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The following takes place immediately after "Lessons In Love," and is meant to recap all that has transpired over the course of the story so far.

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As the magical wave of searing energy advanced towards them, Lily clasped Twilight's hand in her own, her knuckles white with the force she and the magi clung to eachother with. They say your life flashes before your eyes before you die. The memories came in a rush...

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Lily blinked in the bright light, her bleary eyes focusing on the group of her fellow changelings before her. she wobbled on unsteady feet, feeling weak... Fatigued, even... "Liliana." One of them said, stooping low in front of her.

"Uuh!" She gave a throaty groan, all her mind could comprehend to make at that moment. "Uuhh!" Fear lanced through her primal mind, filled with a void lacking knowledge and intellect.

"Shh. Shh." The voice soothed her. Spoke to parts of her body that hadn't fully awakened yet. She felt a throb in her chest, a sensation almost alien to her new, racing brain. "Relax. We're your family, Liliana..." Her wide eyes focused on the tall figure before her. She was a striking woman... Long, flowing, neon green hair... Her hands and arms marked with the hollow holes of her existence. Feeling trust and warmth take the place of doubt and fear in her heart, Lily extended her own hand. A hand filled with the same holes.

"I am your mother, Liliana." The tall woman spoke, gently guiding her to her feet. She swayed, found her balance... Wide eyes looked up at the woman before her again. "Can you say it? Mo-ther."

"Mm..."

"Yes?"

"Muuh..."

"Come on, Liliana. You can do it."

"Muuh-thhh..."

"Say it, Liliana. Make me proud."

"Muuthee... Muutherr!" Lily said her very first word, her infant mind dancing with glee as her mother's face broke into a wide grin.

"Everyone, come greet your new sister. Lieutenant Liliana." Joy, greater than anything she had ever felt before, raced through Lily's heart as the other lieutenants flocked around her, hugging her, holding her close. She bubbled over with the sensation, happy that she could feel such things now. Every moment before this had been a blur. Darkness. A void in her memory. But now, in this one moment, Lily felt...

Blissful.

It didn't last...

Her development progressed quickly. In a week, she was forming sentences. In a month, she was speaking normally. In a year, Lily was intelligent. Sentient. Young, full of energy, and ready to please her mother. Her queen. Her Chrysalis. She worked hard, gathered much valuable intelligence, and even took the fledgeling lieutenant Ajax under her diaphanous wing. What a bitter and regretful mistake that had been...

Ajax was foolhardy, brash, and corrupt. Even for a changeling. Time and again Lily had been punished for his failures, both at his hands and at Chrysalis'. Still, she exceled, gaining twice as much favor as she lost with each beating, each cut, each rough, unforgiving session of sweaty, rough sex... Ajax was brutal. All around vicious. Yet time and again she opened herself to his wishes, made herself a victim to his sickening brand of "Love" as he called it. Why?

Honestly, Lily never knew. He had fascinated her at the beginning. Such a rough and uncaring, callous mind could be a boon in some scenarios. When tact and side-stepping wouldn't solve an issue, Ajax would finish it with one decisive, easy stroke. He had a knack for that. Where Lily would step back and evaluate, try to make her options work for her, Ajax would charge forward and MAKE his own option. But it had devolved... He became hard-headed and set in his ways. If it couldn't be taken by force, he could hardly be bothered with it. And that included Lily. Whenever she fought his advances, danced out of his snatching grip, he would turn on the drones. They would obey, of course, and many times suffered at his hands. Lily winced when she watched him kill a weak drone, when she knew she could have withstood his beatings, his choking...

His cuts.

She got a break when she was designated to infiltrate Canterlot, to begin siphoning Chrysalis information on one young princess. She was on the forefront of the assault, joining with the horde outside once Chrysalis had taken Cadence's place a mere week before her own wedding. She had delivered the final blow to Shining Armor's spell. Had unleashed and controlled her assignment of drones as they captured key guard posts and barracks throughout the city. She had been closest to Chrysalis when they were flung far and away by the powerful spell.

Life returned to a moderate sense of normalcy, surprisingly... Chrysalis called her drones, who began making their way across the wide-flung corners of Equestria to the other side of the Everfree forest... Lily helped organize them, helped her queen recover, just generally helped. The return of Ajax was a curse, though... Angrier and more violent than ever, her own mistake viciously raped and brutalized her every chance he got. Their already weak force couldn't stand to lose any more drones, so Lily bore the brunt of his aggression quietly.

But that all changed... On the one day Lily actually felt good enough to handle Ajax, and dare she say enjoy herself, Chrysalis called her. The younger lieutenant fumed, but didn't dare defy his queen. Lily went to Chrysalis and was granted probably the greatest blessing in her entire life.

"Who says there's only one kind of love we changelings can feed off of?" Those words had sent chills up Lily's spine... She still shivered when she remembered how Chrysalis had said them... "GO! Take the six, bring me their very essence, and all of Equestria's love will be ours yet!" Lily had saluted, as was proper, then turned to her new task with a devious grin on her face...

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Bumping into Fluttershy in the Everfree forest. Lily was no stranger to interacting with humans, avians, and magi. But the fire-induced conversation had been one of the most awkward encounters in Lily's entire life. Still, the vexing avian had been kind to her, helped her get her foot in the door...

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To her new apartment. Maggie, the owner, agreed to let her stay there and work off her rent. Her very first room. Changelings slept in trees, on the ground, clumped together with other drones... Lily had had the luxury of a bed in Canterlot, and during her assignment there had slept better than she could ever recall... But this bed. This bed was hers. Liliana's. A human Liliana, but hers nevertheless... The next day, she would begin work on-

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Knocking on the front door to Fluttershy's home. The avian squeaked and had almost flattened Liam with her hug. She invited him in, teary-eyed and happier than ever. Nighttime came soon after, and Lily had helped her heal a bunny. A poor, helpless, injured bunny. Any other day, Lily would have snapped the thing's OTHER leg and tossed it at the nearest den of wolves. Curses, these humans were already rubbing off on her. But still. Fluttershy had kissed her for that.

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Mouth open in ecstasy. Fluttershy's back arched atop Liam's rock-hard body, caught in the throes of an intense orgasm. Just her second. Lily rolled her over and brought the poor avian to a third, then a fourth... Fluttershy had hardly felt a thing as Lily made the most pivotal discovery in all of Changeling history...

They could feed off of Physical desire. Lust. Submission. Passion. These were all kinds of love for Changelings to indulge in. To feed off of. Lily pulled the green orb from the poor avian's chest, tucking it away like the greedy woman she was. What was more, she enjoyed herself for a while longer, showering and cuddling with Fluttershy before disappearing without a trace... Liam was gone, replaced by Liliana, who was more than happy to showcase her prize to her queen...

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The spa. Rarity. Massages with the twins. An intense experience, followed the weekend after by a high-brow party. Lily was now an avian with a large chest, Samantha Sunrunner. Her hard work had allowed her to buy a strapon, now concealed in her purse as she mingled. Alas, Rarity invited her over for the afterparty, with just the two of them...

Rarity had been her second target. Not the order Lily would have preferred, but it worked. The dirty magi came at the careful ministrations of Lily time and again, and surrendered her purple essence, the second in Lily's collection.

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Her knuckles were bloody. The tape was matted with it, as it had done little to help ease the pain of punching the trees. Still, she had worked her ass off, and finally got her chance with Applejack. The others were gone from the quaint farmhouse, leaving the two of them alone. A hard morning of work, and they were done. They had a whole evening to relax. Lily showered, contemplating her tactics...

When Applejack had met her in the doorway. Lily wasn't going to let her chance pass her up. She took the full-bodied woman right then and there in the bathroom, extracting a third essence with ease... Not that she would have missed her chance. Applejack had shown her the secret to no tan lines over the next week that Lily remained with them.

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The wind roared in her ears, nearly deafening her. Terror gripped her heart as she fought to control her freefall. Dash had beaten her by a mile, and then some... But in doing so, had triggered a Sonic Rainboom that left Lily reeling in the air. She had accepted the end right then and there. Like it was going to be nothing... She had failed. Three of the six essences belonged to her, and here she was, about to be splatter on the forest floor beneath Cloudsdale.

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Dash soaked her with another orgasm, the thin fluid splattering all over Lily's front. She herself was nearly tapped, almost done with sex a short fifteen minutes into the harsh session. She struck when she could, taking Rainbow Dash's essence before she lost her mind against the whip-tight avian's ministrations made her pass out...

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Ajax. Terror, black and oppressive, had taken ahold of Lily as her worst nightmare very nearly came true.

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The same man that had made Lily wake in a cold sweat more nights than she'd care to remember was thrown into the air, his ass cheeks red with the beating Maggie had delivered. Her landlord, boss, and all-round friend had defended Lily's life that day. Wether she knew it or not, she had... And Lily had gained the most valuable thing she could ever have asked for. Tea at Maggie's apartment had never been so delicious. She and her first friend smiled and laughed the night away.

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Pumping bass and bobbing hips all round, Lily lost herself to the constant stream of kisses, gropes, and dancing. She took a seat off to the side during a break, and had been assaulted by Pinkie Pie. Thankfully. Seduction was hardly necessary. Pinkie gladly took Lily home for some... Fun... Indeed, that night had been one filled with one kink or another, and Pinkie Pie gladly indulged in her own deepest fantasies. Hers had been the easiest essence to take, and Lily had slept the day away on the frilly bed...

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Betrayal. There was no pretty word for it. Lily had lied to her friend, shifted into another lie, and was now sitting on the edge of the guest bed in Twilight's home. Sobs racked her body as she fought the conflicting emotions in her chest. She was compelled to go through with it. The discovery the day before egged her into it. No more farce of studying, of being who she wasn't. Lily sprouted wings and flew to Zecora's...

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Twilight cried out as the tenth orgasm signaled the end of their session. Lily had taken her essence long ago, but the aphrodisiac burned in her veins for much longer... Covered in spit, cum, and sweat, Twilight collapsed on her bed. The image struck a chord in Lily.

Twilight looked just like her when Ajax had his way... She barely forged the thought to untie Twilight and make her way back downstairs. As her mind sagged in the absence of the aprhodisiac, Lily made a decision... One that would effect all of Equestria.

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The bonds cut into her wrists as much as Applejack's words cut into her heart. The worst part was they were entirely true. Every word the farmwoman said struck true and deep into Lily's chest, made her bite back a bitter remark and tears. Twilight, though, stuck up for her... And hatched a very hairbrained scheme.

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Black blood. Ajax's blood. It sprayed into the air, flung in an arc from her stained hands. Ajax fell face-first, his cold green eyes already glazed over with death.

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""I forge my own path! No more do I follow the orders of a delusional, selfish queen! No more will I bow my head to the whims of someone who does not know the simplest of joys in life! I will live my life as I see fit, and not under the tyrannical rule of Chrysalis!"

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"KILL HER!" Fleeing from her queen and her fear, Lily pounded through the forest. Flashes of blinding light filled her vision as changeling after changeling was blasted aside, knocked through branches, into the ground, into the air... Shining Armor's spell had kept her safe. Lily leapt from the cliffside, shifted into Dancer, and spread her wings...

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Agony. Pain. Torment. All of these things flashed through her heart, and her arm... Still, she recovered from both, the kind words of a doctor and a nurse bringing her out of her funk. Arm restored to it's full form once more, Lily left the hospital, was escorted into the castle.

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Celestia and Luna themselves congratulated her. She was being praised for her actions. A hero. For fighting her own race. For defying her own queen. Lily's eyes and lips split into a smile.

Never before the previous year would Lily ever have imagined she would break from the horde, that she would be the one changeling to defy Chrysalis and become truly, sincerely, and wholly...

Independent.

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Luna's words were true. At the groundbreaking ceremony, Maggie and Lily joined hands and swept into the recently-constructed business. That night, Maggie's welcomed it's first customers.

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Celestia's mouth hung open as Lily pushed inside her rear, the first woman to do so in the thousands of years the beautiful princess had lived.

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Lily gave a loud "Oof" as she fell into the bed. The gryphon, a normally vicious being of rage and anger, instead looked down at her with a look of pure lust in her eyes. Lily, shifted into Rainbow Dash, swallowed hard.

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Spinning in a slow circle with Dream Dancer to a simple waltz. The poor man's face fought tears as he held the visage of his dead wife in his hands...

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Twilight pulled the hood off of her head with a smile, making Lily squeal as she welcomed her newest friend into her business and home.

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Lily, Twilight, and Fluttershy in a circle, licking and teasing one another to many shared orgasms. Lily felt the warm glow of a unique shared experience amongst good friends...

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Twilight cried out in the middle of the park, begging for orgasm... The whole legal debacle earlier had left her horny, ready for more... That is, until they were found out...

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The three woman indulged in their deepest, darkest fantasies... Celestia dominated Twilight, while Lily took the reins from the hand of a benevolent ruler. Together, the three delved deeper than they had ever been before.

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The haunting strains of a cello had roused Lily from her sleep, and the last notes of a joined tune had set off a spark between herself and the sultry, slender Octavia.

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Lyra's hands glowed with that unique, orgasm-inducing spell. Lily succumbed time and again to the skilled touch of a master, shuddering and panting as she reached nine, ten... Eleven orgasms.

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Lily's body jerked left and right in the powerful magi's hold, the thrumming bass pounding through her body even as the DJ jerked her from side to side, like a puppet...

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Vinyl Scratch's thick, alluring body, crowned by a decidedly male penis, open and eager for more pleasure. Lily set in on her task with gusto, and more than a little eagerness.

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Octavia's back arched as she took her revenge on the DJ who had allegedly stolen her work.

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Pinkie Pie and Lily smoothly moving against Vinyl's body, their faces screwed up in pure, undiluted pleasure... The sticky orgasms that came after, and a night spent sprawled on the bed with the other two women

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Nyralith. The deceptive little minx... She had stolen Rarity's heart, and now was accusing Lily of being a hussy, and what's more, demanded that she didn't ever speak with Rarity, Twilight, or ANY of the wielders of harmony ever again... Lily fought back tears, but a quick visit to Zecora in the Everfree forest, and Lily had her solution in-hand...

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The flurry of sex and shifting as Lily, Rarity, and Nyralith all made love to one another. The scene afterwards, though, had broken Lily's heart. Those two really loved each other... Lily curled up in her old apartment and smoothly drifted off... She had made a new friend today. Another changeling. Nyralith.

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Shining Armor and Cadence had tapped Lily out, made her night full of one remarkably sticky and unforgettable sexual experience...

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Twilight had cast a spell wrong. Odd, for one so talented... And in her desparation, turns to Lily to help with a rather unique and troublesome problem.

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Zecora sends a mysterious plant to Lily, who gets invited into the ebony woman's home for some unique herb-induced orgasms and one shocking revelation... Lily has an essence herself. Her color is turquiose...

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A flustered postal worker recieves a very much-needed helping hand from an understanding whore on a cold winter day...

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A troubled husband and wife visit Maggie's for some help, and get more than they ask for in the form of a very eager and curious Lily... Not to mention the strange gift that Lily and the girls recieve... She never told them about the jizz in the cookies.

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A strange request from Luna's own protoge leads to a bet and a night full of painful memories... Lily told Trixie about how cangeling lieutenants are forged in a bloodbath, a deathmatch between hundreds of drones. The strongest ascends into individuality, and memories of Ajax haunt Lily's dreams... Despite the careful ministrations of a very skilled Magi. On-par with Twilight herself, even...

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Twilight propositions Lily for a full three-day session... And Lily gleefully accepts. The next seventy-two hours are spent making love, showcasing her pet, and tying Twilight up in all new imaginitive ways... At the end, Lily and her fellow co-workers team up to drive Twilight over the edge again and again.

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The ordeal leaves Lily bedridden for a week, thought Twilight has plans of her own to take revenge on the changeling... Fearing the worst, Lily is surprised when Twilight makes four copies of herself, and treats Lily to a six-way lesbian orgasm-fest... The whole experience, though, most likely awakened Lily to her feelings for the sultry magi.

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The princesses send a strange request to Lily... Apparently, Celestia, Luna, and Cadence aren't the only royal family members... Lily spends a very long night being dominated by Dark Conquest, a man of unfathomable power, rage, and hatred... But surprisingly gentle when the changeling is pushed to her limits.

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After a nearly flight-ending injury, Lily learns something new about herself, and changelings in general... Suffering for a long week from a shattered wing, Lily finally gets on the mend, and recieves a strange and satisfying apology from the star, Soarin.

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Lily stands over a deceased Granny Smith's casket, crying tears. A stern reprimand from Applejack and a tense, silent argument later, Lily was frightened, if not concerned for her life. Lily watched as Macintosh carried her frail body, still smiling and holding a fresh sprig of apple flowers. A golden glow of magic set the woman in her grave, smoothed the earth over, budded new life, new grass on her resting place... The golden specks of a beautiful soul rose into the heavens, lost in the blaze of a dying day.

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Applejack and Lily played together, slept together, made amends with a rough, heartfelt session... It bridged the gap they had made between themselves, all past transgressions forgotten.

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Spitfire makes a request Lily can't deny, and after giving Dash a goal to meet, Lily acts as a proxy for the captain of the Wonderbolts... Dash, however, takes the prank personally, and almost misses the chance of a lifetime...

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Dash shows her thanks to Lily a few months later, letting the changeling indulge her darker side by showing Rainbow Dash the joys of being submitted to pleasure beyond their control. Rainbow Dash pays her back with tickets to the show of a lifetime...

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Lily fights the fear of death by falling one more time, but is saved by Spitfire and Dash at the last minute. Thousands cheer her on as she loops gracefully in the sky, the first avian to act as a guest in a Wonderbolts show.

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Spitfire groans as Lily treats her abused breasts with a magical lotion, and the night spent inside a weather team cloud afterwards makes Spitfire and Rainbow Dash closer than ever, thanks to a very passionate Dancer.

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Macintosh visits Lily for a much-needed break...

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Again, Macintosh comes back, this time for a different brand of pleasure. It turns out the big man has a thing for Twilight Sparkle, and shifting into the puple-haired magi makes Lily realize how exciting things can be from the business end of a neglected man's desire...

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Lily takes a break from Maggie's at the request of Celestia. She visits Twilight in Ponyville, deciding it's time she spent some time with her good friend, discovering her feelings for the Magi over the course of a week... It's a shame both women can't hold out on sex, as Celestia asked them... Cheerilee, the sultry Ponyville teacher, asks questions about changelings that Lily feels surprisingly comfortable answering. Not to mention she gets to help the poor woman relieve some pent-up stress, despite Celestia's warning against having any sex. Not that Twilight fared any better...

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The enchanted riding crop left Lily whimpering in a state of pure, abject agony... As punishment for disobedience, Celestia held Twilight and Lily captive in her own BDSM chamber, using the magical instrument to give the women pain and pleasure in equal measure. But the pain is too much. Lily fears what will happen if Twilight is hit with the crop... Long-buried feelings come to the surface as Lily takes the beating for Twilight.

The realization of how Lily TRULY feels about Twilight Sparkle scares her... Lily flees the princess and her friend, and sinks into a deep funk...

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Maggie convinces Lily to retrun to work, and just on time, too... Two weeks after her night with Cheerilee, Lily is visited by a very happy Big Mac and the same teacher who is responsible for her punishment at the hands of Celestia. The couple make Lily realize something very, very important, though... She doesn't need to be afraid of her feelings for Twilight.

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Detachment. Lily screams furiously at the prone body of her friend and mentor... Maggie passes away peacefully, and after a visit from a markedly different Princess Celestia, Lily forgets her anger and sadness, replaced only by a serene sense of calm understanding... She watched Maggie's soul rise to it's rightful place in the heavens, and her impact is remembered by many...

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The business is struggling. More and more girls leave every day, and they aren't recieving any customers. Lily answers a mysterious invitation from the Princesses, and spends a night of brilliant passion with the both of them... That is, until the next morning.

When Lily's life changed.

When all of Equestria was broken.