I know it is.

[Flare sighs, quietly, and reaches up to give the smaller mare's back a pat.]

You weren't here a couple of months back, were you? You got to miss me and my coltfriend making utter asses of ourselves in public after bein' where you are right now. Because we didn't have anyone but each other. Each other and a keg of the hardest cider Ponyville could offer, rather.