By Europa
Twilight trotted through Ponyville, Chryssy by her side. The first snowfall of winter had come and gone, coating the town in a thick layer of soft fluffiness. Though she'd be lying if she said it wasn't annoying when the snow caught in her fur and spread its chill to her long after she got out of the snow, Twilight really did enjoy snowfall. Especially the way it glinted and shimmered off her castle, casting points of light across the entire town that shifted as the sun moved across the sky.
The changeling queen next to her didn't like the snow quite as much. "Can. We. Go. In?" she ground it through gritted fangs. The changeling wasn't wearing any scarf, snowboots or - much to Twilight's personal disappointment - socks. 'It's just water, how cold could it be?' said the changeling who'd spent most of her life in the arid Badlands.
Twilight grinned at her. "But I still need to pick up some Hearth's Warming decorations from Prickly Pine," she said. Then seeing the way frost was gathering in the tiny, nearly microscopic gaps between Chryssy's exoskeleton plates, her eyes softened. "You're welcome to go back if you want, though. I don't want you getting cold on my account."
"I'm... fine!" she insisted, almost mechanically moving one pair of legs in front of the other. Despite her legs being much longer than Twilight, the alicorn was forced to slow down so Chrysalis could keep up with her. "Just keep... going."
Twilight frowned, but did as she said. She had half a mind to cast a heating spell on Chryssy, but she didn't want to know how the changeling would feel about her treating her like a foal. They continued to walk through town until, at one point, Twilight realized that Chryssy wasn't following her.
She backtracked and found the changeling queen standing in place, ice in her chitin, including her horn. Twilight reached up and waved a foreleg before Chryssy's eyes, which tracked her. Otherwise there was no movement, and no sound beyond a quiet 'mm!' from within her closed mouth.
"Oh no!" Twilight said, suddenly realizing what had happened. Her horn lit up and she grabbed the changeling popsicle in her teleportation field, whisking herself and her lover away to her home, specifically her room.
A flick of magic lit up her fireplace and she put Chrysalis in front of it. To compliment the fire, she started up that warming spell she'd thought of earlier.
"I'm so sorry, Chryssy. I really should've expected something like this to happen. Look left if you're okay, look right if you're not." She looked left. Twilight breathed out a sigh of relief. "Alright, good. Just hang in there, I'll get this ice off of you in no time."
A few minutes passed, during which Twilight took off her clothes and small rivulets of water dribbled down Chryssy's form, seeping out of her mane, her horn, her green shell, her tail. Eventually there was a series of cracks, and then Chrysalis all at once shook off the remaining ice holding her imprisoned with a gasp.
Twilight was there in a moment, hugging her around the thorax. "Hey, are you alright Chryssy?"
After sputtering a bit longer, the changeling leaned over to nuzzle her. "... I may need to buy some scarves. Maybe a dozen. Or... how many scarves do you think I can afford?" She shivered again. "I'm alright, Twily. I'm alright, just a bit cold. Can you... warm me up?" she asked.
Twilight pressed against her more closely. "Of course."
"Thanks."
A long minute passed. "You know, I get that you don't like being weak, and that your pride means a lot to you, but the next time you're in danger of getting frozen, couldn't you just..."
"Just what?"
"Let it go?"