As Derpy and I started to walk, I noticed that she still had a slight intensity in her stance. We had decided to head to Daring’s after we slept and ate breakfast, but there were so many questions yet to be answered.
I decided to skip all the small talk and go straight to the big questions, “So, how’d you know I was in the library? And how’d you know that the Princess was threatening to me?”
At first she looked startled that I was talking to her with a challenging tone, but then she got a warm smile on her face and she began to answer, “Well, I saw you when I was up in the clouds…. and like I said before, you can tell a lot from eyes! Your eyes are filled with knowledge, yet no amount of knowledge can hide the fear present. You knew that what you were about to do could have ended up a suicide mission, yet you continued. When I saw the fear, followed by Princess Celestia, I knew you were in trouble. When I stood up to the Princess there was even more fear filling her eyes than yours, the clues were presented, and it was in just enough time for me to figure out that you were a changeling. But regardless… you’re a pony! You have a strange sense of wisdom, but at the same time, the childish ways are always present. I can’t explain it well, but it was as if you were the elements of harmony, and at the same time, just a small foal, new to the world, scared out of her mind.” Derpy finished
I didn’t know what to say, I can only think to say is, “Thank you”
Despite us having a somewhat conversation, she still seemed startled every time I started to talk, “Hmm? I don’t know what your thankful for.”
“For you saving me of course!” I said, giggling a little at the fact Derpy didn’t understand
“I would have done it for anypony, no matter what! I would have even saved Discord if I saw good in him!” Derpy returned the giggles
“You wouldn’t have saved my mother.” Even after dismissing her as some evil force that I hated, I still refer to her as my mother, although I always tend to hiss it out.
“Surely no one that has made someone as pure and kind as you can be THAT evil!”
“She is THAT evil” I said, disappointment and resentment present in my voice, i decided to change the subject, “Do you know if I can earn a cutie-mark? At least if I have this disguise on?” I asked
Derpy still jumped, “Sorry I’m not used to your disguise voice, its too… eerie sounding”
I coughed a little, clearing my throat “that better?” I asked with a new cheery innocent filly sounding voice
“Much!” she said, just as cheery as my new filly voice, “But I don’t know if you can earn a cutie-mark, honestly I only know about changelings because when I was a filly my best friend ended up being a changeling in disguise, she was kind and even helped me earn my cutie-mark and---“
I cut her off, “Why is your cutie-mark bubbles anyway? What do you do for a living?”
“I’m a mail-mare!”
“You’re a mail-mare with bubbles cutie-mark?” I asked, confused
“Well… my occupation doesn’t correspond with my cutie-mark. You see, if you blow a bubble with soap, and you look at a pony through it, what do you see?” she didn’t wait for me to answer, she just continued, “The pony looks like different, distorted, different from what everyone else sees, you can almost see them magnified, but with tinting, almost like new light present.”
“So your special talent is seeing what others cant see unless put into new light?”
“EXACTLY!” she squealed in delight.
After a few hours of talking I finally fell asleep, but only nightmares followed
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Princess Celestia
“Sister.” Luna stated as I walked into the room, she then stood up and walked calmly up to me, yet I felt the tension in the room grow with every step. “I was watching the whole thing from the stars! Why sister? WHY? That poor filly is having nightmares! She can’t even get 2 hours of sleep without me having to interfere and wake her up!” By this point you could see the tears forming at the corners of her eyes and hear her voice weakening with every second she spoke.
“You know what her kind has done to royalty! You know what happened to Mother and Father! Her kind needs to be put to an end! I’m grateful I have Seeker as my person guard! He warned me that there was an undisguised changeling! He seems to understand me more than you!” I had rage in her tone, not caring about my regality. I regained my composer and added “Sister.” With a tone that was not hissed but practically spat.
Luna stared at me for a moment and said, “Her kind is nothing like her! Have you ever seen a filly changeling?” She didn’t let me answer, “Of course you haven’t! They don’t exist! She isn’t even a true changeling! Yet you put our past and take it out on her! Its not her fault Mother and Father died! Its Chrysalis’s!” And with that she flew out the open window to prepare and raise the moon.
“Oh what have I done?” I groaned to myself