"T-twins?" Rainbow Dash sputtered. Rarity looked to her friend, not knowing what kind of reaction to expect. Rainbow seemed to be surprised, as the tone of her voice had suggested, but there was also a certain glint in her eye, an upward curl of the lip that made it seem as if she was enjoying this turn of events.

While Rarity herself was mildly taken aback, she couldn't help but allow her mind to immediately fantasize about what it would be like for them to bed twins. Two identical mares, bodies fit and toned from rigorous exercise, writhing with pleasure at her touch...

"...but you can't let yourself get too carried away just yet. You aren't even sure if they're interested yet!" Rarity's conscience told her.

Then, Rarity's other conscience took a turn to speak up.

"One of them made out with you in public on sight, of course they're interested. You know that you are."

She did have a good point, but it was probably better to ask them first. Unfortunately, Rainbow Dash collected herself before Rarity got a chance to speak.

"This... this is awesome!" Dash emphasized her point by putting both of her hands into fists and pumping them near her chest. "So, where you guys wanna do it? The bed right there seems fine, but a little small. Maybe if we combine the two, we-"

"Wait, what? Do what? I just wanted to make out a bit, maybe get to know you." This was the twin Rainbow had met speaking. "I honestly don't know what came over me, usually I only do this for stallions, but I saw you and I knew that I just had to have you. Honestly, it's been like this for the past few days, but never this strong."

"What about your sister over there? I thought she was making out with Rarity and promised her more tonight!" retorted Dash.

"Actually, Rainbow, I believe she wordlessly handed me a note and simply ran off, speaking of which, I remembered to bring your helmet miss, err..." Rarity knew the exchange hadn't truly been wordless, but she was trying to make a point. It wasn't until she was finishing her sentence when she realized that she didn't know the mare's name.

"Hm? Ah, my helmet! I'm so glad you brought it back for me! I just know the commander would kill me if she found out I forgot it again." she continued "Oh, my name's Silverwing, by the way. Lieutenant Silverwing. My sister over there, the fiery one, is Gilded Plumage, but ponies usually just call her Gilded for short."

"And no, my plumage is not actually gilded, in case you were wondering." said Gilded heatedly, as if to emphasize her sister's point.

Rarity could understand not going by your full name all the time. Nicknames were common even among her own circle of friends, like Twilight Sparkle, how were you supposed to work with that? Just calling her Twilight was much easier.

"Wait a moment, Silverwing, I meant to ask you why you had a piece of paper detailing the location of the barracks?" asked Rarity.

"Oh, that, yeah. I, err, we, always have things like that ready for when we want to find somepony to bring back here, hopefully to set up a date. It's only been stallions up until this point, but when I saw you I just, well, my sister already said it best. Obviously, we want to settle down with the ponies of our dreams, but most of our rendezvous end up as just happy memories. For both sides, I'd like to think." Silverwing appeared to be finished, but then she appeared to have another thought.

"Actually, I meant to ask you, Rarity; why exactly were you, the Princess, and another mare all walking nude down through the halls?" asked Silverwing.

"Ah that, yes. Well, we were actually ordered to do so by Princess Luna herself, you see! She can be quite the odd princess at times, but I assure you that she had the best intentions." Rarity allowed her mind to wander as her thoughts ran back over Luna's "intentions."

"Wait, I'm letting myself get off track. I need to take control of this conversation and redirect it in the direction I wish for it to follow." thought Rarity.

"Well, girls, I don't know what you may think of this situation, but I believe it is far too late to be entertaining thoughts of simply enjoying a quiet afternoon date." Rarity left the sentence there, allowing it to sink in and hopefully letting the others come to their own conclusions.

Silverwing looked like she was about to say something, but Gilded quickly cut her off.

"Well then, Ms. Rarity, what do you suggest we do other than make out and maybe leave with some happy memories?"

"What I was going to say before my sister so rudely interrupted me was... actually, what she said sums up my thoughts pretty nicely, what are we going to do? Isn't this what amorously inclined ponies do?" said Silverwing.

Rarity wouldn't be surprised if she found out that this happened regularly.

Rainbow Dash was watching Rarity carefully, as if studying her for a sign belying her plans. Rarity gave her a subtle wink, and realization suddenly dawned on her face, though she was quick to hide it from the scrutiny of the twins.

"Actually, I was hoping we could take it a step further than that, and I think my friend here was as well. You see, there is more that two, or more, amorously inclined ponies can enjoy with each other than simply dating and kissing, possibly with the future promise of a marriage. There is much more, but you are going to need to let us show you." Rarity was letting her natural charisma flow, tantalizing her audience with promises they might not fully understand, but knew they still desired.

"Are you saying that you know something better than making out with stallions?" asked Gilded. "Because making out with stallions, or, I guess mares, as I'm about to find out, is pretty great."

"I can understand that," she really could, that first kiss with Twilight had been absolutely celestial. In fact, she may have settled just for that. "but I think I know just what it is that you really want, even if you yourselves aren't fully aware of it." Rarity's audience was enraptured, even Rainbow Dash gazing on with a curious glint in her eye. "I see the way you gaze at us, I know that you want our bodies," she gestured to herself and Rainbow Dash "Truly, you just don't know how to get them."

After Rarity had drawn attention to both Dash's body and her own, Silverwing and Gilded Plumage couldn't look away. They allowed their gazes to roam up and down the smooth contours of their bodies, clearly appreciative of the way Rarity's moderately tight waist was flanked above and below by wide, swelling curves. Gilded seemed to be particularly interested in Dash, eyes drawn to wings as they gave an involuntary flap at the attention.

This was no different than how they thought of other ponies while clopping late into the night, Rarity mused, but she had changed their perception of what attraction truly meant.

Simultaneously, unconsciously, the pair stepped forward. The four were only slightly further than arm's length now.

"What you must understand is that we also have desires, and those desires are currently directed towards you." Their gazes were ripped from their blatant ogling of tantalizingly clothed flesh and forced to stare into her eyes, possibly searching for any sign of deceit. "It may surprise you to know that we have needs that rival your own, but we also have something you do not." She allowed the statement to hang in the air for dramatic effect.

"Wha- what's that?" Silverwing asked, her body quivering just by speaking to the now-mythical appearing mare.

"That, my dear, is experience." she replied.

The tension in the room was growing thick, Rarity could feel it. She saw how uncomfortable the twins seemed to be becoming, how they squirmed slightly at the sound of her voice, how they clearly desired to feel her touch. She relished in the feeling, that feeling not being one of dominance and control, but rather one of guidance and affection.

The twins crept forward once more, Silverwing facing Rarity and Gilded facing Dash. They could feel warm breath on each other's muzzles at this range, could see the minute shifts in their eyes as thoughts and hearts raced as one.

Rarity lowered her voice to a whisper.

"We see that you want us, we know that you want us, we just want you to know, that we want you too."

Silverwing closed her eyes and shuddered, then leaned forward and allowed her lips to connect with Rarity's in a silent kiss. Rarity returned it, but only with as much urgency as Silverwing herself was giving, which wasn't much altogether. Their lips remained connected for quite a bit longer than the strength of the kiss seemed to imply, Silverwing seemingly just exploring and relaxing, familiarizing herself with the feeling of connecting her lips to another mare like this. She had kissed before, but this seemed to promise something more.

All too soon, it ended.

"Wasn't that nice?" whispered Rarity, "We'll only give how much you wish to receive."

"I want... more." came the exasperated sounding reply.

Without another word, Rarity leaned back in for another kiss, this time wrapping her arms around Silverwing's back and stroking her mane.

She allowed the kiss to grow deeper, pressing her body against Silverwing and pushing her large, soft breasts up against her new lover.

Rarity's ears caught a soft moan, and she managed to glance to the side in order to see that Dash and Gilded were going about things in much the same way, albeit slightly rougher in their execution.

The sound of the moan spurred Silverwing on, causing her to tilt her head sideways and snake her tongue out into Rarity's mouth, allowing it to writhe in the simple pleasure of making out. Silverwing's arms raised slightly, and then encircled Rarity's waist, pulling them closer with insistence.

In response, Rarity lowered one of her hands very slowly down Silverwing's back, tracing a tantalizing trail down her spine that sent her body shuddering intermittently with the unknown promise of what was to come. Rarity's other hand remained behind Silverwing's head, trapping their lips in a passionate, fiery dance.

Rarity began to undo Silverwing's bra, maintaining eye-contact and constantly trying to ask with her gaze "Are you okay with this? Do you want me to continue?" Wordlessly, the answer she received was emphatic.

"yes."

The clasp finally undone, Silverwing's bra fell lazily from her shoulders, resting now upon her lap. Rarity pulled back from the kiss to observe her cute, smallish breasts, which were now on full display. Silverwing blushed as Rarity's hand brushed against one, feeling the smooth, warm softness that characterized so many mare's breasts. Rarity noticed how hard the nipples were, how they jutted forward as if begging for somepony to tweak or suck at them. Silverwing bit her lip as Rarity's hand drew near one of them.

"She's clearly very aroused, but seems to be having difficulty getting engaged. Perhaps a different approach?" thought Rarity.

Rarity withdrew her hands from Silverwing's body, observing her face carefully and registering both disappointment and relief. She seemed to be confused, as well, until Rarity's arms reached for the hem of her red silk shirt and lifted, revealing inch after inch of white, glittering coat. She continued to watch Silverwing's expression, noticing the way her eyes glazed with lust at the sight of exposed flesh.

"She may be confused and reticent, but natural instincts appear to be prevailing here." thought Rarity with an inward smirk.

As always, Rarity teased slowly as the hem of her shirt reached the bottom of her breasts and then, just before her nipples were revealed, quickly flipped the entire garment up and over her head, removing it entirely and tossing it across the room. Rarity's huge breasts were set into motion by the quick movement, swaying as they slowly settled back into place.

Silverwing leaned closer, a hand inching towards one of Rarity's breasts, her intent clearly written on her face and through her actions. In one moment, she seemed to become self aware, and turned her gaze towards Rarity's own, as if silently begging for consent.

Rarity nodded.

Silverwing's hand made contact with one of Rarity's breasts, gingerly at first, and then with more urgency, until she eventually devolved into an all out groping and kneading of Rarity's chest, apparently trying to get as much of them into her hands as possible. Rarity periodically offered soft coos of delight at her ministrations, encouraging her to fondle and explore.

"Yours are... so much bigger than mine." whispered Silverwing, completely entranced by the orbs of femininity jutting from Rarity's chest.

"You're quite beautiful in your own way, darling." Rarity assured her.

In order to drive her point in, she resumed her kneading of Silverwing's chest, so now they were both fondling each other's chests. Silverwing seemed much more open to the idea now that Rarity had bared herself to the guard and allowed her to explore a little.

Rarity could feel her arousal kicking into high gear, her pussy becoming slick with vaginal secretions. The silk pants she wore rubbed her in all the right ways as she shifted about, nothing between them and her wet, aching lower lips.

Arousal getting the best of her, Rarity grew more forceful, pushing Silverwing from a standing position back down on to her bed, and following down with a breathtaking kiss. She could tell this turn of events excited Silverwing, as she was unabashedly returning the kiss now, head cocked to the side with tongue slipping and sliding about between their lips.

Rarity was overcome with a dull, pleasant ache; one which begged for satisfaction. Eventually, one of Rarity's hands had snaked down between her thighs, reaching underneath the waistline of her silk pants and rubbing at the slick, wet entrance it found there.

At her own touch, Rarity moaned unabashedly into Silverwing's mouth, sending slight reverberations through her body that only served to heighten her excitement.

Silverwing felt wet digits slide down her navel, and then tug at the waistband of her nightwear. She broke the kiss in mild surprise, and was met with Rarity's face, eyes half lidded in an expression that screamed "Please, can I take them off?" Silverwing could do nothing but nod her consent, and then resume the passionate kiss.

Never allowing their lips to break apart, Rarity pulled down on Silverwing's panties, but she could only get so far from this position. Silverwing helped her, drawing her legs up between them so she could pull them up and off in a different way.

Before she knew it, she was fully nude and rolling in the sheets, making out with an almost impossibly sexy white mare she had only met earlier that day. She reached down to stroke some other part of the magnificent mare's body, and found that Rarity had managed to remove her own pants at some point among all the kisses and caresses.

There was nothing between them now, nothing to restrict the feeling of hot bodies, quickly becoming sweaty, sliding together, constantly feeding each other more softness and warmth.

Soon enough, however, softness and warmth were doing little to satiate Rarity's growing desires. She needed more, she needed to take this a step further. Rarity quickly drew her hand down along the side of Silverwing's body, tracing a line all the way down to her soaking nethers. This task was met with minor difficulty with all the writhing around they were doing, constantly shifting positions as to who was on top or whether they lay side-by-side, but eventually she made it.

Rarity stroked Silverwing's outer folds, earning a soft moan, which quickly escalated into a vocalized wail of pleasure as the stroking became thrusting, Rarity having slipped two of her eager fingers inside.

Rarity felt warm, soft, inviting wetness within the other mare, much like she had with herself and her friends. Just the sensations of having her fingers enveloped by the slippery wetness of Silverwing's inner walls gave some pleasure to Rarity, to say nothing of how it felt to be on the receiving end.

Silverwing felt her toned core clench tightly around the white fingers invading her slit, strong muscles clamping hard in reaction to an incredibly high level of stimulus the likes of which she had never experienced before. Sure, she had played around with herself a few times after meeting a particularly enticing stallion, but that was something everypony did to scratch that particular itch. This was a whole new way to scratch it, and all that was needed was to add another pony.

It occurred to her that it was slightly odd she had never come to the conclusion of sharing in these pleasures before, but, then again, she had never heard of anypony else doing it either.

Further thoughts on the subject were put to a halt as more tingling waves were sent directly to the pleasure center of her brain by the increasing ferocity and depth of Rarity's ministrations. Rarity disengaged their lips for a short moment to move her muzzle into the vicinity of Silverwing's collarbone and nipped at it lovingly, earning a few surprised coos of delight in the process. These sounds were then interrupted by Rarity's immediate re-occupation of Silverwing's lips with her own, ensuring she was always ensnared in the warm, wet entanglement of kissing tongues and thrusting, sliding fingers.

Rarity had learned the signs. The way her breath hitched, the increasingly dense musk of arousal hanging in the air, the dramatic increase in slippery wetness emerging from between her thighs; there was no doubt that Silverwing was approaching her first release. By the sound of it, Rainbow Dash's partner wasn't far off either, she was almost afraid they would wake up the sleeping guards in the adjacent rooms!

In the moment Rarity's attention shifted back to Silverwing, the grey mare finally came, letting loose a surprised shriek of pleasure and release alongside the copious fluids that now coated Rarity's hand and much of their entwined thighs.

Silverwing's body continued to convulse and spasm with pleasure, pressing her sopping lower lips more and more firmly into Rarity's hand as if trying to extend the sensations. Eventually, she seemed to calm down, and as she came down from her high she adopted a blissful smile, laughing softly.

Rarity felt warmth flood her at the feeling of being able to simply give so much to another pony. Her element was generosity, and it showed at times like these, where she gave of her own time and skill to grant so much joy to another pony. This was no different from making a free dress for a friend or sending a birthday present.

She reveled in all the subtle rewards she had earned; the look on her paramour's face, the feel of hardened nipples pressing into her hot, heavy breasts, the way their thighs slid against each other with every minor movement, the warmth of ragged breath on her face...

She was giving a gift, and the gift of giving was a reward all its own.

There was little warning, just a caress running from the small of her back to the swell of her sensuously well-defined ass before Rarity felt somepony else's fingers plunging into her hot depths. She turned to see Rainbow Dash, who had left a recovering Gilded Plumage behind in favor of pleasing her good friend. It wasn't long before Dash escalated the situation, grasping Rarity's hips firmly and diving into her steaming marehood muzzle-first.

Combined with the minute sensations of the nearly unconscious mare underneath her, Rarity was in total bliss. The probing, rough projection entering into her felt absolutely divine, and hit so many more of her sensitive nerve clusters than that rigid rod Twilight had filled her with. While the athletic mare's tongue lacked the pleasant fulfillment of the thickened magical shaft, it more than made up for it in raw pleasure and adaptability. Dash could easily react to each of Rarity's shudders and moans, seeming to know instantly where to let her tongue explore next to extract the maximum amount of pleasure from Rarity's hyper aroused body.

Rarity desperately wished she could give pleasure to Dash in return, but even if their positions were different she would find it very difficult to please Dash through all the sharply mind-numbing sensations she was experiencing. Rainbow Dash's tongue work made her seem like a rapid-fire piston and a tornado rolled into one delectable package. One moment, she would be thrusting and probing among all the various folds of her vaginal lips, touching at her clit and other sensitive zones that didn't often get to experience so much pleasure, and the next moment she would be swirling her tongue about Rarity's deepest depths, as if trying to taste as much as possible of the fluid Rarity's nether lips secreted in greater and greater volumes as she neared climax.

In a sudden moment of infinite clarity, Rarity felt release. Her mare fluids ejaculated all over Dash's eagerly lapping face, still licking at throbbing folds in the blissful aftermath.

Under the relentless onslaught of Rainbow Dash's tongue, Rarity had failed to realize until now that Silverwing had disappeared from beneath her. She dazedly looked around, searching about the room for signs of Silverwing, until her gaze fell upon the other bed, now occupied by two figures silhouetted in the dim torchlight.

Rarity's lust-addled brain instantly recognized the movements. Slow, steady caresses, interlocked muzzles, gyrating body movements; the two were clearly in the throes of making their own love. Rarity subtly interrupted Rainbow Dash and motioned for her to watch the scene taking place before them.

Silverwing and Gilded Plumage, two sisters, members of the night guard, sharing a room in Canterlot Castle, flung inhibitions to the wind and let tongues and hands run rampant over each other's bodies.

Rarity and Rainbow Dash watched in amazement as, for the first time in over a millennium, two ponies outside the influence of the Elements engaged in hot, sweaty, fulfilling sex. If Luna was to be believed, mares never had sex with one another in the old days.

This was convention breaking, monumental, historical.

It was beautiful.

"Dash, do you think it's going to feel like this every time?" said Rarity.

"If it does, I don't ever want to stop. We'll show the world, Rares."

Author's Note

You have no idea how many times I wanted to type Gilda instead of Gilded while writing this.

Also, I think I like to use italics too much.

Also, I am so impossibly sorry for not getting this out earlier. Probably should have been done months ago. You have no idea how long this chapter sat at ~2,800 words. Had to get my life on track for college and adulthood and all that, but now that's cleared up, and I'm happy with the direction I'm going. I won't say there will be more soon, because I've crushed all your dreams so much already, but I'd be a little more optimistic about this story in the future. ;)

As for the "few days" thing, I had a few days free to work on the story, but I never really did, simple as that. I had set aside some free time, intending to write some more, but ended up playing video games.

Edit: If you're interested in my story, or just the concept in general, please check out the Polyamory Writing Game started by Jake R in the Intelligent Shipping Discussion group. There's also a version posted in my Polyamory group's forums.