"I can't!" she insisted, her forelegs shaking. "That's two hundred meters to the clouds down there! If I fail, I'll die!" She stared over the edge again, eyes focusing only with difficulty on the large stretch of cloud below them. Lightning Dust had brought her several hundred meters above what passed for a public park in Stormshire, though once the other aliens had learned what they were doing there the little crowd of visitors dispersed and did not return. Probably they don't want to be hit by a falling pony.