"Shat ap"
The tingling stopped.
When Applejack had nearly fallen asleep again, the tingling resumed.
"Shat ap"
The tingling stopped for a moment. She gave a jealous look to Winona, who slept with her belly to the sky and her legs moving, chasing dream bunnies.
When the tingle resumed, she opened the tent and peeked out, enraged and covering her eyes from the obnoxious light.
"Shut. Up!" she whispered as loudly as she dared "Disappear or somethin!"
The wisp stopped floating in circles and watched her for a moment.
"Wh_?" she asked innocently.
"Because I need to sleep!"
"Re_lly?"
"Yes!"
"Oh" she fell silent for a moment "I th_ught liv_ngs did it for fun" she added.
"Just... go away, thanks for the help but I need to sleep"
The wisp didn't move.
"Why are you following me?" she asked, giving up.
"I _on't r_member"
Applejack watcher her, irritated and tired, and reentered the tent.
This time the wisp remained silent, and she drifted to sleep...
...only to be waken up, what felt like a few hours later, by rocs. They were noisome at the best of times, but this was overboard even for them.
She peeked out of the tent again and saw the rocs flying away, darkening the skies.
The wisp watched, trying to remember what was so special about her.
-º-
The whole forest was silent under the sunlight.
This time it was good, however. It meant than the rocs had gone away, and that the native fauna still was stretching.
She packed her tent and, ignoring how tired she was, walked on. She missed sleeping at night dearly.
Winona walked at her left, and after some time she realized that apparently the wisp had decided to take on her right.
"Still don't remember why you follow me?" she asked after a moment, without turning and trying to keep at least a polite tone.
"No"
"Nothing?"
The wisp took a moment to answer, "So_ethi_g a_out you_ e_es"
"My eyes? Something bad?"
"I've _een __em" she paused for a moment "I _emember seeing e_es like yours"
"When?"
"I can'_ reme_ber"
Applejack didn't answer.
After a moment, she walked on.
-º-
The map didn't quite use the same coordinates system she had been taught to use as a foal, but as Twilight would have said, mathematics were the one universal science.
At least within our universe, she had added once, but that didn't mater. What mattered was that Thrata was a seaside country, so their astral navigation was up to modern standards and their maps were reliable in that, so patience and a good sextant had confirmed that she was, in fact, within her path.
Not that there weren't annoyances. Currently, the amber wisp either had forgotten that dogs can't talk or was trying to teach Winona how to.
She reminded herself to be polite to someone who apparently had saved her hide quite a few times, so after packing map and sextant she went for the logical step:
"'Scuse me," she walked to the other two "Do you have a name?" she asked. Winona looked at her thankfully for a moment and sneaked away.
"N_me?"
Applejack tried not to be unnerved at how the wisp somehow managed to face her without a face or even body, and waited for the wisp to continue.
"Yes, name" she answered after nearly a minute.
"Name" she said to herself "I _ave a na_e?" she asked after a moment.
"That's what I asked you" she fought to keep a polite smile in her lips.
"Oh"
"So?"
"I don'_ remember"
Applejack grumbled under her breath.
"Oh?"
"Do you want one?" she asked "A name" she added, just in case.
"I do?"
"That's what I asked you"
"Oh" Applejack was about to talk when she continued "Yes, bu_ ho_ do I ge_ one?"
Applejack was taken aback by the question, and after a moment she answered, "Just decide which one you want"
"Whi__ wha_?"
"Which name you want"
"Name?"
She grunted before answering, "I asked you if you had a name and you told me you didn't remember so I asked you if you wanted one and you asked me how you get one and-" Applejack stopped to breath "-and I told you that you can just choose whatever you want"
"I can?" the wisp floated closer to her face "Really?"
Applejack couldn't help but smile when she nodded. Like Applebloom with cuttie marks, this one. However, she stopped after a moment.
"I don'_ _now whi__ one _o choose" she said dimly.
Applejack whistled for Winona, "We can think of something as we walk"