Eventually, Claudia joined the scene, and the family found themselves tangled in a beautiful, wholesome embrace
Then Agnes suddenly flinched.
Her face flushed red, and she pulled back abruptly, as though someone had pinched her from behind.
"Mother?" Riley pulled back, her expression immediately sharpening with concern. "What's wrong? Is it the pain? Is it coming back?"
Her hand flew to her sword as if she could fight off her mother's injury with steel and fury.
Nella's face crumpled. The little pony had just gotten her grandmother back.
The thought of losing her again, of watching those newly restored legs falter and fail, was more than she could bear.
"Grandma? Grandma, what's happening? Should I get the Evil Hero? Should I get a healer? Should I—"
"Hush, both of you." Agnes's voice was strained but steady. "I'm fine. Perfectly fine. It's just—"
She reached down, grabbed the edge of the cloth covering her equine half, and slowly lifted it.
"—I have a guest underneath me."
