BACK AT THE HIVE...
Pharynx was flying around in circles, looking everywhere. He saw a ton of changelings training by fighting each other, it was always hectic in the hive. Chaos everywhere, not a place a pony would want to live in, but to a changeling, it's the only place they're accepted in. You don't even have much of a choice anyway.
Axery, who was also looking back and forth, went over to Pharynx. Was he trying to look for something?
"Yo, Pharynx!" He shouted to Pharynx.
Pharynx, cut off from his flying, told Axery, "You know, it's better if you had just talked to me instead of calling me out all the time..."
Axery gasped sarcastically and asked. "Any why should I do as you say?" He smiled and said "You're the head of changeling patrol, not the head of changeling manners."
Pharynx rolled his eyes. He didn't feel bothered by any of Axery's assaults. He had other things to worry about. He sighed and asked Axery dutifully, "I'm gonna regret this but have you seen Thorax?"
Axery blinked and frowned. "What do you think? That I saw him?" He laughed, "Ha! Definitely no!" Pharynx wasn't sure wether he was joking or serious or both. "In fact, he wasn't really some changeling I should look out for. He's yours to look out for."
Pharynx felt as if he got pushed over a cliff of pure stress. "Thanks anyway..." He flew away. The last time he saw Thorax was when Chrysalis called him and Axery over. He never saw Thorax since then. Thorax wouldn't have gone out of the hive, he doesn't even have a good sense of navigation. He couldn't have been anywhere else.
Or could he...?
A changeling came flying back to the hive, panting and shaking of snow. Pharynx recognized that changeling as Thorax's other bully. Rythe. He didn't look fine.
"Thorax...he betrayed the hive." He said quietly.
"What" Pharynx hissed. "did you just say...?"
"It's true brother, I saw him!-" Rythe protested.
" Don't 'brother' me... Pharynx said again, holding Rythe onto the ground. "You never even acted like a brother to me, or him..."
Axery murmured "Says the brother who said that he stole his brother's love..." Pharynx stared at him with fury. "Maye I should just, you know, shut up." Axery continued.
Rythe kicked Pharynx with his legs and got off the ground. "I saw it with my own eyes, Thorax was talking to a dragon who is friends with the ponies!" Pharynx then faced to every changeling. "Thorax should be kicked out of the hive!" Every changeling agreed with him.
Pharynx flew away from every changeling. He never felt embarrassed before, the humiliation was towards his brother but it made him want to punch himself in the face for not standing up for his brother, especially during the Interrogation.
Hold up, did Thorax eavesdrop on them, did he overhear the conversation Was he the reason Thorax left the hive?
That made Pharynx extra guilty for betraying his own brother.
He needed to find Thorax, quickly, before something terrible happens to him.