Already my respiratory system felt prickly. It was like I swallowed a gallon of boiling water in the wrong hole. The coughs immediately followed, accompanied by tears welling on my cheeks, my poor eyeballs being attacked by the heat. Yeah, it was hot. Not a “oh no, I caught a sunburn at the beach” kind of hot. It was a category of hotness I had never felt before, and words to describe it failed me. I’ll just say, it was a good thing us ponies had hooves, because I could not imagine how bare skin would’ve felt on the heated floor.