Broken Love

Awakening on the third morning, you are again escorted  by guards to the Queen's chamber.

Where did I leave off.... Oh, that's right.

After our anniversary, we made love for the first time, and he after, he expressed his feelings on a rather... touchy subject.

"Let's have a child, Emmije." He said to me.

"What?" I inquired.

"A baby. I want to have a child of my own. Don't tell me it's never crossed your mind before."

"I can't say it has." I told him. "But, Egas... oh..."

"What?"

"Okay!" I said, defeated. "Fine, we'll have a child."

What was I thinking? A baby? It would be a changeling for sure. The chances of a baby coming from me not being a changeling were very slim. I didn't know what I would do if I was pregnant with a changeling baby. Tell him I was raped? Raped by changelings? But I stopped thinking that far. For now, I thought, I will just worry about how I could get pregnant from this stallion.

When he left for work the next day, I continued the facade, which, by now, was routine, and when he got a safe distance away, I went to the Ponyville library.

It was located inside of a large tree, but no one lived in it, even though it was for rent, so it was open to the public. I stepped into the library and was amazed.

The walls were lined with books on all subjects ranging from A - Z and 0 to Infinity. Everything I could imagine and even things I couldn't were in those books. I just stood there, mesmerized, for at least twenty minutes, and then I remembered why I had come.

Following the spines of the books, I got to the C section and looked for changelings. From the amount of books there were this took a few hours, maybe four hours at most. I found a book called...

The Queen sits for a minute, thinking.

...Ah! I found a book called Everything There Is To Know About Changelings. This book was literally a foot thick, and held changeling - related knowledge from simple things like what we are - shape shifters - to complex spells related to protecting your form from being stolen by a changeling.

I took the book, and signed it out under the name of Emmije. My husband did not get home for another two hours, so I had plenty of time to find the passage about pregnancy.

It turned out that that theory was incorrect. I heard him burst through the door and barely had time to hide the book under a loose floorboard.

He ran up the stairs and into the room very excitedly. He obviously had news for me. So I decided to get the information from him.

"Why are you so.... jumpy, honey?" I asked him.

"I have exciting news!" He burst.

"What is it?" I asked, feeling slightly impatient.

"I got promoted!" He yelled.

I was surprised and happy. "What?"

"Yeah! My boss was looking at a report I filed, and he called me up, told me it was impressive and the next thing I knew I was manager of the Cloudsdale cloud factory!" He said, all in one sentence, then sucked in enough air to fill a tire.

I kissed him, and we moved to the bed. "Why don't we try and make that baby?" He asked.

I thought to the book. I wasn't ready yet, but I loved him so.

"Yes." I said.

We made love again, and I had the feeling that I was pregnant. It wasn't definite, but it just seemed... highly likely.

I'm done for today. Get out.

Now more trusted by the Queen, you step out of her quarters, and rather than have the guards drag you to your cell, they walk alongside you.