Cadance could only stand and stare.

Her face was again locked in that pose, that “does not compute” expression she adopted when she had to express an emotion that she knew intuitively, but didn't quite have a face for. Shining would’ve taken the time to find it cute, the way his wife thought differently than most other ponies, and the weird faces she made when she had those thoughts, but it was lost on him at the moment, clouded behind utter despair.

“So he did it because you were teasing him about looking him over?” Cadance stopped and started in her sentence, trying to find the ways the puzzle pieces fit.

“That’s what he said.” Shining sank further into his chair. They were alone in their smaller, private dining quarters. Much less showy and ornate than the main hall, but a far cry from anything that could be considered quaint or homey.

“You didn’t tell him to stop? I mean, you didn’t want him to? This wasn’t him forcing this experience on you?” Cadance let one eyebrow raise.

“No. I could’ve stopped him, but I didn’t.” Shining’s voice cracked. It was over.

“I know you could’ve stopped it. He’s quite small. Did you want to? Did you feel threatened or coerced? Sometimes situations can take ponies off guard in a way that muscles don’t account for.” Shining winced at the matter-of-fact nature of her words.

“I didn’t stop it because I didn’t want to.” A hot tear rolled down his cheek. This time Cadance didn’t jump up to hug him.

“You didn’t touch him?”

Shining’s vision had become a kaleidoscope with the tears welling into his eyes. He couldn’t read her expression anymore, but he didn’t dare lower his head.

“Shining.”

He blinked and let his head fall, his lip curling into a light whimper. Tears dropped from his face down onto his chair as his shoulders rose and fell in quiet sobs.

“Shining, that wasn’t good.”

His eyes shut tighter. He could feel his face redden like a foal. He should’ve told Sunburst to stop. He shouldn’t have towed the line with Sunburst to begin with. He shouldn’t—

“But I do forgive you.”

It took a moment for Shining to wind down. Cadance sat next to him patiently, never letting the warm, loving expression fade from her face. Shining got control of his breathing first, then he wiped his face, tears matting his fur. Finally, his wife still fixing her loving gaze on him, he brought his own reddened eyes to meet hers.

“You do?”

“I do.”

Shining could feel the hot ball of emotion in the back of his throat again. The guilt. He shouldn’t be forgiven.

“I know how hard this has been for you. It’s all very sudden. I can only imagine if I found out this late into my life that I was attracted to mares.”

Shining sniggered, “You aren’t?”

“Oh hush. That was a long time ago and only once. But even then, it goes with my point. You missed out on a lot of your life that you could’ve lived. Your birthday is next week, and you are coming into it knowing that there is more or less an entire part of yourself that you have missed all these years.”

Shining could, again, only stare. His wife was so calm and loving. He felt tears well up again, this time much more gently, as his chin dimpled and he let a few run down his cheeks.

“That wasn’t a good thing to do. And I don’t blame Sunburst for it. It sounds like he may be bisexual himself, so he is probably figuring things out too. You lied to him.”

Shining bowed his head a bit.

“I blame you. But I understand why you did it. I’m glad you didn’t go any further. You came clean. I forgive you.”

They sat facing each other as Shining finally regained his composure. Cadance waited for him to make the move, feeling that he would. He hopped off of his chair and took a step forward, wrapping his fore hoof around his wife and bringing her in for a tight hug. This time Shining felt her wait for his body language. His heart dropped a bit. He could tell from the way she limply pressed into him that, in this instance, he was comforting her.

He stood on his hind legs, bringing his other hoof up to swathe her slender frame in his embrace. “I’m sorry,” came as a hoarse whisper. He smelled her hair. Linen, lavender, it was sweet on his nostrils. He pet down on her wings gently.

Finally he broke, keeping his hooves on her shoulders. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “So.”

He could feel the immediate shift in tone from her. She could master her emotions well.

“Since you lied to him in order to get a good look all over him…”

Shining shrunk a bit, but she brought a hoof up to rub his stomach reassuringly.

“And then got his permission after. You wanna tell me what he looked like?”

“What?”

“Well it actually would help.” Her hoof tickled a bit lower on his white stomach. “I have to go from assumptions. As far as size, shape, smell, color, I’ve never seen Sunburst like that. Since you, ehem, took the initiative, we’ll say, I can use that. Plus, I like seeing you get flustered, and I want you to describe to me how I can be the perfect sexy colt boy-toy for you.” She ended the sentence with a slight trill to her voice, one that timed itself well with Shining sucking in a sudden breath as her hoof grazed gently around his sheath.

“Uh…”

***

“Go ahead. Get it all out of your system. Tell me all about how he looked. Tell me about the restraint you used, keeping yourself from touching, from smelling, from licking, from sucking.” Cadance had a fire in her eyes now.

The two of them lie on their bed in their private chambers. The crystals of their room, walls, and furniture all seemed to blend together into a gradient of deep blues and purples in the moonlight that was streaming through their opened balcony. Cool night air flicked the tapestries to the sides and dragged the drapes halfway through the room. Cadance’s mane caught the wind slightly as she sat on the bed across from him. Her head was faced away from the night sky, but her lithe silhouette left the dots of her eyes, reflecting the light from the room, peering at him.

Shining hesitated.

“You know I can just ask Luna about your dreams, right?”

“Okay. Okay. Let me get into the mood a bit and I’ll talk.” Shining went to move his hoof down his torso.

“Oh, by all means, let me. You focus on giving me a good mental image.” Her long forehoof came forward, slightly swatting his to the side and petting the fur on his lower stomach slowly, circling up and down, but refusing to move any lower. “Talk,” the word cut through the air.

“This might count as extortion,” Shining joked before letting himself melt into his wife’s touch.

“Let me give you a prompt. What did you notice first that turned you on to him?” Her words were honey as she brought her body forward, leaning her weight into him.

Shining slid down into the sheets, letting his eyelids droop. Her chest came into contact with his as her muzzle slid past his, and she pecked him on the cheek before letting her lips dance around the side of his jaw, kissing at his fur. Shining brought his hoof up and felt Cadance’s side, running lavisciously up and down her barrel.

“His form,” Shining spoke as he leaned his head to the side, giving Cadance more space to kiss his jaw and neck.
“How so, baby?” Cadence spoke quickly, onle breaking away for a moment before bringing her lips down to Shining’s neck.

“He is...slight.” Shining could feel himself starting to rise out of his sheath. Cadance still had her hind end raised as she leaned over him on the bed, and he could feel his cock begin to rise into the open air between them.

“Do you wanna fuck a little femcolt, Shiny?” Cadance spoke with sarcasm ringing in her voice before coming in hard for a quick, sloppy kiss to Shining’s mouth, barely giving him time to respond before she pulled away and looked expectantly at him.

He deliberated. “It isn’t that he seems femme. It’s that he seems...springy. Taught.” Shining trapsed his hoof down her waist and across her upper thigh, teasing around her her vulva absent-mindedly. At his touch she started to swivel her hips a bit, trying to eek out more contact.

“You wanna feel him, don’t you?” Cadance kept her voice measured, bringing her hips down more into Shining’s hoof. Shining ran his other hoof up and down her side, measuring it along her curves, tickling her fur with slow, loving movement.

“I want to feel his chest,” Shining said, his cock achingly hard at this point. Even with her hips lowered into his hoof, she was still standing far above bringing their hips into contact. She had her hoofs on either side of his head as she closed her eyes and cuddled her face into his neck.

“Tell me all that you want to do to him. Tell me how he looks and how you want him to feel, Shiny.” Shining could feel her take a sharp breath in, smelling the side of his neck as she buried her face in his mane. He brought the ridge of his hoof more firmly into contact with her, matching her rhythm as he hoofed her off.

“His fur is a little rougher, I don’t think he uses product. I want to rub down the harsher fur on his chest and feel the muscles underneath. I’ve seen them, tight underneath his skin. I wanna run my hooves along his rib cage, and feel where it slopes down into his tummy.” Shining, sped up his actions slightly, the ridge of his broad hoof smushing itself into Cadance. She was wet enough at this point that her sloppy movements left his hooves glistening.

Shining could feel her moan a bit into his mane. He went on, “I want to rub my cheek against his stomach, and hold my hooves on either side of his hips. I want to kiss my way down, down, down and stop right before I get to it.” Shining could feel his breath getting shorter, responding to Cadance next to him. The smell of her arousal was all around them.

“I want to kiss his cutie mark.” Shining paused, letting the wet sounds of the room egg him on, “I want to pinch his fur there in my teeth.” He subconsciously chomped at the air, a hard click ringing out. Cadance let out a higher moan. “I want to feel his tail and brush it aside…”

Cadance was now moaning and humming into his shoulder. She was bucking hard into Shining’s hoof. His wrist had tired so he just braised his arm and let her have her own fun. “I want to brush his tail aside to look at his...his ass.”

“Yes, Shiny! Yes! Then what?” Shining didn’t need to be an empath to tell that Cadance was close. She was in the short strokes, riding her clit up and down along his hoof, which he responded to by starting to move his hoof again, ignoring the soreness in his wrist.

“I want to get him ready first. I wanna lick up and down his auburn ponut.”

“Yes, Shining!”

“I wanna taste the sweat off of his balls.”

“Yes, Yes!”

“I want to take the pink head of his cock and wrap my lips around it-”

“YES! Ohh. Oh.” Cadance slowed her movements, and so did Shining. She dragged her pussy over his hoof a few slow times, turgidly pulling out every second of the orgasm that she could, her upper body slumping as her hind legs shivered.

“I wanna bring myself down as far as I possibly can, right to the point where it goes from pink to brown.” Shining moved his head to the side to let Cadance kiss at his neck again. He went on, “and I want to feel his precum on the back of my tongue as I bob back and forth.”

“Shining.” He hadn’t realized it, but Cadance had laid down beside him at some point. “Sorry, love, I just needed to get myself out of the way first and think you being gay is a funny little turn-on.”

“Oh.” Shining blushed and lowered his hoof, still in the air. “Any reason you really needed to go first, or is this just normal you-teasing-me?”

“I don’t know what a penis feels like,” Cadance responded simply.

“Is this a roleplay? Am I supposed to say I can show you?”

“No. Well, sure, in just a second, but no. I can mimic Sunbursts physical body, but mimicking a different set of sex organs is...hard. There are only two ponies who are smart enough to pull something like that off, Starswirl being one of them.” Cadance swirled a hoof around his chest as she spoke.

“Who is the other?”

“You don’t want me mentioning her when we are in the bedroom.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

“Making me think of Twilight is the same thing as mentioning Twilight, you know.” Shining raised an eyebrow as he spoke.

“Yeah, and your cock doesn’t seem to mind either,” she tapped a hoof against Shining’s still hard dick as she spoke.”

“Oh please, you got me worked up as I’ve ever been, you could bring up mom at this point and it wouldn’t go down.”

“Noted for future transformation spells.” Cadance smirked.

Shining’s eyebrows almost flew up off of his head.

“Either way, everything down there that I don’t know how to remake, is just gonna feel like skin. I’m gonna transform already hard, so arousal isn’t a factor, but figuring out how the nerve responses to, say, a clit work differently from those in the head of a penis will take a long time studying to figure out.”

Shining slumped a bit. “So it will just feel like movement for you?”

“For a while at least, yeah. That’s why I wanted to get mine first without getting you off. It’s your birthday week and I want to let you cum inside Sunburst as much as you want.” She gave him a firm kiss on the cheek.

“Will you even be able to cum yourself?” Shining’s excitement was diminishing.

“Well. Once I learn how to make my balls make cum and how to get the right synapses to fire, I’ll be able to make myself cum at will as Sunburst. Feeling the actual orgasm is a bit more complex, a lot going on in the brain and in the groin there. However, it’s feasible that I should figure out how to make myself at least cum as him in the next few weeks. Why? You wanna taste cum, you little gay man, you.” She tickled his snout with hers at the last part.

“Yeah. I do want to try sucking you off. Like, the full experience of it. It’s also a shame that you won’t be able to really enjoy...well any of it.” Shining sighed.

“I enjoy making you happy, Shining. If you like me changing into Sunburst every now and then, and pretending I’m cock-crazy as you smash my prostate, I’ll put up the act for you, even if I don’t get anything out of it. You forget how good of an actor I am, too.” Cadance snuggled her body into his. He could feel the wetness between her legs against the side of his flank. Her coat had a thin trace of sweat on it that was cooling in the night air.

“Alright. Well I’m ready then, whenever you are. I’m ready to try.” Shining braced himself mentally, but before he could think Cadance was upon him, this time the kiss was fiercer. She sucked on his bottom lip, catching it between her teeth, before opening her mouth and darting her tongue forward.

Shining closed his eyes and responded in turn, his tongue coming to meet hers, but finding it very different. He had experienced this trick once, and knew what was going on, so he decided to savor it. Her new, widening, flat tongue toyed with Shining’s, and he tried to move his own tongue submissively, letting her take the lead. Her soft lips became firmer, rougher as Shining felt her hot breath against his face. A broader, shorter body rolled halfway on top of Shining, and a hard cock slapped itself on Shining’s stomach.

Cadance pulled away, leaving Shining staring at Sunburst as he slowly opened his eyes.

There was a pause. A very deep and serene one. Cadance was draped over Shining, her lanky body had been reduced to one that was firmly smaller than his. From their switched positions, the moonlight cascaded over the side of her, painting her orange fur a hazy pink. Her red mane seemed to glow with luminescence. Her body language was still feminine; she hadn’t gotten into character yet. A dramatic slant in her shoulders and an exaggerated way of holding her neck: it would come off as sexy in a mare like the one she used to be, but in the stallion body she currently had it looked almost mocking, like a pastiche of femininity a stallion would do in the locker room as a joke. Her eyes were blue now, and Shining could see them, her eyes, Sunburst’s eyes, in the moonlight. Two black saucers of pupils, offering the moon to him.

“So?” Cadance’s voice had the more chipper inflection that it normally had, even if it was coming through Sunburst’s vocal chords, “there is one question left: how authentic do you want this?”

“Wh-what do you mean?” Shining spoke through half lidded eyes, ready for the moment to take its natural course, and for the release on his straining cock that would provide.

“Am I Cadance in a stallion body, or do you want me to be Sunburst?” She cleared her throat before speaking again, this time in a surprisingly well done impression of Sunburst’s inflections, even changing her body language to match his timidity, “ Are we here, now, actually doing this, Shiny?” Shining’s cock jumped like it was on a spring trigger between them. “Hehe. Oh,” she said, still impersonating Sunburst, “I guess you really are excited for this.”

Shining closed his eyes for a moment. He heard the voice in the room with him. He tried to sell the fantasy for a moment. This was his wife giving him her blessing. This was him being absolved for all that he has wanted from this encounter. This was Sunburst. Right on top of him, right now. Shining breathed deeply, feeling his cock twitch again in anticipation.

Cadance leaned in, putting a broad hoof on Shining’s chest where he lay, and slowly made a figure eight in his fur. Shining opened his eyes to the trepidatious face in front of him and gave in. Like moving through water, he floated forward and locked her into another deep, passionate kiss.

Lips smashed against hers roughly, hardly waiting before his tongue padded against her mouth, knocking for entry. Shining brought his hooves up and rolled Cadance fully on top of him, locking his hind legs behind the crook of hers, pinning their pelvises together. Cadance had brought her tongue out in turn, matching Shining’s ferocity as her new, broad, stallion tongue was able to wrestle Shining’s for all it was worth. Shining’s forehooves groped all along Cadance’s back, feeling her new broader shoulders, the power in her barrel, letting the ridge of his hoof tease its way down to the small of her back.

He sucked air through the corner of his mouth as he started to squirm his hips. Locking his forehooves behind Cadance’s back, just down above her tailbone, he used his lock--both above and below her waist--to roll their cocks together between them. Shining did his best to move Cadance on top of him, but her new weight made it hard. She responded in turn, however, getting a sense for what he was going for, and began to roll the muscles in her lower stomach, making a tight hip gyration that frotted her cock against his as they made out.

Shining kept moving his hooves slightly—getting less and less concerned about the kiss and simply letting his mouth melt into hers—and focused on the sensations. The weight of the stallion body on top of him, the way he could feel the flexing of the muscles in her stomach with each thrust of her hips; his eyes half closed in bliss as he brought one hoof up and felt the muscles in her shoulder blades, much more defined as a stallion, flexing and relaxing over and over.

Her hooves had been on either side of his head, keeping her in place so she could grind against him properly, but as she got a rhythm she brought a new, wider, cream colored hoof over to the ends of Shining’s mane, tickling them a bit before dragging slowly under his chin and holding under his muzzle, right under the point where their lips came into contact.

Shining had already been close, as arousing as the night had been to that point, and this was the home stretch. A firm hoof holding his chin, a strong back to grope and paw at, strong legs intertwined with his own, and a hard cock grinding against his. It was a feeling he hadn’t expected. She had made Sunburst’s cock a little bigger than it was, matching Shining’s almost exactly in size and shape. He hadn’t had a chance to look at the color. It was a bit dead feeling too. There were no little twitches, no times it would tense or flex, no times the head would flare just a little bit more; it was just a cock, but it did feel good against Shining. She had left it just a bit flared, so the ridges of it felt great as they ran up and down Shining’s length a bit with each thrust, hitting the flared head of his own cock.

She had begun to moan into his mouth too in a way that was undeniably Cadance. Shining let out the odd grunt as he focused his breathing, feeling his lower abdomen begin to tighten. Her balls were plapping against his over and over, they felt on point. The heat between them was growing. He took a sharp breath in, wanting to smell the sex between them.

Clean linen and lavender.

The thought couldn’t cross his mind fully before it was over. He puffed his chest out against hers and slid his face forward from their kiss, bringing them cheek to cheek as he could feel his pelvic muscles tighten. He could feel the pressure in his balls as his cock spasmed between them, firing thick ropes of cum over and over onto Cadance’s cock and stomach. She shifted for a moment, Shining could feel her goatee tickle his shoulder, and gave a few finishing thrusts, freeing Shining’s cock and leaving the two of them connected at the hip as she ground her cock slowly and deeply into his own spamming member. The feeling in his balls was only heightened as hers came back into gentle contact.

The finale of his cum splattering in thick wads on his stomach and chest, Shining contented himself with letting out a deep, guttural whinney as his leg kicked at the air instinctively.

Cadance came back in, leaving the traces of a gentle kiss on his tired, unresponsive lips as Shining watched her transform back. A quick morph, like a blur, and his wife was back in her beautiful normal form, still coated in Shining’s cum. With that same body she fell to the side of Shining and wormed over to cuddle him in his afterglow. The body Shining knew he loved. The one that smelled of clean linen and lavender.

The room was quiet as the two of them simply laid with each other, breathing in the air of the room, the smell of cum on the air. Shining had gotten what he wanted. For now.

Author's Note

Dense Chapter and the end of Act 1. Schedule should still be a new chapter every week or two tho, thanks for all the continued readership!