This story is a sequel to The Emptiness of High Valour

Empty Valour was made a prisoner and then a slave when the changelings invaded Equestria. Having endured torture and abuse, she meekly submitted to her owner until she was brought back to Canterlot as a part of her mistress' household. The alterations to society brought by the changelings force her to confront her worth as a unicorn who was robbed of everything she held dear, while her fellow citizens who remain free advance their own power, wealth and status.

2022 entry for the Equestria at War writing contest.

[Tag warning: metaphorical psychological trauma and implied threat of real violence.]

A prideful veteran of the Lunar Uprising finds herself taken prisoner of war in short order when changelings invade Equestria. Instead of being the defiant hero she wished to be, she gives in to despair and abuse, turned into the opposite of what she stood for. When she is saved from the nightmarish prison camp, it comes at the cost of her dignity and loyalty to Princess and Country. But surely, it is better to live a slave than die a patriot, right?

2021 entry to the Equestria at War writing contest.

[Tag warning: no sexual violence, but tagged as 'non-consent' for psychological trauma.]

A "Equestria at War" story.

Johan "Djavulen" Jelzek, King of Olenia, has problems with legitimacy. His mother was not the queen, and he is illegitimate. His sister, Velvet, had the only proper claim to the throne out of the children of their father, King Aldar II. She squandered it when she upset the nobles, clergy and capitalists with promises of equal rights for does, protection from exploitation to workers, and secularisation of the law. But simply because Johan does not threaten these interests does not make him popular to any deer.

Equestria, long considering Olenia a backwards nation and Velvet their brightest hope to see harmony flourish in Olenia, has been greatly displeased with Johan's rule. They harbour his estranged half-sister and make no secret of their hopes of restoring her to the throne. And to the north, in a place even more cold and desolate than Olenia, the Queen of all Changelings is building her army in preparation for revenge against the Equestria. And may decide at any time that Johan's kingdom should be their territory.

Trapped between two powers, there is little that Johan can do to resist. Except, perhaps, decide that resistance is worse than collaboration...

Stranger Danger's abusive father died of pox, and she lives with her mother in Ponydale, where her parents have a reputation. Determined to make her daughter something more than an outcast, her mother pays for her to study under a private teacher and make good use of her prodigal daughter's intelligence. But she is heedless of the dangers she's exposing Stranger Danger to, which threaten to make her fears come true.

Diamond Tiara reflects back on her short but happy marriage to Silver Spoon. Both ponies have had hardships to endure to get this far, and some regrets over how they treated others in the past, but their lives as adults are not the same from how they were in the past. Yet in some cases, the past cannot be ignored. Or set right again.