The edge of town had appeared between the trees when the mulberry mare noticed something unusual in the canopy of a tree ahead. When she got a closer look, the strange object appeared to be another one of her friends.
“Hey, wake up! You...” She looked down. “I forgot her name too.”
The light cerulean mare, with a mane of at least five distinct hues, slept undisturbed on a big fork of branches. The mulberry mare waited a bit and activated her telekinesis to poke the sleeping mare on her side. Without any result.
“That’s strange.”
The mulberry mare enveloped the whole body of her friend with a magic field and lifted her up from the branches. Then she slowly moved her to the ground. She came closer and stared at her friend.
“She is breathing, and there are no visible signs of trauma.” She turned her gaze to the tree. “And no broken branches where she slept. She probably just decided to nap like she always does. But why can't I wake her up?”
She trotted to the tree and back several times, then abruptly stopped.
“Maybe she became a victim of whatever made the others disappear. I need to move her to a safer place — yes, the library is better than this tree. And I can’t spend my time just walking there.”
She firmly stood near her friend and enveloped both of them with shimmering light. The light gradually became brighter for several seconds, then it went out with a pop.
“Why am I still here?” She looked around. “I cast the effect like I did before. Maybe I am too agitated, I need to relax a bit and do everything step by step.”
She slowly inhaled and exhaled several times.
“First, remember the beacon to my destination. It is in my bedroom in the library. I renewed this beacon spell only a couple of days ago. Focus on it. Check.
“Next, remember the three structures of the magic fields for this effect, check.
“Next, surround the objects or subjects to transport with the first field, check.”
Shimmering light appeared again.
“Remember the unique code of my beacon in the library. Integrate the beacon's code into the second field, check.
“Surround the first field with the third field to activate the effect. Check.”
As she said the last word there was the same popping sound, but she was still in the same spot.
“What am I doing wrong? Is it possible that I forgot not only names, but my studies of magic as well? Or has my memory become worse? Don’t panic, I only need to remember how I first studied this effect and connect it to memories of other effects. I can check it this way.”
She wrote several figures and symbols on the ground, then connected them in an elaborate graph. She walked around the graph and mumbled something non distinctive. After several minutes she walked to her friend and stood there.
“Looks like I have found what I did wrong. So, phase one, check. Phase two, check. Three, check. Four. Check. And che—“
In a flash of light, she disappeared.