- and in between them, Silver Streak, fighting the whole way to get her hooves on the ground and her wings in the air. She only manages it at the last second, catching Clarity's forehooves just as she clears the edge. Past Clarity, she sees the whole cliff below them - Blaze and Joy halfway down, thoroughly occupied; miscellaneous debris still on its way to the bottom; a tree knocked half loose from its stubborn perch in a cliffside crevice, swinging back and forth in slow wobbly arcs. And she can hear Guiding Star coming up behind her, and she hasn't a clue in the world where Cherry Cordial might have got to, and she can't carry two ponies in the air by herself, and if Clarity were to hit that swinging tree just so it would wedge itself between those rocks and hold her for long enough...

"I don't have time to explain," she says as rapidly as she can, "but if you let go exactly when I say, you will reach the ground safely. Trust me?"