The little purple alicorn took a deep breath.

"I've done a lot of things for my friends," she started. "I've risked my life." More slowly. "Sometimes I've wound up risking theirs, and I've had to beg forgiveness for it. And I know something about being pulled into a situation out of nowhere and having to figure out a whole new set of rules. When I came here, it was the second time that had happened to me. But I stayed with my friends after the first one, because they were my friends. I tried to do whatever they could, because they were my friends..."

Another inhale.

"You, however," Twilight told Louise, "are an emotionally closed-off, donkey-stubborn, physically abusive, unjustifiably arrogant piece of horse apple smear. And I'm going home."

The light flashed and just like the failed student's hopes, she was gone.