Tae was ... not anywhere near as aware of her surroundings as she took herself to be. Already she thought herself an expert marks(wo)man, a wonderful sleuth and stalker of bugs and small rodents, and a wielder of magic. Yet as her mother, effortlessly moved towards her, into the water within splashing reach, Tae was reminded (luckily in the loving wings of her Ma), just how much of the world there was for her to still learn and discover.

As water flew onto her back, the girl jumped and, as she did so, her body broke apart into what appeared to be ghostly whispers of the girl she once was. Oh, she was solid enough, as Ampere well knew, but it looked as though a strong breeze could blow away all artifacts of herself and leave not but a trace.

Spinning quickly (or at least, as fast as she could push her small body against the water), Tae turned to abruptly face her Ma, all sorts of pouts and shock and disappointment and MAAAA written in creased lines on her youthful face. "Ma!" Tae screeched scoldingly, but of course had nothing to follow it up with. As the words left her lips her body solidified, and she was left licking her teeth to hide her embarrassment and disappointment. 

But it didn't last. It rarely did around Ampere.

Her Ma's prophetic and whimsical words brought an immediate smile to the young girl's mandible marked skull, and she happily used her small wings to try and thrust water back at Ampere, though without much success. Huffing, Tae decided it was easier to just flop closer to the blue and black mare, splashing her with the displacement of water, than it was to cup and throw the cool liquid of the oasis. 

"One day all will know my name!" Tae huffed in response, tilting her  nose upwards (half snottily, half to avoid any more water Ampere might throw her way). 

Then, distinctively softer and with much less bravado, as Tae drew near, she spun around so her back faced her mother. "Can you get my back?" She whispered, as if it were a secret. She rarely asked Grusha to get her back, at least when it came to cleaning. Already, Tae thought a few steps ahead. And she knew that if she asked her larger twin to clean the space between her wings, that Grusha might ask the same of her. But already Grusha was so much larger, and Tae knew she couldn't reach. And although the differences between the twins were obvious, Tae didn't exactly like pointing to her short comings. 

"Tell me again why the sands are red?" Tae begged, flicking a dark ear back towards Ampere, and trying to paddle in place to stay as still as possible.