‘Had she been following them this whole time?’ That Celestia would appear here, on the last town before he left Equestria, was a hell of a coincidence. But what if it wasn’t? What if Celestia knew he was heading here? What if she knew he had spoofed the tracing magic and fobbed it off on some yokel? What if she knew all this because this entire time since Manehattan, he had been personally stalked by that damnable bat pony!? Every night when they had went to sleep, the innumerable times they had let their guard down while traveling, all those times he had been vulnerable and completely unaware of her presence. She knew now he could sense people. Was she always there? Just out of range? Hiding in the shadows just far enough away that he wouldn’t suspect a thing?