[Later... both of them walk down the corridor from the throne room.]



Chancellor:

"You just had to suggest it, don't you, Supreme Warlord?"



Supreme Warlord:

"But of course, now that our logistics problem had been finally solved, we should seize this opportunity to advance the swarm's interests. Have you seen the other realms of cattle? They had known peace for so long, that while we marshal our forces they had remain complacent. Even at Canterlot, they only triumphed by the skin of their teeth against a surgical strike..."



Supreme Warlord:

"Imagine what would happen if they face the full might of the Changeling Empire?"



Chancellor:

"And so you desire war, to revile in bloodshed of the not-Changelings and enslave them."



Supreme Warlord:

"You speak of it as if it is a vile thing. I merely seek to bring about the ascendency of the Swarm to their rightful place as the dominant kind of the world."



Chancellor:

"Or do you seek it just to advance your OWN power."



Supreme Warlord:

"Oh, go ahead and say all you wish about my agenda. Even if that is true, you know full well that only too many Hive Lords and Brood Matrons agrees with me. And the Queen Matriarch had always found their stance preferable, unlike those from certain... 'Cattle-hearted' numbers amongts us who think it is not demeaning to court our future conquests."



[They both stopped, and stared at each other for a while. The warlord wore a smug grin upon his face, the Chancellor eyed him with a glare. The tension and conflict between them could be felt by any Changeling near them, simmering beneath the surface of civility]



Chancellor:

"Let me remind you that the deal that brought us the solution to our previous problem was thanks efforts by those 'Cattle-hearted', and that it was the so called complacent 'Cattle' of Equestria that conjured our deliverance in the first place. Mark my words - it took a lot of sweat and blood for the Changeling Empire to finally establish some form of COURTEOUS relationship with the suspicious world outside the Empire, and nothing would be allowed to make all that efforts go to waste just to satisfy some damn Hive-noble's vainglorious ambitions." [Trots off] "For what is best for the Swarm, I would NOT let our queen and this sweet home be threaten from without... or devoured from within."



Swarm Warlord:

"Hmph. We shall see."