"More pancakes?" Spike poked his head out of the kitchen. He could see Twilight was gobbling hers down, as usual. Elizabeth had barely touched her breakfast. "Aww, what's wrong Liz? Not hungry?"

"She already ate." Twilight giggled and stuffed another pancake in her mouth. Of course, then Twilight remembered the look on the girl's face when she had gulped down every drop and as her thoughts progressed, Twilight Sparkle looked into the woman's eyes.

Liz chased a pancake around on her plate with a fork. She looked across at Twilight Sparkle and gave a sigh. "Yeah Spike, I already had some… uh, breakfast. I will try to eat a pancake or two." She couldn't break her gaze away from the Princess.

"So, did you two figure out what you are doing today? I was going to come in and clean earlier but I heard you discussing something, then Twi kept agreeing with you." Spike put half the remaining pancakes on his own plate, two on Liz's, and the remainder on Twilight's.

"Agree?" Twilight blinked at Spike. "What do you mean?"

Elizabeth's memory threw up the real meaning. "Oh, when you were yelling 'yes' over and over. I had gotten something stuck in my ears, Spike, I couldn't hear so good." It was a flimsy cover.

"Oh." Spike shoved a whole pancake in his mouth and started chewing.

Twilight finally figured out the particular moment Spike must have heard and she blushed. "Oh, yes!" As she exclaimed Spike's head flew up and Elizabeth lifted a hand up and smacked it to her forehead. "Well, uh… we could go and do more experiments, but I am fairly sure you are going to have to stick with this, Liz. I just can't see any way to stop the changes: just using magic to look made you change more!"

"At this point I almost want it to go faster." Elizabeth lifted a hand to ward off Twilight's immediate attempt at a response. "Almost, but not really. I think I will like it as a pony, it just caught me off guard."

"Well, you can stay here, for sure." Twilight nibbled on a pancake. "And help with more… cleaning." It was impossible for the alicorn not to blush, not that she cared right now. "Well, I might go and check up on Rarity then. She was making some things for you, right?"

Liz nodded. "Underwear, a few other bits and pieces." She gave a happy sigh. "If you could pick that up for me then I could spend the day helping Spike make sure everything is really clean!" Enthusiasm for cleaning coursed through Liz like it had never before in her life. It just felt good to her to keep busy.

Spike blinked, burped and set his knife and fork down. "Twi a me-" was as far as the dragon got before her burped a blast of green fire, a scroll flying from his snout and being expertly caught in Twilight's magic. "A message…"

Unrolling the scroll, Twilight quickly looked through it, scanning it first. "Princess Celestia needs me at Canterlot!" she exclaimed, "Spike, we need to go-" She looked up at Liz who was giving an encouraging smile. "Sorry Liz, this will be Equestria business."

"Of course it is, Twilight." Elizabeth could practically smell the adventure to be had. "I might do some cleaning here then, any suggestions on where I should start today, Spike?"

"Twilight's bedroom." Spike said without pause. "Everywhere else is spotless, but I know she keeps clogging the drain in her bathroom with something…"

Blushing the most crimson shade she had yet, Twilight coughed. "It must be something about that mane conditioner!"

"Well, I am sure it won't get clogged anymore. I'll take a look at it." Liz grinned widely and winked at Twilight, stirring the alicorn to grin back sheepishly. "Both of you go. Taking care of your castle while you are away is my job."

"Spike, you make the best pancakes." Twilight pushed back from the table and stretched. "The letter didn't sound urgent, but just because I am a princess doesn't mean I should ever keep Princess Celestia waiting." She trotted from the dining room, soon followed by Spike.

"Well, this is my new life now." Elizabeth stood up and stretched, herself. Gathering the dirty plates up, she started humming a happy tune as she washed up. Almost done with all the pots and pans too, Liz heard the big front doors open and close. "Castle all to myself…" A tingle ran down Liz's spine and a million naughty things she could do ran through her head.

"Stop. Elizabeth, you are not some teenage filly again." Liz closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "So, before I roll naked on the cutie map I need to clean Twilight's room like I am supposed to." She was grinning, however.

Before she could do more than gather up cleaning supplied, there was a knock at the door. Answering it, Liz was looking at Rarity, the mare standing with a big grin on her face and two clothes chests floating beside her.

"Darling, I had to drop by with more things." Rarity strode in like she owned the castle. "Just the thought of you lacking something appropriate to wear was eating me up. So I present you with, your uniform!" The chest opened with blue magic and out floated the most exquisite maid outfit Liz had ever seen.

"That is… amazing. You made this so quickly?" Elizabeth reached out and ran a hand over the fabric. "So soft…"

"And easily washed too." Rarity felt tickled pink whenever somepony complimented her work. "Of course I had to guess on a few things, but the speed you are changing, darling, I will have to alter it before the end of the week."

Liz crouched down and gave Rarity a big hug. "Thank you Rarity. You really are the best." Idly, she noticed that the fur had crept almost halfway down her arms now.

"Anypony would do the same." Rarity tried to wave off the kindness but it was, after all, her Element. "Just promise me that no matter what, you come to me for your fashion advice."

"I wouldn't dream of going to anypony else." Elizabeth let go of the alabaster mare. "Oh, I should have said, Twilight and Spike got summoned to Canterlot." Just saying the words gave Liz a tingle, she really was in Equestria and she really was working for Twilight Sparkle; not to mention their little arrangement.

"She was meant to come to my boutique today…" Rarity only sounded a little wronged. "But of course a princess has to come before little old-" The mare was choked off by another hug. "Darling, you are positively clingy today, what is the matter?"

"I just feel so happy. What did Twilight have to do for you?" Liz found herself releasing Rarity from her second hug.

"Well…" Rarity blushed only slightly, "we were going to go to the spa today, get our manes and tails done."

"Can it wait for the afternoon?" Elizabeth practically bounced with anticipation. "I have a little cleaning to do and, honestly, getting properly clean and pampered would be a nice change."

Rarity's eyes lit up. "Darling, we simply must go. This will be an experience! Until then." Turning, Rarity made her way from the castle, closing the door behind her.

"I am going to the Ponyville spa with Rarity… this is awesome!" Liz hugged the maid uniform to her chest. "I need to get changed, clean up Twilight's room, then I have a whole afternoon of relaxation. Not to mention what will happen if Twi and Spike need to stay in Canterlot for more than the day."

Gathering her cleaning things from the closet Spike had shown her the previous day, Liz quickly got changed into the maid uniform and trotted up the stairs to Twilight's room. Opening the bedroom door she was reminded of the smell of musk, a strong smell of musk. "Oh Twilight, let's get this place aired out first." As Liz moved, the tightness of the uniform made itself known and she realized it was mainly around her hips and her chest.

Throwing open the windows, Liz was quickly attacked by a very indignant Owlowiscious. "Oh, did she lock you outside? That is terrible!"

"Hoo hooo!" Owlowiscious landed on Elizabeth's arm, hooting as if she could understand him.

Of course Liz couldn't, but she didn't need to understand the poor owl to be able to work out what they wanted. "Come on, let me find you somewhere to rest and sleep. Dark right?"

"Hoo!"

"Well okay then. Is there… oh, that would be your roost!" Her hooves clopping on the floor, Elizabeth carried Owlowiscious to a perch in the corner that had a big curtain around it. "Here you are, I bet this is where you normally sleep."

"Hoo…" Owlowiscious glanced to the side, where a book sat with an obvious bookmark in it. "Hoo?"

One glance at the title of the book told the woman exactly what the hooting was all about. "You need me to read to you?"

"Hoo."

On Earth, if an owl—even a tame one—had flown in, landed on her arm, and hooted at her, Liz would not have dreamed this is what they would have wanted. This was not Earth, this was Equestria. "Of course I will. You want me to close the blind for you?"

Owlowiscious jumped from Liz's arm to the perch and shook their head. "Hoo."

"Okay, now where were you up to…" Elizabeth started reading. It was a cute story about a family of owls, and how their chicks went on adventures. She waited a good few minutes past when Owlowiscious closed their eyes before returning the bookmark and book to the little table, pulling the blind around the perch.

"Now I just need to be quiet, I guess." Liz stood up and turned for the bed first. The musky smell was gone from the room as a whole, but Twilight's bed was particularly on the nose. "This all needs to go." As Elizabeth gathered up the bedding, she noticed a few spots where the musk smell was coming from. "Well, I can take care of this problem for you now, Twilight."

Liz froze when she brushed her face a little too close to the bedding. A soft wuffing sound filled the air as she found herself pressing the soft bedclothes to her face and just drinking down the smell of musk. "What… what happened to me?" Liz stood, shell-shocked. "What is that smell it… oh sweet Celestia…"

Her body ached, Liz carefully wrapped the smelly bits in more bedding and bundled the lot into a big ball to carry downstairs. Finding the magic-powered washing machine, Liz loaded the thing with the offenders and turned it on. "Okay Elizabeth, take stock. What happened up there?" She lifted a hand up to brush something off her nose and stopped. "Buck."

Her fuzzy hands felt around her face, Liz went cross-eyed as she examined her snout, the soft fur having spread over her head completely now. As she stared into the mirror in the laundry she watched her eyes widen, pupils too as she was soon left with a pony face staring back at her. "Buck buck buckity buck."

"That is why it smelled so strong, why it smelled so good. My head is now just like a pony's. I reacted to a stallion's musk like any mare." Just the thought that she had so easily been practically hypnotized by the smell sent a tingle through Elizabeth. "How will it be when I am a full mare?" The pony face in the mirror grinned back at her and Liz couldn't disagree, being a cute mare for Twilight Sparkle to use was a bit of a fantasy, even if she hadn't had it before she actually came to Equestria.

The loud "ding" of the machine broke Liz from her daze and she reached in to pull out the laundry. "Clean and dry. I could make a fortune selling these on Earth." Carrying the lavender-scented bedding back upstairs, Elizabeth remade the bed before stopping. "The pillows too? Twilight…" Once more Liz trundled downstairs with two of the four pillows on the big bed, setting them to be washed while she returned upstairs.

A run around the room with a feather duster was the next task, and no sooner was she done than Elizabeth trotted through to the bathroom. Stepping to the bath, she looked down into the plug-hole and got another dose of musk-overload. Saved by a breeze, Liz went back to her things to find cleaning supplies for a bathroom.

Dumping a dose of lye down the pipes, Elizabeth gave it a few minutes before washing out the tub and letting the water wash away the caustic substance. "Much better." She turned to the sink next and, looking down in it, was thankful to find that much neater. "How does one mare make so much mess?"

"Darling? Are you done yet?" Rarity stepped into the room, looking around for Elizabeth. "Oh, you are doing a wonderful job. I might have to hire you to do some little things around my boutique."

Author's Note

The only reply to the question asked of Pinkie Pie—in regards to a transformation party—was a startled gasp and a flash of pink.

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