Her trance was broken by Rainbow Dash coming closer to her, shivering, "Scootaloo... I've never had family beyond my dad. He was the only one I ever looked up to... I came to Ponyville after my Sonic Rainboom to make him proud, to find work and everything. But, when I found you... it all stopped being important. My work at the Weather Factory stopped my dreams from ever coming true, but if you achieved yours, maybe that'd achieve mine as well? I-I never meant to use you..." she sniffed, breaking down as she tried to hug the ethereal form, trying several times to get a grip, each one driving her expression down further into sorrow, "W-When you died, when I killed you, I was blind! Blinded by your failure and the end of my own dreams, along with yours! I was so angry, I couldn't control myself! T-That stupid medication just blinded me more, all I could see was red! S-So, when I m-made you watch everypony die, when I chased you, when I put you in those chains... I couldn't stop myself." Rainbow jammed her hoof into the dirt, her sobs growing in volume. The storm had been the thing that she'd been warned about for so long. All those ghosts were merely a symptom of her terrible disease, brought on by her ten years of killing foal after foal. A sick spiral of blood that stained her soul for eternity, and now she couldn't escape it, no matter how many purifying tears she shed.