With Grant mostly out of it, I spent the rest of the journey talking to Dina. They worked for a larger Merchants guild that dealt in trading exotic goods for places that couldn't often get them. For them, that meant transporting goods most Ponies didn't want. That included meat. As a thanks, she said that she'd try to put in a good word to get Ponyville as a destination on their route. When I asked why the Guild hadn't showed the save them, she told me how the journey often took multiple weeks; so it'd take that long for someone to notice they were gone. Scary stuff.