“I call you a cunt because that’s what you are, a complete and total cunt. And don’t pull the whole ‘It’s because you’re not a changeling’ thing either, because I’ve been watching you treat everyone else like shit as well.”
He took a step forwards, aware of the bug-horse guards behind him shifting from their spots.
“I’d rather go back to that snow than be stuck here with you if you keep on acting like this. I get along fine with other bug-horses, I follow them when they take me to you, I even sat down with you when you got the shit bashed out of you by those other horses.” He jabbed the finger in the air to make his point. “You won’t even explain to me how this whole mind-talk bullshit works, you just keep on telling me to shut up when I ask about it.” He lowered his finger. “So stop acting like a cunt, and I’ll stop calling you cunt. Fuck, we might even be able to actually speak with each other like civilised people.”
Daniel stepped back after his tirade, the guards bug-horse guards moving up behind him scattering to the sides as he did so. He then recrossed his arms and waited for the bug-horse leader’s response, Chrysalis still staring at him with her horn aglow and eyes wide.
She continued to stare for a few seconds, before her eyes snapped away from his and focused on the guards. A short burst of buzzing chittering later and the four guards were all racing for the exit, another twenty bug-horses emerging from the holes in the surrounding walls to fly off after them. The black resin doors shut heavily behind the last bug-horse to leave, the chamber going quiet save the hum of the Queen’s horn and the buzzing of her wings.
“Don’t you ever do that again in front of my subjects!” Chrysalis growled as she flew down to land in front of him. Trotting forwards, she raised a forehoof and pointed right at him. “I am Queen!”
“You’ve mentioned,” Daniel replied with a look down. “Cunt.”