For some ponies, friendship is magic. For others, it is a curse. Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings, is freed from stone, to find herself once again the Queen of nothing. She flees her captors, and finds her thoughts turning once more to her errant children.

A one-shot speedwrite, completed in 40 minutes, written for the Quills and Sofas contest FiM 10th anniversary panic fiction contest, on the theme 'friendship is magic'. (update: won second place!)