Kuno and Warden are happily together now, but events are transpiring to force them from their happy life.
The reappearance of the Crystal Empire causes Kuno and Warden to give up their new-found home. And Kuno, ignoring the fact that they're two different species and completely incompatible, decides that she wants a baby.
Can a creature that feeds on love ever feel it?
Part two of An Affliction of the Heart.
The first hybrid child ever, Swarm, child of Warden and Kuno, grows up in a strange and sometimes unaccepting world.
A hybrid develops new powers, a dark queen escapes, while a pegasus and a changeling try to normalise their married life.
A newly christened Queen attempts to reign in the changeling race and integrate them into pony society. Even though there are those who would prefer such an effort fail...