Canterlot Magic Academy is a place where those with both the talent and the urge come to learn more about the world of magic. Every conceivable branch of the arcane arts is taught and encouraged here as ponies pass through its halls and come out enlightened.

Naturally, this means those who have an interest in any up-and-coming ponies of noticeable talent need to keep an eye on the place. Some may think of it as a place to recruit, others see it as a place to keep an eye out for threats. The changelings fall squarely in the second category.

Thus, one of their own is sent into the academy, infiltrating not from the staff, but from the student body. She will observe, study, and learn those around her just and much as her courses. This is her mission. But of course, missions don't always go exactly as planned, and one has to adapt to the circumstances. If there's one thing changelings are good at though, it's adapting.

Even if it's to something she never thought she'd see again... no matter how much she had hoped for it.

This is one of two sequels to my standalone fic Crossroads of Possibility that shows things further down the road, if two children were to become good friends, then suddenly not be able to see each other again for many many years. This is the obviously more mature sequel.

A sort of Alternate Universe version of my other story, An Alternate Path and an actual Alternate Universe to Warm Hearts. Familiar characters can be seen in a different environment, and environment shapes characters just as much as they do themselves.

A sort of fun idea had by myself and my co-writer, enigmaMystere, in which we hope to use what we learned from our previous tale to improve on it in all ways we can, while still sort of light-heartedly letting the characters play out to see where things go.