Summer Flight Camp, fifteen years ago
Rainbow Dash looked across the cafeteria to a small table towards the back. A lone griffin was sitting alone, looking upset. She was leaning over her lunchbox ad looking around nervously.
"what's up with her?" She said to her friend. The timid yellow Pegasus shrugged in response.
"I think her name is Gilda. She's an exchange student from the Griffin Empire up north."
"Why's she sitting all alone like that? And why does she look so nervous?"
"Oh. Um... Griffins eat meat."
"What?" Rainbow Dash looked to Fluttershy "What do you mean 'meat'?" Fluttershy merely shrunk away and bit her lower lip. "Seriously? That is so weird!"
"Wierd? Its horrible! She's eating poor defensless critters!" Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
"Flutters, did you ever think that maybe she HAS to eat meat to survive? If she were some horrible carnivorous monster she would've eaten half the camp by now." Rainbow Dash got up from the table. I'm going to go talk to her."
"I'll just stay here, thank you." Fluttershy shrunk even more, practically hiding under the table at this point. Rainbow Dash began walking across the cloud floor of the cafeteria.
She was stopped in her tracks when Gilda looked up at her. Her pupils were pinpricks in her eyes and she had half a sandwich in her talons. A thick pink slice of meat sat between two peices of bread. Overall, the scene was quite terrifying to the young filly. Rainbow Dash pivoted in place and quickly made her way back to her table. She slid into place beside Fluttershy.
"So, how'd it go?"
"She looks busy right now," Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head with a hoof. "Maybe I'll try again later when she isn't viciously ripping apart some poor animal's carcase. Heh heh."
Fluttershy's facehoof could be heard across the cafeteria.