Talk:What Lies Beneath/@comment-26423071-20180826211713/@comment-5097511-20180827003945

This is more like the first time the Tree has communicated more 'directly'. I think evidence of sentience started appearing, at least, in the Season 7 final, when it sent the Mane 6 off to find the Pillars of Equestria's artifacts to save its creators, and when it showed them where The Pony of Shadows was in the Hollow Shades in response to their question on how to find him.

Honestly, it does raise an interesting question: has something happened in the past few years to give rise to this sentience? It also rises a more troubling one: what will Cozy Glow do with this information?