Bad Colts Camp

"Good morning!" Ms. Harshwhinny announced in the bungalow quad. The sun had been up for some time. But these mares were at a resort after all. And the previous day surely called for some extra rest.

A knock came to each door as Aloe and Lotus delivered the first course of breakfast in bed. Starting with a banana for everypony.

"Why a banana?" Posy Shy asked, eating the fruit.

"For two reasons," Aloe said.

"Firstly, because it is a good source of potassium and electrolytes, which you are going to need," Lotus said. "And secondly, because..."

Zephyr Breeze was thrown awake as his whole world lurched and spun around him when Posy Shy jumped out of bed. She ran into her bathroom and retched into the toilet.

"... it tastes about the same on the way up as is does on the way down," Aloe finished.

"Sorry," Posy apologized.

"It's quite alright," Lotus assured her, giving her a hoof towel to wipe her mouth and a cup of water to sip.

"It is to be expected," Aloe explained. "You are with foal after all."

"Oh my goodness!" Posy cried. "I nearly forgot he was in there!" She dropped her cup and clutched her belly with her hoof. "Are you okay?" she asked her belly, as though expecting a response. Aloe and Lotus guided her back to her bed.

"Be calm, Ms. Shy," Aloe said.

"You are a mother," Lotus reminded her. "You know that there is no better place for your foal to be than nestled safely in the comfort of your womb." Lotus gently rubbed Posy's belly until she was calm again.

"Do you think you can eat now that your nausea has passed?" Aloe asked. Posy nodded. Aloe brought over the breakfast cart to serve the expecting mare while Lotus brought bananas to the others.

Cream Heart was already ahead of the game, having taken an extra banana from the buffet the previous night. "You better appreciate what I'm doing for you," she said to her belly between her bouts of technicolor yawns.

Velvet was kneeling in front of her toilet after she finished having her morning sickness. "Yeah, I definitely don't miss this."

"It's so unfair that I have to be hungover after a night that I didn't even get to drink!" Stellar complained, likewise praying at the porcelain altar before staggering back to her bed for her delivered breakfast platter. Like the others, she dined on a balanced breakfast of all the essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients their growing foals would need. "I could do with a mimosa. Or some Stalliongrad tomato juice."

"We have orange juice," Lotus said, offering her a pitcher.

Stellar sniffed it. "What's in it?"

"Oranges," Aloe said. Stellar smiled and politely declined.

Once every mare had their fill of the most important meal of the day, they walked together as a group back to the main classroom. The supernumerary seats had been removed and there were only the specialized lounge chairs arranged in a half-circle. Each had a personal lamp to illuminate their abdomen.

In front of them was Ms. Harshwhinny's chair. Each of the mares settled into a lounge chair, Cream and Posy were in the middle two chairs, while Velvet and Stellar were in the ones on the end, looking across at each other in the semi-circle.

"Good morning, ladies. And gentlecolts," she added. "Welcome to our first group therapy session. Now boys, before you waste your breath shouting, know that we can't hear you yet. But you will have a chance to speak soon. For now, it's ladies first. Let me start with a question for all of you. How did you each sleep last night?"

Stellar audibly purred and shifted in her chair. "I had positively the most restful sleep in ages! I never knew anxiety before I had a foal. I never knew how much I would worry about him day in and day out. Nopony ever told me about that part of being a mother. But now I have him back safe and sound..." She ran her hooves softly over her belly. "I can sleep peacefully again."

"I envy you," Velvet said. "My little troublemaker kept waking me up all night. Oh sure it just tickled at first, feeling him try to escape throughout the night, but it was just so darn distracting."

"I slept fine, I suppose," Cream Heart said. "But when I woke up this morning..." she blushed and fanned herself with her hoof. "I found myself in a bit of a state. Is it the Zesper?" she asked.

"Not at all," Harshwhinny said. "Remember that your new connection with your foal links your bodies in a literally sensual way. You each feel what the other feels. Therefore you are experiencing your son's morning arousal. It's perfectly normal and it's an important part of our program." She looked over at Posy Shy, who was blushing profusely. "Ms. Shy? Is everything alright?"

"It's embarrassing. I'm sorry," Posy squeaked.

"There is nothing to be embarrassed about," Harshwhinny assured her. "This is a safe space, free of all judgement. We are all mares here."

"I- I'm a bit of a mess," she said. "I can smell myself." The other mares chuckled. Posy covered her face with her hooves.

"Ms. Shy, you are not alone," Harshwhinny said. "You are all feeling that way right now. Ms. Heart even said so herself just now. Please, let yourself relax. This is to be a vacation for you, after all."

Posy hesitated but parted her legs. Beneath the light of her belly lamp her pussy was positively dripping wet, soaking through the mesh of her lounge chair.

"Ah. I see," Harshwhinny said. "This is a bit more than usual. But I can assure you this is not your fault." She extended the more comfortable, padded lounge chair stirrups. Posy put her legs unto each one while Harshwhinny took the microphone out of the bin under Posy's chair. "Let's have a chat with the little troublemaker, shall we?" Posy nodded and Harshwhinny inserted the microphone deep into Posy's vagina. "Zephyr? Can you hear me?" she said, speaking loudly at Posy's crotch. "We should be able to hear you now."

"... Um... hello?" Zephyr's voice came out of the speaker lodged in his mother's pussy.

"Good morning Zephyr!" Harshwhinny greeted cheerfully. "How are you feeling?"

"Uh, a little claustrophobic," he said.

"Really?" she asked.

"Well, no. Just bored I guess."

"That's it? Just... bored?"

"Yeah."

"Would you by chance happen to be feeling... aroused?" Harshwhinny asked.

"What!?"

"Horny?"

"N- no!"

"Zephyr Breeze..." Harshwhinny chided. "This is a safe room. There is no judgement here. But I will not abide a liar."

He didn't reply.

"Nopony would blame you for being aroused," Harshwhinny said. "After all, you are completely surrounded by a mare in heat. Even if it is your mother. Her scent is all you can smell. You are soaked from nose to tail in her pheromones. Quite honestly, I would be more concerned if you were not aroused! So I will ask you again, are you?"

"...Yes."

Harshwhinny looked up as Posy. Her face was flushed and she was sweating. "You weren't, by chance, masturbating inside your mother's uterus just now, were you?"

"..."

"Zephyr?"

"... Maybe."

"Zephyr!" Posy scolded at her belly.

"Now, now, Ms. Shy!" Harshwhinny put her hoof up. "This is an important part of the healing process."

"Am I in trouble?" Zephyr asked.

"Not at all," Harshwhinny assured him. "In fact, it brings us to the crux of our program. Let me ask you though, and please, be honest, how is it going in there for you?"

"...Um... how is what going?"

"Masturbating," she said plainly. "How is masturbating going for you? Have you been able to finish?"

"Uh... no. No, not really."

"Well, I'm going to tell you why!" she said with smile. "Because now that your body is linked with your mother's again, you are not masturbating yourself. You are masturbating her."

"Oh my goodness," Posy whined and covered her face with her hooves again.

"Now, now, there is no reason for either of you to feel ashamed," Harshwhinny explained, sitting back in her chair and addressing the whole room. "This is a core part of the program for your foals. As mothers, you have always put the happiness of your foals before your own. This is something that they simply can not comprehend. But now, there is a very real reward system for them to put your happiness before themselves, as whenever they try to pleasure themselves, they will be pleasuring you. But the reverse is also true. You can reward your little foals yourselves by masturbating. And they will feel that same pleasure."

Harshwhinny grinned. "But here's the rub. Happiness in your relationship must be a two-way street. You will only be able to orgasm together, simultaneously. So that means you must cooperate in making each other happy. And in doing so, be rewarded for it. That is the lesson: To take pleasure in making each other happy."

"Mom? You can feel this?" Zephyr asked.

A moment later Posy's clitoris winked from her pussy. Droplets of her arousal were reaching the floor. "Gah! Zephyr! Stop that!"

"Zephyr," Harshwhinny said, "I appreciate that you would like to please your mother. But for now I would ask that you please abstain? We are trying to have a class here. There will be time for that later." She could hear him groaning through the speaker. "Zephyr, if you can be a good boy for Mommy, I'm sure she will reward you." She looked at Posy. "Yes?"

"You- you want me to mastur- to do that, while my son is in there?" Posy asked.

"If he can be a good boy." Harshwhinny said loudly at Posy's belly. "He should get a reward, yes?"

Posy chewed her lip and nodded. "C-can you be a good boy for Mommy?" she asked. She could actually feel when he finally let go of his dick. Her entire body relaxed and she sighed in relief.

"Thank you, Zephyr," Harshwhinny said.

"You're welc-" his voice was cut of as she slid the microphone out of Posy's vagina and set it on the chair between her legs.

"You know, Sunburst," Stellar Flare said to her belly, "I wouldn't be at all opposed if you wanted to masturbate while you're in there." She waited. But she didn't feel anything. She looked over at Posy. "I envy you, you know. I wish my son was like yours. Your son actually lusts after you."

"Oh, no. Trust me, you don't want a son like Zephyr-" Posy covered her mouth. "I'm sorry Zeph!" she said to her belly. "I hope you didn't hear that. I didn't mean it!"

"Now, now. This is a forum of truth," Harshwhinny explained. "And yes, the truth can hurt. But we can not start to begin fixing something until we first acknowledge that something is broken." She spoke up. "Gentlecolts, I want you to understand that hurtful things are going to be said about you. But know that it hurts your mothers doubly so to say it of their own foals." She looked around the room. "And ladies, we will say these things in the past tense. Because these colts that we are complaining about? They are no more! With this Second Start, they will be a brand new, and improved pony!" She looked at Posy. "So, shall we rephrase that?"

Posy nodded thoughtfully, carefully choosing her words. "You would not have wanted the son Zephyr used to be."

"Now doesn't that feel better to say?" Harshwhinny asked.

Posy nodded and smiled and rubbed her tummy, this time with optimism. "Yes."

"Now, why don't you tell us more about the kind of colt your son used to be?" Harshwhinny asked.

"Well, I don't know..." Posy started. "He used to be such a sweet little thing. Though he was a little bit of a late bloomer. He didn't stop breastfeeding until after he got his cutie mark."

"Oh my gosh!" Velvet gasped. "Your poor teats!"

"How was he ever able to grow beyond a foal on just your milk?" Harshwhinny asked.

"Oh, no, he did eat solid foods too. But he kept coming back to me to breastfeed as well. He looked forward to it when he would get home from school. I enjoyed the bonding time. But once he got his mark-"

"That would have meant he had reached puberty," Cream Heart said.

"Yes. And well, once he started getting erections during feeding time, that should have been the first sign. But he didn't want to stop. And I was too weak to say no. But then when he kept 'accidentally' suckling my clitoris, I had to put my hoof down."

"The final time was the last straw. I had scolded him before about his little 'accidents'. He drank all the milk from both of my teats, and he wanted to 'give me a hug', he said. He shimmied up along my body to hug me and he 'accidentally' pushed his penis into my vagina. I told him 'no' but he said he just wanted to 'hug me' and he wanted to kiss me. I stopped him and he knew he went too far."

"He apologized after, but I blamed myself for letting him go as far as he did. I felt bad because he looked so pent up. So I ended up giving him a wingjob, hoping that would be the end of it. And I thought it was. And then his older sister recently came to me after letting him live with her for the second time, and apparently he wanted her to do the same for him. So I brought him here."

"Seems like a missed opportunity," Stellar said. "I would have let him have sex with me if I had been in your horseshoes."

"You will have a chance to talk, Ms. Flare," Harshwhinny said. "As for you, Mrs. Shy, I do have good news for you. I think you will have a very successful course with this program."

"Thank you. It is very reassuring to hear that," Posy said.

"Cream Heart, what about you?" Harshwhinny asked.

"Oh, my story is pretty simple," Cream said. "As you already heard yesterday, my son is-"

"Cream."

"My son was a bit of a spoiled brat. I blame myself a bit too. I was always too quick to give in to what he wanted. I- I couldn't help how much I loved my little Button!" She rubbed her belly.

"Nopony is blaming you for loving your son, Cream," Harshwhinny said. "But to truly care for him, you know you have to set him up for success as an adult by setting up rules and conditions for rewards."

"Yes, I know," Cream said. "I just... I think I just realized that too late. When I finally started to enforce the rules I was trying to make, I- He had been disobedient for a long time, but when he- When I had to take away his video game-" Cream Heart started to choke up. "I carried him for eleven months. I breastfed him. I housed and fed him everyday and he just turns around and calls me... that!"

"I know," Harshwhinny said, putting her hoof on Cream's. "But he didn't know all that you did for him as a baby. How could he? But now he will. Now he knows what it means to depend on you completely."

Cream rubbed her belly, comforted by the knowledge that her son would remember this and be grateful. Harshwhinny turned to look at Twilight Velvet.

"Mrs. Velvet, our celebrity mother," Harshwhinny said.

"Oh, stop it," Velvet said with a small blush.

"Mother to a princess and a prince. You must be very proud," Harshwhinny said.

"Oh, I am," Velvet said.

"You are the last pony I ever expected to sign up for this program. What brought you here?" Harshwhinny asked.

"My son, obviously," Velvet said.

"I suppose 'why' would be the more appropriate question."

"Because..." Velvet began, but failed to find the words for a moment. "I... I did everything right, didn't I?" she asked rhetorically. "I ate healthy while I was pregnant with him. I breastfed him until he teethed. I taught him good manners and hygiene. I made sure he did well in school and got him into the Royal Guard Officer Academy. I worked so SO hard to groom him into the perfect stallion and what do I get? For him to just be up and taken away by some other mare?"

"You mean Princess Cadance, yes?" Harshwhinny asked.

"She didn't raise him. She didn't put the work into him that I did! I did everything for him for so long and she gets to enjoy the benefits of him! I..." Twilight's eyes went wide in the revelation. "I feel like a cuck! Is that weird? Is that weird for me to say that?"

"Not at all," Harshwhinny said. "Mothers are the ultimate cucks, preparing their colts to be some other mare's stallion. Even if it's a princess, it doesn't lessen the sting of feeling a part of you being taken away."

"And she did!" Velvet cried. "As soon as that little harlot seduced him away from me, he was gone. She became more important to him than his own mother, the mare that gave him the gift of life! If only I had... If only I could have offered him the same thing as her..."

"There, there," Harshwhinny said. "It's not about stooping to their level. It about elevating our colts to our level. In time, your son will be reminded who the most important mare in his life truly is," she said with a wink.

"Don't feel too bad, Velvet," Stellar said as she slowly rubbed her belly. "I tried. I tried doing just that, but I still lost him. I wanted to be my son's everything, but he still left me. I remember I used to give him baths even after he got his cutie mark. I made sure to wash him everywhere. I would stroke it. I wanted to make him feel good. But he just wanted to bathe by himself. He wanted his independence. He was growing up so quickly."

"I did what I could to try to stay in his thoughts. I would keep my tail up in a bun when he was home so he could freely look at me. I put my feminine juices into his beard balm, so he could have me with him throughout the day. I would straddle his pillows so that he would smell my scent as he slept, and have me in his dreams. I could tell when it was working. He would always have the biggest morning wood. I tried to give him pleasant wet dreams. But of all the times I had ridden his penis in his sleep, he only came once, and I wasn't even in heat."

"For a long time, I actually thought he was a stallion-stuffer. That is until I found out he was dating his marefriend. Of course, they said they were just friends. But I could tell. The way he looked at her. He wanted her. Not me, her! Even when she was so obviously a mare muncher with that magician marefriend of hers. And then he had the gall to complain about mare troubles to ME. When I was giving him a mare solution!" Stellar calmed herself. "I wanted him to give me grandfoals. And I'm not getting any younger. So if I must do it myself, it had to be now or never."

The clock next to Harshwhinny's chair beeped.

"Why don't we take a break?" Harshwhinny suggested. She leaned toward their bellies and spoke a bit louder. "I must apologize, gentlecolts. This segment ran a bit long. But I assure you, you will have an opportunity to speak after lunch."

Shining Armor had been accustomed to the idea of 'hurry up and wait' from his time in the Royal Guard. It was all rush rush to get to be some place, and then forced to wait while whoever was in charge deigned to have him do something. He sat with hooves crossed and sloshed back and forth along the slick floor of his mother's womb while she walked to the buffet.

Sunburst tried his best to stay on his back as his mother trotted along. His erection bobbed in front of him. It seemed like it was perpetually hard ever since he had arrived in this place. He assumed it was because, as Harshwhinny said, he was surrounded by a mare in heat, in every literal sense. He had gotten used to the musk, but the effects on him were no less apparent, willing him to want to mate. Even if it was inside his own mother. He noticed, with some dismay, that the room he was in seemed a good deal smaller than he had remembered it being the day prior, like the wall was closing in on him.

"Ooh! We should dine in the pool!" Cream Heart said, noting that there was a poolside bar where they could sit in the water and eat at a counter. Button Mash was momentarily weightless as his mother jumped through the air and splashed down into the water. Diving under, she briefly became an equine submarine.

The other mares joined her in the pool. Posy was keen on entering the cool water after the state she had been left in that morning. Stellar Flare sidled up to the edge of the pool bar and chewed her lip. Sunburst felt like his penis was being massaged by a phantom force, making him throb harder.

Next to her, Posy shifted her legs together uncomfortably.

"Are you alright, dear?" Velvet asked.

"He's doing it again," Posy said. "He's... touching himself in there. I can feel it."

"Shall we switch seats?" Stellar asked. "I have the perfect way for you to return the favor." Stellar looked at the other mares and grinned. "I have located the water jet," she said with a sly grin, adjusting herself to get the best angle of the massaging bubbles to hit her clitoris. "It seems my colt doesn't want to make his mommy happy like yours." Sunburst's pleas went unheard inside her.

"No thank you, I-" Posy winced and clenched her legs together. "Zephyr stop it! I am trying to eat lunch!"

After a couple of agonizing minutes, Sunburst felt his mother finally give up. She shifted in her seat and sat upright. The wall that was bulging inwards on Sunburst slowly backed away, letting his room expand back to normal. Stellar Flare looked around to make sure nopony noticed the local water get warmer.

"Now Posy," Stellar said, "I know you had let your son go down on you-"

"I didn't let him!" Posy said defensively. "He just did it, even though I told him not to."

"Ugh," Stellar groaned. "It's been ages since I've had a stallion eat me out. What I wouldn't do... But you did give him a wingjob though."

"It was one time!" Posy said, covering her face again.

"What about you two?" Stellar asked the other mares. "You can't tell me you've never been tempted."

"Oh, certainly," Velvet said. "I remember when he first started getting erections in the bath tub. But he was pretty quick to want to bathe alone after that. Colts will be colts. Always wanting to set their own boundaries. I will say it was fun watching him grow into a stallion before he went off to the Royal Guard Academy. I'd take a little peek under his sheets at night. I was always impressed with how much bigger he would be each time. But I was still married after all..." she trailed off. Stellar could see a glimmer in the corner of Velvet's eye.

"But...?" Stellar pressed.

Even Shining Armor was listening very carefully inside.

Velvet smirked. "Okay. I did give it just a little suck just one time. Just to see how it tasted. But it wasn't like it was enough for him to cum."

"It doesn't taste like anything special," Cream Heart murmured.

"Oh?" Velvet asked as she and Stellar raised their eyebrows. "You speak from experience?"

Cream Heart sighed. "In a manner of speaking. After Button got his cutie mark, his new favorite toy to play with, was himself. I don't know how bad you three had it, but he would masturbate constantly. I practically had to buy tissues by the pallet. And that was when he would choose to use them, instead of something else, somewhere else. And let me tell you, he could be quite creative.

"For example, he went through a phase where he insisted on using my panties to masturbate, cum in them, and then put them back in my drawer! Can you imagine waking up in the early morning, trying to get dressed in the dark, and feeling your son's spooge against your marehood?"

"Mmm," Stellar moaned.

"But the worst offense had to be seeing the streaky mess on the bathroom mirror," Cream continued. "He obviously had tried to clean it. 'Tried' being the operative word. But he must have missed the wad that landed on my toothbrush. So you're asking how it would have tasted, and that's how I know."

"... So? How did it taste?" Velvet asked

"Minty fresh," Cream said.

"Really?" Posy asked.

"No! Obviously it tasted like cum," Cream said.

"Right, but was it salty, or sweeter, or what?" Stellar asked.

"It- it just tasted like cum. I don't know. I haven't exactly had a lot for reference. Why, did you sample your son after that time you had sex with him in his sleep?"

"Regrettably, I didn't think to do so at the time," Stellar said. "I made sure he was deep inside me when he came. I didn't see a drop come back out until I was in the shower the next morning. And by then, all I could taste was my own pussy, and my body wash soap."

"Ladies," Ms. Harshwhinny addressed as she walked over to the edge of the pool. "If you are done with lunch, we can resume our class." Aloe and Lotus followed after with a cart of towels. The mares climbed out of the pool and toweled themselves off.

Inside Posy's womb, Zephyr Breeze could felt like his penis was being stroked. He was thrilled that she was finally reciprocating, and he started jerking off again.

Posy yelped as her marehood winked. "Zephyr, stop it! I was just drying it with my towel!" She tossed the towel aside and headed back into the classroom.

Once everypony was back in their seats, Harshwhinny addressed the class. "Now that you've had a chance to talk about things, we are going to give the colts a chance to speak," Harshwhinny said.

The hoof stirrups in the lounge chairs were all extended and they were adjustable for comfort. They laid back as their legs were spread and elevated into a recumbent position. Velvet and Stellar traded looks, glancing at each other's exposed state before Ms. Harshwhinny sat down in the seat in the center. She looked around at the mares, their eyes looking back at her just over their abdomen, their eye level only a bit above their displayed marehoods.

Aloe and Lotus went around the half-circle, taking each mare's microphone from their bin and inserting it into their vaginas. Once they were all set, Harshwhinny smiled. "Gentlecolts, you have the floor. Who would like to speak first?" She was answered by all four of the speakers crackling loudly as each colt tried to talk over the other. "Stop!" Harshwhinny shouted. "One at a time! Button Mash, why don't we start with you? I don't believe we have heard from you much."

"Mom! I swear the toothbrush thing was an accident!" Button said.

"I know, dear," Cream said.

"I beg your pardon?" Harshwhinny asked.

"We... were chatting at lunch," Cream said. "I mentioned some of the places I used to find... the aftermath of his self-love. And that included my toothbrush."

"How does one accidentally cum onto a toothbrush?" Harshwhinny asked.

"I think he was aiming for the mirror," Cream said.

"I wasn't aiming for anything! I was still in the shower!" he said. Cream's eyes went wide.

"You... you ejaculated in the shower, and it arced up over the shower curtain, and hit the mirror?"

"I'm sorry! It was an accident!"

The other mares' eyes went wide as well, including Harshwhinny.

"Dude!" Shining Armor's voice came from Velvet's pussy speaker.

"You know what?" Cream said. "I'm not even mad. I'm actually impressed!"

"Really? Thanks Mom!"

"You're welcome," Cream said, rubbing her belly.

"What were some of the other places you found his... ahem, aftermath?" Harshwhinny asked.

"Oh, all over the place at one point or another. My kitchen seat cushion, inside my clean panties, on my personal vibrators and dildos, in my closet."

"I see. Button, your mother mentioned yesterday that you called her a mean word. Why did you do that?"

"She took away my JoyBoy."

"Why did she do that?"

"Because she was being a b-"

"Button?"

"Because I stayed home from school."

"No, you cut class!"

"I didn't mean to."

"You hid in my closet!" Cream said. Harshwhinny put a hoof up.

"Why were you hiding in your mother's closet?" she asked.

"It was April Foals Day! I was going to jump out and scare her when she opened the door to get ready for work in the morning. But it was dark and I was tired and I fell asleep!"

"That wasn't what it looked like when I found you!"

"Ms. Heart, please! Button, tell me what happened."

"I fell asleep! And when I woke up I was already really late for school! I was gonna go! Honest! But I couldn't!"

"Why not?"

"When I woke up, I could see through the door slats that my mom was in the bedroom and I didn't want to get caught leaving. Then she got on the bed and-"

"They don't need to hear this part!" Cream said.

"Ms. Heart, please, no more interruptions." Harshwhinny said. "What happened, Button."

"She- she started... playing with herself," he said. She covered her face.

"And you watched?"

"... Yeah."

"How did she end up catching you?"

"I... I started playing with myself too. And I was too noisy when I finished."

"I see. Well, it looks like we still have a lot of work ahead of us before we can raise the 'Mission Accomplished' banner. Isn't that right, Captain Armor?"

"... I heard my mom say she sucked my dick in my sleep," Shining grumbled.

"Only a little bit!" Velvet defended. "And it was just the one time out of curiosity!"

"She's the one that needs work done on her, not me!" he said.

"Neither of you are here to have 'work done on you'," Harshwhinny said. "I know it's called 'Bad Colts Camp', but the work done here is on your relationships! Nopony is blameless, and we all make mistakes. We are all curious at times. And that doesn't always excuse our behavior." Velvet looked away in shame. "But we must decide if we are willing to forgive one another for our mistakes, when they are repentant."

"I am sorry, Shining," Velvet said.

"But Shining, I must ask, do you believe that you are without sin, yourself?" Harshwhinny asked.

"... No. Of course not."

"Do you think that it is possible, if not likely, that in your adventurous curiosity, you did not also make... indiscretions of your own?"

"I... I don't know what it is that you are implying!" he said.

"Oh? Your mother told me that she has it on very good authority that you've been quite the naughty colt," Harshwhinny said.

"WHAT!? I can't believe Cadance told you about that! Mom, having her roleplay as you is NOT the same as actually wanting to have sex with you!"

"Oh my goodness!" Velvet gasped.

"When did she tell you?" Shining asked.

"She didn't," Harshwhinny said. "You just did."

Shining realized he had just walked into her ruse. "... Fuck."

"Shining!?" Velvet asked.

"I don't want to talk about it!"

"Let's put a pin in that for now, then." Harshwhinny turned around. "Sunburst, I'm sure you must have loads to talk about. You mother is quite the mare."

"Yes. So everypony keeps telling me," he grumbled.

"It sounds like you had quite the colorful foalhood growing up. I'd say you turned out quite well. But I feel like you don't want to give your mother credit for her part in your success."

"I was successful in spite of her!" he said.

"Sunburst, you wound me!" Stellar said. "You don't think I should at least have your gratitude for your life in the first place?"

"Mom! I know I was an accident! You don't need to romanticize the fact you had sex with a random stallion and I was the result!"

"Fine! It's true that I hadn't planned on becoming pregnant when I did," Stellar said. "And I certainly wasn't planning on having a foal with your biological father. But I chose to keep the pregnancy, Sunburst! I chose to quit drinking while I was pregnant with you. I chose to raise you myself after you were born. And I chose to forsake all other stallions because you were the most important pony in my world! Do I not deserve some credit for that, Sunburst? Do I not deserve your love?"

"..."

"Sunburst, if I may interject, I think there is a lot of potential in resolving your relationship with your mother. I understand that you might think that your mother is selfish, and that she only acts in self-interest without regards for you or your feelings. But surely you can at least grasp that your mother's life would have been... not necessarily better, but at least easier if she hadn't chosen to be a single mother."

"I suppose, yes," he admitted.

Harshwhinny looked around the room. "I've been doing this program for a long time, Sunburst. Now, I know your mother's Jocasta complex is a bit stronger than most. But there is one thing I know for certain, Sunburst. It's that there are two kinds of colts: Those that harbor a sexual attraction to their mothers, and those that lie about it. And I think that listening to your peers should make that pretty evident."

"But I'm not attracted to my mother!" he said.

"Sunburst... I can't help you work on your issues if we don't acknowledge that they exist."

"I'm a normal pony!" he said.

"Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying!" Harshwhinny said. "You are a normal pony! And it is normal to have these feelings. And you need to acknowledge it! That is the issue!"

There was a long minute of silence and then a quiet whimper from the small speaker.

"I... I just wanted to be normal..." he said. "I felt like such a freak, feeling that way. Like I was a bad colt."

"Oh, Sunburst!" Stellar cooed and rubbed her belly with her hooves. "I'm so sorry you felt that way! I love you!"

"I- I love you too, Mom."

"This calls for a celebration!" Stellar said. "I'm gonna hit up the bar this evening and get a round of drinks for all of us. I wasn't able to drink during my real pregnancy."

"Now just a moment, Ms. Flare," Harshwhinny said. "Your pregnant connection to your foal is just as real this time. If you drink alcohol, you could still kill him."

"Not the worst thing," Posy said. "Maybe I should. I think I deserve a drink."

"Mom, no! Please don't!" Zephyr begged. "I'll behave!"

"Your mother could have, you know," Harshwhinny said to all of them. "The first time she was pregnant with you, they could have drank themselves stupid, and you would have had no way to object to it. She had no way of hearing you without these." Harshwhinny pulled the microphones out of each of the mares. "But they didn't do that! Remember that, guys. Think about that this evening. Your mothers chose to do what was best for you, instead of giving in to their own desires."

Ms. Harshwhinny sat back in her seat and smiled as she looked around the room. "I think we've made some major strides today, everypony. Major strides! Why don't you all treat yourselves to taking the rest of the day off and enjoy the resort amenities. And we can pick this up tomorrow morning?"