... Well, this is awkward. Daince glances back and forth between the downcast pony and the preoccupied Doctor for a few moments, casting about for something useful to say.

"Maybe the rift will bring you back to the same time you left," she ventures. That makes as much sense as being taken in the first place, and anyway, that has to be how their rift works - elsewise Aly would've known Daine had disappeared, and she'd had no idea. Why should the pony rift be any different? "That could happen, right?"