The other 'Cadance' glares at the disheveled one, her eyes and horn blazing green. A ring of jagged green flames forms around her and shoots upward into a column.
It's difficult to make out detail through the column, but everypony watching can tell when feathered wings become insectoid, when a curled mane turns gauzy and ragged, when a straight horn becomes crooked and sinister.
As the changeling's - the changeling queen's - transformation finishes, the flames disappear and she laughs menacingly. "Right you are, Princess. And as queen of the changelings, it is up to me to find food for my subjects." She walks toward Cadance, grinning. "Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed of!"
By the end of her monologue, the queen is practically in Cadance's face.
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It's difficult to make out detail through the column, but everypony watching can tell when feathered wings become insectoid, when a curled mane turns gauzy and ragged, when a straight horn becomes crooked and sinister.
As the changeling's - the changeling queen's - transformation finishes, the flames disappear and she laughs menacingly. "Right you are, Princess. And as queen of the changelings, it is up to me to find food for my subjects." She walks toward Cadance, grinning. "Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed of!"
By the end of her monologue, the queen is practically in Cadance's face.