Alicorn Bonds

“I think I feel better now,” Twilight commented to Celestia as she stood up and walked much like her normal self.

“It does seem so,” Celestia agreed, “You will need to practice before we do that again; you will not always have the time to recover like this.”

“I know. I just wish we could do it again,” Twilight protested lightly, “I’ve never felt so… so good in my life!”

“If we do it too often, it becomes less special,” Celestia advised, “Trust me, there is nothing worse in the world of love than allowing physical intimacy to become old and stale. For instance, Luna and I take long breaks between our lovemaking sessions and fulfill our need for closeness with non-sexual intimacy; dinner by firelight, a movie, or whatever strikes our fancy.”

“You’re probably right,” Twilight said as she hugged Celestia gently. “What about the others?”

“I recommend a refractory period with all of them,” she advised, “but of course, what you do with them is up to you and them,” she added with a smile and a wink. “Cadance, I should warn you, is nearly insatiable sometimes. My sister, on the other hand, is quite fond of teasing for days, even weeks on end. It drove Cadance absolutely wild…”

“What’s the longest you have ever gone, Princess? Aside from… well, you know.”

“After Luna returned, the longest was… about six months. But Luna hopes to work up to a year,” she added with a smile. “And yes, it was splendid the day after the end of the sixth month!” she added in a whisper before kissing Twilight’s cheek.

The two eventually descended downstairs for a quick breakfast of pancakes.

As Twilight poured some syrup on her freshly-made meal, she looked up at Celestia’s nude form, and smiled at her. “So… how did you figure all of this out?” she asked. “I imagine it was… with Luna? I saw those pictures on your bedside… You’re very upbeat but that image was just… pure joy!”

Celestia smiled as she daintily cut into her own stack of pancakes. “I hoped you would find that. Yes, it was about a year after Luna and I reunited; she felt the same way you did and so we started trying everything we could think of… the spa, music, reading, meditation… but eventually we realized that these methods only worked when I helped her with it. So we started spending more time together, just quality time. No governing, no official duties, just… the two of us together.”

“Kind of like what we did this month?”

“At first, yes.” Celestia replied as she took a bite. “Well, as time went on though, it felt as if Luna and I could not spend enough time together, and every moment we spent apart felt like an eternity. It felt as if we were drifting apart, but when we would clasp hands, it was as if the sun rose on our relationship once again.” Celestia took a breath and sipped some orange juice. “One day, Luna and I had a plan to take two weeks off from our duties after a particularly dragging month. The first day we met up, at this very cabin no less, Luna leapt into my arms, and kissed me. Right… right on the lips.” She confessed with a blush. “I still get flustered every time I think about it. I suppose she could give you better insight on her feelings, but suffice to say, I kissed her back with nary a thought against it. It felt as if a weight lifted from us both, and as we kissed, I scooped her into my arms and took her to bed. We… ah… we made love until Luna had to raise the moon.” She related, still blushing, but smiling as she set down her fork in her half-eaten pancakes. As she continued to speak, Celestia used her magic to project her memory of the event to Twilight, as if a movie screen floating in the air. “We did not even share a word between us until she returned. She sat next to me and hugged me, as I kissed her cheek. I will never forget what she told me… she said ‘Sister… doth this mean we are to be married?’” Celestia chuckled at the recollection as she did her best to imitate Luna’s voice. It sounded exaggerated and more akin to a comedy impersonation, but Twilight giggled at the impression as well. “I thought she was making a joke, but Luna was quite serious about it, so I hugged her, and agreed. We spent much of the next two weeks exploring our bodies and experimenting. None of us had ever… truly made love before. I never desired to do so with anyone for fear of anyone believing I abused my power for sex, so although we read many written works on lovemaking, both fictional and instructional, we had never pleasured anyone but ourselves. We learned many of our personal quirks in the bedroom and outside. When it ended, we both went to our favorite jewelers and produced wedding rings for each other. I employed the most loyal chaplain of the Royal Guards that I knew at the time and had him officiate our wedding in secret. That picture you saw on my bedside table was what we took shortly after the ceremony. I told Luna a joke about us having to decide which one of us should be Queen. I don’t even remember what the joke was, but it made her laugh so hard. I had never seen her so happy, so joyous before. I made sure to use my camera to take a picture of it and I’ve kept that photograph on my bedside table ever since.”

Twilight scooted her chair over to Celestia’s side and hugged her. “That’s really sweet, Princess. It sounds like you two have always been soulmates.”

“We are,” Celestia agreed. “And when Cadance came into the mix, well… she felt that way about us, too. I never imagined that I could have more than one soulmate, but when she told me how she felt, it reminded me of Luna. I could see the desire in her eyes, and so Luna and I took her in to Canterlot on a retreat. This was well before her wedding but after she agreed to be engaged. Well… she was insatiable for that time. Far more forward than you or Luna and far faster to intimacy, too. I caught Luna in her bed on the third day. Needless to say, she could not bring herself to go back to Shining Armor, but… we discovered Shining quite enjoyed watching and knowing how happy we made her. So we invite him to watch sometimes and in exchange some of my most elite guards have their way with him,” she chuckled as she hugged Twilight gently.

“I knew my brother liked stallions more; I always wondered if he really had been in a phase when he told me he was going to marry Cadance, but… well I guess I was wrong. But I’m glad he’s happy.”

“As are Cadance and I.” Celestia said with a kiss to Twilight’s horn.

“So, what happened in the picture with the you, Luna, and Cadance?”

“Well, on her 20th birthday, Luna and I secretly proposed to her, and she had just said yes.”

“Did you tell her a joke, too? Like you did with Luna?” Twilight asked with an almost impish grin.

Celestia chuckled and shook her head. “No, she just… was so overwhelmed by the emotions of marrying her true loves, that she burst out laughing. Some ponies cry when they feel such an overwhelming amount of happiness, and some, like Cadance, laugh.”

Twilight smiled as she finished her pancakes. “Well, Princess,” she said as she looked up. “You make me very happy. I’d be honored to join you, Luna, and Cadance in this circle of love we all have.”

Celestia hugged Twilight tightly and kissed her cheek. “I knew you would. You don’t have to marry us, but… you are free to ask whenever you like.”