Twilight woke up and yawned into the gag. Squirming a little, she heard her body squeaking in the extra-tight tack. Rising up and rolling from bed, she stretched as best she could, loving the feel of the straps pulling back at her, fighting her ability to move fully. With a happy sigh she began undoing the straps of the saddle. The plot-strap, the girth, and then finally with the barrel strap gone, she lifted the saddle from her and onto the box at the foot of the bed.

She stretched again, feeling free and perfect. Good as it was to be bound, it made being unbound even better. Stepping toward her full-length mirror, she admired the mare that stood there. I love our halter. Pet was just as happy as Twilight with the feel of being freed. Unfastening the halter, she lifted that clear too and set it down with the saddle. "I do too." She spoke only to herself, which wasn't a problem so far as she could see. Setting the keys to the tack back on her bedside table, Twilight saw about the morning duties any mare would partake of.

Walking slowly out of her room, Twilight found Maud waiting for her. Opening her mouth to talk, Twilight had a gray hoof pressed to her lips. "Wait, Twilight, we both have much to talk about, no talking until we have had breakfast."

Twilight blinked, she eased into the compulsion, feeling it flow into her and around her snout. She nodded and smiled wider. ... Twilight giggled at that, but didn't say a word.

She walked beside Maud all the way to the dining room and spotted her favorite food already. The mare gave a gasp of delight and bounced over to the plate of pancakes. Freezing, Twilight turned to look at her Mistress.

"Good filly." Maud praised her pet's behavior and settled opposite to watch her. "Now you are still not to talk until done, so let me explain what my plan is for today. You see, we have a visitor coming."

Twilight tilted her head a little, but kept eating the delicious pancakes.

"I am going to release you, Twilight Sparkle. I am going to remove every hypnotic suggestion and let you think fully for yourself. But wait." Maud locked eyes with the alicorn, her gaze instantly cowering Twilight's need to ask questions. "This means that we can show your friend exactly what happens when I snare your mind, how I build the guards and checks on you. She is inquisitive, Twilight, and if she follows that curiosity without some knowledge then somepony will get hurt."

It seemed like a good example, she actually felt a little excited at the idea that she would be free, and then tamed all over again. Actually, really excited.

"Keep eating." Maud pointed to the pancakes.

Twilight chewed and worked slowly at the food, not wanting to rush the meal and ruin her Mistress' work. At last, however, she took the last bite and chewed it. Finally, swallowing, she looked up at Maud and opened her mouth. "Thank you, Mistress."

Maud judged it as time. "Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship, you are no longer my pet."

I'm scared... Twilight shook a little, the first card fell, then those resting on it, then more. Twilight gasped loudly when it felt like a hot searing in her head led to the break between Pet and her melting, her ultra-submissive side flowing back into the whole. She shook herself, her mane. "Maud, thank you for playing with me."

Maud had kept her emotion hidden, but she had been a little scared. She had wondered if Twilight's mind had kept wanting to be a pet only because of the immediate pleasure she received. The truth would really come if the mare submitted to the hypnosis again. Maud was about to open her mouth and say something she might have regretted when she saw Twilight start to talk again.

"I… I don't know all the feelings I have about this." Twilight closed her eyes. "When I was Pet, I loved and adored everything you did, simply because it was you doing it. But as myself… the embarrassment bits were a little on edge…" She inhaled deeply and looked right at Maud. "But I have to be honest with you… I liked it."

The room was quiet a moment until the sounds of Maud getting to her hooves intruded. Walking around the big table, the earth pony took her time. "I have had pets before, Twilight. But I have never, ever, felt this bound to one myself. I learned lessons with them, discovered all the little things they enjoyed doing." Maud found herself standing beside Twilight. "But not a single one ever asked to have more of what… what I need." She leaned down, unsure if her emotions were right but not wanting to risk missing this moment.

Twilight's eyes widened and she felt a burning need rise in her. She leaned up and pressed her lips to Maud's. She watched as the other mare's eyes opened and stared into hers, she stared back and groaned, pressing herself into the kiss. I am totally kissing her, no compulsions, no hypnotism. I am kissing Maud Pie and it is great!

Maud settled on the seat beside Twilight, her lips not breaking contact. A feathered wing reached out and she leaned into it slightly. The kiss dragged on, Maud was trying to think seriously about the implications but couldn't stop the warm feelings from fluttering in her heart.

Is this love? Am I ready for love? I don't feel ready, but I feel… Twilight slowly drew back from the kiss, sighing a little in loss when Maud's tongue drew free of her mouth for the first time in a minute. "What…" She leaned and kissed the other mare's lips again. "If you are going to keep that close I can't stop myself." Twilight giggled and gave up, leaning back for another kiss.

"Then let's stop and think." Maud broke the kiss and sat back. She couldn't stop looking into Twilight's eyes, however. More time passed with Maud lost in those dark pools than the farmer would have thought possible. "I…"

"I love you." Twilight covered her snout with a hoof the moment after the words tumbled out. Oh Celestia, I said it! If Twilight's heart was beating in overdrive before, it was now spinning the tires in a burnout. "I…" I meant it. "I meant it, Maud. I do love you. I love the sound of your voice, I love how I feel when I see you first thing in the morning. It is irrational and completely crazy…" A gray hoof reached up to Twilight, stroked across her cheek.

"I love you too, Twilight Sparkle." Maud had tried to let her emotions go, but she just wasn't capable of reining them in when it came to this mare. Her heart beat a little faster and she felt a pull, a force dragging her toward the princess. Leaning forward, she kissed Twilight again.

"If you tell me right now," Rarity was standing in the doorway of dining room, "that she is not hypnotized, then I believe we have a pink mare to talk to about organizing a party." She knew her friend, she knew the moment Twilight was acting strange under Maud's influence the previous day and she knew right now that her friend wasn't under it.

"She is under my hypnosis, I made Twilight Sparkle kiss me, made her love me." Maud put her shield up, Twilight easily saw any and all emotion snap from the mare's features. "She is completely under my sway and cannot say no to me."

"Twilight? Are you hypnotized at the moment?" Rarity looked to her best friend and knew Twilight wasn't, but she also saw this as a way to help the two bond a little closer.

"I-" Twilight felt a bump against her leg, Maud trying to get her attention. "Sorry Maud, I won't lie to my friends. Rarity, Maud completely removed all her compulsions and hypnosis from me earlier. She let me free so she could trap me again." Twilight blushed up a storm and looked at the shocked earth pony. "I love you too much to lie."

Maud inhaled and realized she had been caught by the promise of a strong pony under her sway. She had thought it would be a few little games before the Princess of Friendship would find something—probably the public embarrassment kink—too distasteful and break free. "You silly filly." Maud leaned forward again and, rather than kissing, just rubbed her nose against Twilight's.

"So…" Rarity felt like a third wheel in this, which she technically was. "You are going to hypnotize her again?"

"I hope so." Twilight grinned and lightly kissed Maud's lips. It hadn't taken any great courage or strength, she realized, she had just needed to relax.

"Twilight Sparkle, you are listening to my voice, my even, calm voice." Maud looked deep into those trusting eyes. "You are feeling relaxed, calm, you feel your heart and breathing slowing."

Rarity knew better than to say a word, but part of her twitched, some part deep inside, it reacted to the words despite them not being aimed at her. Her eyes widened at the pair.

"You will relax, climb down from that chair and just curl up on the floor and listen to my voice." Maud moved back, then helped guide her pet to the floor. "Are you relaxed now? You can still talk."

"Yes." Maud's ear twitched. Twilight and Rarity had both spoken. She turned her head to the fashionista. "Calm thoughts fill your mind, like water in a bucket. You feel softness, pillows, comforters, plush blankets, they crowd out your thoughts and make you feel so very full."

Rarity gazed over at her friend, she felt herself planted firmly in place, unable to move, unable to even think of moving. The moment she got any hint toward a real idea it was bundled up in fluffy blankets and stuffed away. She smiled.

"You are so very relaxed, so calm, your eyes are getting heavier, heavier. I am going to count down from five and you will be completely under my sway." Maud walked around the pair, eying Rarity especially. "Five."

Twilight beamed, closing her eyes and diving in. She didn't need a countdown, Maud's voice was more than enough for her now. Or so she thought. "Four." Part of Twilight, a part she wasn't even completely sure of, relaxed. "Three." Rarity felt her eyes get heavier, her whole body slumping down against the tiles. "Two." Both hypnotized mares gave a slight sigh. "One. You are mine now." Maud walked around the two but focused on Rarity.

"Rarity." Hearing her name spoken with that flat voice dragged part of the unicorn from her relaxed slumber. "Rarity, Rarity, Rarity. If you want to play these games from this side, you really should have told me. Rarity, you can hear my voice?" It was easy to respond, Rarity moved her heavy head, not seeing because she still couldn't open her eyes. "Rarity, if you don't want to be my pet, you will become aware of my hypnosis, you will rouse from it and you will find yourself hearing my voice but not wanting to follow any commands. At the end of the day all my control will be gone. Do you understand?" Rarity nodded, then opened her eyes and blinked. She almost said something when a hoof pressed to her lips. "Shhh."

Maud smiled at the mare, then tilted her head toward the still hypnotized Twilight. "Twilight Sparkle, you are still well under, just nod for your Mistress." Twilight nodded. "Good filly. You will slowly become aware of yourself, when I clop my hooves together, you will become aware but still be under my control." Twilight nodded again, a wide smile on her lips.

Clop

Twilight's eyes opened and she looked up. "Mistress!" The word came easily to her, everything about her situation felt precarious however. Maud hadn't given her an escape yet.

"Twilight Sparkle, you are my pet only because you want to be, if you don't want to be my pet, then you aren't." Maud's soft voice held no power in Rarity's ears, but she was absolutely entranced by the wording; her ears twitched and pricked forward, following the continuing commands. "If you aren't my pet, you will be free of all my control. Do you understand, Princess Twilight Sparkle?" Maud was a touch excited every time she wove a compulsion with the full name of her… her, fillyfriend.

"I understand, Mistress." Twilight felt the mental halter slip around her, the keys were there, they had always been there, but she hadn't felt the need to touch them yet. "Do you want me to, uh, bring out Pet?"

Rarity blinked at this, she had not been privy to this "Pet" thing. "No." Maud grinned. "This time I will just have you, but I may call you Pet from time to time." Rarity's confusion was apparent, but she didn't let it distract her too much, she could always ask later.

Twilight hadn't been told to do anything in particular, and certainly not to stay, so it wasn't breaking the rules yet to step forward and kiss her Mistress on the lips, reaching her wings around Maud and hugging the pony tight. When her Mistress responded, melting into the affection, Twilight felt even better.

"Pet, much as I love kissing you, we have your friend to teach things to, and the most important lessons are right now. For every relationship, when one partner puts themselves in the strict care of another, there must be consent." Maud looked at Rarity. "You are not blind, or deaf, you heard how I worded her compulsions so far?" Rarity nodded. "Then this is not a waste. Twilight, my pet, your way out this time is 'Puce alicorn', if you ever feel uncomfortable in a bad way, or you ever want me to stop, you need only think 'Puce alicorn' and you will not be my pet until you feel comfortable again. If I am not there, you will not be my pet until you see me again."

Rarity opened her snout to speak and had a hoof against it again. She burned with questions, questions that apparently had to wait.

"And Twilight, if anypony is in danger, or you yourself are, you will not be my pet until everypony is safe again. Do you understand all of this?" Maud watched Twilight, saw her tilt her head a little to the side.

"Yes, Mistress. Of course I understand. It is just like last time." Twilight felt the tight chastity belt's enchantments working overtime to keep her wetness from making a mess. "Mistress, I think Rarity wants to ask something."

Maud turned to Rarity. "My pet apparently thinks now is a good time for questions." Rarity's snout opened and her eyes suddenly bulged.

"Excuse me just one moment!" Rarity bolted from the room.

"Pet, tell me what you smell?" Maud's own nose twitched. She turned to look at Twilight Sparkle.

"I smell the leftovers of breakfast. I smell the mane-shampoo I used. I smell your arousal, Mistress. I also smell Rarity's." Twilight giggled at the last bit, her mouth curling into a grin.

"Good filly."

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