Something on a subconscious level made the apple-pone cling to the nearest mother.

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Some creative liberties were taken with magic for our ungulate friend… My train of thought was that it didn’t exactly seem fair for her to not have any magic to speak of when all the ponies had magic of their own. So naturally I gave her and the cattle earthbending powers based on the visual effects of her stomp power in Them’s Fightin’ Herds.

I may have overplayed the power behind her magic a little.