soothing words as his only comfort. 