"After calling around, we were able to find where the scooter was procured from."

"So it wasn't fabricated?"

"No. It was a display model in a closed bike store."

I could hear voices, speaking about me. Was I being self-centered?

"Their security footage shows it being taken and placed back a minute later. The owner was convinced it was a glitch in the recording."

"No reason to argue that assumption."

The voices faded, my mind wandering.

"We aren't your harem." There was Starlight, in my house, sitting on the edge of my bed in an outfit clearly designed to be sexy, if you were into ponies with big ole crotch boobs like she had. "I'm not sure I approve of this at all."

Cindy peeked in from the kitchen. "A harem only has females, but here I am, not complaining. Lunch will be ready soon." Cindy was covered in soft fur, like the rest of us. He had a smile on his snout and his blue tail was swaying behind him.

"Picking one of us is probably a good idea," threw in an orange-haired biped pony. Oh right! Jake. It was Jake in her completed form, approaching me. "I'm flattered you care for me this much."

Starlight prodded me from the side. "But at least two of us aren't big on the poly thing."

"Stop being wet blankets," called Cindy as noises of food creation drifted in, flatware striking metal. "She can literally give you anything you want and all she wants is cuddle time. There are so many worse arrangements. I thought you all liked her anyway."

"I do!" hotly defended Starlight. "All the more reason I'd prefer having her to myself."

Jake reached out and tapped Starlight right on the nose. "Sounds selfish to me."

"This dream is too on the nose," I suddenly objected, drifting upwards. "I will do the responsible adult thing." They were all looking at me, Cindy from just around the corner. "I'll talk to you all, when I wake up."

So I woke up.

The lights in the room blinked on for just a hot second. I made a downward gesture just as they came on, flicking them back off again. Trick there being that I hadn't touched anything and they weren't motion controlled in any way other than turning on.

I had noodled the problem without realizing it. "Oops," I whispered to myself, peeking at Cindy. He was sleeping soundly, thank goodness. "You wouldn't say no... I don't think..."

Let's be real. I'd already held him by his personal parts, and he liked it. He wanted more of me... I wondered if that had been true even before things had shuffled...

"Hey." He flopped over onto his back. "G'morning."

"Good morning to you too." I smiled at him, my own tail swaying through the air as I floated there above him. "Are you open to talking Adult Stuff."

"Girl, I'm always up to talking 'Adult Stuff' with you." He reached a hand upwards towards me. "Want to come down?"

"If you want?" I lowered a few inches and he grabbed me, pulling me the rest of the way down. I could have resisted, but I didn't. "Cindy, you're very sick right now."

"You don't say," he laughed out. "But it's... not all bad."

"Cindy..."

"Lauren?" He leaned in and touched the end of his snout to my cheek. Snout? Oh! He had one of those, like my dream, like he hadn't had the day before. Shoot...

"This may be an awkward time to ask this... But did you... Were you attracted to me, before?"

Cindy propped himself up on an elbow. "It was a different kind of thing. Besides, you were such a shut-in... I tried to not even really think of it much. The only times I heard you made a move was with a guy, so I figured you were straight as white bread to start."

"But were you," I countered, reaching to rest a hand on his belly. "You seem to be pretty straight right now, for a guy, but as a girl...?"

"I am very straight, right now." He smiled at that. "And you're still my Lore." He rolled over right onto me. "So, tell me, did you get stupid horny too?"

"I was told I literally went into heat, like a, well, horse." I shrugged, adjusting beneath him. I liked his warmth. "Even if I'm more dragon, and goat, and lion, but hey, two of those have heats."

"Are you in heat right now?" He sat up on me, a new tail twitching behind him, still small, but that would change, I knew it. "That would be kinda hot."

"That was a bad pun and you know it."

He looked lost a moment before it hit him. "Christ, ha! Lore, you know what I meant."

"I mean it though... Tell me more about before-this Cindy... Were you eyeing me? Were you straight, gay, a little both?"

"We'll go with 'open to possibilities'." He shrugged as he reached for me, running a hand down my furry front slowly working ever downwards. "You're missing important things."

His fingers were starting to approach where it was hidden, and I won't lie. I was getting turned on. Which made hiding it harder and harder. When he actually brushed that fleshy portal, it yawned open just for him and a flash of delight tingled through me. I had exposed myself, ready to be intimate with this man I'd struggled to reach. "Oh, there they are," he half-giggled.

He was still sick and perhaps a bit loopy. Was I taking advantage of him? "Cindy, you're still not all there."

"I'm not sure I ever will be." He suddenly flopped against me, nibbling through my fur but bonelessly melted against me in a graceless display. Not the hottest thing, and yet, we were close. "I feel like I'm changing, all over... Inside and out in some ways. What about you? Did you look my way, little girl? Were you as straight as I thought?"

"She is a walking security nightmare." These words were not spoken, they were typed. "We can't even discuss her out-loud without fear of her monitoring."

Did they not know I could see them typing?

"She was going to make me into a pony!" Well, I could guess who typed that.

"You would have been respectfully cared for."

"And likely cute, if her description was accurate."

"She is as dangerous as we make her," added another person. "When handled carefully, she is eager to cooperate. You saw my report."

"She casually ignored several laws, including laws of science, to please another subject."

"Girl? Girl? Lauren?" He kissed me on the cheek and I started. "There you are. You went all five mile stare on me. You alright?"

I was still under Cindy. He was more aware, perhaps scared to that state by my spacing out. "Cindy, I can see and hear things I shouldn't."

"Mmm?"

"The scientists... They're talking about me, and I saw it." I leaned up to touch noses. "And they probably know now, since I said that out-loud. Cindy, I'm a little scared..."

"Shhh." He wrapped his arms around me and held me close, rolling over so we were side by side instead of on top. "I'm here."

While true, he was there. I was the only one that could actually even dream of countering the scientists in any meaningful way. My eager little stallion there was powerless. And I didn't get to finish my stupid little relationship question!

Feeling suddenly annoyed, partially at myself, I just blurted it out, "I am attracted to several people right now and I don't want to cheat on anyone but I also haven't, you know, married or even gone steady with anyone. Does that bother you?"

Oh, wow, he looked so confused, or maybe just surprised. "That was... out of nowhere." He sank against the bed. "You're... kind of a god."

"That is super not an answer." I put a hand on his side. "Whatever I am, I don't want servants or worshipers, god, that sounds creepy."

"A little." He kissed the end of my snout. "But, right now... I just want you."

"To yourself? Most boys want their girls like that," I reasoned. I set a hand on his hip, rubbing gently. "I'm trying to be open and honest."

"You're doing both of those, girl." He leaned in and sniffed me. Ugh, was I in heat? It hadn't been that long. Though, thinking of it, I probably could turn that on and off... "I appreciate it, but I'm still... fucking sick for lack of better words. Right now, I just want you, and I can't think about the other stuff. Who are the other people? Other guys? I don't think I'm ready for male gay love right now."

Well, actually... I started to color, deepening shades of red showing through my fuzzy cheeks.

"Not guys? Is my little Lore learning to widen her horizons?"

Ugh. "Yes! The other two are girls." I crossed my arms under my slender chest. "Happy?"

"I want to meet them."

"You want to fuck them," I countered.

"If they're nice enough to attract you, probably." His turn to color a little, but just a little. He was shameless! Ugh, that was pretty Cindy. Cindy was Cindy, guy or girl, and shame was never high on their list of feelings.

"Alright, so... you, not at all worried about my considering feelings about other ladies then." I sat up and floated right off the bed. "So long as you get a chance to say hello and make friends too."

"That's the size of it." He looked suddenly less-sure. "You won't leave, will you?"

"Huh?"

"You could leave. You could get anyone you wanted, anywhere you wanted. Why settle for me?"

Oh sheesh! I zipped back in close and smooched him on the forehead. "You stop that right now! Cindy, that's not you. I want Cindy."

"Sorry..." He raised an arm to wipe his face, ugh. I casually pointed to the bathroom and I heard a thump.

"Lore!"

Oh, I had thrown him in there. Oops! I rushed in after him. "You alright? I didn't mean to hurt you!"

"I'm not hurt." He was standing in the shower, looking awkward and surprised, but not hurt. "Hint received, girl. Next time, just ask."

"Sorry." I zipped in and started grabbing his clothes, peeling him free of his hospital gown so he could bathe properly. He was still a bit erect, showing off that horse tool of his. I specifically didn't look there, fleeing from the room once he was ready for shower--

He grabbed my hips just as I was drifting way. "You ever take a shower with someone?"

Oh god. If I let him, we would do things. Things... that would probably feel really nice for both of us. But he was sick, and loopy, and his arm had snot on it. "Get better, then we can approach that again." I gently swatted his hand with a thick dragon's tail. "This isn't a no."

"Just a 'not right now,'" he finished with a little smile. "Be that way."

I left him to the sounds of running water. He would soon be clean. Report time! I grabbed my laptop and got to typing.

Eris. It surfaced in my thoughts. Discord had offered it as a name. It could be my name. But I was Lauren. I would remain Lauren. What was Eris anyway? One Google later... Oh. No. No no. I was not Eris! The world didn't need an Eris roaming around.

"She knows we're discussing her." Floating words, being typed somewhere private. Not that private to me, however.

"We can't even pretend to run a secure environment this way."

"She is more occupied with her pack structure than anything else. Allowing her to select her mate(s) and nest would likely result in a significant calming effect."

"Could you cross over a few more wildly different animal mannerisms in there? Most of them are ponies, to begin with, so she would be dealing with herd structures, which are significantly different than packs."

"Would that make her the alpha female of this herd?"

"We are being distracted." I'll say! "She is not an animal." Damn right! "She has full sapience." Yeah! "Which makes her much more dangerous and difficult to predict." Crap...

Ugh, watching the letters flow was getting annoying. I raised my hands and set them down on a keyboard that hadn't been there a moment before. "Hello."

I got the impression that several people were typing.

"Who is this? Is this a joke?"

"Lauren, if that really is you, please leave. This is a confidential conversation."

I shook my head, not that they could see that. "Can't do that." I slapped enter and resumed typing. "I didn't ask to see this, but I do."

"Lauren, since you're here, I'd like to do a few examinations. Can you report to the same room you had the X-rays taken in? At 1pm."

"Sure," I typed. "Miller?"

"Yes. Just like the name says." I couldn't see the names! Just what they typed. Shoot.

"Hello Millie." I wriggled fingers at his letters. "Why are the other doctors being so... creepy? I'm not here to hurt anyone."

"I know that, Laura. Could you please leave?"

I tried to do as Miller requested, turning my mind back to the physical world and ignoring the echoes of thoughts.

Something brushed against my hoof, then yanked. I was being pulled downwards. Looking there, my lower leg was glowing. "What the?"

"You awake?" There was Starlight, her horn glowing the same color. "You were just floating through the hallways, looking really distracted. I thought I'd catch you and bring you back to your room."

There she was, person number two I needed to talk to. "Starlight, I was hoping to find you." I smiled brightly, tail wagging with a puppy's energy. "Can we talk?"

"Uh, sure?" She glanced off and back. "Sorry, for exploding at you... I hear you and the foals had a really nice time." She hiked a brow. "That ended with a gift. How did you manage that? The local store doesn't have a scooter, and if you ordered one, it'd be a while before it got here."

"That's complicated..." I tapped my fingers together. "I'm a Supreme Noodle." I wiggled to show off my noodliness. "And that comes with it."

"Are you taking requests?" She hiked a brow, looking at me slyly.

"Are you... forgiving me because I can be helpful?" I wasn't sure how to feel about that.

"Maybe a little," she admitted just as shamelessly. "I can't stay angry at you anyway. I was scared for you. So, little thing." She sat down and brought up her forehooves close together. "Tiny, really... But it involves something I know you have a personal interest in." She grinned so brightly.

"What... would that be?"

She set her hooves on her pony udders, running them around and cupping her breasts. "These. I want a bra. I want a bra that supports them properly, holds them in place, and looks good. Can you do that? I make it look easy, but these are actually a huge pain. You can save me a lot of suffering."

I inclined my head. "Why haven't you ordered one?"

Starlight rolled her eyes. "Because she thinks I'm exaggerating every time I bring it up. She doesn't have them so large! She doesn't know my pain." She thrust a hoof at me. "You were a big lady to start. You know what it's like to be big! It isn't fun! It isn't sexy on the inside. It's a big pain in the flank. A pain you could help with."

On one hand, paw, talon, whatever, Starlight wasn't angry at me. On the other, she also wanted a favor. On the other other, it wasn't that unreasonable a favor. Being big without a good bra sounded super unfun... "I'll help."

Starlight squealed, er, more of a squeak from how widely she smiled. "Thank you! What do you need? Do we have to go back to the copier?"

"Well..." I reached and she didn't stop me from resting my lion's paw on her pony rack. "Option A would be to make them smaller. If you're smaller, the problem goes away. But, if you're like me at all, they're a part of you. You don't want them smaller."

"Tempting," she admitted without hesitation. "But yeah, they're me. I just want them to not hurt all the time! That's not too much for a mare to ask for, is it?"

"No no..." I felt in a slow circle, cupping each of them. "Do you have a measurement? Never mind." I saw some measuring tape literally fall from between my fingers and grabbed them with both hands, taking proper size of her grand spheres. "You are the proud owner of E breasts." Sheesh! And they hung differently than on a human. She needed a specific pony bra to handle them.

I couldn't steal them, as they did not exist to steal, so far as I knew? Oh! I held a paintbrush in my hand. "Hold still." Starlight looked confused, but didn't stop me as I began to slather her with paint from a bucket that hadn't been there before. I painted a bra right onto her, lifting them up as I did it. When the last swatch was covered, I snapped my free fingers.

The universe slowed and I focused on the paint. "Bra. Cloth. So soft. So comfortable. So clean and supportive! With wires that never dig in. So perfect!"

The universe resumed and Starlight fell backwards, hooves flailing as she squeaked. But her breasts were not flying. "Wha...?" She rolled up to her hooves and bounced up. "How in the...?" She began to take steps in a wide circle, testing things out. "It's like they're being hugged just right." A silly smile began to spread. "I feel like I can gallop without grimacing." She turned on me suddenly. "Tell me they're waterproof!"

"That... wasn't even a thing I considered," I admitted, rubbing behind my head. "They can do most of what you expect a bra to do. Handle them carefully and they'll return the favor." I reached to pat her on the head and she didn't resist it that time. "Enjoy it."

"I already am," she breathed out, taking a deep inhalation. "Wow... You have just transformed my life." She suddenly refocused. "Oh! You said you were looking for me and I got carried away hoping you could do a miracle, which you did! What did you want? Was it to apologize? Ha! Forget it." She waved a hoof dismissively. "Forgiven!"

"It wasn't that..." How to segue... "I've been thinking, about ponies I like."

"You have a crush on somepony?" she gushed with a big smile. "Who? Tell me! Is it the friend you rescued?" She leaned in, brow raising. "Is it Flash? C'mon!"

Did she not even see herself as a potential target. "You." I pointed right at her fuzzy snout. "You're smart and nice and you've been there, for me, when I needed it. You aren't afraid to stand up to me. Well, maybe a little afraid, but you did it anyway."

Starlight began to color swiftly. "Oh! Oh... wow... I mean, when you were in heat... I kinda figured that was the hormones talking..."

"If you're not into mares, that's fine," I quickly added, hands up. "Just let me know and I'll never bring it--"

She put a hoof on my leg. "I didn't say that. Don't be so quick to shove words in my mouth. Also, you're too complicated." She sat down on the smooth floor. "There's no way you're just proposing to me. There's a catch."

Well... "You aren't the only person I have any feelings about, though one of them is pretty immature."

"Immature?" Starlight's brows fell. "If you tell me you have a thing for any of those fillies, I swear."

"Not that! Celestia forbid... Jake. I barely know her, even less than you in a lot of ways, but I've been helping and..."

"Oh, that." She laughed, waving it all off. "That's common. That isn't love."

"Isn't... love?"

Starlight hiked a brow. "Hay no. You just said, you don't even know her. You're just feeling close to her. But you said 'one of them'... Tell me there's only one other one?" She pointed past me. "Is it that friend of yours?"

I put a hand to me face, my snout between two fingers. "Ugh... That's all three."

"Ok, good... good..." Starlight put a hoof to her cheek. "You understand, I have to assume this is still you-on-drugs talking. I mean, you on Ponid, still changing, up here." She pointed to her head. "I'm flattered, really, but I have to be sure this is a long term thing or if it'll fade with a little time."

"That's reasonable... but you're really not going to be upset about my just casually naming three people I'm interested in?" I swear to god, was I the only not poly-amorous person in the place?! "It's alright to call me out on being a pervert."

Starlight's eyes half-closed, eyeing me shrewdly. "Look, you don't get it, alright. You can, apparently, do whatever you want." She rolled a hoof in the air. "I bet you could throw me over something and show me how a stallion does it.

Oh god! "I would never!"

"But, you could," she repeated with a smirk. "You could do a lot of things, but you don't, because you want to be a good pony. I see that. Miller sees that, I think." She raised a hoof to her chin. "Unless I say it's on, it isn't. I feel 100% confident in that. I feel safe around you. I sometimes don't feel safe for you, but you won't ever hurt me. On purpose, at least."

"I'm not a monster," I weakly muttered, feeling so awkward at that point.

"But you could be. That you aren't is a good mark, for you." She turned away. "And why I trust you completely. You didn't even want to fib about your feelings and came to tell me all about them. We'll work it out, or go our separate ways, but you won't hurt me." She looked over her shoulder at me. "And I'm kinda curious, I have to admit. What's your friend like? We have to meet. Are they up to coming outside?"

When I was at that stage of Ponid, I was outside basically every day... "I'll encourage him to come out tomorrow, promise..." I rubbed behind my head. "I told him there were others, but not about you specifically."

"So, introduce us." Starlight rolled her eyes. "I promise to be nice so long as he is. He was a she at first, right? That coulda happened to you. Crazy to think about, right?"

"Insane..." And, according to Starlight, a thing I could do to myself if I wanted to. A big fat horse dong of my own to use on mares I liked. I shook the thought free. That was too strange! "You are taking this way too calmly."

"They picked me for this floor for a reason." She trotted towards me, her eyes on mine. "I help ponies who are having it rough, or going through strange changes. I can offer a hoof when others get scared."

"What's Flash's excuse?"

"He's easy going. He won't always connect, but he never upsets anyone too much either." She inclined her head. "This is the 'it's complicated' floor. Miller took one look at how you were going and had you assigned here. Makes sense, right?"

It's complicated... "Yeah... But then I'm just one lost little pony among so many." I felt my heart sink a little. "Like a teacher smiling patiently at a student that swears undying love."

"Well, yeah, there is a little of that." She raised a hoof behind her head. "But you're an adult, not a random kid. I will not just shut you down, but I also won't take another step until after you're settled and can make real decisions."

Her reactions to my heated state made so much more sense. No wonder they trusted her so much.

"I feel guilty just looking at her," echoed in my mind in Starlight's voice. "How can I know if any of my feelings are mine or just what I was asked to do? Damn you, Miller. Why did you have to poison this well?"

Author's Note

Tomorrow, we bring Cindy out to meet the rest of the floor. Will it go well? What did the gathering of scientists conclude about Lauren? Will it end well?

Is Lauren a big fat perv?!

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