So when Artemis had protested that she’d shut up and Bitterroot was already feeling the wind on her face, it had taken a lot of self-control for her to follow what the princesses advised and give Artemis a second chance. Just because the environment would kill ponies without a second thought didn’t mean she had to. But that didn’t mean she needed to tolerate it, either. Celestia may have been polite and forgiving, but you couldn’t rule for over a millennium by forgiving unthinkingly. Bitterroot didn’t have the patience of a millennium. She barely had the patience of an hour. This was Artemis’s last chance.