The gray was draining from her body as she soared towards the heart of Equestria.
Her eyes were tearing; she told herself it was from the high speed velocity.
The air shook from pompous, otherworldly laughter.
Plummeting towards a rearranged cluster of golden-thatched roofs, she saw the source of the cackling.
Then she saw what surrounded him.
In neatly arranged clusters, they were beginning to shift and dissolve in the wind.
When she saw the colors of the fragments littered among them, she froze in mid air.
Her mouth opened wide.