"Mayor Mare? Somepony is here to see you. Should I let them in?" Mayor Mare, a mare with a gray mane who also coincidentally happened to be the mayor of Ponyville, looked up from her papers to see her secretary peeking his head into her office.

"Are they here for something I actually need to hear about, or that I can actually help them with as mayor?"

"...Maybe. One sec." Mayor felt the urge to smirk at her new employee. He was great at organizing paperwork and managing busy calendars, but he wasn't as good with spontaneity. The young stallion came back quickly. "He says he's here to ask about land ownership?" Her smile was gone.

"This better not be Filthy Rich again."

"No, somepony else. Or, well, he's not a pony. It's the tall blue fellow? With the big yellow and purple wings sprouting out of his head?"

"...Well, that's definitely not Mister Rich. Send him in." Miss Mare realized she needed to spend less time inside of her office, though her busy schedule consisted mostly of denying one wealthy individual in particular. Oh? A request to open a major quarry on the edge of town? Denied. A request to enact a law that requires ponies to maintain a 'wealthy' appearance? Very denied. An offer to flatten the streets so as to make travel more comfortable? Denied, because he tried to sneak the quarry contract in with it. She was honestly drafting a paper to the Guard at this point, a request to remove Filthy Rich from Ponyville. Or at least his right to send so much damn parchment her way. Mayor Mare was sure she was going to have to send that rather soon actually. The stubborn bag of glue was trying to bribe her into revoking Celestia's new Education Reforms before they could be enforced in Ponyville Elementary. As if she had that authority in the first place!

"Hello? I'm Elfilis, thank you for taking the time out of your day to see me." Whoops, she got distracted by Filthy's trash again. Mayore Mayore looked up from her desk with a welcoming smile towards... balls. "Shit, hold on-" A blur of teal slammed into the floor in front of her, accompanied by the crunching of lumber, hiding the speaker from her view. "... I broke the chair. I'm just going to stay down here while we talk."

"... If that's how you want to conduct this meeting dear." More than half her life in this office, never had this happen before.

"Cool. I'm looking to purchase land in Ponyville? Enough to build a house that comfortably holds two- three- no, two, two ponies... Three ponies and a minotaur."

"... Is that answer final?"

"Yes. Carina, Swaddle, a guest room, and me. As the minotaur."

"Alright. Would you like a list of contractors? They can help you pick out the plot of land you want as well as draw out the floor plans with you."

"... Yes to finding a good spot, no for making floor plans. I'm building the house myself." It's been awhile since somepony has done that. Mayor Mare spent a moment flicking through her drawers before she found the list, and she crossed out Filthy Rich before she put it on the edge of her desk. And after staring at the nothing in front of her desk for a few seconds, she pushed the list off onto the floor. "Thank you."

"You're welcome, of course. Is there anything else I can help you with?"

"I don't think so, unless there are some construction laws I should be aware of besides the obvious safety requirements."

"The shadow of your house should not blatantly cover your neighbors house or front lawn until later in the day. We aren't a city, the housing laws are rather loose."

"... Interesting, but not unmanageable. Thank you for your time Miss... Mare." Ponyville was never boring, that was for sure.

In the end I bought a lot more land than I thought I would need, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a front lawn or a backyard. And until someone bought out the land around me, we were going to have a good amount of distance from our closest neighbors since we were outside the 'border' of Ponyville. Entirely for our neighbors benefit, they don't need to be bothered by the crap Carina and I get up to. Speaking of...

"So what are you thinking about?" Frontline was sitting behind my antlers, and Swaddle-Dee was on top of her looking through this new book he seemed pretty attached to.

"What our house should look like. I'm thinking that we should try to match most of the other houses so we don't stand out too much, but that still leaves the matter of color."

"How about Toby-purple walls and a Carina-yellow roof?"

"... Only if the inside gets to be something less distracting."

"Like Elfilis-ear-beige?"

"Sure. Alright, lets see if this works on the first try." Yellow roof, purple paint, beige insides, two bathrooms, a living room... And a two story house appeared from a portal. It was like I just ripped a blanket off of a table and said 'ta-da' at the bunny that was somehow underneath.

"Woah. That was fast... Is that a watchtower?"

"Uh, yep. Probably for the Meta Knights if they ever stay over. They like to perch. Let's check the inside, make sure I got everything." Frontline hopped off and turned back into Carina in a flash as she made her way to the door. It was appropriately sized for us, and also had a smaller door set into it at about Swaddle's height so he could get in and out without needing our help. Stepping into the new building also came with a surprise. "It's already furnished? That's bullshit."

"Hey, it's your freaky mind power. I thought we already established that it knows how to work itself better than you do."

"Did we really? Because I thought I was getting a better idea of how to control it, but instead it's making couches and ovens and... framed photographs of us that were never actually taken." What the hell? Were these even... Yes, they were in fact replications of things we did together. Us entering the Gala, eating ice-cream at night, us in bed while we... I 'deleted' that one before Carina got to it. I was still just a little uncomfortable with being that open about sex, and I was half sure she would want to keep it out because it was 'romantic' or something. "Well, it looks nice at least. First floor has a large living room, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, and it looks like we might even have a basement. Let's check the bedrooms up top." I just realized I bought the land with the idea that Carina and I needed a seperate room, and I hoped the house didn't reflect that. Thankfully, our room was clearly labeled with our names and was a single master bedroom.

"Ooh! Wow! A four poster bed. We're breaking it tonight."

"Breaking it in you mean."

"I know what I said."

"It might be made to be too tough to actually break."

"Unless it took into account how fun it is to break while we're having fun." I hoped not. Interestingly, we also had drawers and a closet, and I was curious to see if it had clothes in it for us. The closet had various neckwear and was full of spears, which was rather odd as I could make those at will. And I wasn't sure I was ever going to wear a collar with my name on it. My neck was actually too thin for it anyway. The drawers were... definitely not for me. "Sexy clothes! And they're my size too! I've never worn anything like this before. You think I'll look good in this?" Carina pulled out what was definitely just a dildo attached to some lingerie and started trying to figure out how to put it... in.

"Please don't wear these in public. I'm pretty sure I saw a mare getting in trouble at the Gala for wearing something like that."

"Oh yeah! She was hot. Kept leaving the guard flustered too, kept asking him to clarify what was wrong with her dress. Oh wait! I like this one better!" I turned around and left the room as she started pulling out increasingly concerning looking objects from the drawers. I peaked my head into Swaddle-Dee's room and saw that he had settled in while I was distracted. He had a series of hats hung up on one wall and there were motivational posters with baby foals on them over his small bed. Swaddle just waved from where he sat on it and went back to his book. I checked out the upstairs bathroom, it seemed to connect to our bedroom, and was only mildly surprised to see that it looked like a miniature salon with vaguely erotic outlines of ponies on the walls. The lack of plumbing occured to me then, and I poured a cup of water down the toilet and flushed it to make sure it was using the same bullshit portal system our cave was using. The answer was yes, and that also applied to the sink and our massive bathtub and/or shower area. The guest bedroom was almost as big as the master bedroom but it was empty except for the set of beds and a dresser, and there was another set of stairs that went up into the Meta perch. I was actually pretty happy with the layout.

"Everything looks good up here. You want to go downstairs and check out the basement?" No answer. I started walking towards our room. "Carina? Want to check out the basement? It was also a surprise so I'm curious..." Aaaand she was gone. And she didn't put the 'clothes' back either. "Carina! Where'd you go already?" I only distantly heard her voice shout back to me from somewhere downstairs, and I realized that she probably left to check it out already. "I'm coming! Anything interesting or is it just storage space?!" She became a little easier to hear as I made my way down, but I still couldn't make out what she was saying. I decided to just wait till I got down to check it out myself. It was... Definitely not something to show guests.

"Mmmeh! Immmt mouuule?" She was looking over her back at me with a gag in her smile, and she was hanging a foot off the ground from a set of straps coming down from the ceiling. Her tail was in it's own strap that made sure it was tied to her back and 'out of the way' as it were. I just stared for a moment, baffled and flustered. When I saw the rest of the basement, I realized I was lucky she hadn't chosen anything else. It looked like someone tried to make a perverted torture chamber... Were those fuckin' hooks?!

How do you-

Why would-

"How did you even get yourself into that so quickly?" She started mumbling again but thankfully took the time to spit out the cloth from her mouth before speaking.

"Pugh! It was easy! Here, let me show you... Hold on... Just a sec..." I watched as her wriggling turned into flailing, and her flailing turned into spinning in a circle until she stopped trying. "Huh. This seems like a hazard. I can do this though!" And she started bouncing her hindquarters at me.

"Uhuh. Anyway, thanks for letting me stay at your house Carina. I'll be upstairs if you need me." Seriously, this was leaning hard towards her tastes more than mine.

"Of course! Wait. No hold on! If you aren't going to take advantage then at least let me out!"

"It probably doesn't have a way out easily because you can just transform or use your magic to get out!"

"... It's kinkier when I'm trapped though."

"Later! The girls are going to be waiting for us at the library with Toby and Star Vision, remember?"

"You can just invite them to come here! Housewarming party, in the basement! Sexy clothes are encouraged! No, mandatory!"

Star Vision had spent the last few nights after we left Canterlot staying either at the library or at the farm, and he was the main reason I thought to get a guest room in the first place. Rainbow Dash apparently has a lot of extra space in her house but only flyers can get into it. Twilight wasn't really set up for a long-term guest and Applejacks family was apparently driven up the wall by Star Vision's honesty. Or rather, they insisted he help on the farm if he was bunking with them and he couldn't keep himself from talking about every ache and pain he accrued. He followed it up with 'but I'm not complaining' which I think might have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

...Would it be weird if I asked that Zecora mare if she knew any camels? Probably. I put that thought out of my mind as we walked up to Golden Oaks Library.

Yes, walked. Like a person who doesn't have teleportation.

"Hey everyone, how's it going?" I immediately knew something was up because while Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and Spike were smiling and happy, Fluttershy was trying to vanish behind her mane while the rest had disgruntled looks on their blushing faces. It was Star Vision who meekly answered.

"They're teaching me a game called Truth or Dare?"

"Oh come on Rainbow."

"Why'd you assume it was me!?"

"It was either you or Pinkie. Maybe Spike, but he usually acts more mature than you two."

"Ouch. That hurts Elfilis. I'll never recover." She may have been dramatically holding her hooves to her heart, but she couldn't stop herself from smiling. "Anywho~ Star Vision! Truth or Dare!"

"Uh, truth?"

"Have you had any dirty dreams about me?"

"Ugh. Yes. In my defense, you were definitely flagging your tail at me yesterday to see if I would say something about it." Knowing Rainbow, she would not have much shame in doing so. That being said, Star Vision seemed to have some kind eureka moment while Rainbow snickered and Twilight slammed her face into the table. "My turn Miss Dash. Truth or Dare?"

"Dare, obviously."

"I dare you to describe last nights dream to everypony here."

"..." Well, checkmate I guess. "... Hey Elfilis? That house of yours set up yet?"

"Oh no, you aren't getting out of this that easy."

"Yeah, figures. Fine... Uh, you know what? I actually didn't have a dream last night so-" I couldn't really make out what anyone was shouting for the next few minutes, but I got the feeling no one believed her.

Author's Note

Yes, its a bit of a time jump. Following chapter(s) will clear up what happened in that time. But this chapter is already at the right length so I'm ending it here.