"Pray, I beg your pardon, but who art thou?" he asked. The pony didn’t answer immediately, instead turning his head back to the show. The showmare was now calling up volunteers from the audience. With a flash of magic, two tall colourful boxes, one red and the other mostly blue, appeared in the centre of the stage with what appeared to be two doors on the front of each box. The volunteers, a dog and a griffon, were placed inside the boxes. The dog appeared quite nervous about the arrangement, understandable given the insides were lined with black velvet and must've eerily resembled coffins from it's perspective. The show mare levitated two dividers and placed them about the necks of the two volunteers and closed the doors, first the ones on their bodies then the ones on their faces.