As soon as it had closed, Celestia walked over to her couch and flopped down on the pillows. While this wasn’t—by itself—bad news, it was not good news, either. She wanted to rush to Ponyville herself, just to see what had happened, but knew that she would do better to remain here. If word got out—and it would, probably sooner than she would like—it would help alleviate other ponies’ concerns if she kept to her normal schedule.