"Yet the evidence was too obvious that they were fighting something absurdly strong and threatening, threatening enough to consider working with me." Celestia looked thoughtful. "When I said I did nothing to whichever incapacitated wretch your ponies apprehended, I meant it. Because for some reason, the only thing I can recall about that cellar I was in was the preponderance of arcana, innumerable occult artefacts whose purpose and nature I could not divine, and numerous blank sheets of paper and journals."