"... So, Elfilis, I was thinking..." I looked away from my breakfast as Carina started talking, but I wasn't able to make myself pay attention to her words. Last nights Dream effectively ended early, as Luna was clearly able to read my discomfort and excused herself so she could 'get some real sleep.' I wasn't oblivious to her own awkward mood but it did little to make me feel better about my own stiffness following that conversation.

"... and that led me to wonder, what would it be like..." I use stiffness to describe my body language and inability to say anything without immediately second-guessing myself. I probably would have fled to another world out of embarrassment if I had actually gotten aroused. It was already embarrassing when it happened naturally, but now I've got this idea in my head that I might be interested in Luna that makes it seem exponentially more mortifying.

"... it was like two feet long. There was no way that was natural..." I haven't even mentioned how I was already in a relationship. I still loved Carina, it was unbelievably easy to love her and I was beginning to wonder if part of that was changeling related. I wasn't nearly as bashful with her as I was with Luna, but I'm aware enough of my pre-Elfilis feelings that I can tell part of my indecisiveness comes from something I don't remember anymore. Most of me wants to pursue a relationship with her and a smaller but no less significant part feels like I'm breaking some taboo. My intellect was wedged in a corner, trying to remind me that I don't even know what Equestrian culture would say.

"... at this point I'm talking at you and wondering when you'll realize..." And don't get me started on how Equestria as a whole would react to the lanky blue minotaur with wings-for-ears 'courting' a princess. How will Celestia react? Is there some sort of tradition for royalty? How long ago would it have been since it was followed, given the immortality of said royalty? And is Luna even interested? What if she was just asking me for advice because she knew I was in a relationship and she actually had the hots for a castle maid named Feather Dust?

"... I'm just gonna take your breakfast for myself now, you don't seem hungry..." Do it. Don't do it. Why not? Why would I? Should I? Shouldn't I? What's the worst that could happen? She says no, and also never talks to me again for as long as she lives, which is forever. Yeah, that was a dumb question. Maybe, if Carina was okay with Luna joining us like she acted like she did, I could convince her to disguise herself as me to confess instead. So if Luna turns 'me' down we can just claim it was an impersonator, and it would technically be true. Actually, scratch that, I'll try to make a soulless Phantom of a changeling and have them disguise themselves as me to proposition Luna, so I have a scapegoat if it goes poorly.

"... I'm gonna crawl under the table and suck your-"

"Not while I'm eating please."

"Holy shit you were out of it. Babe, I ate your food like five minutes ago." What? I managed to get out of my head long enough to see that Carina had in fact taken my plate for herself without me noticing.

"How long have I been sitting here doing nothing?"

"I dunno. How long have we been sitting here? You okay? Last time you did that you filled Rarity's boutique with baby supplies." Crap, this would have been a bad time for my powers to turn themselves on. There would be Phantom changelings and alicorns all over the house.

"I... well nothing is wrong I think. I'm overthinking something." And not following my own advice. "Between Discord, the clean-up, deciding to move into Ponyville, I think my mind is still running on overtime. I'm not used to the relative peace yet." I had effectively given Celestia and Luna command of the Meta Knights for the foreseeable future and Cadence was now officially in charge of Aurum the gold baby, so I shouldn't be acting as if I still had lots to do. I think I just have too much unused energy now that I've washed my hands of responsibilities for the third time. I looked at Carina, watching her shift in her seat with a look of concern on her face. And a blush? And she was doing a lot of shifting in her seat... "Hey, did Star Vision go out at any point while I was staring out into space?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. He said something about-"

"Good." I stood up from the table and walked up to the confused changeling's side. She squeaked a little when I put my arms under her front legs, and she moaned when I pulled her off of the toy she had mounted on the chair. "That means it's just us." And maybe Swaddle-Dee, but I was long past the point of being embarrassed about that so long as he wasn't in the same room. Caves didn't have much privacy after all. "Want to help me blow off some steam?"

"... Yuh-huh. We're still talking about whatever is bothering you later though."

"Don't worry, this will help. Probably." She transformed into Frontline as I placed her on my shoulders and walked up the steps to our room. I didn't have to see her to know she was pouting. "We can try something in the basement later. Right now I just need pure 'you' time."

"Mmph. I'll hold you to that." She made no more noise until I dropped her into our bed, and I cut it off when I fell over her shrunken form and caught her in a kiss. I had to stop to breathe first, and I ignored the intellect in the corner reminding me that I probably didn't need to breathe at all. "Ha... ha... Wow. You're really into it this time."

"I'm really into you, you mean. Any requests? Or should I just guess?"

"Go for it baby..." I kissed her again, feeling her moan through my lips, and I started to caress her teats and groin. It always took some time to prepare 'Frontline' compared to 'Carina,' but it was worth it. I rubbed at her lips and teased in a-

DING-DONG ...doorbell.

"... I should at least check to see who it is shouldn't I?"

"It's okay, I'm not going anywhere..." It wasn't her I was worried about, but I kissed her again real quick and reluctantly went down to the front door to see who the universe sent to cock block me. I cracked open the door and looked out with just one eye. It was... well... children. I recognized the little sisters of Applejack and Rarity, but the little orange pegasus was a new face.

"Can I help you three?"

"Sorry to bother you mister, we just wanted to welcome you to Ponyville. Officially!"

"Yeah! Sis' says we should always be friendly ta our neighbors, so this is us bein' friendly!"

"Rainbow Dash says she beat you in race even though you were cheating." Sweetie Belle smacked the orange one for that. "Uh! I mean, welcome! And stuff."

"That's... really thoughtful of you three. Thank you." I didn't know what else to say, but thankfully that seemed to be all they were looking for as they smiled really wide at me. And then they turned their heads and stared at their flanks for a few seconds before hanging their heads with a sigh like they had just gotten grounded.

"Darn, guess we ain't getting cutie marks fer being good neighbors." What.

"Well, maybe we haven't been neighborly enough. We could bake him a pie, or get him a housewarming gift?" I was going to cut this off before whatever this was entered the house.

"Hey, that's really kind of you three, but I'm a little busy right now. Could this wait until tomorrow please?" They scrunched up their eyebrows, looking very much like they were going to be stubborn about it. "It's not very neighborly to interrupt others when they are doing something, is it?"

"No, I guess not. Alright girls, let's put this one on the list as an 'in progress.' Or we could always try somepony else, even if they haven't just moved here." I just waved them goodbye as they made their way back to Ponyville, tossing ideas I didn't understand back and forth to each other. The door shut softly, unhurriedly, and I then jumped through a portal back into my room. Carina was still waiting for me, playing with her disguised body and 'keeping warm' as it were. I crawled back into bed with her and kissed her neck tenderly before bringing her waist even with mine. I didn't rush, just keeping her held to my body as I worked myself back up to the mood I had been in a minute ago. I was erect in record time, and I softly pressed myself against her wet entrance. She had prepared herself enough for me at this point, and I sunk halfway into her tunnel over the course of our time together. I never made much noise, but Carina was never shy to let me know how she felt when we did this. My hips pulled back just the tiniest bit, and I bucked them into hers as roughly as I dared to while she was half my size.

"Ooooh, you always know-"

DING-DONG

"... how to turn me on..." Neither of us were terribly amused, and it didn't take much effort to extract myself from the situation as my arousal waned. I portaled down to the door and cracked open the door again, but I had no doubt that I looked less than friendly this time.

"Hi! Sorry to bother you! My name is Cherilee. I don't suppose you've seen three fillies come by? They're supposed to be in school right now." Of course.

"You just missed them. They went looking for ponies to be neighborly towards back in town."

"Darn. They move too quickly... Hey, I have to go, but would you mind if I came to talk to you later? I'm teaching a few classes here, and part of the curriculum-" Celestia's Education Reforms, blah blah blah.

"Come by tomorrow and we'll see how it goes from there." I didn't wait for her to leave before I shut the door and I was on top of Carina in seconds. No words needed to be spoken, we were both frustrated and horny at this point and we wasted no time tangling ourselves back into each other. Unfortunately, we had only spent maybe thirty seconds rubbing our loins together when-

DING-DONG

"Motherfucker." I created a portal to the front door, stuck my upper body through it and opened the door hard enough to make the frame creak. It was two more fillies, one grey with glasses and another pink with a Tiara.

"Did you see those blank-"

"No." And I slammed the door. And tore the doorbell from it's spot on the wall so that future visits would be easily ignored. In moments, I was pushing my way through Carina's walls. It was definitely a much more... wild time than I had initially intended to go for, but Carina was enjoying herself. And I was setting the pace, so I had no complaints.

It had to have been hours by the time I rolled Carina (now undisguised) over to my side. I was drenched in sweat, and Carina's pink shell was practically sparkling with all the Love she was storing. We were done, spent, and now we were just trying to cool down before cleaning up. I was looking forward to using the new tub we had, and I had no doubt Carina would treat it like the baths back at the spa. But, for now, she was laying on my side and cuddling up into my side.

"Hmm. You really were worked up. You actually kept up with me the whole time."

"You still want to go again, don't you?"

"Mmmaybe. But I can wait. Now I should do my duty as your lover and ask what got you-"

DING- "FUCK!" -DONG

I tore open the door and fixed my fiercest glare at whoever just brought their own fucking doorbell to ring. A brown stallion with stubble, a light purple mare with glasses and a stack of papers, and the filly with the tiara again. The mare and the filly both reacted quite appropriately, both blushing and backing off as they no doubt caught a whiff of today's activity, but the stallion smiled with his teeth and walked up to me.

"Hello! I know you just moved, but I wanted to make you an offer! My name is Filthy Rich, and I am an entrepreneur. I run several businesses, and I find myself needing more and more land as they grow more successful. You understand, I'm sure. I would like to buy your property and your land. My assistant her has the offer in full here." He took the stack of papers from the mares shaking hoof and handed them to me. Or he tried to. I refused to take them. "I'm sure-"

"I. Am sure. That if you don't get off my lawn, that this land will become unprofitable. It is hard to sell land that has heads impaled on spikes." The filly had run off by this point, and I portalled the 'contract' away and into Celestia's study. "As it is, I hope, for your sake, that there was nothing legally dubious or outright illegal in that contract. I will be asking the princesses themselves for a favor and they will be going over it with a fine tooth as soon as they find the time." Now the lawyer mare had run off, and Filthy Rich's smile growing tense as he slowly backed off. Clearly, the contract was only as clean as he looked. "Anything else?"

"... Well- Gak!" I grabbed him by his neck and pulled him towards me. I let go of him soon after, leaving him coughing and looking up at me in confusion. And then I slammed the door in his face. "Gah! My nose!" I stomped away, making extra sure that he could hear it in case he somehow still thought I was open to conversation. One of the steps broke under my weight as I slammed into it, but I wouldn't notice until later. I shouldered my way into the bathroom, where I had heard Carina running the water, and I trudged my way into the tub and sat down across from her as she poured soap into the hot water to make bubbles.

"Hey. Bubble baths are good for bad days right? Mom tried giving me a bubble bath one time, but all our soaps were kinda crappy so it wasn't very bubbly. Ponies have much better soaps though-"

"Princess Luna is cute and dependable and I think I love her." And now my mouth was running. The dam was broken.

"... Yeah, and?"

"It feels weird! I don't know! What do I do? Do you think she likes me? Would you mind?"

"In order: Seduce her-"

"Carina-"

"Bup bup bup! I think she is super into you-"

"No wait, Carina, the-"

"And I would be ecstatic-"

"The bubbles Carina! Stop pouring bubbles!"

"Don't change the subject! We are talking about this!"

"We aren't talking about fuck all if you drown the house in soap! I'll have to remake the whole place! Carina! Carina I can still hear you pouring the soap...! Where the fuck are you!?"

"Marco!"

So much for calm and peaceful days.

...Still wouldn't trade it for the world though.

Author's Note

Had a busy week, don't know if this chapter really carries the tone I wanted it too but part of the reason I'm writing this is to try to keep up a routine so it's going up as it is anyway. It's still a fun chapter to me and I'm definitely not doing any writing tomorrow when I could be playing the new Kirby game instead.