"Behold your undoing!" Windlass bellowed. "My power is not as limited as you thought, for you failed to comprehend the true power of the Heavenstone! It can do so much more than absorb and store magic freely given, it can also take!"
Rarity could do nothing but watch as the Heavenstone, bulging from Windlass' breastplate, glowed as brightly as the afternoon sun. The white-hot color began to shift, however, first appearing orange, then rose, then finally blood red. Windlass' eyes glowed intensely crimson as well, and even the color of her magic aura shifted.
At that moment, Rarity realized that all of the ponies and griffons left in the Great Hall had dropped to the floor and were writhing in agony, all except for her. Looking back at Windlass, she could see tendrils of energy extending from each prone figure, curling and wending through the air and terminating at the Heavenstone — Windlass was siphoning the very magical essence of everyone present.
Rarity could do nothing but watch as the Heavenstone, bulging from Windlass' breastplate, glowed as brightly as the afternoon sun. The white-hot color began to shift, however, first appearing orange, then rose, then finally blood red. Windlass' eyes glowed intensely crimson as well, and even the color of her magic aura shifted.
At that moment, Rarity realized that all of the ponies and griffons left in the Great Hall had dropped to the floor and were writhing in agony, all except for her. Looking back at Windlass, she could see tendrils of energy extending from each prone figure, curling and wending through the air and terminating at the Heavenstone — Windlass was siphoning the very magical essence of everyone present.
—The Flight of the Alicorn: Chapter XXV: Alicorns
