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// Bug juice by Europa (humor) 
// Story: Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab 
// by Foals Errand 
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 by Europa

"This is offensive towards changelings."

"I know I know, but you know it's a free market and all that."

"What's worse is that it's one of my own people heading up this enterprise! I should have him executed for this."

Twilight slapped Chrysalis's shell where it wrapped around her barrel. "Chryssy, what did I say about executions?"

"I'm the monarch of a sovereign nation, and I say this deserves death!" She held up the offending box, threw it a fair distance into the air, and smote it with an emerald blast from her horn. "Disgusting."

"It actually doesn't taste that bad," Twilight admitted. "I mean, even knowing what it's made from..." she trailed off.

"Our slime is for cocooning our victims! Restraining motion and sedation. Not... not for being made into juice boxes!" the changeling shouted.

Twilight sighed. "Alright Chryssy, how much money is coming in from this?"

"Hmm? Several thousand bits a month, comes out to a few hundred ambers. Why?"

"Alright, what's that one project you've been wanting for a while now, but haven't found the funding for?"

"I have been wanting to get the statue done in the hive... and more funding for organic detachment spells for the military..."

"Right, well, instead of shutting his business down, why don't you support it? Help it grow big and strong, and then tax the buck out of it?"

Chrysalis looked skyward, a perforated hoof tapping her chin. "Hmm... not bad. Ruthless, insincere about my true opinions..." She turned to Twilight and gave a fanged grin. "I'm rubbing off on you, Twily!"

She blushed. "Yeah, well... yeah." She turned around and eyed the ashes of the latest drink craze on the country, made by changelings in more ways than one. "I also still think it's better right from the source."