[Human Perspective]

Have you ever broken your ribs? Or maybe gotten a road rash on the side of your body?

By the time I opened my eyes I felt like crying, and probably did considering the pain caused by every breath. That was the start of my troubles, the stiff painful feeling of my entire body prevented any sort of free range movement. So if I was laying at the bottom of a cliffside washed up on shore this was going to take some considerable effort of will.

Strangely enough, I was warm and laying on something soft. There was a small chill that kept running up and down my right arm, providing a bit of relief of the stiff painfulness that was my being. I couldn't move my left arm at all though my fingers wiggled in a hard encasing which caused hot bolts of fire through my arm making me groan with the pain.

I opened my eyes, the pain causing a need to move to sit up and find out why I was in such pain. First thing I saw was my own body laying on what looked like a bed with green everywhere.

The room itself was a soft pastel light green with brown or white accents, a curtain was pulled blocking my right side view. The very soft beep of a heart monitor annoyingly rang in my ear to my left. I looked down at my left side seeing my arm was being held in a cast that ran up the entirety of it leaving only my fingers and thumb exposed, it was grey in color and made of that course hardened wrapping you see often in most casts.

In my right arm was a IV drip, with a white pad and tape keeping it covered. There was also a sickly green liquid being injected into my lower right arm which was making that odd cold feeling of numbness. Some kind of painkiller but none I've seen before.

I checked my functionality of my legs doing a small flexing of the appendages. I seemed to have retained all functionality in legs which is good so I wouldn't be in a wheelchair.

Memories of the events leading to this surfaced in my pain addled mind, the fall, the sea water filling my lungs, the cold as I was slammed into the rocks, the feeling of weightlessness then suddenly I had felt dry if very cold.

Then the talking pony thing in the night.

I remember it having a feminine sounding voice so she was cute for whatever she was. Even though it was my brain trying to make sense of the world through fever dreams… Hopefully.

The sound of the door opening made me glance towards the curtain, it hurt way too much to move right now and I was guessing that it was a nurse or doctor coming to check on me.

The curtain was drawn back after a few seconds and my brain went blank, standing there was a pastel pony thing. She definitely has a feminine shape to her face and eyes, was white and very light pink. Her coat was an ivory white that shimmered in the light of room, her very light pink hair was almost like light cotton candy in color with very pretty, and I must admit very pretty! Baby blue eyes looking at my light brown ones.

We stared at one another, the small three foot something tall pony in a very well maintained nurse uniform and cap that had hearts around and in the center of the universal symbol for aid; the red cross.

Her light pink hair was pulled back into a bun and tucked neatly on the back of her head.

Her ear flicked in a nervous sort of way as she looked me all over, which I did the same.

“Ahem.” She cleared her throat, swallowing audibly as her stance became more rigid to hide her obvious nervousness.

“I am Molly Redheart, or Nurse Redheart. You were in a accident and we provided aid to you, you had a ruptured spleen, crushed ribs, broken upper and lower arm, many lacerations of varying degrees, and a concussion. You are currently in Ponyville General Hospital, Equestria, on the Planet known as Equis. I ask that you remain calm so you do not tear the stitches we applied for recovery.” She started though her voice cracked at the very beginning of her sentence.

A strange emotion swirled in my head as I looked upon her, feeling that sense of existential minusculity that was brought upon by the knowledge of a world too big for you to understand. The five steps of grief quickly ran their course as I didn't want to believe my eyes.

Yet here I was.

If I step back and reflect upon the situation, she was as likely as terrified as I was due to a alien looking at her and she to I.

So I decided to direct the stand off mood of the room into a better light rather than destroy what was left of my spleen. Which is what I felt like doing but destroying my spleen would not be in my best interest.

So instead I sat back further into the pillow and let out a long sigh.

“Alright, I know you know that I'm quite aware that I should be freaking out and wanting to scream but destroying what is left of my spleen wouldn't help me in that matter. So instead I am going to take this in stride and ask a few questions just to satisfy my curiosity.” I said taking another painful deep breath to calm myself.

“Am I dead?” I asked turning my head to the small ivory colored pony.

“You wouldn't be talking to me if you were.” She said, she was still nervous but the question managed to make her smirk.

“Excellent.” I replied taking a moment to congratulate my finding that I was indeed not dead.

“Next, what are you Nurse Redheart?”

“I’m a Earth Pony, which there are two other of my kind; Unicorn and Pegasus.”

“I suspected that you were some sort of equine race, my theory has been confirmed thank you. It seems not only am I in a world where slightly anthropomorphic equines speak, there are the mythological counterparts living here as well. Which is both exciting and terrifying in its entirety.” I said, very slowly pushing myself back up into a sitting position.

“My final question is how did I get here?”

“You suddenly appeared late last night and our Mayor managed to call us, you are lucky that the Princess was here to give us some information on your kind.” Nurse Redheart said taking a tentative step forward to me, “Do… Do you mind if I come close? I need to check your stitches.”

“Ah, yes. Do what you need too.” I said gesturing vaguely with my good arm. The little pony quickly came closer and checked the machines and then got on her hind legs to slowly peel the covers back off my person.

My modesty was thankfully left covered as I viewed the large and ugly bruise that covered nearly my entire torso, white patches of gauze littered my body but the largest was around my left abdomen side which was slightly dark red from dry blood.

“I'm impressed that I survived.” I said as she dexterously but gently pulled back the large patch over my left side. It looked like someone had took a considerable chunk out of my side, I was going to have one hell of a scar.

“We were too, or that you could move in the state you were in.” she said reaching over to a side tray roller that was near my bed and pulling out a brown bottle, she took a clean rag and poured the clear substance onto it.

“What is your name?” she looked up at my face giving me a small smile and continued “This might hurt a little.”

“It's Aaren Fjeld-Oooowwwchhh.” I said then ground my teeth as a burning sensation covered my side when she gently placed the rag on my wound.

She dabbed at the stitches, making me catch my breath as it stung. It made me wanna roll my eyes back and pass out.

“Sorry, but we don't want you to get a infection.” She said as she continued to clean up my wound and then placed a clean patch over it again.

“N-No.” I rasped, then swallowed hard “I understand, you are more of the medical expert than I.”

“You wanna tell me how you got so banged up?” She asked as she took another clean rag and pulled another patch up.

“Honestly, I think I fell off a cliff. Or got pushed. One or the other, either way it was a long drop and I hit rock. Really I don't remember much of what exactly happened, other than the strong smell of cinnamon.”

I took a moment to look at the pony who was providing me aid, the more we talked the more at ease she seemed to fall into. Her cute round, if rather chubby ear twitched when I talked giving me the overwhelming urge to touch it.

If just to sate the curiosity of what her fur felt like, most of the numbness was in my stomach area and just the cleaning solution she was using seemed to be the only thing strong enough to pierce through it.

Impulse took charge and I reached up and gently rubbed my forefinger and thumb together over the tip of the ear. My assumption that it was soft, was shattered as it wasn't just soft, it was the softest thing I think I've ever had the pleasure of touching.

Her body temperature was higher than my own so it was warm, borderline hot. But incredibly fluffy.

Nurse Redheart went rigid as a steel bar, as I in my own obliviousness continued to rub the tip of her ear. I didn't want to hurt her so I was gentle with it, amazed with how damn soft it was.

She made a small squeaky noise and one of her hind legs suddenly quivered and kicked in some kind of reflex. Enraptured by the strange softness and her reaction I went lower gingerly rubbing the center of her ear then upward in small up and down motions.

She let out a gasp and one of her hooved arms covered her mouth as incredibly she began to turn shades of pink through her fur. The visibility of this was defying logic as her fur should've covered the flush of blood to the surface of her skin making it unnoticeable. She hadn't said stop or anything so it seemed to be pleasing to her, perhaps I was overstepping the rules of personal space here but if you had felt the softest thing you could ever imagine you would be hard pressed not to want to continue to feel it.

This time I went from the base of her ear rubbing the small chubby folds that protected her inner ear, my thumb easily big to almost cover a good deal of her ear. I blinked as I could smell something, it was like a gentle perfume of something sweet.

It was probably what she was wearing while she worked as a nurse, Nurse Redheart looked like she was trying to keep her mouth closed but her legs quivering made soft ‘clack clack’ noises as her legs shifted to support herself.

What in the world was happening, Aaren you are making first contact with a unknown species and you are rubbing their ears like you would a dog or cat!

Shut up other voice this is a soft ear and she hasn't said anything so she clearly must be enjoying it like our cat would!

Are you not paying attention you dolt!!? That is clearly a look of sexual arousal!! You are getting her rocks off!!

What!? Really??

I blinked a few more times as the good Nurse couldn't keep a bit of a low moan from escaping her. A very slow sexual kind of moan that said, this felt good in the sexual way.

“B-Buck…” She whispered to herself looking lost in the feeling.

Realizing my error I let go as if my hand had caught fire, which in my better judgement might of been done differently because it made my entire side scream in anguish.

Molly Redheart took a shuddering breath and looked very disappointed that the stimulation to her ear was gone, because she almost made a piteous whine. Before taking a moment to realize what had happened to her and she back up faster than I thought the little pony could her tail tucked between her legs looking red faced and breathing heavily.

“I-I-I'm sorry I-I don't know what came over me!! Really! Your ear looked soft and I just couldn't help it!”

I had an obsession with things that were soft, the feeling gave me goosebumps which had to do with my skin having a high awareness of the texture of soft. My brain simply enjoyed the feeling of it a little too much.

“N-No it’s!” she took a deep breath trying to get her blush under control.

“It’s fine, I-I figured you would be curious. B-But make sure t-to ask next time, you didn't hurt me… quite… quite the opposite.” her voice lowered as she mumbled the last part. I felt my own cheeks flush with embarrassment and how weirdly fucking cute that was to think rubbing her ears made her feel that good.

“Ahem, l-let me finish taking care of your wounds first t-then I can let you touch my coat.” She said looking away for a second and tried to adjust her uniform and her cap, making sure her bun was still secure.

“You aren't mad?” I asked, even though I was about 6’5 in thanks to my father's tall family genes the voice that came out of the large native American/Scandinavian mouth of mine was quite tiny.

She shook her head.

“No, out of all the ponies here in the hospital I happen to be use to other species being curious of us. I worked in a hospital that had more species than pony in them and the city around it. I expected something but, I expected you to ask, so I apologize for not telling you.” She said now getting her breathing under control.

“Pony ears are exceptionally sensitive, you have to ask if you can touch somepony's ears. I'm gonna let what you did slide since that felt magnificent, but if I say stop, stop…” she said before coming back to the side of the bed.

“Y-Yes…”

I sat in silence for the next five minutes as Molly cleaned me up, checking my temperature, then nodded before pulling up a chair from the wall directly in front of me to to my bedside where she sat taking off her cap.

“Okay, Mr. Fjelds you may touch any part of my head, just no invasive things like sticking your finger in my eye that still hurts.” she said her voice warm and a tint but eager.

“So you are all ponies? Everyone here in the hospital?” I asked as I lifted my hand to touch the downy soft texture of her mane. I gently dug my fingers through the top of her mane, which she let out a content sigh and tried not to lean into my hand to much.

“Yes, Ponyville is solely a pony populated area. We have a Dragon and a Zebra here but Zebra’s are so closely related to ponies that doesn't matter. The dragon is our Princesses's companion.”

My fingers massaged her scalp and hair making her close her eyes and press her head into it, this was too cute. I don't think I could handle this kind of cute.

My hand moved down to her warm cheek feeling the difference between the textures of her fur. Her fur was longer in places that didnt move so much, so her cheeks had a nice velvet like fur that was squishy because of her plumpness. She was plump, but it didn't seem to be excessive as I looked her further down and saw on her flank was a image directly ripped off her cap. The crazy thing was is that it was her fur, it wasn't faded or even blending like normal different colors would do on fur patterns but exact and clear.

Her rump was round and kinda plush looking that curved towards her dock and tail which was the same color as her mane. What kind of genetics would birth pink fur was beyond me.

That soft perfume smell had faded a little but I could still smell it.

“Why do you have an image on your butt?” I asked, and Molly snorted with laughter, giggles escaping her that made her more adorable than I could handle.

I think how these ponies survived was through sheer cuteness factors.

“That's a cutie mark, it shows what my special talent is even if the image is a bit archaic. My special talent is helping others feel better at the hospital, both through medicine and through company. Nopony likes feeling like they don't have anypony to talk to while they are sick so I try to be their friends.”

“That's very important, I grew up with a mild case of asthma so I've been to hospitals more than I can count simply because I couldn't breathe. So our village Healer and local doctor got to know me pretty well, certainly helped.”

She smiled at this, “It's why I love this job, I get to meet all sorts but it's nice not have to rush around all the time as it was before I moved here.” Molly almost purred as my fingers rubbed the tips of her ear again.

You might think me a strange lot for enjoying this so much but you try being in my situation and tell me what you think. Not ten minute in this brand new world and I'm already petting the local residents, it might say something about me.

I could be yelling and screaming my lungs out terrified beyond belief that I wasn't just far away from home but also dimensions away too.

But I saw no beneficial point to all that other than making it all worse.

There was a knock on the door and Molly turned her head taking my bruises arm and placing it back on the bed as she adjusted her hair quickly and then put her cap back on.

“Come in.” she called, getting up from the chair and walking to the base of my bed where she grabbed a clipboard and scribbled something down on it with a attached pen.

“Hello? Nurse Redheart is that you?” A feminine voice asked from further away, presumably the entrance to the room. Moments later two more ponies had drawn back the curtains, one that was a light grayish mulberry color with a ever darker purple mane complete with violet eyes.

She reminded me of a pretty bunch of grapes, those aesthetically pleasing ones you see on some wine bottles or jam jars. Her eyes were bright, and they sparkled almost literally with intelligence, her confident stance and broad chest setting her a bit different than the others.

She had wings and a horn, which looked both downy soft. How a horn could look soft even though it was a protuberance of bone, I couldn't answer you. She was tall looking to be a head taller than Molly and the other one that was fidgeting and trying to hid behind the purple one.

She looked to be a slightly older pony, the small crows feet around her eyes were much more visible than with the others.

She was topping the cuteness meter with the gold rimmed glasses that were delicately placed atop her nose and extended back of her head where a small wire band kept them tastefully on her nose without the risk of them falling. Her hair was a soft cotton white and shades of grey thrown in on top of a sand colored coat, she was plush too as her belly and flanks showed signs of roundness that would indicate a healthy mature woman on my own species.

On her butt was a scroll wrapped in a blue ribbon with a ivory colored seal at the center holding the ribbon together. The walking grape advertisement had a dark pink and light pink starburst with five smaller white twinkles surrounding the center one.

The sand colored one's eyes were a ocean deep blue something humans couldn't even hope to replicate, she had a round face less narrow than the other two. She looked tired but awake enough that told me she was normally in a state of being up constantly. I felt a pang of sympathy because I knew that feeling well.

Having spent long night studying and grinding through college was enough to make anyone who been through that kind of hell know when one of their own is in the room.

Her dark blue eyes wandered over me as I did her even though this had occurred within eight seconds.

The purple one smiled brightly at me her wings extending to do a small flap in her excitement. Her expression was surprisingly easy to read and very human, this world must be one of those really weird parallel worlds where things are really similar but entirely different.

“Hello! It's good to see you are awake and I don’t detect any calming magic which means you haven't caused Nurse Redheart any problems! Thank you for that really, I was really worried that you or somepony else would get hurt in a panic.” She said brightly and trotted over to my bedside, she was a bit taller than the other two and it became more clear as she drew close.

“Well, seeing that my only other option was to writhe in agony because I tore all my stitches and then messed my insides more up than before because of the screaming I would of had I been in better condition. But seeing that my entire left side is killing me even now, I've just gotten good at hiding it.” I said then coughed which made my left side erupt in pure agony. But whatever was in my blood right now numbed it quickly.

“Ow.”

“Did you tell him where he is and what we are?” she turned her head to Nurse Redheart, which Molly nodded and this seemed to please her greatly.

“Yeah I know I'm not in my world, but hell I could be dead and this is my brain trying to grasp at reality in its last moments before I die, die.” This earned a small snort from the sand colored one and she tried to hide a small smile.

“Last time I checked, you are pretty real and bleeding. Now, you are real and bleeding a lot less.” Molly said in an airy tone, giving me a quick grin. I couldn't help the grin that touched my lips too the morbid humor of it all.

“Great news! So, I guess I better introduce myself I'm Princess Twilight Aria Moonseeker Sparkle; High Magi of the Royal Society of Mages, Grand Duchess of the Mossgrove Provence, and the Element of Magic of the Elements of Harmony. Beside me is Ivory Locket or Ivory Scroll as known to many, she is the Mayor of Ponyville, Head of the Recreation Committee and Preservation Society. As well as my new marefriend.” She finished proudly her wings extending a little.

Molly gave a loud squeal of excitement, as she nuzzled the two of them.

“I'm so happy you two got together! Snowheart was wondering when you two would finally date!” She gushed happily.

Ivory Locket blushed hard while Twilight's cheeks colored lightly.

“Was I that obvious…?” Ivory asked in a small voice which Molly nodded once, making the older mare blush even more.

“Everytime you two came to check on the hospital I would catch you sneaking looks at Twilight, I even remember when you were so busy watching her you spilt that coffee on yourself and we had to treat the burn.” Molly clapped her hooves together, the mare in question seemed to turn more pink than sandy brown. Twilight giggled and rubbed cheeks with her girlfriend while Ivory just looked at her hooves. looking very happy about hearing that.

“Right! Sorry!!” Twilight burst out quickly righting herself and looking back at me. I gave them a grin, even if I was injured in a far off land these pony folk sure were wholesome. Which definitely makes the whole healing process better in my book.

Would rather die of something wholesome and cute than painful and cold.

“As you already know you aren't in your world, but I have a few questions I would like answered and then we can go from there. May I have your name? I don't want to just call you ‘human’ when we talk.”

“Aaren.”

“Aaren, thank you. Aaren do you remember what country you came from before you got hurt?”

“I come from a country called the United States of America my ancestors there have been living before the country was founded however so I'm more Native American than actual American.” I said wondering why she wanted to know the country I came from.

Twilight's Smile faltered for a second her ears drooping just a little.

“Do you happen to know the International Union of Earth?” she asked hopefully.

“You mean the United Nations? I think we are apart of the UN.”

Twilight's smile faltered even more and I got a bad feeling in my gut and not just because it had been nearly torn out.

“So, you don't know that America became the Allied Union between the old countries of Canada, Mexico, and the USA when they signed the congressional constitution of better earth of 2057…?”

I blinked at the princess, what? I kept up with the news some but last time I checked it was 2018 and we were still arguing about whether or not climate change was a thing despite the overwhelming proof it was going on.

“Um the last year I remember it was 2018 close to 2019.”

Twilight looked at me with searching eyes as her ears dropped fully.

“Oh boy… who is your president?” she asked though I had a feeling she wasn't going to like the answer.

“Donald Trump, even though I voted for someone else.”

“Oh no… Was there a Japanese American woman by the name of Rei Yokoyama who ran for presidency along with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump?” she almost looked heartbroken at me and the bad sinking feeling got even worse.

I slowly shook my head.

She blew out a held breath while the other two looked just as confused as I felt.

“This is going to be very hard to hear Aaren, so please, please try to remain calm.” she said gently which this brought me wholly on edge is she in playing what I think she is implying.

“I was hoping this would be a easy fix but now… nopony can do it. Aaren…” she took a deep breath.

“You can't go home to your world anymore, you are stuck here… probably forever. We have only one portal anchored to your reality and it's one that has significantly branched from your own timeline. Even if we were to try and tune the portal to anchor into your specific reality it wouldn't guarantee when or where it would send you, but tuning the portal we do have would take infinite time to even find the branch of time your reality come from.” she said looking at the floor and actually looking teary eyed at this.

“There is a reason only one portal to another dimension exists here, it takes a very, hundreds of thousands of years to anchor portal output into a physical reality and keep it stable. It's a Harmony given miracle that ours even works as well as it does and its older than known history! it's going to take years for even us to make a bigger portal to support trade between our dimensions!” She let out an exasperated sigh sitting on her haunches.

“Aaren my point is that, if you were to travel back over to what you know as Earth, it would be a entirely different Earth you knew. The version of you over there probably is living there now with family and friends that might be different from your own. You… you are human out of time and space… and there isn't any way to help.”

I sat there, my mind empty as I slowly consumed the information I was given.

One; ponies invented cross dimensional travel via portal connection. Assuming that Unicorns are known to be highly magical it is a reasonable estimation that magic is abundant and usable in this particular dimension that allows manipulation of laws of space time though like any mathematics professor in physics would tell you like my mathematics Professor Gerald Hughes who said ‘Dimensions are fucking nuts, and a shit storm to theorize their possibilities because the math involved just doesn't want to play nice.’

Two; Earth still exists and is accessible to go back to but it is a parallel world that branched off the 2016 elections into a whole new series of events that would be almost alien to me if I were to go back.

Three; Parallel Aaren Fjelds is likely living in the same area as his family and it would be beyond strange to go invade their lives when they never missed me in the first place nor did I fall off a cliff…. Or have buried their child and me being there would just make mom cry a lot.

Four; holy shit that means I don't have anywhere to go back to or anyone that knew me since I died or never left in the first place leaving me really out of place in second Earth to start a whole new life either here in magical pony land or in alternative world earth.

Five; Unfortunately I couldn’t Samurai Jack this and fight Aku for a portal to not just go back in time but also through space.

Six; Damn whatever that they got me on was allowing me not to freak out as bad as I thought I would be. But I guess feeling numb and knowing your entire life was ripped right out from under your feet and an almost fatal fall to my death would lead to a series of unfortunate and peculiar events.

And the most terrible thing was I didn't have Tim Curry narrating the entire thing.

Not only have I been orphaned, displaced, battered and bruised, almost washed up, left with nowhere to go, and out of any sort of currency. I could feel a greater sympathy for the Baudelaire siblings because now I knew exactly how they felt.

I just hope there wasn’t a Count Olaf and his cronies out to kill me for the nonexistent inheritance I had.

Twilight was whispering to the others while I just stared at the blanket covering my modesty as there was no clothes for me at the moment.

“I'm in a bad situation… I don't have any money, clothes, a place to stay, any information that will help me out there, I feel like I should grieve but I… can't… I would probably be dead in my reality if I hadn't popped into this one so I don’t know which is worse. Being dead or having nothing at all? I guess having nothing at all is better than being dead since you can't go anywhere but up when you hit rock bottom. In my case almost literally.” I said placing my good hand over my face and rubbing my swollen face gently with the insanity of it all.

“Aaren! Aaren, it's okay!” Molly exclaimed as I blinked realizing I was crying. Warm wet tears rolled freely down my cheeks and onto my chest, Molly quickly came over and got on her hind hooves to wrap me into a hug and delicately placed her nose against my cheek giving me soft squeezes because it would hurt if she did it any harder.

“You are going to be alright, you aren’t alone Aaren. We aren’t going to throw you out into the wind, promise.” Molly said reassuringly gently rubbing her nose to my cheek, I took a shuddering breath a sob racking through my being making everything hurt.

I placed my hand against my face trying to hide it from the world and it's terrible way of hurting the living.

A few minutes of sobbing left me as the emotional pain left me of losing everything I ever cared about. My tribe, my mom and dad, my grandparents, my friends, the beautiful national park I grew up in, the years of college to become a environmental conservation scientist.

I didn't know any trades other than knowing how to hunt, fish, and identify herbs, I knew how to carve wood but not furniture, I knew how to take care of temperate rainforests and Arctic Alaskan estuaries and seas, I knew where to find endangered species and their habitats in those regions, I could tell you the difference between trees species by the shape of their leaves and how to spot sickness in their roots and trunks.

I knew how to test the pH levels and soil composition for better growth and sustainability, as well as how to plan for symbiotic growth of both environmental and urban planning.

But now that all seemed useless, all that effort to help my tribes homeland be green and healthy. Gone and up in smoke. I should of became a doctor in medicine then my skills wouldn't be so area specific and specialized

“Aaren?” Twilight spoke up enough to catch my attention.

“Yeah?” I said roughly from the sore throat I had.

“Would you like to stay with me till we can get you back on your feet? I live in a large castle with many empty rooms so you would be welcome to stay there until you sort yourself out and recover. You wouldn't have to worry about rent or food! I revive a care fund from the country treasury to take care of myself and Spike.” Twilight said taking a few steps closer to me and gently placing her hoof on my leg in reassurance.

“A-And I can help too! For work! M-Money I mean!” The one called Ivory finally said after her long silence, she looked eager to do something to help.

“The Apples have been putting in request for farm help, the cidery needs to have somepony watch it so it runs right and it's only just the four of them there so they can't do everything… Um let's see.” she looked up her eyes darting left and right as if reading her thoughts before speaking.

“Aloe and Lotus Blossom are willing to train a new masseuse for their salon, with his hands he would be sought after if he is willing to learn. Hmm… the bowling alley needs a pin jockey, Earl Grey and Orange Fragrance needs somepony to watch their tea shop over the weekends since it gets so busy. The Flower trio need a gardener for their greenhouses and somepony with a strong back since Daisy sprained her back leg.” The mayor said looking proud of herself that she had something to offer me, I suddenly felt warmth blossom in my heart for these three.

This charity to help me made me feel like I had to give them something back, my father use to say that if you remove one tree you always place four more to make up for the forests loss. I was in their debt.

I wiped the corners of my eyes and sniffed which Molly gently butted my head with her own affectionately.

I leaned my head against hers thanking her with my own head rub.

“T-Thank you… all of you. I don't know what came over me. Yes, I would appreciate that Twilight… Do I call you Princess or Princess Twilight, I just remembered I'm in front of royalty and made a fool of myself.” I gave a weak smile, which earned me a small one from Molly who seemed content that I was doing better.

“Just Twilight, I became a princess recently so it's still a little weird to be called that!” she laughed nervously, Ivory walked up beside Twilight and pressed her nose into the crook of her neck then kissed her cheek before looking at me again.

I gave her and Twilight a weak smile.

“Would it be too much to ask for some pants? It feels weird being naked and only having a thin bed sheet between me and the rest of the world.”

…

[Ivory Vision]

The human's name was Aaren Fjelds, and by harmony I couldn't stop looking at him.

His size was probably a big factor to why I kept looking him up and down. The first time he stood up as Molly wanted to see if he could since nothing was wrong with his spine or legs, just his left side had broken ribs and arm.

Twilight was nice enough to use her magic to hold up the bedsheet for him with her magic while Molly checked his upper and lower back because he had stitches there too. He was probably going to be scarred for the rest of his life, the long raked lines of red inflamed flesh on his back as well as the dark purple bruising that covered his entire form.

Molly's tail was only visible as Aaren slowly stood up with a bright reddish blush on his cheeks because someone was viewing him naked.

Twilight had whispered to me that humans were sensitive about their privacy when it comes to their body. Seeing that nudity was related to intimacy in their culture especially when concerning the groin area, males were fully visible and did not retract into a sheath like our stallions so they hid themselves behind clothing to both protect their skin from weather and outside forces but to keep their groins from showing.

“Just remember to keep your tail down over your rump while in his presence, we need to give him his cultural courtesy of keeping the privates private.” She whispered gently into my ear which I lowered my tail over my hind legs covering myself with my white fur.

“How do you know all this?” I asked as Molly politely asked him to turn, which the human groaned in pain as he shifted his weight to turn to his side.

“Sunset, she's been living with them for a long time since she isn't from there she ages a lot more slowly than they do.”

“How long do they live for?”

“About eighty years their time, but it's been shown that magic extends their lifespans phenomenally if they saturate their bodies in it. If Aaren stays here the R&D of Canterlot suggests that he might live for about two thousand years our time once completely saturated. Humans are surprisingly like sponges when it comes to magic, but I joked with Celestia that if you pour a waterfall into a near empty well it's going to fill up very quickly.” Twilight giggled as Aaren grumbled something about bossy small horses because Molly was being strict on his posture.

“Aaren if you favor one side it's going to ruin your posture, you want to constantly lean to your right? Stand straight, the pain medication is dulling most of the pain so do it.” She tsked, there was the sound of tape tearing and then being pressed against him as he swayed.

“Yes mom.” He said in a sulking manner and tried to straighten himself.

Aaren himself was just to damn fascinating to rip my gaze from, just how he was so tall and how his muscle and body was defined. His face was the strangest because despite its flat nature it was very expressive almost like our own. His ears didn't move but his eyes did and were very expressive to make up for the lack of ear movement.

I imagined that he could pick Twilight and I up with no issue once he healed, he was probably quite strong with how his fingers and arm had some definition.

I blinked a few times feeling my cheeks flush because of the Submissive side in me that wanted to be overpowered and surrounded by something bigger than myself. It made my mouth dry and I licked my lips as I forced myself to look away from his chest and arms.

Harmony damnit Lyra, you should of never gave me that fetish book with creatures with hands and how they were often bigger than us. A Diamond Dog's paw hands could wrap around a averaged sized mare with little effort.

T-The only reason I read it was because I might have a thing for large… imposing… probably stronger than me things.

And he happen to fit that bill!

Eventually he sat back down looking very worn out and Molly very happy as she trotted with high steps to take the dirtied bandages off to the biohazard bin, her pink tail swishing with her pleasure.

“I never expected to be bossed around by a small horse much less expose myself to one.” Aaren said laying his head back into the pillows his body now fully covered.

“Nurse Redheart is just doing her job.” Twilight snickered.

“All that poking and prodding was probably revenge for rubbing her ears without asking.” he said defeated and waving a figurative white flag.

“Y-You did that to me too you know.” I blurted remembering the waves of pleasure from having one of my ears rubbed. He looked at me with a slightly horrified expression and I just waved it off before he could apologize.

“Its fine, that's the only action I've gotten in…” my eyes widened and I slammed a hoof in my mouth to shut myself up, my face burning as Aaren looked both uncomfortable but blushing at what I had just said. Harmony I was so stupid!!

“Annyyywayys!” Twilight announced saving us from the embarrassing moment.

“Aaren I'll go set a room up in my castle for you, you know about dragons right?”

“Holy shit you have dragons!!?” Aaren’s face lit up like a foal on Hearth's Warming morning when gifts are given, the young colt like excitement seemed to make him forget his lack of energy.

“I'll take that as a yes!” Twilight grinned and snickered behind a hoof, “Spike is my little baby dragon brother, I hatched him myself. He is a sweet little dragon if a bit snarky, I take from your reaction you wouldn't mind him? And maybe possibly be his friend? He doesn't have a lot of ponies to talk to his age or any stallions to get along with other than my friend's big brother and he gets lonely when I'm off working or out and about.” Twilight asked hopefully which Aaren grinned, I felt a small shiver run through me as I saw those large canines he had.

“Yeah, I can try but that's like every kids fantasy to have their own dragon! I wanted a dragon when I was growing up!” he looked up and seemed to be lost in his imagination, which made me feel warm inside.

There was more talk about accommodations and recovery, Molly wanted him to stay in bed for the next week with light exercise and make sure his wounds weren't infected. So he was confined to the hospital for the next week and Molly was very adamant about Aaren getting better.

Molly always did have a soft spot for her charges and when she is handling one it's good to know she is handling it well.

Twilight made sure to get some clothes for him but a hospital gown for minotaurs would have to do for now. Minotaurs were so rare here in Equestria that they might as well be myth. They lived on a continent to the west past the Luna Sea where tall wild grasslands grew. And rarely did they travel to the colder climates of northern Equestria.

So the gown was a tiny bit and moth eaten.

But it was better than nothing.

Twilight and I left the hospital after asking Aaren a few more things and if he needed anything, other than requesting food and water he had been satisfied with his position. Twilight was walking close to me in the chilly afternoon air her wing over my back and pressing me to her side both for warmth and because Twilight liked having her marefriends close to her.

I had a dark red thickly knitted wool scarf wrapped around my neck and a knitted beanie which held the back of my mane in place to keep the biting wind away. Twilight was cute, she wore purple ear muffs, a white and pink striped scarf and a wing shawl, which is what pegasus ponies used to keep their wings warm so they could fly in cold weather.

The weather team had to go in fifteen minute rounds to place snow clouds up in the air because of how freezing it got up there, so the beginning of any snow storm was slow and methodical to keep pegasi from getting frostbite or even worse hypothermia.I’ve had a few pegasi decomissioned until they thawed out and recovered from injury when the season changing teams got together in town hall.

Bulk Biceps was calling out to anypony who would listen for fresh hot chocolate for a single Bit as he rolled his cart towards town square stopping quite often by ponies of every type to warm themselves up with hot chocolate.

Bulk happen to have many odd jobs because of his athletic career of being a professional weight lifter and trainer didn't pay too well so he ended up buying a confections stand to make up the difference. He was doing quite well from what I've seen and heard.

“What do you think?” Twilight asked as we stopped by the stand and waited in the short like for hot chocolate.

“About the human?”

Twilight hummed her conformation and pulled me closer when a gust of cold wind blew our way.

“I think he is nice, I just can't get over how tall he is. To talk to him while he was standing up you’d have to strain your neck just to look him in the eye.” I said resting my head against Twilight while we stood there waiting our turn.

Twilight giggled returning my head lean with her own.

“Humans are not usually that tall but they can be, males tend to reach at least six feet, while females stay around the height of Princess Celestia or a little bigger. But their height doesn't really make them strong, so animals in their world are usually much stronger than them. Unlike us who had magic to help us survive, Humans adapted to everything quickly. Humans on their world spread across their entire globe in every habitat and have incredible endurance because they are a hunter gatherer species. I read a translated anthropology book of theirs and it's said that their ancestors use to walk after their prey until the animal collapsed in exhaustion while humans only had exhausted a little amount of their stamina.” Twilight said in her ‘ I'm excited to share my knowledge with you’ voice.

“That's kinda scary to think about, no matter how far you run they just follow behind you at a even pace until you can't run anymore.” I shivered at this feeling a prickle of fear touch my heart at knowing that.

“It is, just the whole eating meat kinda sets me on edge but it's no different than how Griffins and Diamond Dogs eat deer or small animals and fish. Fluttershy even catches fish for the otters and bears under her care so it's just something we have to accept.” she said before turning her head at me and giving me a sly smile.

“I noticed that little slip up by the way.” She said into my ear making me blush hard.

“If you want me to bite your ears and kiss them than I would like to extend the offer.” She said lightly nipping the tip of my ear, the feeling of two hard teeth gently grinding my ear never breaking skin but threatening to sent shockwaves down my spine and I sucked in a large gulp of air to keep from letting out a suggestive whine.

Was my glasses getting foggy?

“I-I.” I stammered trying to form a reply but Bulk interrupted our frisky behavior.

“HEY! WELCOME! DO YOU WANT SMALL OR LARGE MARSHMALLOWS OR DO YOU WANT THE HOT CHOCOLATE SPICED!? THE NORMAL CUP COSTS ONE BIT WHILE MARSHMALLOWS AND SPICED COST TWO!” The loud abrasive shouting expected of the muscle bound pegasus blew our way making my and Twilight's ears ring.

“Two hot chocolates please, I would like mine with lots of marshmallows!” Twilight cheerily replied seeming to have a victory of my moment of weakness.

“S-Spiced please.” I stuttered still feeling the warm shockwaves of pleasure from having my ear bit so intimately.

“THAT WILL BE FOUR BITS, PLEASE!”

Twilight pulled her coin bag from her inventory space and fished out the needed currency, two silver Bits was laid out onto the counter of the hot chocolate stand.

“THANK YOU! ONE MOMENT PLEASE!”

“You are evil.” I glowered at her with mock anger, which she grinned at me even bigger this time.

“That's what you get for telling somepony how they like being a-”

“HERE YOU TWO GO, TWO HOT CHOCOLATES!”

“Thank you Bulk! You have a good day!” Twilight answered and taking hold of the two tall red lidded cups with her magic.

“I-I thought you'd want to know s-since I haven't told you before!” I squeaked back at her as we turned to head towards her castle, Ponyville was busy as usual but less so since it was dropping below zero at night and chilly winds kept blowing through the cobblestone streets throughout the day.

“I know~ but I've never had somepony that liked the whole subby dominant stuff before, it just makes me want to tease you~” she nuzzled my cheek giving me soft kisses on my face. I let out a huff, feeling my cheeks flush again which kept the cold away at least.

“Besides Ivy, Pinkie probably wants to date you too since she is the type that wants to be apart of whatever their partner loves. Pinkie is a lot more in control during our intimate nights, but that's because I get all light in the head and have hard time thinking. So she would definitely be dominant.” Twilight said gently next to me keeping her voice low so we could talk about my likes without anypony overhearing.

I grabbed my cup of hot chocolate and took a tiny sip, warm creamy chocolate with cinnamon and vanilla accents rolled across my tongue. It was a bit on the hot side but not enough to burn my tongue, which I sighed contentedly with the warmth it provided.

“Speaking of Pinkie, I'm surprised she didn't jump our new resident today. She has a sixth sense when somepony new is in town it's almost strange not to hear the excited yelling of ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ and the party cannon going off.”

Twilight took a long sip of her own hot chocolate then licked her lips.

“She's off with Maud for a couple days, it's a sister thing she and Maud do every winter season. She and Pinkie have always been super close, much more so than the rest of her family so they are going to visit the Crystal Empire this year. They went to Seattle last year, the pictures of the cliffs there are beautiful, it's just funny how a lot of the destinations Maud or Pinkie chooses benefit both their interests. Maud loves her rocks, Pinkie loves Maud and seeing new things together and Maud loves spending time with her sister.” Twilight smiled brightly as she looked up thinking about Pinkie.

Twilight always looked star struck when she talked about Pinkie Pie, the glow and affection she had when she said her name. Pinkie meant a lot to Twilight.

While I hadn't been particularly close with them over the last five years, I knew about Pinkie's slow romance with Twilight.

Pinkie as Twilight told me was very guarded with her heart, warm and happy to everypony that meets her but she let's very few ponies in past the guest hall of her heart so to speak.

Their relationship really got going when the cloning incident with Pinkie happened and Twilight nearly broke down because she realized she couldn't tell her apart from her clones. I remember standing in town hall after the paint trial happened, Twilight sobbing into Pinkie’s chest about how she was a horrible friend who couldn't tell them apart and how scared she was that she would disintegrate the real one just because of her own blindness.

Twilight's personality and attention to Pinkie shifted after that, Twilight became focused in getting to actually know Pinkie Pie, not as just her friend but one of her closest.

Then about six months later they were starting to date,Pinkie and Twilight just became happier and happier towards one another. It was a peculiar sight to see Pinkie stop everything including a party to see if Twilight was fine, or actively look for her when she was doing something else.

The girl was so scattered when it came to activities but she always made sure to look in and check up on Twilight everyday.

“I would like to travel.” I sighed looking out across town square to town hall, the rickety old beast. “I really have let my career in politics get the better of me, I’m just a small town mare who took up office and never went anywhere else. Can you believe I haven’t been further than Canterlot in what…? Three years? Last time I was outside the Greengrove county boarder I was visiting my mother for Grandma’s funeral.”

Twilight’s wing gave my barrel a soft squeeze as we trotted along the cold streets, the two of us occasionally drinking our hot chocolate.

“I think we should.” Twilight said after a few minutes of comfortable silence.

“I’ve got to get a feel for this whole Princess of Friendship thing and the Cutie Map has broaden the need for friendship outside just Ponyville so I think it would be a great opportunity to travel and because I’m a Duchess I can easily allow you to freely step down from office and hold the next election! You, Pinkie, and I can go travel around to see the sights!” Twilight gave me a cheek nuzzle which I returned almost hungrily. Twilight was too nice to be real, she was just so sweet and kind, and my hunger of physical affection made itself known.

“I would really like that, and I would like to visit you a lot more because you are the best Twilight and don't let anypony tell you otherwise.”

…

[Human perspective]

It took a week and a half to be given a clean bill of health and well enough to walk around without feeling like my entire body was going to tear itself apart.

Molly Redheart had become my friend over the week and she was probably one of the best friends I've ever had. Which is saying something because I've had really close friends before.

She had also been a constant companion besides Twilight and Ivory who came in to check on me every other day. I had fresh clothes, they weren't anything fancy or designer but they kept me warm.

I had a burgundy colored wool sweater and long white shirt made of heavy duty cotton similar to long johns, simple boxers and heavy denim pants made just for the cold season. Twilight was still working on getting me a pair of shoes since ponies never needed them there wasn't a shoemaker that made my kind of shoe.

Some of my stitches had been absorbed and healed but there was a lot of off color scar tissue that was left behind. I had a huge one on my forehead but it thankfully hadn't marred my face too bad.

The cast was hard to adjust to since I was so use to using both my hands, not being able to move one made doing tasks a little difficult.

Overall I was doing pretty well, Molly though looked dead tired since I've rarely seen her gone more than a few hours.

“I live just down the road from the hospital, besides I just can't leave you alone when you don't know anything about this world so I sleep when you sleep.” she would tell me when I asked, this caused me worry about burning her out because she cared.

Molly had definitely become very affectionate towards me especially after she and I opened up to one another. I told her about my tribe and the world I lived in, the things humans have done in a positive light. She told me about her life and how she got her cutie mark by taking care of her sick friend while they were out of town. She gave up her fun to take care of her friend because she cared and that's when her cutie mark appeared showing her that she had a very big heart.

She ended up passing out throughout that conversation as it was late into the night when she told me it. A very big heart indeed, I had picked her up and laid her on my lap gently rubbing her mane and neck.

She really had gone above and beyond for me and I wanted to do something for her but I couldn't just yet since the shoes and more clothes weren't going to be here until Sunday.

I had stayed up deliberately to continue to watch over her, these ponies were really good at worming their way into your heart and I've only known this girl for a week.

But if anything were to happen to her I would blow up this town then myself…

Okay maybe not that but I would be really, really sad.

She was cute, funny, bossy (I was the wimp that let her do it too), caring, and had really strong desire to help anyone that needed it.

I wonder why she was so adamant about taking care of me? Sure I was the big lumbering oaf, as she once called me, and could barely do anything without knocking something over. Which I blamed on trying to become dexterous with my non dominant hand, hell I was so big compared to these ponies I had to duck my head everytime I walked through the door.

One of the doctors, Dr. Fizzle Heal was outright terrified of me because she was scared of minotaurs, while Dr. Dream Healer was one of the coolest dudes ever. He was chill and sounded like he was straight from London, though he had a small obsession with trying to take MRI and CAT scans of my brain to figure out how it ticked. I couldn't blame him since I was a new species to him and very intelligent so he would want to understand what’s in my head since he himself was a neurologist.

It was kind of awkward sometimes when I could see pony junk, the ponies had fur and different seasonal coats so they didn't require clothes and those that did were used for comfort or fashion depending on the situation. Molly wore a loose fitting white jumper most of the time mainly for my sake and because she sometimes was a ER nurse and cleaning blood from her coat was a nightmare.

Though I've seen things…

Like tonight, where she was sleeping in my lap and I was petting her neck. She didn't have her jumper on so if I were to lean just a little to my right I could see her privates.

She looked… well she looked like how a pony’s would, tear shaped and not as furred as the rest of her body which showed the main color if her skin, her skin was powder white pink and small blemishes could be seen across her back and sides and it was no different there.

I've worked with animals before, it's been apart of my job description as a environmentalist that you would begin to work with animals. My uncle had a horse farm where he would breed racehorses or leisure horses, I've been around them quite a lot and knew how to take care of both genders.

But now since it was attached to such a pretty and wonderful ‘person’ I had mixed feelings.

My hand ran down her neck making sure to gently rub my fingers into her fur just the way she liked it, something that became more common was allowing me my obsession with soft things through petting her fur or mane. Even now as her chest rose and fell, a kernel of warmth popped in my heart of just how trusting she was of me to sleep this soundly in front of someone that was practically stranger to her.

Always expecting the best of me and never the worst.

These ponies were too pure.

I let out a sigh, feeling a little ashamed of myself that I had taken a peak of her personal privacy without her consent.

There was a stray thought or two to just set her down on my bed and sit in the chair until she woke up, or nap in the recliner next to the bathroom.

Call it curiosity of their anatomy or just the sudden warmth in my chest for this three foot, four inch tall mare or perhaps it was just a darker aspect of my curiosity to see and feel.

I let my hand wonder past the neck onto the barrel of her chest, I let my hand rest there for a moment feeling the muscles contract and retract as she breathed, the soft ‘thumping’ of her heart. I closed my eyes focusing on that sound.

‘ba-bump… ba-bump… ba-bump…’

It was slow and methodical, a testament of her life and all that she is contained within her being. A hot flush of blood colored my cheeks as I imagined that heart pounding from more intense activities and her breath ragged.

I quickly let go of her chest, opening up my eyes and turning my head away from her sleeping form. Talk about perversion, I just imagined her in a heated moment of sex.

I felt more shame that I had thought that in the first place, I barely knew her. She was from a different world, a world where trust and love come very easy to them.

I felt like I had done something perverse to upset that trust, just to think it. Her attachment to me might even be more akin to a brother or perhaps a kid she was taking care of. The only time she had done something remotely sexual was the first time I rubbed her ears and she nearly got off on it because of my own ignorance.

Pony ears were extraordinary sensitive, she told me that accidents with ears were so painful they've had a few ponies go into a state of shock because of it. Their ears were both exceptionally good at picking up minute shifts in wind (which was critical in their sense of smell since wind carried scents and if the wind shifts and the smell disappears they can tell why.) And they could hear a soft whisper across the equivalent of a average sized ballroom but whether or not they could actually translate the whisper was dependent on pony but they are aware of the sound at least.

I went back to gently petting her neck, sometimes feeling her pulse in passing.

Then my hand went further up to her ears and I gently rubbed them starting from the base of her large squishy ears, she made a little noise as I massaged the lobe gently. I leaned down straining just a tad to talk softly into her ear.

“Thank you, Molly…” I murmured giving the precious nurse a ginger kiss on the cheek. She smelled very sweet, not in the way of perfume or anything but some kind of natural smell.

I leaned back trying to get comfortable on the bed while having the small pony on top of me.

The movement seemed to wake her as her eyes fluttered open and slow blink half unfocused. She lifted her head and turned it around slowly, scanning the room before looking up at me which I gave her a small smile.

She smiled back and stretched before standing up allowing my legs to unfold and sink further into the bed itself.

“You know…” She whispered yawning and turning back towards me gently crawling up to my chest and laying herself on me snuggling her head into my neck. I felt my cheeks color again feeling awkward about this.

“You could've done anything to me… but you didn't… it's probably why I feel so safe with you.” she murmured pressing her nose into my jawline.

“Y-You do? Were you awake?” I asked my voice a slight octave higher than normal.

“Mmmhmm… I woke up when you placed your hand on my chest, I'm a very light sleeper and I've suffered from insomnia since I was a filly.” she continued wrapping her hooves around my neck.

“Sorry.” I murmured back feeling nervous.

“Its alright Aaren. Ever since you came to this hospital I felt just this… I dunno what it is, it's kind of like a feeling but not. I felt like I could trust you, some unicorns say that it's because harmony magic is connecting us and when two harmonies grow close they resonate in sync. Maybe it's that I like you, or perhaps even love you… I don't know.” she said kissing my cheek just like I had done for her.

“But what I do know is that I can sleep without waking up randomly in the night when you are around, and laying in your lap just gave me such a feeling of security… at first it was just a test to see if it was just me and if you got close to my rump I would wake up and tell you this but now know it was just me. But I really did fall asleep without any struggle to stay asleep when I started, you know you hum softly when you pet me?” She said untying her hair and letting her very long mane drape across her back and my side.

“You make this soft deep hum, I bet you don't even notice you are doing it~” she giggled then snuggled herself against me, I would hold her but I felt stiff with worry and confusing feelings.

“It makes me feel so safe, like if anything were to happen you would curl yourself around me to protect me from harm. Even if you were hurt like you are… it's why I wanted to see you get better and took up some extra shifts to keep an eye on you.”

She wasn't wrong, I had highly protective instincts and my first thought was to cover or push someone down rather than myself in dangerous situations.

Breaking my left leg and getting kicked by a horse is a testament to that. Uncle Samuel was an older man and the horse spooked because it was sick and abandoned so it didn't trust us. It had a large sore on its hind leg and ended up spooked and tried to kick him, I saved him but ended up with internal bleeding.

The breaking my leg was because of a sport in high school, ended up with someone landing directly on my leg after a reckless attempt to defend the ball.

“So…” I started feeling my throat a little dry, “What exactly are we going to do about this…”

“Figure out our feelings… I know you might feel weird if I asked you out to test the waters. Ponies date to make each other comfortable if they feel something good. For some it's rather intense if they were friends before, the urge to mark and claim each other but it gives them a better understanding of their feelings. While others like us might be affectionate but I'm not going to pressure you into it. Like I said before I feel safe with you but I don't know if I like like you or even love you like that.” Molly whispered pulling her head back to look at me.

It's the strangest thing when you can tell something is gorgeous even though it might not even be the same species as you.

Molly was gorgeous, in a way that was exotic and alien. She had no real human features but anthropomorphic enough to clearly read her expressions and let it express her beauty.

Her baby blue eyes slowly traced my face a small playful smile on her lips.

“Your expression makes me want to kiss you.” she snickered, her eyes wandering my face again. I probably had a confused and slightly scared look but at this point I couldn't tell.

“Maybe that would help me figure out what I want…” she trailed off, “Feel that spark of lightning when you kiss somepony you love or desire…”

Holy tap dancing cow on a motorcycle, was I about to be kissed by a alien?? I think I was!!

She pushed herself up a little looking at me with such a strange expression, that was a multitude of emotions at once. Happiness, fear, desire, confusion, and just general hesitation.

“Can I kiss you Aaren? It doesn’t even have to be long, because I don't know what I feel…” she bent down slowly. Her breath smelled like mint and something like chocolate, she herself smelled that delicious perfume like smell I had noticed on occasion.

It took a lot of willpower not press my lips against hers and let her go at her own pace, because there was a thrum in my chest that was… excited?

Yes that’s the word, excited…

There was almost like an ozone that crackled with static electrical sparks surrounding us. How sudden and painfully the world almost seem to try and bring us closer, but this was just my wild imagination of about to be kissed by a sentient pony.

Her face was slightly flushed as she leaned down even further, her downy soft nose gently brushed against my own and pressed her lips against mine.

Tiny sparks tingled in my lips as she pressed hers against mine. I gently ran my fingers through her mane and cheek as the velvet lips of Molly Redheart touched mine in a slow but hungry way.

Molly’s hooves dug themselves under my neck and pushing the pillows away to embrace me.

The kiss never got hyper intense but there was a growling hunger in it. A hunger for closeness and being together, a hunger for me, but also fear that it wouldn't last so I was trying to soak up as much as possible.

After what felt like five to ten minutes of gentle but hungry kissing, Molly reluctantly pulled back. Her cheeks were rosy red and I probably fared no better.

“oh…” she said softly, touching her lips with her hoof “I… I think… I think m-my heat's started… I.. um… ah.” she blinked a few times before tears started to swell between at the corners. And suddenly Molly was crying on my chest, small hiccups catching between her breaths.

“I’m… I'm sorry…” She hiccuped, I sat up the best I could holding her close to me.

“Hey, hey… it's okay Molly, why are you crying?” I asked her holding her into a tight hug.

“I-I…” she stammered struggling weakly against me, “I'm sorry for… for this..”

“I-Im trying to seduce you and I didnt even realize it…” she hiccuped between her words.

“You are m-my friend and I'm trying t-to seduce y-you.” she said piteously. I sat up fully and thankfully I wasn't in so much pain that it would hinder me from doing so because Molly was crying.

“You said heat… are you talking about your estrous cycle?”

She gave me a slow nod her face buried in my chest unable to look at me. I felt a weird mix of emotions course through my head at this knowledge, that these ponies had heat cycles in the first place was odd but not unpredictable but that Molly was trying to seduce me while in her heat cycle.

I felt flattered but at the same time hormones on that scale made things more askew especially when it came to feelings.

“Molly…” I said gently to the hiccuping mare whose face was buried in my chest. I wrapped her up in my good arm and hugged her before reaching down to lift her chin up so I could see her.

“Molly, you haven't insulted me or anything…” I said leaning down to rub her nose with my own she hiccuped again and nodded.

“If heat is anything like I know with ponies on my side, it's going to make you do weird things. But truth be told I like you Molly, I have really confusing feelings about you as well but I like you and I'm not mad at you. I liked the kiss we shared, I just think it might be sudden even if it was exhilarating..” I said giving her soft kisses on her lips which she was eager to give back.

“I never thought I would have a hard on for an alien but here I am.”

She laugh/hiccuped at this and pressed her head into my neck.

“I think we better wait. I just got here and I'm not leaving anytime soon so… let's sort out our feelings first when you have a clear head to really think about it. To be honest, I haven't dated in like four years so I'm really rusty and probably a little too eager myself for company.” I said kissing her neck and soothingly rubbing her back. I gave her a soft nibble of her neck making her giggle because she was ticklish there.

“T-Thank you for not getting mad… Y-You are the only one I've been really seeing so y-you've been on my mind a lot a-and you d-do make me feel so safe. I-I just wanted…” she trailed off holding onto my neck.

To tell you the truth I've never really be sexually attracted to anything but personality and character, I've had boyfriends and girlfriends before so yes while her being a miniature pony does make things weird I often don't look at physical because then you judge their beauty by what's physical. The heart itself physical but our emotions and thoughts are not, Molly was a beautiful girl, a girl I was attracted to but I was unsure because things have moved quickly. I've barely been here a week and dating someone would probably end in tragedy because I didn't know enough about them to really listen to them.

Most of our time together had only been recently deep with our thoughts and pasts, which needed time to mature and grow.

Molly and I sat together while we hugged and rubbed noses and occasionally kissed since she was hungry for them. That and I could not get over how soft her lips are and how good she smelled.

I found myself gingerly biting her neck and ears, making her give off these cute squeaks and soft feminine sighs but we quickly had to stop since I could feel a slight wetness against my leg and she got horribly embarrassed about how much she was turned on just by affectionate gestures. She apologized to me for leaving a small wet spot on my leg but I waved it away telling her that she was fine and that I understood.

She spent a few minutes in the bathroom cleaning herself up before telling me I should get some sleep because it was late in the night and she was going to go home to clear her head.

I laid my head down on the pillow looking up at the dark ceiling wondering where my life was going to take me.

Author's Note

Oh my... *adjusts foggy glasses*

Yeah me and Molly had a moment like that, I love her a lot. Just wish I could of fit some of our deeper talks in there but that would go on forever.

Not even a week in and you’ve managed to seduce our resident super nurse~ That was very sweet of you Aaren, Molly deserves to be loved! That and you were kind of a Harmonic sponge which made Molly feel things for you since you were eating magic up by the gallon.

That really wasn't my fault! It was so surreal too! But I am glad that you two are so accepting of my love for Molly, hell all of Equestria has been really accepting of just loving others be it intimate or not. While you Ivory were the first one I met, Molly was the one that took care of me and i'll always love her for that.

Its a lot more than I could ask for you know?

I love you Aaren always will! Even if you go off romancing Molly now and again, I want to be pampered just as much ok!? Lots of those chocolates and white roses for me~

OOOO Does this mean I'm next!!? I get to talk about our date together Ivory!! yay! That was one of the best dates a mare could ask for!

oh boy, the one where I couldn’t think straight because you were so pretty. Half of that date was a blur for me because I was so sucked in by you I wasn’t paying attention to anything else.

And you aren’t now? Ivory you stare at us a lot, like a lot alot. Why do you think I strip tease you all the time?

I-I can’t help it, you both are my favorite eye candy.

Come here you cute pony and let me kiss you silly!

*lots of giggling and half hearted shouts of protest*

Right where to start...