The crowd before her buzzed with a hungry excitement, Chrysalis basking in the glow of their obedience with a wide grin on her face. She had been concerned that her defeat at Canterlot had affected her subjects’ loyalties, after all it had been an extremely embarrassing event, but Scuttle’s decision to raid the isolated hamlets on the border with the Badlands had proven quite popular. Glancing down quickly towards the Commander by her side, Chrysalis twitched an eye. ‘Still, I must ensure that he does not get too confident with his successes…’