It was another beautiful night in Canterlot, where the moon and the stars were shining without a single cloud in the sky to block them, though there were sounds of ponies walking down the various streets as they got ready to hit the clubs and party for a few hours. Most ponies worked and played during the day, during the time where Princess Celestia raised the sun as her sister, Princess Luna, lowered the moon, and they generally retired to their homes and their beds when night fell over the land, which was when Princess Celestia lowered the sun as Princess Luna raised the moon. For a long time there had been only one ruler of Equestria, as the city of Canterlot was the capital of the country, and that ruler was Princess Celestia, though a few years ago that changed when Princess Luna returned, freed from whatever darkness had taken hold of her body and created Nightmare Moon. The majority of the city just went with it and resumed their lives as if nothing had actually changed, and for the most part they were right, except that with Princess Luna's return came the return of the Night Guard, the guards that patrolled the city and the castle during the night, exactly like the Royal Guard, their counterparts, did during the day. Since one princess ruled during the day and the other ruled over the night, it made sense for there to be two groups of guards as well, one that served as Princess Celestia's bodyguards while the other did the same for Princess Luna, and they made sure the city was safe as well.
To some this was perfect, as they didn't have to worry about anyone trying anything, least the guards chase after them for whatever crime they committed, while those that did commit crimes found it to be rather vexing, since it meant more work before an operation could be put into motion. That was Amaryllis' situation, as she had to be very careful with the Night Guards that were patrolling the city and the castle, because they were trained to deal with threats like her, but she wasn't foolish enough to break into the castle and do something ridiculous, like attack one of the Princesses or steal from the royal treasury. Her plan was to break into the castle prison, find the cell that Queen Chrysalis was being kept in, and then, once her Queen was free, escape into the night so they could find the rest of the loyal changelings and rebuild their hive, hopefully for the better this time around. Amaryllis was a changeling, one of the few who sided with their Queen and rejected Thorax's ideals when he came to claim the position as the Leader of the Hive from Chrysalis, creating the new breed of changelings that he ruled over as their King, an act that broke the hive mind and made it even harder for her and the others to stay in contact with each other. She and the other loyal changelings had been separated from their Queen, both because of the loss of the hive mind as well as the fact that she just disappeared, and she was the only one acting in Canterlot at the moment, as the others were searching the other major cities, or at least that was what she had learned the last time they got together.
Changelings shared the same body types that all ponies, regardless if they were unicorns, earth ponies, or even pegasi, had, but Amaryllis was slightly different from the rest of her kind, as her carapace was amethyst purple colored and both her mane and tail were the same color, though the rest of her body, as in her legs, the area around her carapace, and her head, was the same color that all of the other changelings had. She also had insect wings, which had the same color as her carapace, a curved unicorn horn, and a few holes in her legs, just like the rest of her kind, but the other thing that set her apart from the rest of the changelings, and their Queen was counted in this thought, was the fact that her right eye was red colored and her left eye had a yellow color to it, something she didn't think about all that often, despite the fact that her Queen had told her it meant she was destined for greatness, a hard thing to believe.
She pushed that thought from her mind as she focused on what she was planning on doing tonight, because she had spent the last week studying the patrol routes of the guards and when the door to the prison would be open, and her chance was coming, meaning she had to pay attention, otherwise she'd miss her opening. A little over a week ago she had heard one of the Royal Guards, who had gone off duty due to the Princesses switching, mention a rumor about a special guest in the prisons, a queen that had been behind the attack on the royal wedding some time ago, and that they were waiting for Princess Celestia to make up her mind on what to do with the queen. It wasn't hard for Amaryllis, who was disguised as someone who was passing through the city at the time, to determine that the guard had to be talking about Queen Chrysalis, the only queen in the entirety of Equestria, which had set her down the path of figuring out how she was going to get inside the prison and break her Queen out of her cell, and how they were going to escape the city. Normally she would have taken longer to make sure she knew everything about the area and her target, but considering she had no idea what they were going to do to her Queen she figured that a week was more than enough time, hence the reason she was making her move tonight.
As she finished that thought she noticed one of the Night Guards walk down the alleyway that was near where she was hiding, though she waited for a few seconds before emerging from behind the bush that she was using as her cover and headed towards the castle, as she had decided to hide near the houses that were close to the entrance of the prison, which appeared to be the right idea. It didn't take her long to reach the entrance she was planning on using, where she found that the guards that were normally guarding it weren't near it, which made sense since they were in the middle of changing positions with some of the other guards, and this was her chance to get inside the prison without anyone even noticing her head inside. What was interesting was that there was no one at the desk that rested in the room she entered, when normally there would be someone here and she would have had to use her disguise she crafted for this situation to get further into the prison, but this worked out in her favor and she wasn't about to waste any time. She moved behind the desk and opened the drawers as quietly as she could, where she found the key to the door that would allow her to walk down into the actual prison, but there was no book on who was down here, something that was likely in another part of the prison, though she determined that she didn't have the time to look for it, since she had no idea how much time she had before the guards came back and discovered her presence.
With the key floating in her telekinesis, and the desk drawers were closed, Amaryllis unlocked the door that was blocking her way, carefully opened it so she didn't make that much sound, and then, after determining that there no one was anywhere near her position, she walked into the prison, closed the door behind her, and started looking for the cell that her Queen was resting in. Just to be on the safe side, in case anyone entered the prison, Amaryllis let a brief green flame roll over her body, where she activated her shapeshifting powers and transformed herself, where her carapace became a coat of fur, her wings became bat-like, she gained tuffed ears, the simple robe she was wearing over her body morphed into the lavender armor the Night Guards wore, and she was sure her eyes became cat-like slits. Changelings were capable of taking on any shape or form they wanted, be it a unicorn, a pegasus, an earth pony, a griffon, or any of the other races across Equestria, and the bat ponies that made up the Night Guard were no exception, and depending on how strong they were the clothing they were wearing shifted as well, though that took extra power to do so and she was only adding the armor so none of the other guards would suspect anything. It was over in a span of a few seconds, which would make it impossible for anyone to determine a changeling was down here, but even then she kept her guard up, because she had no idea what would happen and wouldn't calm down until she and her Queen were out of Canterlot.
Once the transformation was complete Amaryllis focused on looking at the cells that were around her, where she found that the first pair of cells were empty, something that wasn't hard to believe because of the fact that there weren't all that many criminals in the city, causing her to move forward as she kept her eyes and ears open, just in case some of the guards walked into the prison or if someone said something. She was expecting there to be a few guards at some point, because this area was connected to the castle itself and the guards were supposed to know the ins and outs of the prison, in case they had a prisoner down here, but so far it appeared that no one was down here, which only make her more cautious as she continued checking the cells. Not even a few moments later she came to a stop as she heard some voices near her position, no doubt two guards chatting with each other, though since she hadn't heard them when she entered this part of the prison she had to assume that they had come in after she did. She decided that the best course of action would be to keep silent and see if she could gleam any information from the pair of guards, hopefully something on where her Queen was being held and what she needed to do to get through the locks, and hoped that she wasn't wasting time listening to what they were talking about.
"So, what are we doing down here again?" one of the guards asked, where Amaryllis was able to tell that it belonged to a stallion, not that she was surprised by that since most of the ponies in the guards happened to be stallions, even if more mares were starting to join the guards as well, though at the same time there was something about that statement that worried her, especially since the guard that had spoken had to know why they were down here, meaning that this could be an act that they were putting on.
"The Captain got word that someone entered the prison a few minutes ago," the second guard, a mare by the sounds of it, replied, though there was no doubt that she and her partner were looking around the cells that were near them and all of the paths that could lead someone to one of the few exits, meaning that Amaryllis was already running out of options, in terms of how she was going to escape anyway, but she remained calm and continued to listen to what else the pair might say to each other, "given that we haven't heard anything from the guards inside the prison, the Captain asked us to check it out and see if we've got an intruder running around... though he suspects that, if we do have an intruder, it might be one of the changelings, so we're supposed to find them and prevent whoever it is from leaving, especially since they might be looking for the missing Queen..."
Amaryllis paled for a moment, as that statement meant that she had walked right into a trap and that the Night Guards that were in the prison knew she was here, meaning that it was only a matter of time until they stopped what they were doing and figured out where in the prison she was standing, while at the same time the conversation that the guards were in the middle of also revealed that all of the rumors she had heard about her Queen and where she might be located had been false. She honestly couldn't believe that she fell for this sort of trap, as an infiltrator was supposed to be better than this, nor could she believe that she had actually bought the rumor about the ponies holding her Queen somewhere in this prison, because she should have known that was a lie the moment she entered and didn't hear the sounds of Chrysalis shouting at something, regardless if they were near her or not. It was her own fault for assuming that her Queen had been asleep, since it was currently nighttime outside and most creatures were asleep at this point, hence why she set her plan into motion when the moon replaced the sun, but right now she needed to get moving, before someone saw her again, so she shook her head and turned around, so she could leave the way she came in, hopefully before the two guards spotted her. Luck seemed to be on her side as she carefully returned to the room she had been in a few minutes ago, where she carefully opened the door and closed it behind her without drawing the attention of the guards that had been talking, as it looked like they were deep in their conversation, before locking the door and returning the key to where she had found it, hopefully to make it look like the guards had been wrong about what they had seen, though in the end she knew that she wouldn't be returning to Canterlot for some time, now that the guards knew that someone had infiltrated the prison and suspected it might be a changelings, before she refocused her mind and headed for the exit.
When she walked outside, however, she found a few Night Guards, at the very least five of them, standing near the area that was around the door she happened to be leaving through, all waiting for something to happen, though this was just further confirmation that this was either a trap the ponies had set up, as there weren't this many guards near the door during the nights that she studied the patrol patterns of the guards, or she had incredibly bad luck and had chosen to set her plan into motion at the wrong moment.
The moment the guards turned and looked at her was the signal for Amaryllis to get moving, as the instant one of the bat ponies started to move she dropped her disguise as she used some of her power to teleport further down the street they were on, allowing her to get a head start as she headed towards the main gate, even though she knew that her pursuers only had to turn around before following after her. Flying straight out of the city was a good idea, but at the same time the consequence was that all of the other guards in the area would see her as she flew through the air, so she felt that it was best that she didn't waste her energy on that and focused on running through the streets of Canterlot, all while thinking of a good form to assume to ditch the guards. She thought about using the form of DJ Pon-3, but quickly discarded that idea, as she was having an event tonight and if anyone saw her while she was using that appearance the game would be over in a matter of seconds, if not immediately, so she had to think of a different form to use for a couple of minutes, at least until she was outside the city anyway. In the end Amaryllis decided on a blue coated mare with a pale blue colored mane that had a few red stripes in it, though this time she chose to be a pegasus with a stopwatch as a Cutie Mark, hopefully making it look like she was a tired flyer who was heading home for the night, which seemed like a good idea to her since she was positive that there wasn't someone like this in Canterlot at the moment and, even if there was a pony who looked like her current disguise, which was possible given the combinations a pony's body could have, she was sure she wouldn't run into such a pony, which would have ruined her night even more than it already was.
Of course that was before she turned a corner, so she could take the back way to the gate she was heading towards, and ran right into a pegasus that looked exactly like the form she had picked for herself, revealing that her luck had to be the absolute worst tonight, though before she could do anything the mare in question screamed 'Changeling' at the top of her lungs as she ran out into the street, causing Amaryllis to curse her bad luck for a few seconds as she ditched the disguise and burst into the air, as her last plan had been ruined and now she had to flee as fast as she could, without running into any of the city's guards.
As she expected it didn't long for the flyers of the Night Guard to take to the skies and chase after her, which was the main reason she had tried to avoid going this in the first place, but now that her position was known to the guards her choices were to either try and hide, to wait for the heat to die down, or just run and hide somewhere in the one place most ponies, and the guards were counted in that thought, were afraid to enter, the Everfree Forest. The only ones that weren't scared of that place were the Elements of Harmony and both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, as that was what Amaryllis had heard during her various investigations into the dark place, so she knew that she could lose a number of her pursuers by the time she reached the edge of the forest, meaning she could hide there for an hour or two before making her way over to one of the other villages or towns, like Ponyville for example, where she might be able to obtain some information on where her Queen was located. It was a gamble on her part, especially if what the Night Guards had said when she was in the prison was true, that no one knew where Queen Chrysalis was located, but she needed to give it a try and figured that she might uncover something if she spent some time in Ponyville, which happened to be the home of the ponies that had helped Thorax beat her Queen, leading to the situation she was in. All she had to do was lose the guards that were flying after her as she left the city behind, which wasn't easy considering that all of them were trained to keep their city safe and might have seen her as a threat, hence the reason she spent some of her energy weaving through the clouds so she could shake her tail and be alone for a while.
Due to Ponyville being close to Canterlot, between half an hour to forty-five minutes away by flight, she did end up losing a few of her pursuers after getting a certain distance from the city, no doubt because they didn't want to leave the civilians unguarded in case more changelings were hiding, but the real magic happened when she reached her destination and flew down to the ground so she could follow the path in front of her. She turned her head back for a moment as she finally entered the Everfree Forest, allowing her to watch as the majority of the Night Guards stopped in their tracks and stared down at the forest, showing Amaryllis that even those trained to protect the Princesses were cautious about this place and weighed their options. It was exactly what she was expecting, that her pursuers would pause once they noticed where she was going, and instead of sticking around Amaryllis rushed into the forest, disappearing into the vast amount of trees that were all around her, making it nearly impossible for the guards to follow her at this point. Amaryllis, despite knowing that she could just stop and rest, to watch the guards leave the area, headed deeper into the forest and focused on her objective, because if she could reach Ponyville she could disappear into the night crowd and the guards would completely lose her, this time without being able to find her.
What she wasn't expecting, however, was to come to an abrupt stop as she discovered a gorge in the ground in front of her, one that separated the part of the forest that she was in from the other piece of land, where an ancient castle just so happened to be resting, one that seemed like a place the ponies talking about, but what really caught her attention was a cave that was at the bottom of the gorge. The opening was of a decent size and seemed to be in a place where no one would think to look for her, even if the guards decided to come into the forest and continue their search, so she decided to modify her plan a little and flew down to where the cave rested, as she could lay low for a few hours, to make sure all of her pursuers were gone, before heading to Ponyville and disappearing into whatever crowd might be having fun, or there was the option to take the form of a traveler and arrive in the morning, either way would prevent the guards from finding out where she was hiding. It took her only a few seconds to get down to where the cave opening was located, where she closed her wings and headed though the opening, so she would be out of sight in case any guards came this far, though as Amaryllis walked forward she found what appeared to be a number of stones that looked like the stumps of trees that had been cut down. At first she thought it was strange that someone would make a number of stones in the same manner, like they had taken chunks out of the chamber she was in and had spent some time making it look nice, but what stopped her from questioning what she was seeing right now was the large deep blue crystalline tree that was in front of her, one that had a few branches on it, though at the end of a few of its branches rested an interesting gemstone, five to be exact, with a sixth resting in the tree's trunk.
She really had no idea what she was staring at, despite how interesting it looked, and had the feeling that if she wanted to figure out what this might be it would require speaking to the residents of Ponyville for a time, but since she wasn't all that interested in the tree she turned around and stared at the passage she had walked through to reach this point of the cave, as she needed stay focused and be ready in case any of the Night Guards showed up, though even as Amaryllis thought about that she did something that surprised her for a moment, she yawned.
"I shouldn't be... this tired..." she commented, because she was sure that her adrenaline would have kept her wide awake until she found somewhere in Ponyville to crash for the night, before starting to plan out what she was going to do next, but oddly enough she found that the chamber she was in, with the strange crystalline tree, seemed to have the opposite effect on her, so instead of remaining awake she staggered for a moment, like she was either drunk or exhausted, before collapsing on the ground and started to drift off as she headed for the realm of dreams.
As Amaryllis hit the ground she had no idea that the gemstones in the mysterious tree's branches were glowing just a tiny bit, no doubt the remnants of some ancient and powerful magic, nor did she realize just how much her life was going to change by her deciding to use this odd cave as her hiding spot as she waited for the Night Guard to stop chasing her, but despite all of that it was clear that she would figure out what had happened to her when she got up, even though the rest of the world faded as she succumbed to the darkness at long last.
Amaryllis groaned as she pushed herself off the ground, because she had no idea why she had the sudden urge to sleep once she found the strange crystalline tree, but, as she regained her senses, she found that she couldn't hear the sounds of any guards around her, which meant that she hadn't been found while she was sleeping, which meant the event hadn't endangered her and that she was free to move once more. As she opened her eyes, so she could get moving and arrive in Ponyville as soon as possible, she paused as she discovered that she was no longer in the cave she had discovered earlier, rather she was laying outside, in a wide open area, that seemed to be in the middle of winter, as the majority of the area around her happened to be covered in snow it and there were a few spots that didn't have any snow. Another thing she discovered, besides the number of trees that were near her, which was far less than what the Everfree Forest had, was a worn path that had been made in the ground near where she had been laying, a dirt and stone path from the looks of it, meaning that it must have seen a lot of travel and that it was possible that she would see someone at some point, despite the fact that the road was also partly covered by the snow that rested all around her. She could tell, with a brief look at her surroundings, that she wasn't in the Frozen North, the northern most point of Equestria to be exact, where she knew the Crystal Empire rested inside a protective barrier that protected it from the rest of the Frozen North, but it did make her a little curious about her location, especially since she needed to get to Ponyville as soon as possible to continue her search for her missing Queen.
As she got up to leave, however, she quickly discovered that her location wasn't the only thing that had changed, because her front legs now ended in five smaller appendages, fingers as she recalled, giving her arms that were similar to what a minotaur had, while the rest of her body had been changed to fit a bipedal stance, even though her former hind legs still had holes in them and she had two mounds on her chest as well, which the minotaurs referred to as breasts, based on a few of her memories, but she knew that she would have to think about that later, as her main concern was that she was in a foreign land, in a unfamiliar body, and the robe she had been wearing earlier now only covered the top half of her new body, which was embarrassing since it exposed her lower half, something she would have to fix after she figured out what had happened to her.
"Okay, I have no idea where I am, I have no idea how to walk in this form, and I'm sure I'll need some suitable clothing before I find a town or a settlement," Amaryllis said, because she was pretty sure that, since this clearly wasn't the Frozen North, as even the trees looked different from the ones she had seen around Canterlot, she was likely in some other land that was far away from Equestria, one where the rules about clothing were that both the upper and lower halves of one's body were covered in some manner, though that was when she studied her body a little more, finding that her horn and wings had survived her sudden transformation, "Well, that's a relief. I can fly out of here, if I need to do so, though before that I should try to figure out where in the world I am, before..."
Amaryllis paused for a second as she heard the sound of what she assumed were footsteps, loud ones to be exact, though instead of staying near the road like a fool, which would allow anyone to see her, she forced herself to get up and move, so she could hid behind one of the nearby trees, where she was thankful that it was wide enough for her to hide behind, as if it was thinner she would have been forced to think of another plan. She waited for a few seconds, to see if the noise was getting closer, and when she heard someone walking near her position she turned her head slightly and spotted three beings walking down the road that she had been resting near earlier, beings that she didn't recognize at all, hence why she focused on them and studied each of them so she could understand what sort of residents were in the area she had just appeared in. All three of the strangers were bipedal like she was, though their legs didn't end in hooves like hers did, and the two in front looked wealthy, based on how fine their clothing was, as one of them, a male she assumed by the short hair and how his head looked, had a fine green shirt on and had some fur wrapped around his neck, along with a brown pair of pants and some black shoes. The being that walked beside him had to be female, again based on the length of her hair and her facial structure, not to mention that she had mounds on her chest as well, and she was wearing a fine brown set of clothing that was different from what her friend or significant other was wearing. The being that was walking behind them wore what Amaryllis assumed was some sort of armor, nothing like the metal armor that the Royal and Night Guards she was used to observing wore all the time, though it seemed like his armor was crafted from an animal's pelt, or several of them at the very least.
The other things she noticed was that the man wearing armor and the rich man were wearing what appeared to be swords on their belts, while the lady had a much shorter blade on her belt, a dagger she guessed, but what interested her was the fact that they had what she assumed was a brown horse walking behind them, as it was as large as Celestia was rumored to be and didn't seem to be that intelligent, one that had a couple of packs on its back, which only made her curious as to what they were doing out here... though when the horse stopped a few seconds later the lady did as well, to see what was wrong, even though Amaryllis knew it wasn't about her since none of them had see her yet.
"Come along, we can't afford to make any more stops." the male noble, as that was what Amaryllis was assuming he was based on the clothing he was wearing, said, where she watched as he and the guard stopped in their tracks and turned towards the lady and the horse, though his tone made it sound like he was annoyed that they were constantly stopping on their journey, "We need to find our way to Solitude, which means traversing these terrible roads, and we can't get there if we keep stopping"
"Well, my feet are killing me and we haven't taken a single break since we had lunch, so we're stopping." the lady replied, her tone revealing that this had been a long day and she was waiting for it to be over, especially since the person she was with seemed to be annoying her, while the guard seemed to be keeping an eye out for potential dangers, meaning parts of the road were dangerous, before she glanced at the other noble for a few seconds, "Why are we even going to a wedding at this far flung end of the Empire in the first place?"
"I told you, like I've told you several times since we left Cyrodiil, that this is the wedding of Vittoria Vici, an extremely well connected merchant with the East Empire Company." the male noble stated, where Amaryllis could tell that he was getting angry with his companion, no doubt due to how many times he's explained the same thing to her, something that showed that she wasn't okay with them being here in the first place, before he sighed and calmed down a little bit, as if coming to the decision that getting angry now was the last thing he needed, "She's the Emperor's cousin, remember? I'm hopeful that these gifts we've brought with us will put us in her good graces, secure that import deal that we've been working towards, and lead the way to an audience with the Emperor himself! Once the wedding is over, and I have a chance to chat with her about the deal, we'll get a cart and head back home, so we can put this journey behind us."
Amaryllis had no idea who the two nobles were talking about, and the guard seemed to be totally ignoring them while they discussed the same thing once more, confirming that they had spoken about it multiple times since they left the area that they lived in, but what she gathered from their conversation was that she was in some unknown land, one that seemed to be part of an Empire and was ruled by an Emperor, meaning there had to be a king or something who ruled the land in the Emperor's name. The name of the noble that was mentioned, Vittoria Vici, meant nothing to her as well, just like the name Cyrodiil meant nothing to her, but Solitude sounded like it had to be somewhere in the land she was now in, based on the fact that the nobles were heading to it right now, and she was sure that it was either a city or a town, where she came to the decision that she would have to find a map at some point and figure out where she was. The nobles then spent a few minutes discussing the various 'gifts' they had brought with them, which apparently ranged from some expensive clothing to some expertly crafted bowls, goblets, and other wares that someone could eat with or drink from, including a few rings and necklaces, making Amaryllis wonder just how much the pair had brought with them, as it sounded like they should have brought a wagon with them and not the single horse that was standing near them. When the pair of nobles finally reached the end of their discussion, much to the relief of their guard, they started walking down the path that was in front of them once more, meaning they were resuming their trek to the area Solitude likely rested in, causing the guard and the horse to follow after them once more, though as that happened the horse shifted it's stance and something fell onto the ground, something that none of the three individuals noticed as they continued down the road.
Since she had seen what was going on Amaryllis knew that one of the nobles must have packed some of their stuff in an incorrect manner before they left their home, or maybe their servants had done the deed, though she had no idea how it had managed to make it this far without falling off sooner, but she decided not to question it as she waited for the nobles to disappear completely, since there was a chance that they could glance back at some point and spot her, which she did want to avoid right now. Once they were gone she pulled herself up and carefully walked over to where the fallen object rested, though she had to pause every now and then because she wasn't used to this new body of hers, which resulted in her falling face first into the snow a few times, where she was thankful that no one was around to witness this, before she finally made it over to her destination. What she discovered was what looked like a dirty brown set of clothing, a shirt of some kind that had sleeves and a long skirt that could probably reach her ankles if she put it on, but since it appeared that the nobles hadn't noticed their missing luggage, and likely wouldn't notice until the next time they came to a stop, which would be a few hours from now no doubt, she decided to wear it for the time being, since it was far better than what she was wearing right now. She was thankful that the clothing wasn't a single piece, otherwise she would have had to rip it into two halves to even put it on, which would have ruined it and possibly prevented her from putting it on, but it did look like this new land had standards and separated their clothing into shirts that covered their chest area and pants that covered their legs, not counting any shoes and other articles that someone could wear.
She quickly put the clothing on before someone else came down the road, or up the road for that matter, where she found that her body still had the coloration that she had in her original form, there were a number of odd modifications that she wasn't expecting to find, like the breasts for instance, but it wasn't long before she was dressed and the robe she had been wearing earlier was positioned like a hood and cloak, making her look like a wanderer. It was the best she could do right now, since she didn't have anything else to add to her appearance, though she did consider using her magic for a moment, to see if she could do something to make her seem different, but decided that, for now, she could stick to her strange new base form and try her magic out later, once she stopped falling to the ground while she was walking. What she needed right now was information on where she was and the various beings that called this land home, that way she had a better idea of the various forms she might be able to take when she tried her magic out in the future, something that would be a great benefit to her survival, causing her to walk down the road and follow after the nobles, all while hoping to avoid them entirely. Once she had a better idea of the land that she was currently in, and the beings that were around her, she would start to figure out how to get back home, to continue her search for the other changelings and their missing Queen, even if that meant going outside Equestria to find them, even though she was sure that such a thing would take some time and a bit of effort on her part, given the strangeness of her current situation.
One thing was for sure, she needed to be careful as she explored this new land, since there was no telling what dangers might be lurking around every corner, but at the same time she was curious as to what this place had in store for her, for the short period of time she would be spending here anyway, and made her look forward to what would happen when she finally encountered someone or something new.