Recovery and Role Play

Ocellus began to stir as she slowly woke up in Sandbar's crib. Opening her eyes, she found the bars already down, and with Sandbar nowhere to be seen. She rolled off of the mattress, and looked at the reflection in the mirror on the back of the bedroom door, finding herself still in her 'big sister' form that she had chosen last night.

"Sandbar? You around?" She asked, looking around for anything out of the ordinary. She spotted a rolled up scroll on the changing table, and went over to it, taking it and unrolling it.

Ocellus,

Thank you so much for last night. It was amazing.

I thought we could switch things up a bit this morning, make things a little more vanilla for a bit. Meet me on the castle balcony for brunch around 10?

Love,
Sandbar

Ocellus glanced down at the diaper pail beside the changing table, finding the diaper Sandbar had worn to bed last night, then looked over at his nightstand, seeing that she had slept in, and had about thirty minutes to get ready and get over to the castle.

"Thanks for the tips, Grubber. See you around!" Sandbar called as he exited the castle kitchen with a platter balanced on his back as he made his way down the hall back out to the main foyer, climbing the stairs to the second floor and walking back towards the front of the castle towards the balcony. He was halfway to the balcony doors when he saw Ocellus in her default changeling form come through the main doors on the floor below.

"Morning, Ocellus!" Sandbar said, waving down at her, getting a smile in return. "Come on up, just got these ready!"

Ocellus walked down the foyer to the center flight of stairs, following Sandbar's steps up and over to the balcony doors, where a table for two had been set. Sandbar set the silver platter full of miniature cucumber sandwiches down in the center.

"Brunch is served." Sandbar told her as he sat down, followed momentarily by the changeling.

"Well, this is certainly a change. Why are we going vanilla all of a sudden?" Ocellus asked as she took three small sandwiches and put them on her plate.

"Well, honestly, I had a bit of a rough night last night. Princess Luna had to come and help me." Sandbar said as he also started into the sandwiches.

"What happened?" Ocellus asked. Sandbar brushed it off as nonchalantly as he could.

"Ah, just struggling with more of my feelings over what Gallus did. I'm certainly looking forward to enough time passing so I don't dream about him as often. Because, in our waking hours, you and I are already doing everything that we can." Sandbar told her, blushing lightly as he took another bite.

Ocellus smiled at him, closed her eyes, and transformed back into her 'older sister' form that she had thought up yesterday evening.

"So, did you enjoy last night?" She asked. The blush on Sandbar's cheeks deepened a little more.

"Like I even have to answer that... I'm actually a little bit freaked at how much I enjoyed it." Sandbar said.

"It's cool, Sandbar," Ocellus replied, keeping with her cool, older sibling demeanor. "It's not like I'm actually your sister. It's all in your head. Nothing more than a fantasy, remember? Doesn't change how it... Tasted, last night." She said, her dark blue irises sparkling green momentarily.

"It's not that, Ocellus. I've always said that I love you for you. I guess I'm still really worried about becoming, well, obsessed, or addicted, to one of your transformations."

Ocellus heard the concern in her feedmate's voice, and decided it probably wasn't a good idea to keep up her form's aloof demeanor at the moment.

"Sandbar, you have made that perfectly clear. And I've already told you how much I appreciate that. One of the most heartfelt, flattering things a changeling can experience is being loved without having to change. But that still doesn't mean we don't like changing. It's the same with you. I absolutely love how you taste when you engage in ageplay. I love how adorable and vulnerable you look in your diapers. But I also love you like you are right now, perfectly normal, out in public. It's perfectly alright to feel varying amounts of desire for all of our different sides."

Sandbar slowly nodded as he finished his third sandwich, grabbing another two from the platter after taking a sip of cider.

"So... Have you thought of a name yet?" The stallion asked.

Big-Sis-Ocellus put her hoof to her chin. She honestly hadn't. She had put most of her focus on looks. But now that he mentioned it...

"Hmm... I was thinking... Dawn. Dawn Patrol. The very first ones out in the morning surf." She said, before attempting to flip her hair seductively, only to get half of it back in the front of her face. Sandbar giggled as she moved the rest of it out of the way with the hoof.

"And you're not the only one with worries, you know. I've still got some reservations. I've still got... A little shame." Dawn-Ocellus admitted, her cheeks tinting red.

"Well, I'm all ears, Dawn. If you can talk me down, I'll certainly try to do the same." Sandbar offered.

Dawn-Ocellus smiled.

"The fun we had when the three of us were together... I don't think it's possible to forget about all of that. For some time now, I've really been longing to go back to that... Get taken from both sides at once again. But I don't see how we can do that, given how neither of us are willing to give polyamory another chance, for very good reasons. Still... That's what I dream about some of the time."

Sandbar couldn't deny that at all. He had also been thoroughly rutted from both sides during their very first night together, and a few times since. Every single time it was indescribably hot. And for somecreature like Ocellus who literally fed on love and desire, it was all too understandable about wanting to experience that again.

"Yeah, I get that. Maybe I could save some bits... Get a potion from Headmare Starlight. You know, one of those combination spells that she uses sometimes. You remember when she was able to be in two places at once?" Sandbar asked.

Ocellus didn't want to get her hopes up too much, but the thought of Sandbar on each side of her made her tingle.

"Only if it's completely safe. Being in two places at once... That's kinda hard to wrap your mind around. Even for somecreature who changes shape."

Sandbar agreed. He couldn't even imagine having a horn. Wings, maybe, but the thought of having to mentally concentrate on magic seemed a little daunting. Earth ponies may have been seen as simple a lot of the time, but honestly, when it came to potential problems the other races had to deal with sometimes, the simplicity of being an Earth pony did have it's charms.

"It's not like we have to rush into anything. Let's just focus on enjoying ourselves right here and now. This is only Day 1 of Spring Break after all. We've got plenty of time to ourselves. Even better, you get to figure out how to explain Dawn to my parents." Sandbar said with a grin, and Dawn-Ocellus nearly chocked on her current bite.

The pair of ponies finished their meal on the balcony, then took the platter and cups back inside, and quickly washed their dishes and put them away before the rest of the kitchen staff came in to start preparing for the E.U.P.'s lunch break.

"Just in time. We can catch the 11 AM train and meet Silverstream and Terramar, see if they want to do anything today." Sandbar suggested.

Immediately agreeing, the pair made their way out of the castle and trotted down to the train platform, and they weren't even waiting five minutes before they heard the blow of an approaching train whistle from the south. The Friendship Express pulled up to the platform, and the brakes gave out a hiss moments before the doors opened, and ponies and a few other creatures began to disembark.

"There they are." Sandbar said, pointing out Silverstream stepping off the third passenger car with a white-coated hippogriff with a turquoise and cyan mane. Silverstream waved excitedly to them.

"Hi Sandbar! Oh, who is this? A new friend?" The female hippogriff asked, glancing over at his companion.

"Oh! Whoops!" Dawn-Ocellus said, realizing that she was still transformed. She closed her eyes, concentrated, and reverted back to her default form.

"Oh it's you, Ocellus. Say, this is my little brother, Terramar."

"Pleased to meet you. Any friend of my sister's is a friend of mine." Terramar said, stepping forward and offering his front right talon to Ocellus. The changeling offered her hoof as well, and they shook. At the same time as the two of them were making introductions, she saw Sandbar walk up to Silverstream, give her a quick hug, and before pulling away, whisper something into her right ear. She had no idea what he had said, but what she did notice was the hippogriff's expression light up excitedly.

'Just what does he have in mind?'