暮暮对她需要监督的幻形灵颇有意见，因为这只被派来冒充她的幻形灵，并不是像她一样拥有魔法天赋的生灵，没有和她相似的性格，更确切地说只是因为它是幻形灵小队的指挥官，这只幻形灵对待一切都很认真投入，似乎从来没考虑过对她敞开心扉。在她面前，它总是表现地坚强又隐忍。
的确，无论暮暮要求什么，它都会努力去做，并且它也毫无怨言地去做了很多慈善事情，但她很希望它能跟她有所交谈、更加友好一些，就像其它幻形灵也开始对她的朋友们转变态度一样。
于是她开始调查，去看看她的朋友们是如何让她们的幻形灵敞开心扉并变得更友善的。似乎她的每一个朋友都是利用了她们各自的谐律元素来赢得幻形灵们的真心。欢笑、慷慨、忠诚、诚实、善良...但她呢？她的元素是魔法，她并不认为通过魔法让幻形灵成为她的朋友是正确的事，但马上她想起了她自己拥有的第二个头衔，她可是友谊公主。为何不能通过友谊来赢得它的真心呢？
因此，她开始尝试跟她的幻形灵更频繁地交流，除了有时它不希望她过来找它聊天、或者是不需要交谈的时候。她把它住的房间布置得更加舒适，每天让它适度休息，确保它不会劳累过度。她像让它能更感受到家的温馨，而不是像监狱，让它感觉自己把它当成了自己的室友，而不是什么囚犯。除此之外，她也开始尝试了解这只幻形灵，去留意它的性格和她需要知道的一切。
经过了一段时间的调查，暮暮确实注意到了一些事情。的确，这只幻形灵似乎总是能够毫无怨言地完成了她的一切要求，但不知怎的，它在帮她整理图书馆里的书籍时，总是表现得很吃力，有时甚至把很多书都放到了错误的地方。有时暮暮问它是不是在阅读书籍、文字一些方面有些困难，它总是闭口不谈。在暮暮的努力下，终于有一天，幻形灵对她讲出了自己的真心。
幻形灵说它在语言方面还有其它各种文字是一窍不通，因为幻形灵不像小马一样拥有学校...它们根本就没上过学，它们只知道如何准确说话和阅读简单的词汇，但图书馆里的书写满了它根本不懂的文字。暮暮问它为什么不一开始告诉她呢，幻形灵回答说是它不想暴露自己的弱点，尤其是在仇敌面前。像它这样的幻形灵指挥官思路应该是聪慧又敏捷的，做什么事都只能靠自己做好...
暮暮笑着跟它说，无论是谁都会有自己不擅长的地方，向别人寻求帮助没有什么不对，因为这并不是什么软弱的表现。她问幻形灵可不可以成为她的老师，来把它想知道的一切都教给它。幻形灵起初对它们幻形灵视为仇敌的小马们伸来的橄榄枝犹豫不决，但后来它意识到，自己也并不会因此失去什么，反而可以得到它希望了解的一切，于是它接受了暮暮的邀请，成为了暮暮的学生。
思绪一旦打开，这只幻形灵展现的各个方面让暮暮大吃一惊，它的好奇心和求知欲让她想起了年轻时的自己，一向满脸严肃的幻形灵指挥官已经一去不复返了，只剩下一位很像书呆子的幻形灵，它不仅是暮暮的学生，也成为了忠实的书友。暮暮也开心她的友谊计划终于成功了。
她终于能和这幻形灵成为好朋友，而反过来幻形灵也很乐意与她建立友谊，因为这只小马是在把自己的爱分享给了它，那么自由、那么纯洁、那么美味，它再也不需要像过去那样在暮暮不知道或不喜欢的情况下偷偷吸取她的爱了...
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Twilight had quite the problem with the Changeling she was supposed to watch over. The reason for this problem was because this Changeling who was disguised as her, wasn’t a master in magic like her or had a personality similar to her at all. But rather, it was simply because it was the commander of the infiltration team. This Changeling took everything really seriously and seemed to not open it mind to her ever. It always made itself look tough and stoic around her.
It's true that it worked hard on anything she requested and did much charity work without any complaints. But she really wishes it would be friendlier to her, just like other Changelings who started to be friendly with her friends.
So she started to investigate and see how her friends were able to make their Changelings open their minds and be friendlier with them. It seemed like each of her friends used each of their reputable elements to win their Changeling's heart. Laughter, Generosity, Loyalty, Honesty and kindness…But what about her? Her element was magic, but she did not think using magic to make Changeling be her friend was the right thing to do. But then she remembered her second title. She was the Princess of Friendship too. Maybe she can used friendship to win this Changeling's heart.
Therefore, she started to talk with her Changeling more often, even if it did not need to talk back or when talk was necessary. She made the room it lived in more comfortable for it to rest each day and made sure to not over work it. She wanted to make her place feel like a home for it, more than its prison and show that it was thought of as a roommate, rather than a prisoner. In the meantime, she started to investigate Changelings as well, to understand more about it's personalities and everything else she needed to know.
After investigating for a while, Twilight finally noticed something. It was true that this Changeling seemed able to do everything she requested without complaining. But somehow when it came to helping her sort books in the library, it always had trouble to do it and sorted books in the wrong places from time to time. So she asked if it had some trouble with reading or something, it did not want to tell the truth at first. But eventually, with every nice thing Twilight did for it, one day, it finally showed the result she wanted…It finally opened up to her.
Changeling said it didn’t have much knowledge in languages and other things, as Changelings don't have a school like ponies do…They never went to school at all. They only knew how to talk properly and read simple words. But the books in this library were filled with words that it didn’t understand. Twilight asked it why it didn't tell her in the first place. It said it didn't want to show its weaknesses, especially to the enemy. A Commander Changeling like itself is supposed to be smart and strong. It is supposed to able to do everything it can, on its own...
Twilight smiled and said that everyone always had something they weren’t good at and its okay for them to ask for help from someone, because that isn't a sign of weakness at all. She asked it if it wanted her to be a teacher and teach it everything it wanted to know. Changeling hesitated at first to accept help from a pony that was supposed to be its enemy. But then it realised that it doesn't have anything to lose from accepting this and everything to gain. So it accepted her invitation to learn and became Twilight's student.
Once it opened itself, this Changeling really surprised Twilight in every way. It’s curiosity and hunger for knowledge really reminded her of her younger self. The Changeling's commander who was always serious in everything was gone, leaving only a bookworm Changeling who was not only Twilight's student, but a faithful reading partner as well. Twilight was really happy that her friendship plan was finally working.
She can finally be friends with this Changeling, and in turn, that Changeling was happy to be friends with her as well. Because this pony gave her love to it so freely now, pure and delicious love, it didn’t need to steal scraps of love from Twilight anymore, when Twilight was not aware of it doing so like it always did in the past...