Queen Chrysalis plans another invasion. A mare plots to wipe out the entire changeling race. An ambitious changeling climbs the ladder in hopes of becoming king.
Compound's lost her administrative post and been assigned to what amounts to a suicide team. Will she have to spend these last months of her life alone? Or will she find friendship in the least likely of places?
Chrysalis is alone and lonely, a black heart, in a black skin. There is no love, and none to love; everything had been eternally lost or, so she had thought. Yet, there is the one who is willing to reach out a hoof, in friendship and hope.