Amor began wandering the new hive, trying to become familiar to the area. He found what was now to be his and Chrysalis’s room, connected by a large staircase off to the right of the thrones to the main chamber of the castle. It was similar to the last hive, but with some differences. This one, being on the edge of the castle and against the rock’s face, had a window burrowed out. A circular bed sat in the center of the room, made and clean. Other than that, there was a single dresser against the southern wall, but the room was still so empty. In the hive, the same few houses littered the street sides, changelings walking down paths made. A hive was practically a town, but built underground.
“King Amor! It’s good to see you again.” A small male who Amor didn’t recognize bowed before him.
“Uh, oh yeah I’m glad to be back.”
The changeling stood up. “Oh, you don’t recognize me, do you?”
“Of course I do. You’re, uh…”
“It’s me, Sheol!”
Amor’s eyes widened. “Oh! Sorry, you’ve grown since I’ve last seen you.”
“It’s alright sir.” Sheol acted a lot like Amor, a dull, lifeless attitude, but still showing respect to others. Something about him caught Amor’s eyes.
“Wait, what’s that?”
“Oh yeah.” Sheol turned to show his side. “I got a cutie mark.”
Amor studied Sheol’s flank. He had a small green flame on his side.
“Do you know what it means?”
“I like transforming. Not to steal love, but to be someone else for once. When I need to get away from it all, I create an alternate identity, have some fun for once.”
Amor smirked. The new hive, the next generation of changelings, could they become pure? If they could become pure, it could begin a new era for the changelings.
Amor walked all through the hive, but one site always drew his attention, the incomplete house of the changeling Souls. In the middle of all of these houses, all these changelings walk past this hollow shell of a house. I have to do something. Amor headed back to the castle finding Purity, Chrysalis, and Celestia sitting around a table, talking and laughing. He stopped in the doorway, leaning against the frame. What could they be talking about? Girl talk is so weird to me. Amor doesn’t eavesdrop, so he didn’t hear a word they said, and didn’t notice Celestia wave him over.
“Amor.” He shook himself from his thoughts back to reality and began walking to the table.
“Amor, what are you doing back already?”
“I would just like to tell you I am going to work on Souls’ house while she is in the hospital.”
“Alright, anything else?”
“No, just send our things from the castle in Canterlot.” Amor left the castle.
He found himself staring at the house. From the outside, standing on the ground, it looked complete. But from above, you could see there was no roof, and the walls were nearly paper thin. When Amor stepped inside, he saw just how hollow the house was. There was one floor at this point, with no tables, no bed, nothing. The walls could easily be knocked down with enough force. Amor still felt guilt, like he thought it was his fault she got hurt. He felt somewhat obligated to do this.
He closed his eyes and concentrated as the fluids began excreting from glands in his mouth. He stuck his tongue out, letting the dull blue fluid run down it. Time to go to work. He droned through the house, chewing on walls to add more of the wax-like liquid changelings use to build. Being the only changeling working, it took Amor an hour to complete one circle around the interior.
“This will take weeks.” Amor decided to work on one wall at a time, slowly moving up it. Showing his primitive mindset, Amor began climbing the wall instead of flying, being gentle enough that he didn’t leave footprints in the drying wax. Amor was so distracted by working he didn’t notice the door open. Still working, Amor felt a slight tug on his tail. He turned to see Chrysalis with his tail in her mouth, looking at him with big, sappy eyes, begging for something. “Don’t look at me like that, it’s too cute.”
“I want to help.”
“And I won’t stop you.” Chrysalis let go of Amor’s tail as the fluids began building in her mouth. She moved to the wall opposite of Amor and began chewing.
Amor finished his wall first and turned back to see Chrysalis halfway up.
“Do you need any help?”
“I won’t say no.” Amor shrugged and flew over to help Chrysalis, starting at the top of the wall. Both lost track of where they were, and somewhere around one-fourth of the way down the wall. Neither of them noticed the other was near until they reached each other, their lips touching. Both recoiled, blushing at each other.
“We…should get back to work.”
“Yeah, good idea.” Chrysalis had a shy look in her face. She fluttered her eyes before heading back to work. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to, but when they were working, and when they had this wax-like fluid in their mouths, it made It a little awkward.
In the time that it would have taken Amor to complete one wall, the couple completed twice as much. Looking over their work, they were slightly proud of themselves. The walls were reinforced, making them much stronger, but the interior was still hollow. Amor had plans for the inside, two floors, a staircase against the wall, shelves and other things like that. Amor wanted to get this done before Souls got back, but since they had no specific date, he decided to work quickly and keep adding until she returned, and he would finish whatever he started. Amor still had an awkward taste in his mouth from the building waxes, but couldn’t help lick it off his lips. Not because of the taste, but just to get it off.
“We got quite a lot done today.”
“Yeah. Tomorrow would you help me again?”
“Of course.”
“Good, thank you.” Amor finally kissed Chrysalis, getting some of her wax on accident. It tasted different, slightly sweeter, but it was still the same thing. He saw Chrysalis with an awkward look on her face and he could immediately tell she got some of his. “Sorry.”
“It’s okay. I kind of liked it, a different experience.” Amor couldn’t argue, it was different.