The Heart of Pleasure
By Haunter Rayne
Chapter 129 - Moonlight in the Morning

“I’m awake!” Luna shouted as she quickly sat upright in her bed. Her eyes blinked, taking time to focus in the pale moonlight within her room. "...Rayne?" There was only silence to meet her, even despite how she called out and then stretched her hooves across the sheets. It wasn't long before her hoof bumped against something warm. It was a dark slumbering pony who lay breathing softly beside her.

“He didn’t leave…” She sighed in relief, happy that Rayne was not like other stallions she’d heard about who disappear in the night just as soon as the mare they'd bedded was asleep. “Oh Luna, how much more proof do you need to believe that this stallion loves you?” She chided herself before reaching out to caress his mane.

“...mMmm…” He mumbled in response, before reaching out with his own hoof and tenderly stroking her side.

Peering down with a warm smile, Luna told him, “Oh Rayne, I am sorry if I woke you.” However, the stallion did not respond and just repeated his gentle caress. “Rayne?” Even after she spoke, Luna stared and waited for a response that never came. “Rayne? Why do you not answer me?” She asked but then peered closer through the dark to notice that his eyes were still closed.

“...mmftph….mm…”

Instantly the alicorn princess was overtaken by surprise. “Is he stroking my mane in his sleep?!" She thought to herself as she reeled in bashful delight. “Why of all the romantic things that he could ever do!” Biting her lip while now with a smile from ear to ear, she fought to control herself. “He tries so hard for you…” She whispered to herself silently so as not to wake him. Closing her eyes and lying her head down against his shoulder, she enjoyed his touch while taking in the warmth of his coat. “I am here for you, Rayne,” she continued, pulling tighter to his side as she spoke. “You have shown me such wonderful things. A new world full of affection and devotion, such that I have never known before.” Then after sitting up, she stared back down at the face of the stallion who only hours before she had given away her virtue to. “Never will I have the words to express how grateful I am that you have come into my life. But I will show you…”

With that, Luna closed her eyes and nestled her face over his side. “He who has asked for the heart of the lonely princess shall have it. I love this stallion, and I shall care for him just as he has cared for me…”

• -

Hours had passed by the time Rayne finally began to stir. He groaned lightly, feeling stiff in more parts of his body than he remembered he had. But once awake, his vision opened to the sight of Luna laying with eyes closed and cuddled close within his arms. Emotion overtook the stallion at seeing the princess sleeping while wrapped so tightly around him. “How could anything… so beautiful, possibly ever be so real?” He asked himself, reaching out to stroke her fallen mane back behind her ear. And as he did, the princess continued to lay perfectly still with her hoofs wrapped intimately around him. “I love you, Luna,” he whispered while watching how serene she looked laying in bed with him.

“Do you mean it?” Her voice suddenly whispered back, with just a slight hint of playfulness to it. Now peaking one eye open, she peered up and gave the stallion a bit of a smirk. “Hehe, t'would appear that I have surprised you. You thought I was sleeping.” She giggled and then just stared up at him from where she lay on her back.

Offering a smile of his own in response to her early morning humor, he said, “Oh, so we're feeling playful this morning, are we? Alright, I can work with playful,” he said before raising his hooves above her in a mock-menacing fashion.

“R-Rayne!” Luna stammered as her eyes spread wide. “What does thou think you are doing? No, you wouldn’t dare place your hooves upon your princess when-AHH! AHHH-HAHAHA! RAYNE! STOP IT! AHHHH-HAHAHA!” She shouted as his hooves descended upon her sides and began furiously tickling her ribs.

“Oh, I dare,” he began, giving Luna just a brief mercy to catch her breath, “to place my hooves upon my girlfriend,” he whispered and leaned over her, just as the princess became acutely aware of the position they had both fallen into.

Looking up from flat on her back, Luna found herself posed just as she had with Rayne last night. She couldn’t even recall when he had gotten her legs separated as they were now, and with his hips already nestled so tightly in between. The princess could feel her heartbeat accelerate through her veins.

-BANG BANG- “PRINCESS! Are you alright in there?!” One of the guards stationed outside called out while slowly turning the handle on the door.

Rayne watched as Luna jumped so high that he thought she was going to fly right off the bed. “All is fine! There is no need for alarm! AND WE FORBID THEE FROM OPENING THAT DOOR!” She called out while sitting atop her pillows now with the bedsheet drawn tightly in between her legs.

There was a squeak from the doorknob as the guard hesitated for a moment. However, after a brief pause, the handle was released and the guard called back, “As you say, your highness.”

Rayne had been feeling rather unaffected by the interruption from the guards, but he looked back at Luna who was now scrunched up at the top of the bed and holding the sheet up to cover her torso. Sitting back with a sigh while glancing at the mare, he told her, “Perhaps it’s for the best. I’m not sure how long ago your sister would have raised the sun, but I’m sure everypony else in the castle is probably up by now,” he said while climbing off the mattress and giving a stretch.

Feeling a sudden sense of urgency, Luna leaned forward and asked, “Wait, are thou leaving?”

Rayne froze in place and turned back to her to ask, “Do you want me to go?”

Responding quickly and with a bit of a frown, Luna replied, “No, I don’t wish for you to go.” Dropping the sheet and crawling over to the edge of the bed, she sat before him, seemingly forgetting about the lingerie she still had on.

“Well I have no problem with staying,” he told her with a smile. “My work’s not really a problem if I disappear for a while and I didn’t have any other plans scheduled for today,” he reassured her and Luna looked happy to have him return to bed. “But is it really okay for me to stay?” He asked, leaving the princess looking surprised. “Visiting you all night long, and then staying with you even through the morning? Do I need to be worried for your sake about the manner of things, keeping somepony in your bedchamber for so long?”

Luna tilted her head in response to his words. “Tis nopony’s business but my own who I decide to welcome into my bedchamber. Or for how long I allow them to stay there.”

“That’s true,” Rayne admitted. Then while leaning into her once again, he enjoyed the smile it brought to her face as he held her hoof with his own. “I suppose that dating a princess is just a bit new for me and I am trying to be considerate of all the things that might go into me sticking around,” he confessed.

“Tis all new for me as well, having a lover in my life now, Rayne.” She shot back with a bit of a wry smile as they both knew she had him there. “Although, I would like to ask,” she began while dropping her tone to a more curious note, “will you be? Sticking around, that is?”

Rayne gave a light smirk as he looked into her eyes. “I can’t remember the last time that I have ever been so happy.” Then while sitting up straight, Rayne kept his hold on her hoof while adopting a more serious tone. “There’s no ulterior motive for me here. I’m not going to just take what I want and then leave. I just want to be with you, Luna, for as long as you’ll have me. I know you have responsibilities and I don’t know the first thing about your royal livelihood. But whatever it takes to be a part of your life, I’m willing to learn.”

“That will be enough, Rayne.” She told him gently with an enamored expression in her eyes. “You have said more than enough for now, and all the right things, I assure you. Perhaps I am the one who has rushed into this without taking into account how much responsibility being in a relationship with me might place on you.”

“I’m not afraid of that.” Rayne reinforced, while gently tightening his hold upon her hoof. “Just tell me where I can begin.”

Luna sighed at discovering how the stallion could be quite incorrigible. However, she was far from opposed to his attitude as she thought it over and then spoke with a smile. “Then to start things slowly, how would you like to join me for breakfast?”

“Or, would that be dinner for you since you sleep during the day?” He asked after smiling and giving her a nod.

“Oh please, there is no need to do that. Believe me, Rayne, I have had this discussion with Celestia a great many times. Morning is breakfast, evening is supper, and my sleeping schedule need not complicate the matter.” She explained, to which again he nodded to her.

At this point, the princess finally extended her long legs off to the side of her mattress before rising from the sheets and yawning as she stretched. "Ooh, I appear to be a bit stiffer today than usual," she commented bashfully as she felt a soreness in the muscles of several intimate areas of her body. "R-Rayne… why are you looking at me like that?" She asked after glancing back to notice a cheeky grin on his expression.

"Oh, no reason… other than the moon looks beautiful in the sunlight too." He commented as her eyes trailed his gaze down to her body where she had still been wearing the lingerie from the night before.

"OH!" She gasped and pulled the sheet partially from the bed to cover herself. "Mmm, well, it pleases me that my attire continues to have the desired effect. Perhaps in my haste I may have forgotten I am dressed a bit too immodestly for the morning," she said while trying to excuse herself. A bit of fumbling and a bit of shuffling later, and the princess had managed to shimmy the outfit off her body from beneath the bed sheet, all the while blushing because the stallion never took his eyes off her. "There we are. Now that's better for the day, isn't… oh no," she remarked after dropping the sheet to look at herself, her body fur was compressed with the shape of the outfit from having slept in the attire without washing off the sweat from last night's activities.

"Ohh yeahh… that is MUCH better," Rayne responded, now sitting up in bed and staring almost hungry eyed toward the princess.

"R-Rayne, now Rayne! AH! You fiend, release me!" She laughed as she jumped and failed to get away. Snickering now she fought against the stallion who was struggling to pull her back onto the bed by her hips and into a mounting position. "Ahh, Rayne! Nooo, what about breakfast?!" She cackled while performing her best snake-like impression to wriggle free.

"It's fine, come here. I'll just eat you out for breakfast!" Rayne encouraged after managing to turn her over onto her back.

"Rayne!" The now scarlet blushing alicorn shouted. But as she looked back at him, all it took was only a single hoof softly placed against his chest with a glance, and his forceful assault upon her stopped. "My coat is sweaty from our amorous behavior last night, and my fur is all unkempt. Am I truly so beautiful to you that thou are unable to keep his hooves off me, even when I am so unpresentable?" The fact that Rayne couldn't even muster a response made Luna's heart race. "Ahem, well, be that as it may… I, don't feel attractive or comfortable like this darling. I want to be pristine for you, my dear. And I certainly cannot be seen downstairs for breakfast with my coat looking like this. So will you please release me so that I may take a shower? I shan't be long," she pleaded, giving him some mild puppy dog eyes in jest.

Luna had to hide her snicker behind a hoof from the cute pouty look on his face as the stallion reluctantly backed away from where he was half pinning the princess down to the bed. But she rewarded his sacrifice with a kiss on the lips before stepping only a few feet away where a curtain-drawn shower was located in a sort of bathroom nook in her room.

Then while behind the curtain's privacy and within the water's warm flow, Luna slumped as she all at once let her regal countenance go. "Hngrrh…." After bracing her front hooves upon the wall, she lifted her torso to allow the warm stream of water to run directly down her underbelly and over her vagina. "Sooo soorrrrre…. hnngrmm… auuhgh…" She grunted and panted softly to herself.

After a few minutes of this, she was able to recover at least a degree of her normal washing routine. First starting with her shampoo and conditioner which was of the utmost exclusive brand. Then she let that sit in her mane while brushing a lavender-scented body wash into her coat to remove the outfit marks from across her body.

All was well and normal as she rinsed herself off and took a moment just to enjoy being clean under the warm water raining from above. But then it startled her as two dark hooves gently reached around to pull her into a hug from behind. "OH, oh! Rayne! Darling, I am in the shower! What are you-?" But as soon as she'd turned, she became entranced as she looked back over her shoulder to see him leaning over her, hair tousled and looking even more attractive as it was slowly becoming caught by the water.

"Well, I figured that if we are going to be seen together, I ought to also look my best by your side. Should I not?" He told her in a masculine and demure tone.

"Ah-, I-, uh-, um!" However, as she stuttered, he moved in, helping himself to the small shower space beside her. Luna's eyes bulged at noticing the stallion's erection completely unsheathed to the hilt. She balked in response, this being her first opportunity to see it in clear light and she could feel her loins shiver in response.

Rayne didn't get another word in before the princess gripped him by his wet dripping mane and pulled him into a kiss. Leaning Luna back, he brought her spine flush to the wall with a slow and intimate wall slam. Following this he grinned as he was almost certain he could see that manuever take her breath away.

No longer able to resist, Luna instead clung to his shoulders while he lifted her back up against the wall. The now flushed and panting mare instinctively wrapped her thighs around him for support. "Ray-ne… are you certain? Right here in the shower?" She whispered nervously, not being too naive to realize what the stallion was initiating. However, after a pause Luna realize that Rayne was hesitating while looking up at her for approval before moving his hips forward and consummating the deed. Quickly she nodded for him and held onto his shoulders as he brought his rod up and in. And the joy of holding onto struck deeply, as Luna felt his flare dig against her sensitive skin and penetrate into her.

"Uuhh, yessss…" She hissed into his ear. "Oh! Oh, Rayne! It feels so different!" She mewled against him, gently caressing her face against his own as the water cascaded down across them. And then she released a mighty gasp as her lover took hold of her hips and began bouncing her torso upwards and downward onto his cock while thrusting up into her all the while.

"OOHH! UUUHNG! RAYNE! MMMM!!!" She groaned, her voice echoing off of the walls in her shower. "Uuhhhh, OOHH! It's going so deep! Oh, Rayne! Oh, Rayne!" She shouted, thrusting back with her hips while desperately clawing at his shoulders with her hooves. "Rayne! It feels… like you’re pushing apart… things inside meee!!!" She howled as he continued and then began ravishing her against the shower wall.

Outside of Luna's room, the two guards stationed for the morning were having their attention drawn, not towards the door but to the wall some twenty or thirty feet past her door down the hall. Their eyes flinched at the sound of a loud, repeated, banging against the wall where the princess's muted voice could be heard shouting. "Uuuhhgh! This position!!! My insides! You're pushing aside my insi-! Rayne! I cannot breathe! It is so hard to breathe!"

• Sometime Later -

"How is it, Rayne? Is everything to your liking?” Luna asked from where she sat in a chair scooted intimately up beside him.

“I have to admit, the food at the castle is pretty good.” He said after sampling a set of little cracker sandwiches topped with an unknown sauce for added flavor. “It’s not homegrown garden cuisine, but it’s good. I assume it was a comparison to my cooking you were looking for?” He asked her playfully, as the two sat together in the great hall where a dining table had be set out with a breakfast banquet for the royalty.

“The thought may have crossed my mind.” She smiled back at him.

Taking a moment to eat in silence beside one another, Luna enjoyed the quiet moment to just share a meal with her stallion in peace. For a moment their hooves touched while reaching for the fruit plate and the princess faltered bashfully when he raised a strawberry to her lips to feed her, even though she knew the guard standing watch beside the door could see them.

After a while, Rayne decided to wipe his lips with a napkin and said, “So this has definitely been one of my better mornings so far. Getting to wake up next to a beautiful mare, then enjoying an exquisite meal here at the castle.” Turning away from his plate and looking into her eyes, Rayne quietly enjoyed the deer-in-headlights look she gave when he raised a hoof into her mane. “Although I cannot help but wonder, after we finish here, what happens next?”

“Rayynnne!” Luna scoffed shyly, her face lighting up red as if he had just asked her to lay herself across the table for him.

However, before Luna could answer further, somepony else spoke up in response to Rayne’s question. “I too was wondering that very same thing.” With a bit of surprise, both Luna and Rayne looked up just as Celestia stepped into the room.

Looking first to his girlfriend and then back to her sister, the stallion cleared his throat and offered a greeting. “Good morning, Princess Celestia.” Meanwhile, Luna's cheeks were burning as she was acutely aware of how Rayne had not removed his hoof from behind her mane even though her sister had joined them in the room.

Using her magic to pull out a seat, the white alicorn princess settled in across from them before levitating various toppings onto a plate. Despite the situation and the irregular company in the castle, Celestia was behaving as if nothing were out of the norm. “Good morning to you both,” she answered politely as she looked up and then modestly took a bite from one of the sandwiches.

“Good morning, sister,” Luna also replied, painfully aware of how short and awkward their replies were.

Celestia, however, was showing the same welcoming countenance that she was always known for by saying, “It does feel nice to have company for breakfast this morning. I tell you, Rayne. Even though I’m sure I will have more to attend to later than I would care for, there are times of the day when a princess tends to feel rather lonely. Do you think you will be joining us often in the mornings now?” Celestia asked, keeping the conversation light-hearted while her sister sat in reserved silence fearing the conversation might take inevitable negative turn.

“Well, I guess we’ll just have to see,” Rayne answered diplomatically, to which Celestia was almost amused by how he chose to respond to her simple inquiry. However, feeling the anxious tension from Luna, he went on to say, “This is my first time having castle food and while I can clearly tell that a lot of class and refinement went into making this, I find it to be a bit of an acquired taste. Although, I must admit that it is the company and not the cuisine which I foresee likely to bring me back here again.”

“Oh, so you do intend to make a habit of frequenting the castle then?” Celestia asked in her well-mannered tone as she cut right to the point.

“Sister, please,” the more impatient of the two siblings quietly snapped.

“What? I haven’t said anything negative about the situation yet. It is morning and I simply came down for breakfast just as I do every morning, and happened to find that you brought Rayne here. So I am just making conversation since he’s joined us. Would you prefer I simply ignore him as if he were a fly on the wall?”

“What I would prefer, is that…” Luna responded harshly, while uncomfortably glowering at her sister from not even knowing exactly what it was that she wanted to say.

“Love, please…” Rayne called gently, which instantly caused both sisters to blush in surprise at seeing him refer to Luna in a term of endearment so brazenly in the open like that. Looking from his girlfriend to her sister now, he announced, “Celestia, if given the circumstances, would you allow me to address you so informally?” He asked and she nodded with a smile toward his manners. “I want to express to you that I would in fact like to be around more often. As I’m sure it comes as no surprise that I have easily been taken in by your sister’s wonder, I want to assure you that I have every intention of rising to meet the challenge of being worthy of Luna’s time and affection.”

“Rayne!” Luna exclaimed, sitting back in her seat while blushing, feeling almost embarrassed by the strong praise that her boyfriend was directing her way. “That is very bold, Rayne,” she told him, yet not exactly stating that she was against anything he had said about her.

Right on Luna’s heels, Celestia also decided to add in, “Please Rayne, we are just three ponies sitting down and having a conversation over breakfast. I am sure you do not always speak so formally to your friends in Ponyville so please feel free to speak your mind with ease now,” she instructed as the stallion nodded and her sister sat quietly beside him.

Rayne took his time as both mares watched him steady his breath and then look confidently toward Celestia. “Well... Luna and I are still relatively new in our relationship. We've only been seeing each other for a couple of months now. But, within that time I think it's safe to say that our feelings for each other have truly bloomed." Luna smiled towards him and placed a hoof over his for reassurance as he continued. "This might not be fair to her for me to just come out and say, because we haven't talked about discussing our feelings with anypony else yet. But I've fallen in love with Luna in this short amount of time. And I believe she feels the same."

"Aww." Celestia smiled sweetly at seeing her sister lean her head onto the stallion's shoulder right on cue.

Then Luna seemed only too happy to wrap both arms around the stallion's side and then look back at her sister to say, "Tis true. I do love him, Tia. I feel for him just as he does for me." Then with a warm glow and half-lidded eyes, the alicorn smiled up at her boyfriend without letting him go. "It feels pretty good to say it out aloud. Stating it officially to somepony, I mean. I love you, Rayne."

Thoroughly enjoying this sudden confidence she was showing, Rayne smiled right back and said to her, "And I love you, Luna." Then he shared a modest but affectionate kiss with the princess, that neither seemed to mind and yet was still kept short given present company.

Celestia sat quietly for a moment, to not interrupt. Then once it seemed over, she clasped her hooves together and smiled at them both. "Well then, if that is truly how you both already feel?" She asked them. The two sitting across from her looked over, with the stallion sitting confidently and Luna nodding along. "Well then, I guess there is just one thing left to say." Now the couple looked a bit nervous as they held each other's hooves in anticipation of whatever Celestia was about to announce. "And that is… that you have my blessing."

"What?!" Luna balked with a surprised smile.

"That's it?" Rayne asked in a likewise sense of amazement.

"That's it." Celestia chuckled, somewhat enjoying the surprised looks on the faces of the other two. "Listen to me, Rayne. I am Luna's sister, I am not her keeper and neither am I her mother. All I care about is my sibling's happiness and well-being. And you seem to be doing a marvelous job at providing that. If she says she's happy with you then it is neither my desire nor my place to stand in the way. But allow me to remind you though, that my sister can have a bit of a temper to her."

"Tia!" Luna scowled as she suddenly sat up from where she'd leaned into Rayne's arms.

"What? It's true. The last time we had a fight you destroyed a castle, and the townsfolk created a whole wives-tale legend about your fury," Celestia teased, as she stood up from the table with a smirk.

"That is NOT how it happened, and you know it!" The younger princess bellowed while the stallion held her by the waist to keep her in her seat.

"Oh, do calm down, Luna. I was only teasing you while trying to give your new boyfriend some fair warning," Celestia replied.

"It's okay, I don't mind," Rayne suddenly interjected. "In fact, I find it very attractive when a fiery mare has a lot of energy." He stated and smiled when Luna almost jumped out of her skin as he pulled her to sit down right on his lap in the middle of the great hall.

"Rayne, please not here my darling." Luna squirmed bashfully to get her hooves to the ground.

However, they both froze when Celestia sat down on her throne and then called out to them. "Actually, Rayne… there is one thing that I would ask. If you would allow me a moment of my sister's time, away from you?"

At this, Rayne released the younger princess from his grasp and the two of them did an awkward straightening of their composure. But afterward, Luna stepped over to sit in her own throne beside her sister before Celestia cast a soundproofing bubble around the both of them. "My, look at you acting positively giddy like a little school filly," the older alicorn teased.

"I am not, giddy!" Luna snapped. But then she blushed for a bit and her internal smile could not be contained. "I am acting rather giddy, aren't I?" She chuckled. "I don't know what's come over me."

"I believe it's called 'love', dear sister," Celestia remarked. "So tell me honestly… does that stallion truly make you as happy as you say?"

Luna bit her bottom lip to try and remain reserved, but in honesty, she was finding it difficult to hold back. "Yes! Oh Tia, yes. He does. And so much more. Oh, sister, I hath never before… oh, and I really hath never before." She blushed as she covered her face with her hooves in embarrassment.

Celestia was loving this and beamed from the edge of her seat. "Well?"

That made Luna glance up in surprise as she asked, "Well, what?" But after Celestia just glanced in Rayne's direction and then back to her sister, Luna became flabbergasted in an entirely new way. "Oh, thou, perverted sister! Why in heavens art thou asking to know?!"

Rolling her eyes at her younger sibling's immaturity, Celestia responded, "I am not requesting anything so lewd as a play by play, sister. But Lu, you've held onto your chastity longer than enough, and it should be no great wonder that a sister wants to know you were treated well once finally doing the deed."

Then Luna glanced over to the stallion still sitting at the table outside of the small sound barrier bubble. "Oh, sister, sex feels so incredibly good!" Luna blurted out all at once causing a hearty laugh from Celestia. "He was so incredible! It was exactly like something out of a romance novel. And it was so much more than just penetration. It was as if he always knew where to place his hooves. Oooh, and his lips, mMMMmhehe! Oh, what he does with his lips!"

The grin on Celestia's face was positively cheeky. "And speaking of his lips… did he, you know… down there?" She asked why trying to remain inexplicit for her sister's benefit. Luna could only bite her lip with an embarrassed look and nod her head. But her eyes told the whole story of the pleasure that her mouth could not say. "Well then, I am relieved. I mean, I am well aware that he spent hours in bed with you last night but it still puts a big sister's heart at ease to hear directly that you enjoyed yourself. Also, if you ever have any questions about anything pertaining to the bedroom, always feel free to ask."

"There is, in fact, one thing that I would like to ask," Luna responded without even hesitating. "Is it… always supposed to hurt-"

"Did he hurt you, sister?" Celestia piped up immediately.

"NO! Good heavens, no!" Luna immediately retorted. "I meant after! I believe I may have underestimated 'the strength of a stallion' when it comes to thrusting within a mare. Rayne feels so… powerful, when he's inside me. I admit I'm almost a little bit afraid of that power." Reaching out, Luna placed a comforting hoof on top of her sister's. "But I assure you that no harm is befalling me because of that stallion, I give you my word."

"Well, alright, so long as you are certain," Celestia said to which Luna nodded. "But to answer your question, I understand well what you are asking." Now even Celestia was blushing as she levitated a drink for herself and half spoke into the glass. "The endowment of a stallion can be a wonderful and trying thing. It can make a mare feel so good, and yet leave her so sore inside when it is done," she stated while taking a mouthful of wine from her chalice as she remembered back to what the carnal delights were like.

"Up to my lungs…" Luna candidly described as she gestured with a hoof from below her navel to nearly upwards upon her chest.

Suddenly both Rayne and the guard stationed by the door looked over as spit from Celestia's glass flew through the sound barrier where she now appeared to be choking. "What do you mean up to your lungs?!"

"Oh, well…" Luna replied, being very technical about it, "he pushes sometimes so far into me that I on occasion find it difficult to breathe. As he fills inside… my stomach inevitably takes the brunt of his excess force. It feels as though he art rearranging the anatomy inside my body. And in certain positions, when he presses very hard, there is a pressure which constricts all the way to my chest and-"

"Stop! Stop, in sweet mother's name. Good heavens, Luna!" Celestia remarked, now looking agitated while sitting on her throne.

"What?" Luna asked in dismay.

"What do you mean what?! Lu, if your intent was to make your older sister envious, then you are succeeding," Celestia remarked bitterly.

Unfortunately for her poor sister, Luna still seemed lost. "Wha-... but, are you saying…?"

"What I'm saying sister, is that it sounds like that stallion you found is quite the amazing catch. So much so that if what you are saying is to be believed, I'm surprised that you two ever came downstairs."

Now the bashful younger princess fumbled over herself. "Oh well, I mean, I, hehe, no, really Celestia, do you mean it?" Luna smiled while glancing back at Rayne who just waved patiently as he waited.

Now leaning over closer in her seat, Celestia whispered, "Luna, if I had a stallion who bedded me that well, then I might be inclined to… oh I don't know, say skip out on a few classes with our school teacher? Keep a few secrets or tell a few lies to Mom and Dad?" She stated, phrasing the memories of their youth in a presently suggestive manner.

Whipping back to stare at her sister, Luna panicked, "Oh but we aren't fillies anymore. I'm a princess, a mare with responsibilities… I can't just stay holed up on my tower… getting… being… mmMm… well, with him, at all hours… I mean, can I?" Luna almost squeaked out as her breath was becoming ragged at the thought.

"Why not?" Celestia smiled. "As you said, you're not a youth anymore. You're a mare and you can make your own choices. I'm your sister, not Mom, Lu. Just because she stopped me from being with Hot Streak doesn't mean I should stand in your way now. And think about what Rayne said about you a moment ago, sister." Now whispering directly beside Luna's ear, Celestia told her, "He said he loves you… and he's a pleasure pony, sister. You got a pleasure pony to fall in love… think about what that means."

"His mark!" Luna shouted in realization.

"That's right. You can help save that pony. And I for one couldn't be happier to see you with him."

Now returning much more to her giddy state, Luna nervously exclaimed, "So you're saying I can just… I mean, he and I can just go right back up to my room, in the middle of the day… and that's okay?" She asked, more looking for her sister to help to clear her doubt than for any sense of needing permission.

Responding warmly, Celestia nodded. "Take as much time as you need. Perhaps by chance, I shall see you in a week? In a month? Oh, should I expect you for Hearthswarming or do you think you will still be busy by then?"

"Oh shut up…. I love you so much!" Luna remarked playfully, before throwing her hooves around her sister for an excited embrace. And once she had finished her hug, Luna surprised Rayne as she giddily pranced back his way, and without a word, pulled him from his seat with her arm.

Almost giggling as she watched them leave, Celestia called out, "I love you too, sister. Oh, do remember to please raise and lower the moon… if you understand what I mean, hehe. Take care!" She snickered. Although as soon as the two were out of sight, her smile fell and a brief look of longing flashed across her eyes. "But what am I going to do?"

As the servants began clearing the breakfast away, certain members of the royal committee started making their way into the room. "Ah, your majesty. I'm glad to see you are ready. I'm afraid the citizen town hall will be frightfully busy today," Fancy Pants announced.

And trotting as ever beside him, Fleur-de-Lis spoke up saying, "Ah, and Princess, I do have the plans from the holiday committee to go over with you first if we could jus-... oh wait, are those sandwiches being thrown away? Forgive me, I missed breakfast this morning."

Celestia was happy for the distraction as she motioned Fancy Pants up to the throne. "Tell me, my long-time friend, are you available by chance?" She asked him coyly while grinding her thighs together just so.

"Available, your majesty? Why, my services are always available to you, your highness." He replied in earnest decorum.

"No, no... What I mean is, what is the nature of your relationship with Fluer? You are almost never seen without her at your side," she asked as the other mare seemed delighted to have something on her belly. "Oh, you know what? Nevermind. I am out of sorts this morning. Steel yourself, sir… for I fear this to be a very frustrating day."

"As you say, my lady," Fancy answered as the princess put the matter behind her.

Author's Note

Hello all and thank you for reading the first chapter of the new year in 2023. My writing is still going slowly but hopefully there will be many more chapters to come. Anyways, here we are with things developing for Rayne and Luna's relationship. The naughty parts of this chapter were meant to be in the spirit of sounding more fun and having that sense of new relationship adventure instead of being specifically spicy, if you get what I mean. Also there was a lot of little comedy bits here with Celestia and that made this chapter particularly fun for me to write.

In the next chapter we're going to have some catch up with other characters, tie up some loose ends from older chapters, then move on to some more romance still to come. But here we are several years into me writing this story and I am so very grateful for anyone who has continued along with the story this far. So as always thank you for reading!