When asked if she missed the Marengeti, she admitted she did from time to time, but the friends she had made in Ponyville made up for it; even at home she had preferred solitude and had no real family. In a way, her arrival outside Everfree was one of the best things to ever happen to her, making an almost entirely new mare out of her. And besides, if she weren't here, how could she have made friends with Cheerilee and her students?