"I meant a safe haven for the entity. Not us." It seemed logical to her. If everyone gets caught up with something else near them, then they don't get noticed.

As for picking things up, she is serious about touch. Her empathy is powerful, but its range is limited and her friends aren't here to boost that. Loki was the only one whose emotions she could read at the moment.

"I was a pony by the time anything was going awry. May not fool the entity, but no one else should know its me as a human," she said. Because it was an important detail. "That was when I woke up Loki. And it wasn't an actual explosion."