"Epfihaytes."
Bewilderment reigned amongst the fliers companions, shadows dancing around their campfire. It wasn't just the speed of her answer, but the content that befuddled each Bearer.
All save one.
"That's an interesting choice, Rainbow Dash." Twilight mumbled around a strip of dried fish, "Why him specifically?"
" 'Cause he's scum," she replied, face wrinkling in a way reserved for rulebooks and no-fly zones.
"Mind enlightin' us there, you two?"
"It's... ancient pegasus history, I think?" Squeaked a mop of pink hair cocooned within her sleeping bag, big blue eyes nervously glancing into the darkness.
"Before the Princesses, before Commander Hurricane, even before the windigos-" Rainbow Dash snarled, "-there was this war. A pegasus cloud city and some unicorns didn't like each other too much. Odds were on the pegasi, till Epfihaytes, a crippled citizen, sold them out in exchange for fixing his wings. All dead. Pure evil. Next question, Pinkie Pie."
I do appreciate history-buff Dash. It's a natural progression from tracking Wonderbolt statistics to seeing what other great feats pegasi have performed in the past. Or not-so-great in this case.
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People forget the campfire episode I find.
This! Is! Pegasopolis!
"In the end, Epfihaytes did not benefit from his treachery: he was captured by Pegasi from an allied city, and rather than kill him, they tore the wings from his body."