Celestia took deep breaths and counted backwards from ten in order to calm herself down. She had ruled alone for a thousand years, she could handle this without freaking out.
"What's got your tail in a knot?" Chrysalis remarked snidely, her mouth briefly morphing into a smirk.
"You're an Alicorn." Celestia said, clearly wishing she could deny it.
"So that's what I am... I've always wondered, but that stupid voice was too cheap to tell me."
That peaked Celestia's intrest. If Chrysalis was hearing voices then she needed help immediatly. Celestia didn't want another incident like Nightmare Moon to happen again. "Voices?" She asked, intent on getting more information.
"Yeah, ever since I woke up in that dumb forest there's been a voice telling me what to do in my head."
"When was this?" Celestia asked, cursing inwardly when Chrysalis grew suspicious as to why she was curious.
"Why does it matter to you?" Chrysalis snapped, giving her the stink eye. "It's my mind, not yours."
Celestia knew she was on the verge of losing the chance to find out what exactly was wrong with Chrysalis, not including the obvious transformation into an Alicorn, and that she would have to say exactly what Chrysalis wanted to hear. The difficult part was figuring out what exactly that was.
Celestia couldn't simply say she wanted to help, Chrysalis would clam up again if she were to say something like that. No, she would have to lie. She opened her mouth, but was rudely interupted by the sound of Chrysalis giggling before she could get a word out.
"Oh that's hilarious! You really think you could make a lie that I would actually believe?"
Celestia made to deny what she was saying, but Chrysalis's glare forced her to rethink her decesion, and she closed her mouth instead.
"I'm not stupid, I know you only want to know because you, and I quote, want to help me." Chrysalis shifted her gaze to the right and sighed. "But I guess that I can humor you just thus once since you're so persistant. But this is the only chance you're getting, so you better make the most of it."
Celestia listened closely, absorbing every minute detail as Chrysalis told her all about what had happened since she had woken up in the forest so long ago. Celestia struggled not to recoil in disgust when Chrysalis spoke of how she had burned alive, disembowled, and thrown into a swamp, left for dead in the middle of nowhere by the residents of a small village to the far south when they had seen her wings, among other horrors that hadn't been seen or heard of since the time of Discord's rule.
Celestia was begining to act emotional, tearing up as the story neared an end. When Chrysalis finally stopped talking Celestia threw herself onto the bed, wrapping her wings around the mentally unstable Alicorn. "Oh you poor thing! I'll make everything better, don't you worry." Celestia cried, her motherly side kicking in.
While Chrysalis was initially annoyed, and this was made evident by the way her body tensed and the glare that was directed at Celestia. She was eventually forced to admit that laying in Celestia's embrace was quite comfortable, it made her feel safe, and she relaxed, allowing the princess of the day to sing soothingly to her until she succumbed to mental exhaustion and fell asleep.
"I say we kick her outta Equestria, she deserves it."
Celestia bit down on her tongue to avoid lashing out against Rainbow Dash. Would her ponies never learn? Were they unable to look past their hatred and help those in need?
Celestia opened her eyes, leaving them narrowed to let Rainbow Dash know that she was disapointed in her. "You know I cannot allow that to happen. Yes she attacked Equestria, but only to save her subjects from dying of starvation, subjects who are mostly likely dead, adding the Changelings to the extinction list."
The mane six started to speak up in protest, but she silenced them by raising a hoof.
"Chrysalis is no longer a Changeling, the Elements of Harmony turned her into Alicorn and wiped her memories, she is for intents and purposes inocent of what her past self did.
"Now I will not punish you for protecting Equestria, but I want you all to think about what you can do to make it up to her. She has suffered enough already and it is our duty to help her before we are forced to reveal her to the public."
Stepping down from the throne Celestia walked past the mane six, making it clear that the discussion was over.
Celestia found her hooves taking towards her sister's part of the castle. She barged in when she arrived, not caring if Luna was busy. Celestia needed Luna's wise advice right now, and she was going to get it.
"Luna!" she shouted as she closed the door behind her.
"We can hear thou just fine, thou doesn't need to shout. What is it thy needs so badly?" Luna looked up from the abacus she loved so much, unconciously slipping back into the old way of speaking.
Celestia fought the need to smile, everyone had their comfort item, Luna's was her abacus, and instead hopped up onto her sister's black and blue bed. Celestia quickly explained what was bothering her, Luna listening attentively the entire time.
"Thou needs to relax Tia, it is only natural for the ponies to harbor some resentment towards Chrysalis, she did invade Canterlot after all, but they will get over it in due time, thou just needs to be patient is all."
Celestia thanked her sister and left her to her abacus, eager to go check up on how Chrysalis was doing...
