The soothing words coming from Torrential was like being in a warm bath for the pegasus.  It was good to hear that at least one of Sweeper's kin speak well of her.  Indeed, the alicorn seemed to be 100% accurate in his comments.  A part of Dancer was worried that the other Alicorns would consider Sweeper to be an annoyance, an unnecessary load to their missions.  But to hear some praise show that at least Torrential didn't have that view.  

The change in topic caused Dancer to think, long and hard, at the question posed about Celestia's rule. 

"You know, I never gave much thought about it.  Back when I was a student at the University, before the Disappearance, I don't think many of us cared about social-political matters.  Sure, we knew all the different theories and systems of government, but Civics was just one of those classes one took to get their undergrad studies done.  

Dancer frowned a bit.  "We were happy, or for the most part, well satisfied then.  I never heard from anypony that they hated their lot in life - no Earth Pony farmer grumbled at their job, just from the problems that they had with rabbits raiding their fields.  A pegasus might complain how the clouds were not of the right water content than they should be, but never that their job was terrible.  A unicorn, well, I've actually heard how some nobles bemoan the problems of their position, namely they didn't get enough Bree with their wine."  She smiled at the half-joke.  

"But it wasn't like it was slavery or anything - any pony could go into a different career they wanted.  Scroll, for instance, managed to get into a field predominately filled with unicorns.  And I've meet a number of non-pegasi who were interested in weather - if not able to control it, then do reports from the ground or analyze the wind and atmospheric content.  

But then she shook her head.  "But that was then.  Now after so many years of tyrants and barbarism, it gives a fresh look on Celestia's rule.  It was stable… but only by a keystone of the Princess.  We relied so much on her… and without a keystone, the arch falls apart.  We became so engrained and focused on our roles, without Celestia we began to use that to justify our biases."

She awaited Torrential's reply.