She's drifting on the breeze, her thoughts tangled up in the wind like the mane on her nape. She's been doing a lot of thinking lately, a dangerous act for one so accustomed to action, but she's had little choice. Her actions have not wrought the change she desired, and without Taz or Zar around to explain her faults, she was nearly blind to them. Only the bruises she wore gave her some inclination that her methods were not being well received.

The chaos of her mind spun away as she shook it off, wings slapping the air forcefully to keep her steady. The tilting of her head lent her view to the shimmering items below, causing a rigidness to fill her body, as if in the moments just after death. She knew what those glittering things were.

Lives, about to be lost!

In a morose panic Ampere dropped from the sky, angling to come in with a hasty, but calculated landing before the table. There was already another horse there, perusing over the crudely constructed shelf and its display as if he were carefully selecting the choice fruit off a tree instead of a creature's life. His arrogance stole her breath away, but her anger returned it just as swiftly as her eyes coasted over the countless lives stored for view.

Ampere had enough. Wasting no time to act - thinking hadn't gotten her anywhere faster - Ampere roared out, "NO!", seconds after her hooves had touched the ground. Her haunches coiled with strength just before she shot forward, her forehooves striking out, aiming to land upon the center of the table while her wings unfurled and billowed at her sides, hastily set to flapping in an attempt to blow the orbs and the grass creation away.
Around her the foliage began to crackle and spark, her high-running emotions causing the organic matter to manifest as pure, electrical energy. If her physical efforts failed, perhaps her magical ones would do the trick and cause this shop to burst into lightning.

It was then Ampere's gaze, as furious as the raw energy swarming around her, rose and set upon the shop keeper itself. A certain dread collected in her gut, like a snake coiled on the side of the road. A witch her thoughts whispered, her hide prickling in warning. Ampere had her share of witches in the past and she certainly wanted no more of them. Something told her she hadn't made a friend in this one. Too late now.

"YOU WILL NOT CAGE A LIFE TODAY!" she bellowed at the witch all the same, her path of destruction already set. She couldn't turn back now, but she would not stay, not with it. Abruptly Ampere broke off to her left, towards Hotaru. Her neck reached down, lips peeling back as she tried to grab a stray orb before galloping off.
If nothing else perhaps she could save just the one life.

Damnit her mind chastised amid the chaos, wishing she'd bothered to assess the situation better before overturning tables. This is why she'd reverted to thinking.

[Ampere selects number 11]

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