Clop Chapter

Autumn wakes up from the enchanted sleep starong put her in during her breakdown and its now early morning. Yawning widely and strecthing herself out she walks into the main office intent on making hrself soke coffee. stars away but as shes boiling the jug she hears a soft purring and mewling from a black bundle of nested sheets. Moving with curiosity she approaches the nest and with her magic gently   shifts the sheets away to reveal a little filly sable. The filly is snuggling with a luna plushy that id slightly larger then herself and suckling on its ear. Overcome with emotional grief about killing those foals she gently uses her magic to pick up the tiny thestral and huggle her close to her chest. Sable purrs lightly nuzzling and nipping and suckling at autumns chest fur. Autumns coos and murmurs sweet comforting nothings at sable gently rocking her back and forth lulling her into a deeper sleep. Sables tummy rumbles loudly and with a little whimper she doesnt even bother with attempting to make a bottle of foal formula she casts an lactating on herself and lays down exposing her swelling dripping teats. She delicately places sable on the ground in front of her teats and guides her muzzle to the top teat and sable begins eagerly suckling down the warm milk. Autumn uses her magic to make her coffee and continues to coo sweetly at sable and pet along her back with her    magic. The petting causes

In the shop she selects a somewhat secluded table and sets the tiny thestrel in the seat before settling herself down and picking up a menu. As she decides what she would like to have the tiny thestral begins fussing and suckling on the plushies ear. grinning a little she carefully levitates her filly from the nest and using one of the blankets to over sable as she suckles on her teats blushing ever so slightly as she is occasionally nipped by the tiny fangs.  once sable has switched to the bottom teat to feed from a leaving customer notices autumn and makes a fuss about autumn publicly nursing a filly. she sets the offending pony with a death glare and makes sure sable is comfortable and safe before beginning to rip the customers a new one by explaining foals need to eat and she wasnt going to wait until she was home to feed her duaghter. A bit more fussing from the customers causes autumn to flick their noses with magic and toss them out of the shop.

Sweet drops comes by to take their order and apologizes about that autumn merely grins and uses a degrading nickname for sweet drops before spanking the mare on her cutie mark and giving her the order. Autumn then goes back to cooing and doting the filly with love. After a while the door opens up and starsong walks in smiling broadly and knowingly at autumn who is squirming and trying her best to hide the stolen filly from star. Stat merely giggles and walks up to her lifelong friend and

Star takes sable to an annual party held by the nobles at a massive manor house. Ponies from New members of the royal guard to the highest ranking noble of canterlot are attending.  Star tells sable tharmt the party is nothing more then the hosts way of renewing old contacts and becoming friends with potentional ponies who are looking like they may hold a position of power in the future. She warns sable that they'll try to manipulate and trap her into becoming their friends to exploit her power of being in the  position of captain of the lunar guard. She tells sable to remain close to her and try and remember she's safe with her and there'll be no need to become violent. In the party everything is going well. Sable is focusing on her food purring softly with contentment as she stays by stars side as instructed. Star herself is feeling extremely proud of the way sable is handling being in an social situation. And while she was mnt actively trying to meet new ponies. She wasn't hiding herself away in an closet and that was a huge improvement. While sable isn't exactly being a monster with the food she isn't exactly trying her best to eat politely and more then once she picked food she dropped off of the floor. Star notices a few groups of nobles    observing sable and whispering things about her no doubt gossiping and criticizing her for being so rough. Sable for her part is uninterested and doesn't care. After a while the host of the party makes his way to star and sable clearing his throats politely to get their attention. Sable gives him a once over and unimpressed she goes back to eating hermassive pile of food stacked on her plate. Star nudges her gently and tells sable this is the pony who provided all the food. Sable now becomes interested in the host and comments on how she enjoys the food before ignoring him once more.

The host makes a friendly remark about enjoying meeting with new ponies and another remark setting up the beginning of his manipulation to getting sable under his influence. Star rolls her eyes discreetly, completely unamused by his antics. Star in order to help sable cuts in with a subtle subject changer and very slowly directs the conversation away from the subject of sable. sable meanwhile catches the scent of something seafoody and delicious and wonders off to investigate. She moves through the crowd with grace and skill barely brushing against anypony. At the food table she licks her fangs at all the selections of meat and sushi being bought out by the staff to cater to the grizzled veterans in a private section away from the main crowd. Sable follows along and begins filling her plate with the sushi and some other selections of meat. A waiter noticing her doing this makes his way to her comments on the food not being for her and goes to take it away with his magic.

Sable breaks.

Instinctively she protected herself from the unicorns magic while at the same time she protected her food from being taken away. She strikes the waiter across the face breaking his concentration of the spell before spinning around and bucking him in the chest sending him hurting into a wall. Not content with her safety she pounced on his strikes his face once more to further stop his use of magic hisses loudly and is about to sink her fangs into his neck when starsong calls out her name with the dominating disapproval. She then demands sable to come back and with confusion and worry clearly written on her face she walks back to starsong like a scorned child. She sits on her haunches in front of star and hangs her head looking ashamed.  She leans forward and rests her head on starsongs chest and says she's sorry.

Stars eyes widen in complete surprise at sables apology. She can tell sable is genuinely upset and hurt about being shouted at and rerimanded so she begins comforting andcalming her patient.

The other party guests are completely shocked and disbelieving of what they had just seen. Starsong knowing just how shallow and narrow minded the nobles were explains sable was merely retailiating to an unwelcome sexual advance. She hated throwing the waiter underbthr wagon wheel like that  and promised herself she would ask midnight munch to hire him if he got fired. She then explains further that thestrals     take unwelcome sexual advances very personally. Sable meanwhile is just sitting there with her head leaning against starsongs chest. The second meaningful meaningful sign of trust since she had taken sable on as a patient. She then excuses herself and sable and makes her way out of the party.  As she walks back to her office with sable she goes over what had happened asking sable why she attacked the waiter. When     it becomes appearent to star just how deep eagles need to protect her food goes she comes to the conclusion sable must have been starved and poorly fed in her upbringing making her extremely protective of whatever food she got. She holds sable just a little tighter feeling that hole in heart for sable grow just a bit bigger.