"Alright this is enough playing around... So... Down" Celestia did not raise her voice when she said it. She did not flare her aura or harden her expression. The word left her lips with the same quiet composure she had maintained from the beginning, as if she were ending a minor inconvenience rather than halting a catastrophe that had begun to bend the sky.
And at same time, the two fingers she had extended toward Maria tilted downward in one clean, decisive motion. There was no theatricality in it. No visible surge. No explosion of light. It was a small gesture almost dismissive as though she were lowering a curtain after losing interest in a performance.
And what happened next made Sylva's breath stall in her throat and Selphira's analytical mind blank for a heartbeat.
Because just as celestia did that..
Maria just froze.
