“Alright, rapid summary. Changelings began as the bioformed autonomous maintenance system for this part of Equus. Dunno what happened to whatever system they used before us. Long time ago, there was a unicorn who captured a few and did experiments on us—experiments to try and make changelings smart. She succeeded, and became our first queen. Her hive was born from all the minds trapped in Harmony, who wanted to come down into reality but weren’t willing to give up all our memories. She found a way around the quarantine by using changeling bodies instead of being born the normal way. There’s… hardware. You can capture one of the maintenance bodies, then download a mind right in. A long time ago we used to set traps and stuff… but eventually we learned how to reproduce organically, so we raise grubs until they pupate and… you’re not listening.”