"Mama, I am hungry!"
Ladybug shot to her feet from a dead sleep. Before she could even think, she felt a little mouth latch onto her udder and suckle. She sighed happily. After so many foals, she was finally doing what she was meant to. She was being a mother.
Ladybug grazed while Leksea nursed from her. The little filly was seemingly bottomless. She drank so much that Ladybug worried she would need to use a spell to produce more milk. Luckily, Leksea was satiated before it reached that point.
Leksea finished nursing and began to bound around the small glen they were in. She seemed to be a regular filly, but...
"Leksea," Ladybug whinnied. Leksea stopped jumping. "Tell me, what do you remember?"
"I was human, right, Mama?" Leksea neighed after a moment. Ladybug nodded.
"Anything else?" she prompted.
"Nope! Just that you are my mama! The best mama in the world!" Leksea whinnied happily. Ladybug's heart swelled. She finally had her foal! Part of her knew she shouldn't be happy, she should be trying to return Leksea back to Leks. But that part of her was silenced by her maternal urges.
"You are right, I am your mama," Ladybug said. "And...you are right you were once human. I was, too."
"Why are we not?"
"Because..." Ladybug quickly concocted a lie. "We were captured by an evil Witch. He turned us to horses. But we are safe and fine as we are." Leksea nodded.
"And what are we doing, Mama? Where are we going?" she asked. Ladybug frowned. That was something she needed to figure out.