"This is no innocuous storybook horror to be swept under the mental rug at daybreak. Two reasons: First, when I awake, I am cold and alone, and I am still being hunted. Second, I think they can get to you from within your dreams."
Worker has found happiness, health, and most importantly, home. Now he struggles to defend those who made his new life possible while he wrestles with his own demons.
Seeing as Lightning Dust is now a reckless, self-centered pony who throws caution to the wind, Rarity wants to ask her what happened -- where the time went and why she changed. But she won't. Because Rarity knows what happened. Life happened.