--Back to the Here and Now (Ch.4)
"And that's how I came to live among the ponies of Fillydelphia", Pinkie Pie says to Dash and the others. "Mally taught me how to make all sorts of treats and goodies, but though I soon had to leave, Saris and the others had to go off to their new jobs all over Equestria" said Pinkie, "I learned how to feed off of multiple ponies during the time I spent with them to lessen the effects, and soon it was my turn to leave home. I told Mally goodbye, thanked her for all the years of kindness she had given me, got on the first wagon out of town, and well here I am..."

"Wow, umm, that's really kind of sweet" Twilight says. "Sweet, are you kidding me, that was one of the most heart-felt tales I've ever heard," Applejack says in reply to Twilight's comment. "I never knew that changelings could feed off of multiple ponies before, I thought they fed off of us with their teeth, like some sort of vampirical creature," Fluttershy says as she makes her way over to inspect Pinkie's teeth. "Well no, we use magic to drain the emotional energies from ponies," Pinkie says while opening her mouth to show her teeth to Fluttershy.

The others all gather around on the other side of the room to discuss what they have just learned, and to discuss whether or not they feel that they can still trust Pinkie.