Le`Vanna worked for months, every second devoted towards subtly breaking the parent's hold on their children. It was a long and difficult struggle at first, she had to teach the children to see the world in new ways. The first victory she had was with Yarn Spinner, who had always been more open to her coercion than the others. Most likely because he felt some kind of bond with her, believing he had saved her life.

"My parents keep telling me what to do." He mentioned off hand. "They just boss me around and tell me to do stupid stuff..."

"That's just-" Le`Vanna was about to say that it's just how parents are, and that he would have to deal with it, but then she caught herself. If she wanted to weaken his stability, she would need to separate him from those he cares about. That included turning the children all against one another, to some degree, but that could be done later. Anyway, Le`Vanna recognized the opportunity to sow seeds of distaste into the child, and she seized it. "That's just because they want to control you." He looked over to her in shock, surprised at this seeming assault on his parents.

"What? What are you even talking about? My parents don't control me!" He was a bit peeved with Le`Vanna, talking bad about his parents, but she knew how to play things off.

"No, no, you misunderstand. That's what all parents do. All parents are supposed to do their best to control their kids. That way, the kids get sick of them and leave to get their life. Don't you know that?" Now, Yarn's offense that he had taken slowly cooled and became confusion.

"But... Why would they want me to leave?"

"Well.. They don't want you to do it now, no. They just... here, let me try to explain this all to you." Le`Vanna pulled the child up next to her. He responded initially with shock that she had moved him without asking, but did not verbally object. "So, the parents job is to keep you safe and feed you and ll that junk, you know that stuff, right?" He nodded. "Well, they don't wanna do that forever, so what they do is they spend your entire life trying to annoy you so that once your old enough, you'll want to leave and get your own place." He mauled over this for a few moments, and then started to tear up.

"You mean... my parents don't actually love me?" As much as Le`Vanna would have found it hilarious to say yes, she knew that was the wrong decision.

"No, they love you, they just... Here, imagine this. Every day, you have to do a bunch of extra chores, and you do it day after day without sleep. That gets really tiring right?" He nodded, trying to calm down from his little outburst. "Well, that's what it's like raising a kid. They can't do that forever, right? So the sooner you start taking care of yourself, the sooner they can finally get a rest and be happy ag-" Le`Vanna was about to say, 'happy again', but she second guessed that choice of words. "Er... The can finally relax and feel... healthy." She paused for a while, letting what she had said sink in. She decided to top it all off with this. "Basically, it's like lifting weights. It's good for you, but if you do it too long or too much, it's bad for you. Ya get it?" He nodded.

"So the sooner I start taking care of myself, the better for them?" Le`Vanna nodded vigorously.

"Yeah, you've got it!" As he reflected on Le`Vanna's 'advice', they talked more about what his life was like.

As months dragged on, she began planting more seeds like this in the children. Some, however, didn't even need this kind of treatment. Some of them were already mischievous, self centered and prideful. Some of them really only did care about themselves, and this made them ripe for Le`Vanna's taking. One night, she listened to a group of them voicing their frustrations with their lives in Baltimare.

"Those stuck up losers!" Le`Vanna's attention came into focus on three young ponies, these were ones in whom she had already taught to be hateful of others outside the little group of friends they had.

"Sup?" Le`Vanna asked, dropping into their talking casually. In their eyes, Le`Vanna had become a sort of elder, to be respected and listened to.

"Well..." Began one of the three.

"Some jerks from north side were picking on Shelly!" The boy fumed on about their disrespect of Shelly, the girl he had just interrupted, and Le`Vanna listened intently. Essentially, a pony knocked her ice cream to the ground, and didn't even apologize. She had saved up for that ice cream for quite some time, and so Le`Vanna came up with an idea. Sure, it was a big push, she had expected to wait some time before doing this, but by now she was so bored of nothing truly exciting happening. She decided she would have her children hurt a pony physically.

"That is a horrible crime... You ought to make them suffer for that." A moment of silence passed, as Le`Vanna was trying to find a good way to tell them to kick their asses. Shelly saw this and took it as a time to speak.

"Well... What can we even do? They're all bullies up there." Le`Vanna took note of how Shelly stereotyped all northern Blatimare-ians as 'bullies'.

"We can just let them push us around? We should do something back! Maybe break the windows on their houses. It's getting extremely hot around north town, they wont be able to stay cool."

"But we don't even know where they live. How would we find that?" Le`Vanna saw this as the time to interject.

"Enough of these small games, kids." She began, and then took a deep breath. "These worms have wronged you," all three of the kids took a seat so they could pay close attention to their mentor. "What you must do is teach them a lesson... Do any of you know how to fight?" They all shook their heads. "Well... fuck! Fine then, just push them on the ground and kick their faces. Are any of them bigger than you?"

"Well, no. They're kids." Le`Vanna stood there, thinking.

"Alright, if they're little kids, it would be unfair for you to beat them up."

"Yeah... I don't want to hurt any little-" Shelly began, but Le`Vanna sharply cut her off for fear of her spreading ideas of mercy.

"Instead! You will take the youngest of them, and break one of their legs so that they will never walk again." All three of them gasped. A silence dragged on, and then one of the two boys spoke up.

"Well... I'm up for it, I guess... I mean, should we? I mean-" Le`Vanna cut him off, for there was no room for doubt on her ship.

"Yes! You really should. It will be good for you if you do this, you should stand up for Shelly. Those north fucks think they're better than you! Teach them a lesson by taking one of their children from them. Make sure it's the kid who knocked over who her ice cream. Understand?" As another silence dragged on, there was an internal conflict in all of their minds. It worried Le`Vanna, this was the biggest push she had ever made. Had she chosen the right time? Had she done it correctly? What these children said would cement her victory over Baltimare in place.