Blue coasted over black and gold as she looked over her nose at him in the moment her teeth went out. His eyes flickered, and his neck twitched, giving her a hopeful uplift. The moment was short lived however, when he set his own teeth upon her, causing her to flick back, hooves scattering the sand as she shied away instinctively. She didn't blame him for retaliating, she probably would have, and the weakness was evident in the lack of follow through. Yet, there was more to it than that.

Shaking her head, resettling her mane and her nerves, Ampere made to step around to Bucephalus' head as he began to struggle to his feet. A sound bellowed from him, like anger, and Ampere's ears slicked back with uncertainty and worry. "Are you hurt?" she asked of him, neck leaning back down, nose whuffling, but slower, more cautious this time.

Azeeza's scream sent chills down Ampere's spine, causing another involuntary flinch that sent Ampere's head shooting up just as the falconet dove into a tree hollow. Ampere's head spun around, confused and alarmed by the awful noise she had never really heard the raptor make before. With Bucephalus it was always fun and games, or occasionally some righteous justice like that time on the beach, but this... this was something hard and dangerous. Yet, why, what had caused it, what was wrong?

Azeeza popped back out, seemingly changing her mind as she approached rather than fled Bucephalus. Was he injured, and it was sending pain through their bond? Was he sick, and that was making him act so oddly, and why he was on the ground?

About to approach him again, convinced he needed help to fix whatever was wrong (because something was definitely wrong), Ampere instead froze. His hoof slapped down on Azeeza's tail feathers, enough to render Ampere immobile and speechless - out of all the bonded horses she knew, he treated Azeeza considerably well (although he fought with her, which irked her to no end). "What the fu-" Ampere sputtered out, but his sneer and his dark words cut across her, slapping her. The laugh which followed filled her with a certain dread she couldn't place, but one she instantly knew she disliked.

In the moment Ampere wasn't sure what set her feathers to ruffle, though she would later recognize the way Bucephalus referred to himself like a different being. For now though, she only knew that she hated the gnawing sensation she had in her gut ever since he woke up, and that what he was doing to Azeeza was unforgivable.

"STOP!" Ampere snapped, finding herself after being stunned. "Let her go Buce!" Yet Ampere had a suspicion that he wouldn't cooperate, not like this, so instead she pulled on the magic within her. Sensing the electrical processes in Bucephalus' body, Ampere plucked on them like an instrument, attempting to control the hoof which was detaining Azeeza and move it off of her tail to free her.