No Truer Love.
Chapter 2: New start.
When the queen awoke again, she was in a large tent. She no longer felt any pain, but she still felt so very weak. She looks around, seeing her changelings lying in beds of their own. They're wounds bound and healing. The filly from before stood at the end of a bed, her horn glowing as she heals one of the smaller changelings.
The queen shakily tries to get up, but someone gently lies her back down. "Don't move, miss. You're still badly hurt." She looks over, seeing a handsome young colt with an inky black coat and deep green mane. He had bright blue eyes as well, full of life and care. "W-Where am I?" She asks. "You're in the badlands, in the village gemstone." The colt explains, checking her wounds. "My sister and I found you in the dessert…We…couldn't save all your friends. I'm sorry. Some of them seemed to have starved to death before we could reach them."
The queen begins to cry. "I know what you and your people are….You are all welcome to stay here with us. We have enough love for you and your people to feed off. All we ask is that you don't attack anyone." He rewraps her wounds. He then goes to another changeling, doing the same to him.
The filly trots over. "You're awake! Thanks the stones." She says, handing the queen some soup. "I see you met Opal." The queen nods slowly, eating the soup. "Why are you helping us? Why not leave us to die?" The pony blinks in shock. "Now why in Gem would we do that?! That's terrible. No one should leave anyone to die. Pony or otherwise." The unicorn trots off to treat others, leaving the Queen to puzzle over this new knowledge.
