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Razzle had been mid trying to talk to Sapphire and Shadowed when the voice rang through the festival. He looked up and moved to join the crowd that had gathers honestly he was a bit in shock. This was supposed to be the perfect festival! He was going to become a famous singer here this was his year! Unlike festivals before he was gonna be the star this year. And now because of some ugly bugs he was going to have to miss out on his performance that was only an hour from now! He paced for a moment his hopes and dreams for this festival dashed. Then worry struck him where were his sisters? He hadn't met up with them at the festival yet! What if something had happened! Razzle moved quickly to locate his siblings for now not joining in on the guessing he had nothing to go on at the moment. "Rose Water?! Prism?!" He called out moving through all the ponies that had gathered.

Sapphire opened her mouth to speak to Razzle until a voice shattered the drizzle town festival. Wonderful what a surprise... actually it kinda was at least it couldn't get any weirder.

Ok, So there were changelings among them, a shiver ran down her spine. So how could they oust them? That was another thing entirely. Sapphire was beside her sister Shadowed by their family booth when the voices rang out. Now that was entirely uncalled for "uuuh... Excuse me?" her eyebrow raised
clearly offend there was thick sass in her voice there was no way in hell her sister was a changing.

Sapphire Put her hoof carefully on Shadowed's back in support."Royal is right you're family always." She wasn't any quieter than normal. "You better be sorry." she muttered at all the rest taking a step in front of shadowed glaring daggers all the ponies gathered around even considering shadowed be a changeling. How dare they! It looked like Her big brother was dealing with the larger crowd. Even Piper came out of her tent she'd been making costumes in.

Jiniya's heart sank as chaos erupted but she followed the crowd as they all gathered at the stage. She was terrified of what was going to happen to them all. This was her first time at the carnival but something told her this wasn't supposed to happen. She didn't know anyone here, how was she going to survive?

The quiet mare slipped away from the crowd trying to find a safe place to hide. She had no idea if she needed to be afraid of everyone or if there was even a safe place to go until this all blew over. She watched as ponies seemed to gather in groups and talk amongst themselves. The mare desperately wanted to just be able to go home safe and sound.

Morning Glory was of course curious by the rather unusual commotion that spurred nearby and happily walked with Royal to where the murmurs and shouting had all taken place.

Green ears shifted forward and head tilted slightly in confusion as he started to take it all in. Bad things? Changelings? among us?! Oh dear... Morning never heard anything good about changelings before... He began to nibble on his lip, scanning the others around them briefly before another familiar voice perked up in a shy squeak. Eyes then quickly turned to focus on Delicate and Morning frowned softly.

It wasn't until Royal stepped up for his little sister's defense did Morning sigh softly and step up beside his nearly blind friend. "I agree. We shouldn't be quick to just toss out assumptions." he started almost calmly. To those that knew him, they'd noticed that small twinge of fear underlying his words. He was, after all, worried about who was really who and whether his friends were all safe. "However, Delicate does tend to have a fair point." His head quickly shifted to Royal before anything could be said. "I'm not accusing your sister, Royal." he quickly stated in his own defense. "But maybe she's onto something... something we can use what we do know about each other in our favor."

He moved to stand between Delicate and the blue family. Turquoise eyes then shifted about to the other nearby. "If there really is a changeling among us, then they've slipped themselves into one of our places, right? Well, they can't know everything about the being they took the form of, correct?" He tilted his head and scanned them all. "Inside jokes, personal pet-names, small embarrassing moments that only you and someone else here might know? Likes, dislikes?" He turned to look at Delicate with a soft understanding smile and gently draped a small flower necklace about her head. "It'll be alright. We'll figure this out..." he glanced over everyone else, locking his soft eyes with many of them. "We'll figure this out together."

Honky Dory did not like this. Not one, single bit. Changelings? On top of that, the entire festival was put on lockdown?! The thought of anything having happened to the ponies that were missing scared Honky. Her usually clowny grin was pulled back, her brows knitted together in a mixed look of concern and confusion.

In all of the chaos, she'd lost sight of her sister. Wait.. Could her own SISTER be one of them? Could.. Could Honky herself be a changeling? Do changelings know that they're changelings? Do they convince even themselves?

No.. She didn't want to think about that. Instead, they should all be coming together to figure out who among them were real ponies and who weren't. She scanned all the different groups of ponies scattered about, wondering to herself how they could even tell the difference.

"Does-" Honky's voice faltered. Any number of the ponies around her could be..

C'mon, Honky, pull yourself together.. She cleared her throat and stood taller, looking around for any pony that would listen.

"Does anypony know if there are any.. telltale signs of a changeling?" She questioned, "Is there something we should be wary of?"

Serene had only just managed to catch up to all of the commotion, having needed to find a place to put he cart since she didn't want to be dragging it around everywhere with her. When she got there, she saw all of her siblings and moved over to them, and then listened to what was going on. If there were changelings... then they needed to find them! She cursed to herself. If she was a unicorn then she might have some spell to be able to find the creatures, but she was only an earth pony.

Her ears swiveled as she heard a pony, Delicate Trinket, accuse Serene's sister of something, and couldn't help but turn around to her. Already her siblings had jumped down the pony's proverbial throat, with Royal giving Delicate quite the verbal beat down. The tears however didn't move Serene. Sure, it went with Delicate's "name" but to so easily burst into tears, when she was the one who had started it in the first place, was off-putting and suspicious. She kept that to herself though.

But they needed to do something. She raised her voice a little. "Royal is right. Rather than stand around her accusing one another, we need to figure out a way to find them." She heard Morning Glory mention something about the changelings not possibly knowing everything about the one they had replaced and she agreed. However, she did scrunch her nose when Morning draped the flower necklace over Delicate. Something was just so off about that, even if they weren't changelings. "Maybe we should find someone that knows something only the real pony would know, and if they answer it wrong, make a note of it, and then give that information to Just Lance." She looked over at the guard. "That is, if Just Lance is actually a pony." She said, giving a sly grin.

Perhaps it was a bit out of character to do all of this, but her sister had just been accused of being a changeling with no evidence whatsoever other than her personality. She made sure to say in a whispered voice that only her siblings could hear, "I won't say this out loud, but Delicate has been acting well... over acting don't you think?"

With the mention of changelings, Mute's mouth went drier than a desert. Was it true??
The minute accusations started spilling out, she quickly sought out Honky, panic in her features when her eyes fell on her sister. Or was it?
She approached slowly, eyes watering slightly when everyone was quick to point a hoof at someone close to them, or someone who was a little too quiet... like Mute herself.
When she was easily within reach of Honky, Mute was visibly shaking, gesturing at Honky unenthusiastically as if to say, "You would tell me if you were a changeling, wouldn't you?"
It didn't take much to spook the pony, especially considering the tough persona she would put on for their dual act, but this easily had her shaken to her core. Who can you trust?

Teal flinched loudly when the noise came. She had no idea what to expect. Then came that buzzing voice! It was retched and horrible to her ears making her flinch visibly and lower her head. Then came the light surrounding her sister. Panicking she rushed forward to her sisters side and tried to rouse her. To no avail. Tears streamed from under her bangs. “Deli, Deli.” She looked up to Just Lance. “Please help my sister. How can we find these and stop this?”