Artemis yelped and staggered back, throwing up a leg in a futile attempt to ward of some of the heat. Crimson flames, with shades of viridian and sapphire twisted in, engulfed the pony, so bright the body couldn’t even be seen inside them. The flames abruptly went dark; Artemis blinked blindness away to see that the pony’s body was gone, burned to ash.