Notes

1. “You… wouldn’t take any solace from it anyway… Everything I've done… I would do again… without question. I would burn… a thousand Ponyville's… if it meant not descending back… back into those dark times.”
2. It was a knee jerk response, one honed over years and years of having the need to conceal herself ingrained into her brain.
3. She certainly took the town by storm, and even if she sometimes seems a couple bales short of a full hayloft, there ain’t a pony out there who wouldn't take a shine to her.
4. “I knew it!” Pinkie declared, much to more than one pony’s incredulity.
5. “Fluttershy, not you, too,” Twilight sighed, crestfallen. She’d just spotted her yellow friend – who was currently checking Rainbow’s bandaged wing very critically.
6. I was just too bullheaded and scared to see it...
7. still hugging Applejack tight enough to force her to balance precariously on her one good hind leg
8. What about her family? How does this –” he jabbed a hoof at the battered anomaly in front of him “—make any more sense?”
9. in which case they were well versed with Shining’s mannerisms
10. “I… know that sounds like semantics, but please hear me out.