In April 2013, the original X Becomes A Changeling group (long-since deleted and reborn here) ran a contest. I decided to write a story for it. It was only supposed to be simple one-shot about 5k words, about Twilight Sparkle becoming a changeling queen, based loosely on the concept that "there must always be a queen" (I think I'd recently watched Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End).

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