She sees them all begin to gather before she truly understands what is happening. Soaring above, Ampere glances down at the soggy crowd. It would normally be of little interest to her, but as she really had no destination in mind for her flight path and a group of horses outside a herd land was more peculiar, Ampere flew around for a second loop. By then she saw that more horses had come and were wading into the water, all of them seeming to gather around a central point.

Her eyes scrunched up in their attempt to focus - only as good as her horse's blood and not as sharp as the eagles that so long ago gave her bloodline the feathers to fly. Snorting she made another circle and began to descend, finally seeing through the throng of bodies what everyone was assembled for. "Another orb," she whispered to herself. "I should have known," she growled, her wing beats fierce thumping against the air now as she strove to drop into a dive and increase her speed.

The pegasus girl dropped like a stone from the sky. Fury was written into her fine features, a silent scream torturing from her maw as she dove. All around her electricity crackled, the lilly pads that supported the orb beginning to shift into blue waves and arcs of electrical energy that snapped at anyone nearby like angry snakes. Just as the final mass of the lily pad was shifting into energy Ampere swept overhead, her neck stretched long and taut, her teeth gaping wide and seeking to grasp the precious orb.

She swerved abruptly to the left, her wings tilting and flapping once before her body crashed into the waster. She clamped her mouth shut and chanted over and over in her mind not to swallow - could the orb hatch in her stomach she did wonder though, both appalled and mystified by the thought, though probably one or both of them wouldn't survive if that was the case. Just don't swallow, her conscious growled, too busy keeping her body from drowning after the crash to also worry about her eating orbs.

Ampere surfaced after a moment, gasping for air as her nares billowed wide and pink. Her wings bobbed to the surface, too wet to do much but help buoy her. She glanced back at the group of horses near her, certain she made no friends, rather successful or not. Forcefully she began to kick, trying to get to shore. Her mind was so overwhelmed she couldn't even register if she had the egg, but she continued to not swallow, just in case.


Ampere in her haste to rescue the egg had never realized that they were rescuing it as well. They were only rescuing it from the water though, where as she was also trying to rescue it from all of them. If one of them bonded to the creature inside, could it truly be considered saved? Ampere felt not, in which case a watery grave might be a kinder fate, if she had failed in her attempt. At least then the creature would never feel the bite of a mental chain or the heaviness of its soul wrapped around another's.

Of course, she would prefer that if had the chance to live, and live freely, so she could only prey to the Gods she didn't believe in that she had been just in time, at the right angle, to nestle it in her mouth.