"Reilly," the pony said to cut into the silence that settled between her and her guest. "Let's talk."

"Let's not."

Lyra Heartstrings sighed as the human shifted himself to face away from her on the couch he had been stuck on for the past hour. She gulped while thinking how else to tell Reilly that Twilight Sparkle, the princess' student, was going to come over. She planned to do that the moment she showed up at Reilly's makeshift home outside of town, but wanted to be as tactful as possible. "Should I get you more tea?"

Her attention remained fixed on the nearly-still human, barely noticing his shoulders rise and fall from his breathing.

She idly tapped her hoof to a steady beat like that of a metronome. Reilly had started off really nice when she first met him, but saw how he became slightly more withdrawn over the course of the week. Lyra thought that going to Rarity for a set of clothes would show how much she knew about humans, but that didn't really follow through as planned.

Taking him on a tour of Ponyville seemed to do the trick, and seeing him smile and look around in amazement made her happy. She got to show that humans weren't just some made up tale. That they were real and could talk and understand like anyone else in Equestria.

Actually, Reilly proved to be really smart. Not only did he know a few things about Equestria, which surprised her, but he even disproved a lot of the misunderstandings that were written about humans in the books she read. Lyra could listen to him talk for hours, and felt brave enough to introduce him to her housemate, Bon Bon. He didn't jump to conclusions about her living with another mare like so many ponies had, and despite being initially wary, even Bon Bon had to admit that the humans that she had been raving to her about for all these years were "pretty interesting." Lyra couldn't have smiled any bigger than she had that day.

But then he was struck by a cluster headache, something she recalled reading about that humans went through. Reading about it from a book could only help her understand so much, but even after watching the pain expressed in Reilly's face herself, Lyra couldn't even imagine how tough his life was.

Lyra could lift and carry things in her magic just fine, but wasn't exactly suited for the more advanced spells that other unicorns could do. Such as a spell that could give her an inkling of the pain he felt. She lifted her hoof and contemplated resting it reassuringly on his shoulder, but thought better of it.

It had been a few days since Reilly's last excursion into town. Things definitely didn’t go as well as expected, and since then the human chose to remain inside. It was embarrassing, yes, but Lyra felt she had to take his side if no one else was going to. She rationalized that it was just how he was raised. He explained to her all sorts of things about human culture that wasn't mentioned in the few books that she found.

At the very least her housemate chose to remain neutral about the whole debacle. Bon Bon was still tending to her store and promised to head over as soon as she could. Ever since they were kids Bon Bon was sort of her protector. Lyra was determined to be Reilly’s, and felt the best way to diffuse the situation was to invite Twilight over. Twilight had a lot of influence on the townsfolk, and Lyra wanted to nip the situation in the bud.

It just so happened that there was a knock at the front door. "I'll get it," Lyra said and found that it was Twilight as expected. "Hey. He's inside." She led the other pony into the room and directed her to sit near the couch. "I'll get us some tea." After saying that, Lyra went to the kitchen.

After setting her saddle bags onto the floor next to her, Twilight did not waste any time getting to the point she wanted to make. "We need to air your grievances in order to start dealing with your problem," She stated. Taking out a notepad, quill and ink well, Twilight didn't want to spend any more time here than she had to.

"My problem?” Reilly exclaimed. He quickly turned over to glare daggers at the pony that abruptly accused him. “I'm not the one with the problem, Twilight. None of this was supposed to be this way. No one is supposed to be this way, here."

"You mean the nature of some ponies' relationships?" She asked while scratching her quill against the notepad. "It's none of your business who ponies choose to like." Twilight returned to observing Reilly. "I recall you mentioned something about a book. Could you tell me more?” She patiently awaited his response, holding the quill tip close to a fresh page.

"Like I said last time you decided to bother me about it, I find it disgusting and it's against nature. Just accept that some people see the world that way."

“What about the book, Reilly?”

“Why can’t you just accept that I have a different opinion than you?” Reilly asked with waning patience.

Lyra came back into the room hearing their raised volumes and placed the tea pot and cups on a nearby table.

"I can't accept that you can't accept ponies for who they are," Twilight countered in a stern voice. She fought the urge to simply jump squarely in front of him to let her know what she really thought. She couldn’t let go of the image of the human exclaiming in public how disturbed he was to see two stallions sharing an intimate moment together. Nothing was as embarrassing to her as vouching for Reilly to everypony just moments before he excoriated her fellow ponies for their “shameful choice.” She bristled at the memory and wanted nothing more than to have him apologize.

Lyra however, wasn't as able to restrain herself. Things were supposed to be get better after Reilly got to give his side of the story. She never realized that he’d be interrogated and have his words twisted around like that. "Twilight, please lay off him. You promised not to do this if I let you in, remember?"

"I just don't understand how anyone can be so ignorant!"

"I don't think you even want to understand why, Twilight!" Lyra started to feel fed up with the other pony's attitude. Just because she was the princess' student. Just because she lived a certain way!

While she didn't fully agree with Reilly's feelings, Lyra wouldn't just let him get bullied around by everyone else. He was from a different world. They had different ways of thinking and a different way of life. Not to mention his cluster headaches! He had to suffer through something that was more or less a curse. Lyra didn't understand why Twilight couldn't sympathize with that.

Twilight huffed out, "Reilly, answer me!"

Lyra stepped in front of the other pony and declared in his defense, "If you can't accept him for who he is I think you should go, Twilight. It was a mistake to ask you to come over."

"It was a mistake to let either of you in. Both of you leave me alone!" Reilly growled out in frustration and got up from the couch. He easily towered over both mares when standing and began making his way to his room before the next cluster attack was due. "Agh!" He screamed and clutched his left temple with his left hand. He tried desperately to catch the nearby table with his free hand as the searing pain made him sweat and tremble. He stumbled back to the couch as his eye began to tear up.

"Reilly!" Lyra gasped out in concern. She motioned to help but then froze in place.

Reilly clenched his teeth at the sight, unable to escape before it happened again. A surge of force like a gunshot tore through the left side of his head and he curled into a fetal position on the couch. He was too paralyzed from the bludgeoning of this cluster to even turn away in disgust.

Meanwhile right in front of him, Twilight and Lyra turned to one another with vacant looks of longing.

“Twilight…” she drunkenly moaned out the pony’s name.

“Lyra…” hearing her name said with such lust made Lyra gasp and flick her tail.

Both of their faces were flushed red. It was just like what happened that day. The moment Reilly was struck with a cluster headache while taking a tour of the town. All of Ponyville took part, but the sight of Soarin and Braeburn embracing one another was forever fuel for those lonely nights in bed. The way that Soarin traced kisses down braeburn’s neck, along his muscled form, to his large, meaty horse dick. It twitched in excitement before Soarin engulfed and licked and sucked on the Appleloosian’s member. She remembered how his cheeks puffed out from the way the wide rim scrubbed against his lover’s tongue, jutting out a bulge every time Braeburn thrust his length.

Lyra gasped and tried to shake the image out of her head. Already her body felt hot. She felt herself drooling and despite her best efforts, she looked over Twilight’s petite form and felt hungry for her touch. Lyra pulled the unicorn toward her and pushed her head down to her nethers. She moaned as she had Twilight noisily work for forgiveness in return for what she accused Reilly of.

"Wait...no...ah~" In the fogginess of her pleasure she knew she needed help. Lyra didn't want to feel so good. She closed her eyes for a moment and sighed. It was scary how she reflexively arched her back from the languid strokes of Twilight's tongue.

Mares weren't supposed to do this to each other.

"Ahn~" Lyra groaned as Twilight continued to lovingly trace her folds with her tongue. She shivered in unwanted delight when she felt the other unicorn moved her muzzle away to lie on top of her. Touching her tummy against hers. The heat in her loins going untended drove Lyra to press more of herself against Twilight.

“Twilight….mmmm, more!” She couldn't understand why now of all times she had to do this.

“You...ah...taste so sweet, Lyra….” She felt Twilight's tongue lap her cheek and caress her mouth.

It wasn't right. It wasn't what Reilly said that humans did. It felt wrong, like something deep inside was set that way but she ignored it.

But it felt too good to resist. Lyra melted into the feel of Twilight against her, wriggling her hips in like motions to return in kind to the mare's grinding. She heard Reilly’s pained screams but only felt Twilight. They exchanged a passionate kiss while the human howled for help.

"Oh God! Oh God, it hurts! AGHH!"

Lyra couldn’t tend to his pain while enthralled with Twilight’s restless tongue and the rough way she nibbled her neck. She winced and shuddered from the white hot climax that washed over her and Twilight, as they screamed rapturously in each other’s embrace.

For Reilly, the headache slowly subsided, granting him some reprieve and a chance to catch his breath. What filtered into his nostrils however was the musky smell of release from the two ponies lying on the floor nearby. The rugs were probably stained, as well. He could hear their post-coital coos and pants and wanted nothing more than to puke his guts out.

Reilly Haightsgaze couldn't wait to get out of Equestria to fix everything. He wouldn’t let his grandfather's greatest invention lead to such an awful conclusion, nor would he let his condition ruin what should have been his paradise.

Author's Note

His grandfather's first name is "Olweighs", if you were wondering.