The cliffs around the shack were precarious with no safe path to ascend and no outcropping to land the passenger wagon.  It was, after all, a home for a pegasus.  Calamity was forced to land at the base of the cliffs.  After brief discussion, it was suggested that Calamity and I would head up alone.

“Oh no,” Velvet Remedy put her hoof down.  “You did not bring us all the way here, Calamity, to your old home, only to not let me see it.”

Calamity nickered, looking apprehensive and a bit embarrassed.

“Come on now,” Velvet purred.  “I showed you mine; now you show me yours.”

I tried very hard to think of other things.  “Tell you what: I’ll levitate myself up there while you two fly up.”

“Can ya do that, Li’lpip?  Levitate yerself that far?”

To be honest, I wasn’t sure.  Self-levitation had always been the hardest trick.  I wanted to give it a try.  But I didn’t want to suffer the fall if I failed.

“Be ready to catch me?” I asked meekly.  Calamity nodded, stretching out his wings confidently.

(Somewhere behind me, I heard Xenith ask somepony, “Why do they not just make two trips?”)

I looked up, pointing my horn towards the shack.  And swallowed nervously.  It was… very high.

My horn began to glow.  Focusing, I enveloped my body with a magical envelope and pushed off from the ground.  I had done this much before; but just as in the Pit, my ascent had begun to slow rapidly.  I focused harder and tried to pull myself upwards.

I was still slowing.

I concentrated, sweat beading on my forehead and running down my neck.  An overglow flared around my horn, casting reflections on the cliff rocks.

I stopped slowing.  I was doing it!  I was pulling myself through the air!

I was… pushing exhaustion.  The effort was almost painful.  But I was doing it.

I was flying!

- Fallout: Equestria Chapter 29