(Mod): I think she didn’t use to have this sort of reflections/anxieties when she was younger, though. The scope of her responsibilities, the emotional attachment, the “this is real” - all this hit her fairly recently.
At first, when she was 11, it was more or less - “this is a baby dragon I hatched, he thinks I’m his mom, so I’m taking care of him for now and I can study him and write down all my observations for Princess Celestia. She told me nopony raised a baby dragon before! He just sleeps all the time so it’s not that difficult to look after him, I just need to carry him around with me and feed him from time to time” - logic that changed gradually.
>>Next we are going back to the Field Trip arc!
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