“Are you ready for this Cadance?” Twilight asked as they all gathered together in the throne room. The Princess of Love was shaking in her hooves.

“Ready to tell my son that I killed his wife, ready to tell my grandfoals that they have to grow up without a mother? No, I’ll never be ready for that.”

Rainbow walked over to her side and pressed herself up against Cadance’s body, both for moral support and physical. It was easy to tell that the effects of getting that memory removed from her mind were still taking their toll, the loss of her horn only made things worse. “You sure you don’t want Twilight to restore it?” Rainbow asked as she gestured a hoof to the missing appendage.

“Yes, I’m sure,” it was her mark, her cross to bear. Nothing would be normal again so she did not want to be normal.

Pulling out a hastily made checklist, Twilight double-checked it before leaving. “Ok, we got the council ponies notified that they’re going to have to lead for a while, Firestar’s second in command was notified, we took the… to the…” she could not bring herself to say body to the morgue, “We've got all the supplies we need for an extended stay for everyone in Canterlot. Anything else I missed?”

Cadance and Rainbow shook their heads. In any other situation Cadance would have laughed and Rainbow would have sighed at this behavior, however, this was not a normal situation. If anything it brought them both a little joy, it was a sign that regardless how bad things got some things would never change. Even with the death of a loved one, Twilight would always be Twilight.

They tried to take solace in that fact, they failed, but they still tried.

“You know you don’t have to do this Twilight.”

“Yes I do and stop saying that,” there was a tear in her eye when she said those words, “We’re family, we’ll get through this together, as a family.”

Cadance smiled, it was a faux smile but it was the thought that counted, “Thank you.”

“Don’t mention it. Okay, let’s get going,” Twilight said as she powered up her horn. In a flash of purple magic the three ponies were teleported from the Crystal Palace all the way to Celestia’s Palace.

…

A flash of purple magic preceded their arrival. Twilight looked around, expecting ponies to be rushing to her with a list of documents that she’d have to make them stack in a corner so she could review them later. What she saw was a mostly empty room, mostly, save for her daughter and Ataxia lying side by side.

From the looks of things Shimmering Night had been through a warzone. She was covered in bruises and her left wing appeared to be broken in more than one spot. How she was not crying in pain could only have been because of the mare next to her.

“What happened?” Twilight and Night both asked at the exact same time. Twilight’s eyes were glued to Night’s wing; Night’s eyes were glued to Cadance’s missing horn.

“You first,” Rainbow said with dead seriousness in her voice. Far too much bad had happened today and she wanted someone to beat up on. Someone other than a pony that she cared about.

Night looked down at the floor, she knew this moment was coming, but that did not make it any easier to deal with. “Moms I… I did something dumb.”

“Twilight!” Rainbow shouted.

“On it!” the alicorn ran to her daughter and scanned her with her magic several times. It was nothing more than a surface scan but it was more than sufficient to detect the residual magic anything added or changed this soon after.

“Mom, what are you doing?!” Night was taken aback by this.

“Shh, I need to know if you were affected too.”

“Mom, no one implanted a memory in me,” Night stated, “What I did was nothing more than my own stupidity. I can’t blame anyone else.”

“What did you do?” Cadance asked with sympathy in her voice. It seemed today was a bad day all around.

“I… Taz, he…” Night found the words were not as willing to make themselves known as she was to get them out.

“She got into a fight with Taz and he ran away,” Ataxia blurted out.

“You… what?” Twilight asked.

Night just glared at her wife. Ataxia raised an eyebrow that all but said, ‘really’.

“Tell me you found him,” Rainbow stated, “Tell me he’s not hiding from everyone in a way that we’d never find him. Tell me that much at least.”

“We’re… we’re looking,” Night replied, downcast.

“Is he the one that broke your wing? And I’m guessing he lost control and that’s why you can’t use your magic to fix it?”

“Yes.”

“Everyone is out looking for him?” Rainbow asked. Night just nodded in response.

“Ataxia, go and bring everyone back, there is a new development that everyone needs to be made aware of.”

“Twilight, are you sure?” It was Twilight’s turn to nod in response. Ataxia got up and took one look back at her wife. She did not know what would happen, but a large part of her did not want to leave, that part of her did not want to leave Night to face Twilight’s wrath all by herself.

‘Twilight’s wrath,’ she almost laughed at the thought, almost.

Not that Ataxia was worried about Twilight hurting her daughter, if anything Ataxia knew she hurt Night far worse than anything Twilight would ever do. Of course, physical pain was only one type of pain. No, what Twilight might say would hurt Shimmering Night far worse than a few broken bones.

A nod from Night let Ataxia know that she was okay with her leaving. Over the hours the two had waited for Twilight’s return, Night had come to accept this fate. Whatever would happen had to happen. It was her self-inflicted punishment.

Ataxia nodded back and left to fetch the others, it would take her a while to round them all up.

When Ataxia left, Twilight used her magic to shut the door behind her. Turning back to her daughter she met her gaze with a glare, “Tell me everything.”

Night gulped at that, there was so much she did not want to say, that she did not want to admit to. However, she had no choice, her parents deserved to know what happened to their only living son.

………….

Three hours, for three bucking hours Starlight sat outside the door asking to be let in. For three hours every time she teleported to the other side of the door, Ana would simply teleport her back outside. Starlight suspected it was an automatic reflex on the part of her sister by this point. Based on the few glimpses she got of her sister Ana appeared to be in no position to cast such a spell. Yet that did not stop her from being deposited back outside on her rump time after time.

“Ana, it’s my room too!” Starlight yelled. As suspected, there was no reply.

She pounded on the door, “Don’t make me break it open!” To her surprise, she could hear the door unlock. With a simple push from her magic, the door opened the rest of the way and she walked inside.

The room was dark, in the corner of the room Starlight could make out whimpering. She did not seek to turn on the light, Starlight merely shut the door behind her. It completed the darkness but she did not need to see. She had grown up in this room and knew it like the back of her hoof. There was no risk about tripping over objects left casually on the ground as both sisters were very neat.

She slowly walked over to her sister’s bed and jumped up on it. She laid down next to her sister’s body and ran a hoof down Ana’s mane. Such actions caused a small shiver to be felt through the covers. Starlight did not say anything, now was not the time for words. Ana would talk when she was ready.

“I hate her.”

The voice came out of nowhere, for minutes or hours the two sisters had been sitting in the dark, saying nothing. Then suddenly, that voice. It was shaky, strained from too much time spent crying, from too much time sobbing, however, there was conviction in it. These were not words spoken in haste; rather, they were spoken from someone that truly believed them.

“Ana, I-”

“I hate her so much right now,” Ana moved, she rolled over to look at her sister. Even in the darkness of the room, Ana could make out Starlight’s eyes. After all, it was from those eyes that she got her name, “Everything she said, everything she did to him, how can I forgive that? How can I ever look at her again?”

“I… I don’t know,” Starlight said. She really had no clue. Everything her mom had said could easily be said to Ana. It could all apply to her daughter. When she thought about it, Starlight figured that part of the reason Night had been so awful about it was because of that fact; it was because she was taking out her anger over her daughter’s feelings for her brother.

That made a certain kind of sense. Ana was nowhere near as good as hiding her feelings as Taz was. The stallion was at least coy about it, Ana was very upfront. It was largely known as the worst kept secret in the palace.

Even if Starlight found that disturbing at times, it did not change the fact that she loved her sister, she was family, and the actions her mom took against her own brother were incomprehensible to the young mare, “Just… just remember, she is your mom. Regardless what she does that will never change.”

“She’s not my mother,” those words scared Starlight. The way it came out, it was not out of anger, but simply stated as a fact.

“Ana, you don’t mean that.”

“Shimmering Night can go to Tartarus for all I care.”

Before she could say anything, the light was turned on in the room, blinding both ponies and startling them into inaction, “Girls, your grandmother is back, she wants everyone in the throne room as soon as possible.” Ataxia said before turning around and leaving a little quicker than she would have liked; However, one look at her daughter almost brought her to tears.

When her vision returned, Starlight was shocked to see her sister already moving. She cleaned up her face but did nothing for her ratty mane. “Ana, your-“

“Come on Starlight, let’s see what Twilight wants,” Starlight could only stare on in shock as her sister left the room.

‘You don’t really mean that, do you?’

She had the distinct impression that her timid little sister was gone, and that she did in fact mean every word she had said.

………………………………………………………………………….

“You check over by the old bakery yet?!” Flash shouted over to Blaze.

“No, not yet.”

“Well, get to it.”

“Can I??” The question went unfinished, however it did not have to be, Flash knew his brother had quite the sweet tooth when it came to surgery treats.

“Yeah, fine.”

“Hey Flash!” a shout from behind him made the white pegasus cringe, he looked over to see Vela flying up to him, “I just checked by the old creek, where next?”

Flash wanted to facehoof, ‘Why are you even here?’ he asked himself for the umpteenth time. Vela knew next to nothing about Taz or what places he liked to go. It was actually a little surprising, or a mark of the pain she saw in the earth pony during that ‘event’ in the courtyard that she was helping look for him.

He had to shake that off, sure Vela was a rude tactless bitch at times, but she was never mean. She was cruel but only in her honesty. She’d never set out to hurt you.

It was a small thing to realize, but when he did Flash could not help but see her in a different light. “Thanks, check by the fair-“ he never got to finish that sentence. A pegasus royal guard flew up to the three of them and interrupted his next set of orders.

“Prince Flash, Blaze, Empress Vela, you’re needed back at the palace,” The royal guard saluted as he relayed their orders.

“We’re busy,” Vela countered.

“Understood ma’am, however Princess Twilight ordered everyone back, don’t worry the royal guard will continue the search for Prince Taz while you're away.”

“Twilight’s back?” Flash and Blaze asked at the same time.

“Yes prince.”

The three flyers each looked at each other, “C’mon, let’s get going!” Blaze shouted.

“What about…?” Vela asked.

“Vela, if anyone can figure out a way to find him, it would be Twilight,” noticing her reluctance, Flash flew over and placed a hoof on her shoulder, “Come on, I don’t think Starlight is going to do anything to you right now.”

She looked at him in shock that he figured that out. She considered playing it off, but that was as likely as Taz suddenly flying past them with newly grown wings. Somehow the pegasus had cut right to the heart of her issue. ‘Maybe you’re not as dumb as I thought you were’, she smiled at that realization. Somehow Flash never failed to impress her, “Okay, let’s go.”

The three flew back to the palace.

……………

Oddly, the hardest pony for Ataxia to locate was in fact Aurora. The former model left the search for Taz citing 'personal reasons', Ataxia eventually located her in the storage room. Despite having no magic or any ability to lift or sort through said boxes, Aurora was going through each of their old memorabilia. She was sorting it by what was broken and what was still good.

“There you are!” Ataxia interrupted her sister-in-law.

“Oh, hey,” Aurora acknowledged her, but she did not stop doing what she was doing.

“You okay?”

“Well, I just found out my brother is in love with me and then my sister took a fight way too far, so, no. I’m anything but okay.”

Ataxia smiled as she walked closer. Hopping up on the box Aurora was trying to go through she merely grinned at Aurora, “So what?”

Aurora just glared at her, “So what, what?”

“You’re a bucking model Aurora, you’re the masturbatory fantasy for thousands of young colts, probably some mares too, is it so shocking to learn that you’re in your brother's fantasies? That a colt that actually got to be around you would fall in love with you?”

“He’s my brother!”

“I ask again, so what?”

“It’s not right, I mean, sure I guess I should be flattered, but still.”

“Hey, I’m not saying you gotta invite him in your bedroom or anything, I’m just saying I understand. Hell, I’ve done worse.”

Aurora looked up, “What?”

Ataxia smiled, “Trust me, once you’ve made use of a few glory holes in nightclubs, not much will bother you after that. Heck the only reason I know I didn’t fuck my brother is because I don’t have one. As far as I know I could've had sex with Radiant or even your husband. I wasn’t exactly paying attention.”

“You’re horrible, you know that?” Aurora raised an eyebrow.

“Tell me something I don’t know,” Ataxia grinned, “Hey it pissed off mom, so I did it. Not to say I didn’t enjoy it mind you.”

“I bet,” Aurora smirked.

“And I know you’ve done some things that you don’t want anyone knowing about, miss model.”

Aurora blushed, but said nothing. Ataxia was right; at the top of her career she had done a few things of her own.

“Imagine how you would feel if a family member found out about them and brought them out into the light?” Aurora’s blush went away. She knew how she would feel about that happening to her, but that was not really the problem right now.

“I’m just trying to put things into perspective for you,” Ataxia joked, “You’ve got nothing to worry about, and if anything I’d say you dealt with it nicely. There’s no reason to beat up on yourself. Come, let’s go beat up on Night.”

“Ataxia, that’s your wife!”

“So? Did you forget who you’re talking to?” Ataxia smirked, an action that caused Aurora to punch the mare in she shoulder.

“Be nice to my little sister. She’s just in a bad place right now; I know she didn’t mean it.”

“I’m not the one you gotta tell that too. Come, Twilight wants us all in the throne room.”

“Mom’s back?” Ataxia just nodded in response. “She’s pissed, isn’t she?”

“I think there are bigger things going down. Cadance came with her… well, she’s missing her horn.”

“What?!”

“I don’t know the full story, but we’ll find out when we get to the throne room.”

“Oh my…”

“Come on, you’re the last one I need to gather.”

Aurora looked at Ataxia with a disbelieving glare; however, she went with her. Whatever was going on was big, bigger than big. Soon she’d have all the answers she could want.

Including those answers that she did not want.

…………………………………………

It was a rare day to see such a concentration of power sitting together in one room, but that was exactly what was occurring. Ataxia noted this as she walked into the room with Aurora. Twilight, Rainbow, Luna, and Cadance were all sitting near the thrones, although it was a mark of the situation that no one was sitting on a throne. The symbolism was obvious even to her. It all but said: ‘Although we’re in charge, we’re all still family’.

She saw her wife over by the side of Rainbow’s throne, sometime when she was away Twilight must have fixed her wing. Strangely, Ataxia did not feel bad about breaking it as she did. To her she had not been hurting her wife, she had hurt a stuck up bitch that took her own personal bias way too far against someone she loved.

That pony was gone now, when Ataxia looked at Night now she only saw her wife. She saw it in the tears that Night still cried. She saw it in the downcast expression on her face as she was forced to confront her mistake head on. What really shocked Ataxia was the conviction in her stance. Something had happened, something Ataxia missed out on had occurred between Night and Twilight. Something they would all know soon enough.

As Ataxia walked over to join her wife, Aurora went to join Icarus. The griffin wrapped a claw around his wife and brought her in for a hug. When she looked around, she saw looks of concern on Radiant and the children. They each noticed the missing horn on Cadance’s head but from the looks of things they had not been told what had happened.

Twilight patiently waited for the two mares to take their seats before beginning.

She looked around at her assembled family, all the foals were sitting up front, although Ana and Starlight were potently going out of their way to not look at Night. The rest seemed to take comfort in their parents.

They were family, they were stronger together.

Which is the reason why she hated what she had to do now.

“I don’t think it comes as a surprise to any of you that we’ve suffered today. However, what will come to a surprise is how badly we’re hurting. My son, Taz, he’s run off. Looking for him will largely be an effort in futility due to the nature of his abilities. I don’t know if we'll ever find him.”

“What happened to my mom and where’s my wife?” Radiant blurted out, no longer able to hold his tongue. For her part, Cadance just cried.

“I’m getting to that, before I do though I want to reinforce something. We all have to make choices in our lives, some big, some small, yet they all have consequences. When we choose to do something, we accept the consequences for those choices, even if we don’t know what they will be.”

Twilight paused before continuing, “There is a creature out there that's able to make that choice for us. I don’t know how, but today Aurora came to me because she was assaulted by such a creature,” Icarus squeezed his wife tighter, he knew it might be bad, but he never thought something had actually attacked his wife. His left claw reflexively grabbed at Siros’s Vengeance. His desire to seek such vengeance himself was clear.

“They changed her memories, almost making her do something she would never do.”

“Is there any way to fight against something like that?” Starlight asked.

“No, you are the sum of your experiences; they make you who you are. The nicest, kindest mare in all of Equestria can be made to do the worst things of her own violation simply because, to her, she’s always done things like that. It’s the worst power I can think of, and…” Twilight paused and gestured over to Cadance to continue.

“And it’s already happened,” Cadance closed her eyes, not wanting to look at anyone when she said the next part, “Sometime earlier today it happened to me, I was assaulted by whoever did that to Aurora.”

A sickening feeling developed in Radiant’s gut as Cadance continued, “They changed my memories to make me attack Firestar. Twilight got there, and Rainbow cut off my horn before I could do anything else, but… but it was too late… Radiant, Flash, Blaze, I’m… I’m so sorry,” she cried out the last part.

“What are you saying?” Radiant’s eyes went wide, he knew what had happened, he just would not accept what had happened, “What are you saying?” He repeated.

Twilight walked in front of Cadance, “Radiant, I’m so sorry; there was nothing I could do to save her. Firestar’s gone.”

Flash started bawling at that. Ana walked up and wrapped the pegasus in her hooves, allowing him to cry out.

Blaze simply looked up at his dad and asked, “Where’d mom go?”

That one question, it broke Twilight’s heart, more so than anything else that happened that day. Radiant picked up his son and squeezed him tightly in his hooves.

“Daddy, where’d mommy go?” Blaze was puzzled.

Everyone in the room cried out at that. Much to the confusion of Blaze and Dayspring, the latter of which found himself in his mom’s hooves.

Twilight did her best to continue, “We suffer much under the actions of someone else, someone that used one of us against ourselves. That can never, NEVER happen again. As such consider this a standing order for all of us. No one is to go anywhere alone until I revoke this order. Icarus, Aurora you two are together. Vela, I trust you to look after your brother,” Vela just nodded at that.

“Flash, look after your brother for us, Night, Ataxia, you two are together. Starlight and Ana, you two.”

Candance spoke up for the last set, “Radiant… if you don’t want to be with me,” Cadance looked at her son, uncertainty on her face.

For his part, Radiant was still in shock, this news, he was still processioning it in his head, his son seemed to be in doubt as to what it even meant. His gaze traveled from Twilight to his mom. “I… I…”

“If you want another partner Radiant, just say so. We’ll pair you with Luna instead,” Rainbow said the words. This was it, the moment that would decide what happened next, no one knew how he would react, if he would hate his mom or not.

He wanted to say no, his anger was taking hold, he wanted to yell, he want to curse, he wanted… he wanted… “Daddy, where’s mommy?” Blaze asked again.

“Mom, I…” he glanced down at his son still in his hooves, “I don’t know what to do. What, what do I do now? I… I…” his tears were falling on his son’s face.

Cadance could not sit back any longer, she ran to her son and grandson and wrapped them both up in her wings, crying as she did so.

“I need you; I need your help, I… I need you …” It was too much for his mind to take. Part of him, a large part wanted to be angry. It wanted to rage and scream at his mom for her actions. Regardless of what Twilight said, it had been her that killed his wife, it was Cadance that had that blood on her hooves.

He could not do it; he could not lose the two most important mares in his life in the same day. The confused little pegasus in his hooves reinforced that much. Blaze and his brother tipped the scales in his mind. They needed their grandmother; they could not shut her out, regardless of what she did.

Some things were more valuable than personal feelings.

Twilight cried at the sight of mother and son reunited. She had ran the math in her head, it was not good. Yet, somehow, the two had beaten the odds. Radiant chose to use this moment of horror to strengthen his family, not weaken it. ‘You would be proud of him, Firestar.’

‘I am.’

Twilight heard it, but she did not know if it was her own mind playing tricks on her, if it was Gaia, or if it was something else. Much like the pinkie sense, she chose to let it be. Some things were better off not known, just appreciated.

“Luna you will be with…” Twilight looked around; in truth she had overlooked the night princess.

“I shall take care of myself,” Luna said with a smile on her face. Before Twilight could object she cut her off, “Twilight you may have taken my sisters spot as ruler of Equestria; however, I still outrank you. I’ll deal with my own safety. Trust me, if they come for me they’ll find more than a match for anything they try.”

“It doesn’t work that way Luna; relying on brute force will only work against you in a mental confrontation.”

“Indeed, but you forget that I walk in dreams, I know how the mind works, including my own. They will find my defenses more than prepared for any such actions.”

Twilight did not agree, but technically Luna was right, Twilight had no right to command her to do anything. Besides, the spell she was about to use only worked in twos. She powered her horn and released her magic across the room. Each pony found themselves magically bound to the other. They all looked at a barely visible magical wire that connected them to their opposites. Even Twilight had such a wire connecting her to Rainbow.

“Mom, what is this?” Aurora asked.

“A little spell I worked on with Night. This will prevent you from being more than ten hooves away from the other at any given time. It’s also designed to warn you if the magical energy I sensed in Aurora and Cadance comes into its range. It will only break if there is a life-threatening emergency or I break it. I don’t care how embarrassing it gets, we’re a family and we will protect each other.”

There were a few looks of concern; however, in the end they all nodded their heads. It made a certain kind of illogical-logical sense to do something like this.

“Yes we were hurt by the actions of others, but we were also hurt by our own actions,” Twilight glared at her daughter when she said those words, “Shimmering Night told me what happened to my son. She told me everything, every little detail.”

“I’m sorry,” Night looked down when she said those words.

Twilight nodded but continued, “Whereas Cadance committed horrible acts under someone else's control, your acts were your own doing. Shimmering Night, do you accept my judgment in this regard?”

“Of course.”

“Very well, Shimmering Night, you are hereby banished from Canterlot, until such time as Taz returns to us.”

Almost every jaw in the room dropped at that, “But… but she’s family!” Aurora jumped up to her sisters defense.

“Yeah, Twilight that’s too far,” Icarus commented.

“Twilight, are you sure about this?” Luna asked.

“Very well, I accept your judgment,” Night stood up, silencing any further debate on the subject. No one present had ever expected Twilight to do something like this.

“Ataxia I’m afraid that you'll be forced to go with her,” Twilight looked on, saddened by the action.

“You can’t do that?!” Ana shouted, “You can’t banish mom too!”

Night cringed, the implications of that shout was not lost on her. “I have to; otherwise Night would be stuck by herself,” Twilight said.

“I don’t care about her!”

New tears fell out of Night’s eyes at her daughter’s words. Starlight looked back at her parents, both of which were heading to the door. She nodded once, understanding crossing her face, “It’s ok, grandma, I understand.”

Twilight nodded at her granddaughter. She figured that Starlight would catch on, “Ana, I’ll explain it to you another day,” Starlight whispered to her sister.

Ana pouted, but said nothing.

As Ataxia and Night walked out of the door, Twilight magically shut it behind them, the symbolism clear.

“I can’t believe Twilight would do something like that!” Ataxia complained, “I never, never, never thought she’d kick her own daughter out of Canterlot.”

“It’s genius, isn’t it?” Night said with a small smile.

The comment caught Ataxia completely by surprise, “What?”

“Think about if for a second. Taz ran away, it’s my fault that he did, I’m the only one that can bring him back.”

“Yeah, what if the royal guard find him?”

“Ataxia, they’re not going to. You know what he’s like. Only Twilight or I have any hope of tracking him, and it may take a long time to do so.”

“I… I don’t get it.”

“We both have responsibilities, we have a family. As things stand we can’t just give up all that to go hunt him down. This way, this way I’m free to do what needs to be done. No pony will expect anything from me. I can concentrate one-hundred percent on finding him.”

“What about Ana and Starlight?”

“Starlight already figured it out; I saw the look on her face. She’ll take care of Ana for us. Besides, this also makes me pay for what I did to Taz, Ana will see it in time; she’ll see me making reparations for my behavior. It'll go a long way to helping her forgive me.”

“Wait, Twilight planned all this?”

“She never ceases to amaze me. Somehow, even with these horrible events going on, she managed to keep her head and look beyond her personal feelings. This makes her seem more like a ruler in a time of crisis and increases the likelihood of us all getting through this; while giving me some pity for having to suffer for my actions. That’s why she couldn’t tell anyone what was truly going on. It had to be real to, well, be real.”

"I still don't get it."

"Ataxia, everypony hates me for what I did, heck, I hate me for what I did. This way everyone will see me suffering and want me back, this way I'll be able to get my brother back even though I'm a princess and have other responsibilities. It's the best of a horrible situation. Plus this takes a small part of the sting away from Firestar's death. It gives everyone something else to consider other than breaking down in mourning during this time of crisis."

Understanding crossed Ataxia's face, “That’s devious, was this your idea or Twilight's?”

Night just grinned at that but did not reply to the question. In truth they had come up with it together, the real challenge had been getting Rainbow to play along. She did feel bad about one thing though, “I'm sorry that you got caught up in all of this. If you want I can break the ties that bind us and you can go back.”

Ataxia laughed at that, “What makes you think I’d want to be anywhere else? Besides, this way I’ll be with you always, and you know I love showering with my favorite mare.”

Night sighed as they left the palace gates, “I guess this will be a punishment after all.”

Ataxia punched her in the shoulder for that comment.

Author's Notes:

True cunning is the ability to make something good from a horrible situation.