From the perspective of the Princess (or as much from her perspective as a little Drone like me can get in third person)

--Sighed Shadow the Book Keeper

“That was not a suggestion Fang” the princess said with a look at the Drone she had to fight to keep her voice calm as anger rose in her chest. The lives of the queens before her, all stored in her memory, told her that showing emotion to a Drone did no good and only served to frighten and confuse them. Because of that she also kept her face blank.

“Of course Princess” Fang said eyes on the ground. One of the best things about a Drone, so far as she was concerned, was that they only needed to be corrected once, she didn't think he would call her Queen again until she’d taken the Hive.

“I’m perfectly aware it will be difficult but at dawn when the hive is the least busy I wish to go outside” The Princess glanced around her hidden little cavern and bit back a sigh. It was nice and all but she wanted to go outside.

“Of course Princess-” Fang replied, but she cut him off before he could protest.

“You’re dismissed until then Fang” she said sitting down and looking at him

Sounding rather upset Fang backed to the exit with a quiet, “Yes princess” before he left

The Princess laid down and thought about things. She really really wanted to go outside and she had made as much clear to Fang. But, was it childish to do something so risky just to satisfy her desire, when it would do no real good? She had to admit that it was, and she wasn’t just risking her own life, if Queen Night caught her Fang and Hiss’s lives would be forfeit as well. So then she wasn’t going outside and she was stuck in this stupid cave. She wanted desperately to go out, but she absolutely refused to do something childish she may be a child in age terms, being only five days old, but she was a Queen by birth.

With a sigh she stared miserably at the wall. It was nice being alone, and she didn’t want to overwork Fang or Hiss by having one of them with her all the time on top of their Hive work. When she thought about it for a moment though her chances of successfully taking the Hive this way where slim. Even if she killed Queen Night there would be some Drones who would fight her. Sure most would fall under a new Queen without so much as a word of protest, but those sworn to Queen Night would fight the Princess to the death, and without her own Drones who were completely loyal she wouldn't be able to handle it. Sure she could kill them all herself, there wouldn't be that many, but the other Drones would think “why doesn't she have anyone to handle it for her?” and “ Isn't anyone loyal to her?” If they thought her weak they would kill her, and she couldn’t fend off all of them alone. Just because they wanted a new Queen didn’t mean Fang or Hiss would fight for her, they weren’t raised for it, and they weren’t sworn to her. If the Hive determined the Princess unfit to rule then Fang and Hiss would side with the Hive, even though for raising her to kill the Queen they would die with her.

So then that left her one choice, not wanting to wait the princess used her magic (the knowledge of how to do so already in her memory) and changed her shape into that of a Drone, that done she left the cavern. Once outside and in part of the hatchery she looked around. The opening to her cave was behind an egg sack that didn’t look anywhere near hatching. As she came around to the other side of it she examined the hatchery. The walls where covered in the green goo that protected the eggs, and there where puddles of it here and there. For the most part though this part of the hatchery was empty of Drones probably because the eggs where all nowhere near hatching. She wasn’t patent enough for those eggs to work for her plan. Rubbing her hooves together she created some of the building material the hive was made of and formed a bag with it. Once done, she slung the empty egg sack over her back.
The easiest part of her task complete the Princess walked through the hatchery. The first time she crossed a Drone her heart nearly stopped.

“Halt” Called the Drone and she froze the tone in his voice made it clear he was a guard she cursed her luck.

“y-yes s-sir” her stuttering on yes may have been a moment of fright, but on sir it was more a reluctance to say the word to a Drone, still she decided to stick with the timid thing.

“What’s your name and rank?” Her barked walking up to her, his face fairly close to hers. I should kill you where you stand She thought furious. What right did a Drone have to demand anything of her? He smelled like spiced honey his voice was sharp, the Princess made a note to remember him.

“C-Cleaner Sir” she said it was the only thing she could think that would give her a reason to have an empty egg sack she hoped he didn’t notice it was new made. “M-My name’s umm.. N-Naiad” She said nervously.

“Very well carry on” Said the Drone before walking away. Stupid Drone, she would remember him. Princess Naiad fought the urge to stick her tongue out at him. It was an interesting name, she would surely have come up with a better one given more time but, it would do.

Finished with the Drone she walked into the more populated part of the hatchery. When asked what she was doing there Naiad answered the same for everyone, She was cleaning, and wasn’t the place a mess. She caught Hiss’s sent at one point but ignored it and set to work. It took a while but she finally found an egg sack ready to hatch she slipped behind it so she wouldn’t be seen. Once safely tucked away she cut a small hole in it near the top, so the goo wouldn’t spill out, and reached in with a hoof. Carefully the Princess removed three eggs from the bundle of the things in the middle and hoped that they wouldn’t be missed. Once she had them she resealed the egg sack and placed her bundle on top of the egg sack on her back. With that she moved on.

“Drone what are you doing with those eggs!” Snapped the Queen, startled Naiad realized Night was talking to her.

“T-They’re deformed my Q-Queen” Naiad replied. This time she didn’t have to pretend to be afraid she wasn’t ready to challenge Night.

“Let me see one!” demanded the Queen. To Naiad’s shock when she turned around to grab one she didn’t have to break the egg to make it look deformed. One of her three eggs contained a Drone that was a dull cooper color instead of black. She grabbed that one and held it out to the Queen who grabbed it with her magic. Deformed hatchlings and eggs were killed because they couldn’t ‘hold there weight’ in the hive. The black coloration of the main part of a changeling’s body was somehow connected to the changeling’s ability to shape shift.

To quote some girl, “A changeling by another color is not as sly”.

“Very well” the queen said dropping the egg back on Naiad’s back “get rid of them”

“Y-Yes my Queen” Naiad said before walking briskly away happy to escape. Once out of sight Naiad found another egg sack ready to hatch, she slipped behind this one and cut it open the same as the last. This time she took four eggs and was careful not to get any deformed ones. Finished with that one, Naiad found one more egg sack without any more problems and selected two eggs. Out of that last one she picked the best two eggs that where in it.

With her eggs the Princess returned to her cavern and pulled the eggs and the sack off her back. One by one Naiad put the eggs in a bundle in the center of the sack stopping at the cooper one. The changeling wouldn’t even be able to shape shift. She thought looking into the clear egg at the coopery changeling, but technically he had saved her life. With much self conflict she added the cooper colored Drone to her bundle and sealed the egg sack. Once it was closed she attached it to the farthest wall from the entrance.

Feeling silly, only then did she remember to change back into herself and, with a swirl of green fire, did so.

Once it was attached she bit into it, making a small opening, and filled it with goo which rolled out of her throat. Afterwards she resealed the sack and looked at it stepping back. “All and all not bad for my first time” Muttered the princess before, tired, laying down for a nap.

Both Fang and Hiss looked at her “So you don’t want to go outside now?” Fang said sounding a bit relieved.

“No.” Naiad said calmly “There’s no point.”

“And those eggs are going to be your Warriors?” Hiss asked confused

“Well Yes” Naiad said glancing behind her at the egg sack containing her nine little Drones.

“Anything else Princess?” Fang asked all politeness.

“Yes” she said with a smile she hoped was confident “My name’s Naiad”

“Thank you My Queen” I said quietly “This will do well for the library you’re building”

“I should hope so” Queen Naiad replied calmly

“You certainly asked a lot of questions” Metallic commented.

“I apologies for only being able to answer three of them” Queen Naiad replyed with a smile

“My Queen I should apologies, I shouldn't have been so blunt” I replied shocked by her apology “I should not have asked so many questions my Queen”

I had asked many questions when My Queen had agreed to sit down with me. She had answered three in one story. ‘When did you get your primary guards?’, ‘When did you first meet the queen before you?’ and ‘How did you get your name?’ I was incredibly grateful for those three questions being answered and I could never ask more of My Queen.

Author's Note

Yay chapter three early :)
Please tell me if there's anything majorly wrong with my grammar or spelling.