Rainbow Dash looked taken aback, but she recovered quickly. “Oh sure, you say that now. I know what it’s like… I’ve been in your hooves before. Thinking I could do it all on my own. That nopony else mattered. So long as I was the best, it didn’t matter what anypony else thought.” She stuck her face into a little bowl of pudding. “That’s a dead end. Sooner or later everypony who goes that way ends up another Lightning Dust.” She licked her lips clean, then got up. “You don’t want that to be you.”