Talk:School Raze - Part 2/@comment-4531340-20181021124450/@comment-4531340-20181021125431

Now I see why this comment took me a full week to parse out, haha

Anyway, my theories as to why Cozy Glow made the spell where she did - sure, it's possible that that's the only place where there was enough magic around to activate it, but I find that theory boring and unsatisfying to speculate about. Rather, I think that either her plan was not intended to work (in other words, she expected the Tree to nullify her victory), or else it was, but she's so clever that by the time she was in Tartarus, she'd already fully worked out a backup.

For the intentional failure, perhaps it was so that she could get into direct contact with Tirek, because she didn't know where to find Tartarus, and it's one of those need-to-know things where she could come under scrutiny for inquiring about it. Perhaps she needs his help with something, something that she could not include in her letters for fear of discovery (though what that is, that might be worse than draining the magic from Equestria permanently, I couldn't say - perhaps she has something to do with a villain even worse than Tirek).

For the other path, I would say her cleverness (as well as luck) contributed to her new plan once she saw she was placed right next to Tirek in Tartarus.