Still coming down from your magic-induced high, it’s not unusual that your first reaction to abnormality is panic. Something blue draws your attention as it almost crashes into you and you throw your head skyward with a scream. Your body follows, front hooves lifting from the ground as you kick and thrash, trying to ward off the cerulean monster that has come into your presence. As the last few seconds of your magic’s influence flows through your blood, you can’t decide if what you’re seeing is fiction or reality. At first you think it’s a mare, but then for a second it seems so much worse- a glowing blue inset of sorts, gnashing pincers wetted with saliva, reaching for your scarred and dirty hide. While the image oscillates and wavers, your heart continues to pound, hooves continue to flail, but finally gravity calls.

Your body falls back to the earth, instinct drawing your limbs apart and your head down so that you might be steady when you land. A few blinks later, the last sparks of your magic have disappeared from your brain and blood, leaving only a mare beside you as the cause of all your panic. Sighing with annoyance as your skin begins to twitch and tingle more insistently, you dare to open your lids and see who it is that has interrupted your solitude. Somehow, though, you know the answer before you open your eyes. What other blue creature seems determined to ruin your life at every turn, to create chaos when you might actually want peace? Still, a twinkle of hope in the back of your mind dares you to open your eyes and see that it is not…

Ampere.

You sigh louder this time, ears falling back against your head. “Go away,” you moan, almost pathetically, a sharp breath drawn between teeth as the movement of your mouth causes pain your muscles to contract painfully. Any other day you would face her with fervor, dare her to step closer, taunt her or test her patience, or perhaps mock her until she exploded into a wave of electricity. But today even your companion, usually equally quick to taunt the woman that could have been her mother, makes no move to harass the scarlet letter bearer. She has been affected by the Moon Goddess’ curse as much as you have, and she was been notably subdued as of late.