When you're a changeling, diplomacy should be easy. You can sense when a negotiator really wants, and when they don't. When they will give, and when they won't. When to push, and when to flee the room.

When you're a Thorax, diplomacy is hard. Few on the national stage seem to follow friendship like you do, and the differences are terribly stressful.

Fortunately Thorax has somepony special to come home to.

A very pregnant, very princess special somepony.

A gift story for Petrichord as part of Shakespearicles' 2021 Summer of Sin story exchange.