Flashback ( PDFDrive )

“She seems okay. Though I think the pregnancy’s starting to make
her pretty tired. And she still won’t agree to come in for a checkup.”
Edaline frowned. “Well . . . I guess we’ll just have to keep trying.
And remember that lots of animals in the wild have babies without
needing our help.”
That would’ve been a whole lot more comforting if Silveny wasn’t
the only female alicorn left, as far as anyone knew.
What if the reason the species was almost gone was because of
complications during birth or something?
“There has to be something we can bribe her with,” Sophie decided.
“Some treat she won’t be able to resist.”
“I’ll talk to the gnomes,” Grady said from her doorway, “see if they
have any ideas.”
“Good idea,” Sophie told him. “Thanks.”
“Of course,” he said, making his way over just in time to catch a
whiff of the toxic burp Iggy had unleashed. He coughed from the
stench as he added, “Your mom and I are here for whatever you need
—and not just for Silveny.”
“We know you’ve got a lot to adjust to right now, between your
recovery and the training,” Edaline jumped in.
“And we know it’s going to be challenging for you to have so many
people following you around, monitoring every little thing you do—
and not for the usual reasons someone your age wouldn’t be happy
about that,” Grady told her. “We get that you’re not dealing with the
usual teenage secrets. You’re facing some pretty grown-up problems,
kiddo, and you have some pretty major responsibilities, and we
understand that sometimes that means you can’t be as open about
what you have going on as we might want you to be.”