I'm really getting to wonder what the hell I was thinking. The first few scenes of Preserved were actually written a long time ago with no forethought as to where I would take the human. I rewrote the scenes using different names for the gryphons and got as far as escaping the castle. Later on, instead of having him hitch onto a train heading to Ponyville, I decided to take a less cliche approach and have him collapse in the paws of the diamond dogs.