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After leaving Flurry Heart’s room, Night Light didn’t go rest.

He couldn’t rest.

Walking around the castle aimlessly eventually led him to the castle library, which was good because he needed answers. Night Light didn’t believe in ‘light reading.’ He always felt that taking the time to read something should be educational or something else of importance. His daughter had clearly gained her study ethics from his work practices. He read too much in the execution of his job responsibilities at the castle and enjoyed spending quality time with his family when he wasn’t working, which usually meant not reading at home.

Maybe if he had read some of Velvet’s books earlier in their marriage, he could have fixed the problems they were having before it blew up and nearly ended their marriage seven years ago, given that she had the tendency to add personal details from her own life into her books under the guise of character development.

He had the nagging suspicion that this new problem could create similar martial issues if they weren’t handled correctly. Velvet supported the incest, as she felt that it helped atone for her earlier cheating, and she practically threw him at their granddaughter, but it all felt so forced…

Shining Armor and Cadance had been married for over eleven years, with Flurry being born eleven months after Cadance’s first heat after their marriage had taken place. So why were Night Light and Velvet just now getting their Royal titles and being introduced to Crystal Empire incest traditions? The timing felt odd. As if he and Velvet were given the titles to force the incest requirement for Flurry to be included going forward. At least Flurry Heart was older than the daughters, or err, granddaughters he had with Twilight. Now, there’s a tangent.

He still had no idea how he was going to approach getting his other granddaughters involved or if he even wanted them involved, or if they even had a choice now. Night Light was determined to allow it to be a personal choice and not something they were forced into, which was also why he wanted them to be older. He wanted them to understand their options and to not just do it because everyone else in the family was doing so. Still, with literally every other member of their family engaging in incest, maybe it was hypocritical of him to try to paint it like they really have a choice. He knew they would join in; he just didn’t want it to happen anytime soon.

Fortunately for him, Twilight had reshelved the Crystal Castle Library at least once during the many times she had visited the Crystal Empire, and the library mirrored the organizational priority of the Canterlot Castle library in nearly every respect. As a result, Night Light knew exactly where to go and what to look for while trying to cross reference Imperial laws. Thirty years of being a royal advisor and knowing how to do research to solve political problems was a skill that he never expected to have to use to solve a personal problem. Although now being an official member of the Crystal Empire Royal Family, complete with titles, kinda made this a political problem too.

He couldn’t allow Flurry to be disowned but he also didn’t feel like it was right for her to be forced to have sex with him at such a young age. Or for her to be forced at all. One of the joys of the incest he enjoyed with his daughter over the last seven years had been from the feeling of love and acceptance that they shared. They wanted each other. Practically needed each other. And he adored all three of the foals he had with her. He knew that he didn’t want to have foals with Flurry, and he knew that he couldn’t have foals with either of his other two granddaughters. There was too much of a risk of birth defects happening with the genes being double reinforced from the same source, so he knew that he would have to avoid them while they were in heat. There was less risk with Flurry since Cadance wasn’t his daughter but still more risk than he would like. Princess Velvet Night and Princess Shining Dawn would be completely off limits to bearing his foals since he was their father and grandfather already without any other genetic break, the risks would be too great.

Furthermore, Flurry Heart having sex with him simply out of obligation was wrong. He loved her and he knew that she loved him… and he had no problem with the idea of making love to her, but he didn’t want to simply have sex with her. The distinction might have been small, but it was powerful. The first time was supposed to be special, like how Twilight’s first time had been. Ten years old was honestly too young but even that wouldn’t be a huge turn-off for him if it was natural and not forced, his own preferences aside.

It didn’t take him long to find the answers to his first question. He couldn’t accept the title of Dowager Emperor while he was still a public servant of Equestria, and his wife couldn’t be crowned Dowager Empress without him while he was still alive. Also, while related to the royal family by blood and marriage, neither Night Light nor Velvet were expected to start engaging in incest until they received their titles, which might explain why they weren’t told sooner.

It was a fluke that Night Light and Princess Twilight started getting involved with each other on their own before Crystal Empire traditions would have forced it. Perhaps it was easier to swallow now given how long they had been enjoying it, but he had to wonder if Twilight knew about the Crystal Empire traditions and his eventually gaining the title that he now had, and wanted to start with her father before he might have been forced to, which she had to know would have been a turn off for him, even without knowing his past.

Although Equestria and the Crystal Empire were allies and Prince Shining Armor was the brother of the ruler of Equestria, legally speaking, they were two completely different nations with two separate sets of laws, customs and traditions. Only a hoofful of laws, customs and traditions seemed to overlap, despite both nations being filled with ponies nearly exclusively. Crystal Ponies weren’t much different than Earth Ponies in most ways, other than that they appeared to have absolutely zero birth defects from incest, ever. Cadance was technically a crystal pony also and Flurry was at least half crystal pony… was that enough of a margin of error to risk an incest pregnancy with her grandfather? He wasn’t sure and the books in the library couldn’t answer that question. It clearly had never been studied.

Following one lead led to another overlapping lead. Some of the traditions were verbal and not actually written down, but he was lucky to find a few references to the ones he needed. Some of the laws were ‘common laws’ and not strictly documented, but he also eventually found written references that he could use that cited those common laws.

Hours upon hours of reading led him to a startling discovery.

The Grandfather only has to deflower a granddaughter for the purposes of family acceptance of commoner ponies, and in the cases of Royality; to gain access to inheritance and the right to rule in the cases where the filly’s father has passed away or is no longer otherwise available. They lied to me…

He cross-referenced and bookmarked everything, packed up the books he needed, and left the library. When he got back to his room, he cuddled with Velvet but cried himself to sleep.

* * *

Flurry Heart left her room also, but she headed to her parents’ room. Without knocking, she let herself in.

Shining Armor was reading a book with an ale beside him on a nightstand and Cadance was sucking his cock. She bobbed her head up and down the entire length of the cock, which was comparable in size to Flurry’s grandfather’s cock, which she had seen firsthoof earlier in the night.

Flurry was mesmerized by watching the bulge in her mother’s throat as the medial ring passed up and down with no effort.

She sighed loudly. “Faust, I wish I could do that…”

Cadance seized up and started choking. It was hard for her to spit up Shining’s cock when it was so far down her throat when the motion had been interrupted. She finally dislodged her husband’s girth and gasped for air.

“Flurry! You’re going to kill me one of these days. You know you’re supposed to knock.”

Flurry shrugged. “It’s not like I’ll get to rule the Empire any other way.”

Shining snorted but tried to be quiet when Cadance glared at him. Cadance cleared her throat. “So how did it go with your grandfather?”

Flurry’s sigh seemed to fill the room. “It didn’t. Scan me and you’ll see.”

Cadance cast a rarely used sexual detection spell, which was mostly used by law enforcement to see what had happened to a potential victim recently. It only showed recent sexual activity.

“Hmm. I see that you got your first kiss, managed enough of a blow job for it to count and at least had a cock on your pussy… but no penetration. He backed out?”

Flurry nodded. “I’m not sure what I did wrong, but he couldn’t bring himself to go any further. I think we took the wrong approach by trying to force it to happen. Maybe I should have just been patient…”

Cadance sighed and brought Flurry to her for a hug. “I know. Night Light has always had strong feelings against incest and I’m not sure he would have ever considered consenting to be with you unless he thought he didn’t have a choice. But you wanted your grandfather first and your father was okay with that. Should we come clean?”

Flurry nodded. “Yeah… I don’t want to lie to him anymore. But I still want him to be my first if we can make that happen, even if I have to wait eight more years.”

Cadance nodded. “Okay sweetie… we’ll tell him tomorrow.

* * *

Breakfast started normal enough. Cadance, Shining, Flurry and Velvet were already seated and had already received their food from the cooks.

Flurry was shifting anxiously in her seat. “Is grandpa coming to breakfast?”

Velvet shrugged. “He said that he didn’t get much sleep and wanted a few extra minutes. I’m sure he has a reason.”

At that moment, Night Light walked into the room with all the books levitated in his magic. With a loud bang, the books landed on the dining room table.

Shining and Cadance could see from all the bookmarks that the gig was up.

Night Light cleared his throat with force. “We need to talk…”

* * *