> Royal Duty
>  by SixUnderscore
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> Royal Duty 
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        Far away towards the northeastern regions of Equestria, the Crystal Empire resided just before reaching the frozen mountains on the edge of the continent. Despite being filled with ordinary pegasi, unicorns and Earth ponies alike, something set this town and its citizens apart from the rest of the nation: every inch of the empire, from its buildings to its food, animals and even the residents themselves, were all composed of a unique gradient crystal that could not be replicated anywhere else but here. Any light that shone through the town would be reflected through the residents or objects and magnified through them. This was most notable in the afternoon, when Princess Celestia's sun rose to its highest point in the sky, and its magnificent rays would illuminate the entire kingdom. Before the Crystal Empire had vanished more than a thousand years ago, historians had speculated that the brightness of the town might be visible from several miles high in the sky. Fortunately, the crystal ponies were lucky enough to have optical nerves that helped them filter out such a bright light throughout their kingdom.
        The only residents who weren't so lucky to have those special eyes were actually the two ponies at the head of the empire. The brightness of the magnified sun crept into the highest blinded window of Crystal Castle and rested on the sleeping face of a white unicorn. His eyelids scrunched up a bit in discomfort, and he reflexively opened them. His cerulean irises were flooded with sunlight, and he put his hoof over his eyes to shield them, then turned over to the other side, trying desperately to get back to sleep. His efforts were in vain though: a familiar pressure nagged below the front of his waist. He wasn't desperate to pee by any means, but it was definitely noticeable enough to keep him from going back to sleep. In frustration, the unicorn opened his eyes, mostly awake but still trying to summon the energy to pull himself out of bed.
        Come on Shining Armor, can't stay in bed all day... he thought to himself. Three... two... one, get up, get up, get up!
        Inhaling through his nose, Shining Armor lifted his heavy body up off the comfort of his mattress, until he was fully upright. His eyes closed for a moment as his mouth opened, and a large yawn escaped his throat. He smacked his dry mouth together a bit, his mind trying to shake off the haze of sleep. Come to think of it, he was usually awake before the sun went into its obnoxious glare throughout the town mode. That meant the day was filled with less royal duty than usual. Besides his agitated bladder, was there any reason he couldn't just fall right back asleep?
        Memories of the day before returned to him, reminding him that he and his wife had planned to take advantage of their rare open days with a trip to the spa, and a picnic at the edge of town, where the icy cool breeze of the crystal mountains just tickled the outskirts of the empire. Since they had overslept, Shining wondered if they would have time to cram both activities into one day, or substitute one for the other. Shining turned his head to the other side of the bed, where a pink and purple maned head still lay against her pillow.
        The mare of his dreams still rested peacefully, far enough from the rays of light poking into their bedroom. One thing that helped Shining come to terms with waking up was the fact that he was married to such a spectacular lady, a princess at that. Every moment he spent with her was a blessing granted to him by the heavens above. Every smile, every laugh, every embrace she gave him filled his heart with jubilation. Even watching her sleep now soothed him. He still wasn't sure how he had been so lucky to win her affections, but he knew better than to question destiny. Though he loved her in every way, at the moment he was a little envious that she got to sleep on the side of the bed away from the suns' rays.
        “Cadance...” Shining whispered, lowering his head towards her ear. “Cadance, honey... time to wake up.” The alicorn groaned and sank her head deeper into her pillow. “Hey, you've slept enough princess. If I've got to wake up, you do too.” He reached his hoof onto her shoulder and gently brushed it across her pink coat. “Somepony looking for a wake-up tickle?”
        “Don't!” Cadance groaned, pulling the covers over her head, cutting him off from her. Completely.
        Shining Armor was a bit disappointed that his wife wasn't feeling so playful at the moment, but he didn't hold it against her. She would get up eventually, just as he did. “Alright, fine, be a lazy bones. I'm gonna be in the restroom,” he expressed, before sneaking a kiss on top of the covers that concealed her face from him.
        As not to disturb her any further, Shining slowly pulled away from Cadance and rolled out of his bed onto all fours. He released another yawn as he took a step and stretched his hindlegs out to rid himself of the stiffness that the morning brought. Stretching his limbs out in such a way made his bladder spasm, and he quickly relaxed his legs in order to keep his body from letting go of the hold he had on his urine.
        Stepping around the bed, Shining entered the door in the back of the bedroom, and switched on the lights of their moderately sized bathroom. Using his magic to lift the lid and seat, he hoisted his forelegs up on the tank of the toilet, with his flaccid shaft hanging out of his sheath. His stomach expanded slightly, accompanying a brief sigh, and a thick stream of yellow liquid began to pour from his length. Relief washed over Shining's lower body as his urine left him and trickled loudly against the water in the bowl, and his sapphire tail swayed slightly from side to side.
        After a few minutes of constant pouring, his stream began to die down into a light drip until there was nothing left. Shining lowered a hoof down to shake his limp shaft a few times (after learning that shaking his lower half caused drops to fly out in farther directions than the bowl could catch, a fact Cadance was none too pleased to learn after he had done so) until the tip was free of any drops left behind. A magical aura of rose surrounded the handle of the toilet and flushed it, and the swirling water was sucked out from the basin and replaced with crystal clear water, ready for its next deposit. He was also courteous enough to push both the seat and the lid down, in case his wife made a trip in here before he did again.
        With his bladder evacuated, the unicorn made his way to the sink, used his magic to switch the faucet on and washed his hooves. He looked in the mirror as he scrubbed, and noticed that he had accumulated quite a bit of facial hair around his chin and neck. Though he loved his life as an adult, part of him longed for the days when he was a colt and only needed to shave once every other week (or even before then, when he didn't need to shave at all). Rather annoyed at his overabundance of hair, Shining lowered his head to the sink and splashed some water across his face, then levitated a can of shaving cream and squirted it across the wet area, lathering it all over his cheeks and neck. Carefully floating the razor towards his face, the unicorn pressed it against his coat.
        Just as he was making the first scrape, however, a knock on the door made him stop midway.
“Shining, are you in there?”
        “Yeah hon, I'm shaving.” He replied, shutting the running water off. “You need to get in here?”
        “I just need to pee. I can hold it for a little bit, if you're almost done.”
        “Actually, I just started.”
        “Oh...” Cadance sounded a little dismayed. “That's fine, just hurry a little, okay?”
        The unicorn contemplated the situation, looking at the first little indention in his scruffy beard. He knew he was going to be several minutes until he was finished and didn't feel right making his wife suffer. He also knew that she wouldn't be happy if he was dripping all over the carpet in their bedroom, so he couldn't very well leave either. In their first year of marriage, the two had shared a bathroom at the same time on several occasions, when fixing their hair or brushing their teeth (or a number of times showering together, probably raising their water bill quite a bit). The two had not, however, used the toilet while the other was still in the room. Then again, they had never actually said outright that relieving themselves while the other was in the room was out of the question. But was he really ready to cross that line right now?
        He had to make a decision soon, or else Cadance's bladder was going to make one for them.
        “Come on in babe.” He announced.
        Cadance poked her head in slightly and looked at her husband, who still had his eyes on the mirror. “You don't mind?”
        “Nah. It's just pee, no big deal.”
        “Thank you honey.” She replied, kissing him on the back of the neck, just before he went back to shaving. Cadance walked past him, used her blue magical field to lift the lid of the seat, and turned about to sit down. Her trim and curvy backside pressed against the smooth seat as she sat down. “Hey, we're breaking a new barrier!” She said cheerfully as she adjusted herself on her throne.
        Shining Armor turned his head towards the toilet where his princess sat and looked her over. For a long time, he had heard stories amongst the youngest guards that they detested knowing that their wives or marefriends did such a thing. Some had even walked in on them in the act, and claimed that it was something they wish they had never seen. But looking at Cadance now, Shining wasn't sure what was so bad about it. The alicorn’s back was straightened with her wings tucked to her side, and she had her forelegs resting on the thighs of her hindlegs. Her behind was not the biggest that he had ever seen (a trait that had not been passed down from her aunt), but the way she sat now pushed her butt up and made it spill over the sides of the toilet seat. She actually looked rather cute in a way.
        “Honey, don't watch me!” Cadance called to him in a playful manner, crossing her forelegs over her body.
        “Right, sorry.” Shining offered, turning his head back towards the mirror so he could resume shaving.
        Cadance kept her forelegs up as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She felt a small spurt of liquid escape her lips and drip against the water. Cadance winced a bit, still a bit shy of letting go in front of her husband, but the dam had been broken, and it was harder to hold it back now. A few drops turned into a light trickle, and, as she released her breath into a happy sigh, progressed to a heavy stream. Ahh...” Cadance almost sang out in relief as her urine splashed against the water underneath her.
        “Feel better hon?” Shining asked, making another scrape underneath his chin.
        “Mm hm!” Cadance hummed, her stream now making a low trickle against the light yellow water. Shining kept his face towards the mirror, but peeked out the corner of his eye to look at her. The look on Cadance's face was one that made him wish he had let this happen ages ago. Her head was tilted up slightly, and her eyes were closed, while her mouth hung open in a dazed smile. She looked as if she could sit in that position for the rest of her life, enjoying the bliss of emptying her bladder on such a comfortable seat.
        The tranquil sound of Cadance's urine trickling throughout the room was interrupted, by the sudden thunderous trumpet sounding throughout the porcelain bowl underneath her behind. “Eep!” Cadance immediately cut off her urine stream and squeezed her legs shut, her front hooves raised up to her chin in embarrassment. She looked up at her husband, who stood frozen with his eyes open wide towards the mirror. “I'm so sorry Shining! I didn't feel anything up there, I didn't know!”
        “I-it's fine, honey...” Shining replied, taking light breath of air before slowly returning to his shaving. Shining was not ready for that sound at all. Throughout their years of seeing each other, not only had Cadance never relieved herself in front of him, but she had never broken wind in his presence either. He wasn't sure how she did it, whether she just happened to release them at every instance he wasn't there or used some sort of magical spell to cover up the sound and smell, but he had never once hear her butt make that kind of noise.
        Now that he was thinking about it, he wasn’t sure how this was going to affect him from this point forward. Shining was no stranger to Cadance's derriere, and the alicorn herself loved to use his face as her own cushion while his tongue tended to her most sensitive bits. Would he be able to look at her rear the same way from now on, seeing it for the perfect grayish mound of flesh that each cheek was composed of, or would he be wary that the little crater between them was housing a toxic gas ready to assault him at the first wrong move?
        Shining glanced at his wife, who was looking nearly petrified with shame, and he instantly regretted his ignorance. What was he getting all bent out of shape for?
        “Cadance, seriously, don't worry about it. It's not the worst thing in the world.”
        “But it's gross...” she said shamefully.
        “A little bit, yeah. But come on, everypony farts. I've farted in front of you a few times, you don't think I'm disgusting, do you?”
        “No, but... I'm a lady.” she said with a half giggle, but still sounding very much as if she wished she were not in the room.
        “So? It's not like other ladies don't fart. Heck, my sister was a little bag of gas when she used to live with us at home.”
        A happy smile crept up on Cadance's face as she laughed. “You don't have to remind me. When I used to babysit her in Celestia's castle, she would cut some pretty loud ones while she was reading.”
        “That sounds like Twily.” Shining chuckled.
        After settling down, Cadance's stream of urine resumed, much lighter than before. A few puffs of gas ripped past her anus, accompanied by a few hushed whimpers from the mare. Shining was a little shocked at himself for thinking that even Cadance's farts sounded pretty. Perhaps “pretty” was the wrong word, but they didn't sound outright disgusting. They certainly had a more charming tone than his own did. Each little rip that came out lost volume and length, until only a soft crackle was barely heard behind the last few drips of urine falling off of her wet lips.
        A looming silence hung throughout the room as Shining Armor moved to the last half of hair on his neck. “You all finished?” He asked as he pushed his razor against his coat.
        “I'm... not sure.” Cadance said out loud. “There might be something else in there.”
        “Something else?” he asked a bit wearily.
        “Yeah... honey, I'm sorry but, I think I need to poop.”
        “Ow!” Shining cried out suddenly. Cadance looked over at him slightly worried, until he waved her off. “Just a little cut, that's all.” He assured her, running some water over his wound, and overly smooth neck. “Here, if you can just hold it while I rinse and dry, I'll let you take care of it in – ”
        “Geez, you're stiff, Shining.” Cadance called out to him rather sternly.
        “Hon, I'm not trying to be difficult,” he replied, trying to reason with her. “I'm just saying, maybe there's a barrier we should save for another day to break, if we break it at all?”
        “No, I mean you're REALLY stiff. Look down.”
        Shining turned his head downwards, and caught a glimpse of his shaft hanging out and pointed diagonally towards the floor underneath the sink. The sight made him gasp, and his cock instinctively twitched, slapping up against his belly. The sudden force made him moan out loud, and he raised a hoof to his mouth to silence himself.
        “Are you... getting off on this?” Cadance asked him, sounding bewildered.
        “N-no! No way! That- that'd be weird, wouldn't it?” He stuttered, lifting a hindleg up in vain to cover his erection. Cadance tilted her head as her eyes examined him, darting back and forth between his face and his length hiding behind his leg. “Look, I'll just go, take as long as you need to.”
        “Do you want to watch me?” She asked him suddenly.
        “Wha... watch...?” Shining repeated as he looked towards her in shock.
        Cadance took a deep breath, moving her shoulders a bit to relax herself. “Shining Armor... do you want to watch me poop?”
        Hearing her say it out loud made his length throb again against his stomach, and he pushed his lips together to keep from moaning, instead letting out a barely audible whine. Shining, for reasons he didn't understand, slowly nodded his head.
        Cadance's lips curled into a smile. “Okay.” She said, backing up a little bit and patting her hoof against the front of the seat. “Come on over then. Get a nice view up close, okay?”
        Shining Armor kept his sight locked onto his wife's lower body as he slowly trudged his way over to her. Once he was in front of her, his eyes flashed up towards her face for a moment to see her still smiling at him. Cadance patted the edge of the seat again, before he sat his rump against the floor, scoot forward so his legs straddled the base of the throne, and rested his chin on the seat between her knees.
        “There you go.” Cadance reached her hoof above his head and gently stroked his blue mane. The motion helped settle his nerves and cease trembling a bit, as he looked forward at his wife's wet and glistening mare lips, giving off a very subtle throb every few seconds. As he breathed in, he caught a whiff of what was left of Cadance's farts from earlier. Though certainly not the sweetest smell in the world, the stench didn't seem to bother him all too much. He would have taken a deeper breath, had he not been worried that it might gross out the mare sitting in front of him. “Can you see everything down there?” 
        Shining looked downwards into the bowl. With the angle he was positioned in, he was able to see the lower quadrants of his wife's buttocks. Just past those circular globes was a little bit of gray flesh, with a few tiny creases around the center. He could see that it was the rim of her anus poking out. Even though Cadance wasn't pushing at the moment, her mass was apparently far enough along that it was making her sphincter swell as she kept it in place.
        “Yeah, hon... I... I can see.”
        “Okay,” Cadance replied with a nervous giggle. “Now, let's see if I can do this.” Cadance's mouth clenched as her body tightened up, and another puff of air pressed out of her anus. Cadance released her breath and laughed, but then collected herself once again. “Hmm... mmm...” The alicorn began to grunt as her intestines constricted, and the pressure at the center of her bottom began to shift downwards.
        Pfff-chk-chk-chuk
        A soft squishing sound emerged as Cadance’s anus expanded, and the slick texture of her waste pushed through her crater. Shining watched the head of a brown mass poke out from her cheeks, like a groundhog inspecting the new weather outside. “Hnng... uggh...” Hearing Cadence moan while seeing her log grow in length made his shaft twitch again, and his hips slowly flexed forward in lust. Just when it had grown only three inches, it broke off of her soft flesh and splashed into the water below.  “Aah! Oh...” Cadance's hole pulled back as she caught her breath, still keeping her eye on Shining as he watched her bottom. The look of intensity he had on his face made her smile, and made her feel less awkward about doing such a thing in front of him. “That's the first one...”
        “H-how many more do you think you have?”
        “I dunno,” she replied, still a bit winded. “But I can feel more up there. That's just a sample of it. Like what you see so far?”
        “Yeah... it sounds so weird, but I do. Man, this is hot,” Shining appraised her. “But are you sure I'm not making you uncomfortable?”
        “Oh, of course not honey! It's actually kind of a relief that I'm not grossing you out. I thought I was going to have to hide the fact that I poop for the rest of our marriage. Who knew that doing the exact opposite would turn you on so much?” Shining closed his eyes and another whimper escaped him. The fact that her husband was so embarrassed about something that turned him on made him look cute in her eyes, even if the means were a bit unconventional. “Hang on sweetheart, gotta push. Hnnng... guh!” Cadance's anus quickly opened again to the width it had before, but remained empty. It wasn't until several seconds had passed that a large, knobby brown head began to emerge from between. The alicorn groaned, part out of discomfort but mostly in frustration. “Oh, it's stuck.” she murmured with her eyes closed.
        “Do you always have this much trouble?” Shining asked, his eyes darting from her scrunched up face and back to turtle head poking from her cheeks.
        “Mm, sometimes,” Cadance muttered, still concentrating on the agitator taking up residence in her sphincter. “Huuuuh- ouuuugh...”
        Shining watched the flesh around the brown head stretch out once again, and to his surprise, a few small knobs broke off of the end and splashed individually into the water. Yet, even with the few pieces gone, the mass remained in place and kept her ring stretched out immensely. While she strained, a bit of urine trickled out of her lips and dripped down to the water bit by bit.
        “Come on, move...” Cadance pleaded, her voice straining.
        Though the sight was more arousing than anything Cadance had done for him in bed, Shining felt guilty that she was in such pain. He lifted a foreleg and rested it on her thigh. “Here, I'm with you honey. Give it everything you've got.”
        Cadance opened her eyes and relaxed her face slightly, but still kept her anus open to prevent it from being sucked back inside. She wrapped her hoof around her husband’s and, taking a deep breath, began to grunt rather loudly while she kept her eyes open and on his mane.
        “Hrrrrrrn- ooooh!” The crackling sound of her slick waste sliding through her passage resumed, and the fat log taking occupancy in her hole gained speed. It reached more than half a foot, and was close to touching the water, before rushing through and slipping out completely with a splash. “Haah! Woah... ohh...” Cadance moaned out, leaning back as her anus remained wide for a moment and her sphinter just barely poking out of the rim, before it shrank and curled back into her body. “Whew! Wow, I feel lighter.” she announced, practically winded.
        Shining gasped at the sight, and caught a large intake of the fumes emanating from her butt. He didn't understand why, but at that moment, the pungent smell of her gas following her waste was the best aroma in the world to him. His nostrils were filled with the odor as he looked down in the yellow water, and saw the pile of waste that rested at the bottom of the basin. He was in awe that such a large, fat pile had been pushed out by his wife's petite little butt. How could she even hold such a thing in her intestines and still carry herself with grace?
        Cadance picked her head up off the tank and looked down at her husband, who looked up to admire the look of relief plastered on her face. She could see between his hindlegs that his length was pointing straight up, almost locked against his stomach.  Cadance lifted a hoof to her mouth as she giggled, and felt her wet lips throb once again in excitement.
        Tilting her eyes away, she used her magic to take hold of the roll of toilet paper, pulled a lengthy sheet away and severed it from the roll, floating it down and tapping it against Shining's head. “'Scuse me honey, need to get by you.” She said, as he pulled his head back slightly and the material floated down underneath her cheeks. “Need to do a bit of touching up down there.” Cadance lifted the paper up and pressed it against her hole, opening her mouth in surprise as she felt it touch against a rather thick wall of smudge against her flesh. “Oh, yeah... definitely not a pretty sight down there. Quite a bit to clean up!”
        Whether it was a pretty sight or not, Shining didn't care. He would have loved to see the damage that had been done by his wife passing that filth through her bottom. He had never seen his wife's butt hole unless it was absolutely spotless and wiggling right in his face in bed. As Cadance moved the paper around her hole, folding it once to use the other side, and continued wiping herself clean. Stopping her motions, she lowered it from her hole, but still held onto it with her magic. Smiling, Cadance brought it forward just enough so that Shining could see, and slowly unfolded it to present what she had accumulated to him.
        The stallion felt his heart catch in his throat. The sight of that once white paper covered in a thick, lightly brown smudge made his imagination soar. That smudge had come from Cadance. She had pushed that out of her body, and it had been resting against her hole just a minute ago. The thought of his wife's dirty rim made the tickle in Shining's erection surge, and he felt his testicles pull up towards his belly.
        “Mmm!” Shining Armor wiggled his hips as the urge coursed through his body. Thinking of his wife's dirty anus right in front of his face drove him wild. But he found some sliver of strength, and moving his hips properly, pushed his orgasm back down before it overtook him.
        “Whoa...” Cadance uttered astonishingly, dropping the filthy paper into the bowl. “I thought you were gonna blow it right there, honey. I'm impressed.” She scooted herself forward and Shining lifted his head off the seat to give her room to leave. Cadance looked down inside the bowl to inspect her work. “Wow, no wonder that hurt so much. That's a pretty fat one.” Her magic field overcame the lever on the tank and pushed it down, forcing the water to swirl about and suck her waste down the drain. The noise was a bit different than usual, as the toilet had some difficulty sucking the bulk of it away, but to their relief, it managed to do so without clogging.
        “Wait, you're not going to wipe your front?” Shining asked, as he looked at her wet pussy lips underneath her tail up high in the air.
        “Nope!” she replied, wiggling her hips towards him. “It'll take away from the lubrication.”
        Shining Armor contemplated what she meant as she exited the room, then it suddenly clicked. He hoisted his rump off of the floor and hurried out, entering the bedroom just as Cadance pulled her forelegs up onto the mattress. He quickly rushed towards her and put his head underneath her rump,  nudging her all the way onto the bed and making her laugh playfully as she flopped on. He quickly pounced over her back, with his legs straddling both side of her, and began to kiss the side of her neck.
        He would have normally engaged in foreplay for a few minutes, but the circumstances presented made him rush to line his rigid cock up with her wanting, urine-soaked lips. Shining had already fought off one orgasm, and he knew that it was practically a ticking time bomb now, ready to blow at any minute.
        Quickly, Shining pressed his hips forward, and Cadance gasped as the head of his length breached her damp lips, stretching her inner walls out while it plunged deep inside her. His hips made contact with her curvy rump, and she sang out once he was fully inside. The bit of urine still present on the surface of her passage, mixed with fluid her arousal provided, made for impressively smooth thrusts for the stallion. 
Shining loved this mare so much. Her vagina had trained itself over the years to accommodate him nicely, and hugged around his length at just the right times. It knew when he was deepest inside, and when to let go so he could properly slip back and forth. If Shining kept his rhythm steady, he thought he might even be able to last a few minutes longer, for her pleasure.
        “Hey... Shining...?” Cadance asked as she bounced from the force of his length repeatedly thrusting into her.
        “Mm?”
        “You... you like watching me poop...” she said, her voice up an octave.
        Shining's ears twitched, and a spasm began to overcome his erection, pressed fully inside her and motionless. “Cadance...!”
        “You like watching my cute little butt... squeeze out a nice... fat... turd...”
        Shining tried to rear his hips back for another thrust, but only made it back by an inch before he pushed forward again. “Hnn!”
        “You like watching my little hole... stretch open... and see that big, thick brown poke out, and slither out of me...”
        “Haaah...” Shining felt the head of his cock flare, spreading against her wet walls hugging it. Cadance's voice reached a falsetto as she moaned out, and wiggled her rear against his raging shaft.
        “Aaaah, Shining! Mm... mmmf!”
        Shhining opened his eyes momentarily, and watched his wife's rump move against him. She pulled forward just an inch, enough that he could see tight, flawless little donut hole of her ass.
        Pffffrt-pt
        “Nnnn...!” The sight of Cadance's butthole twitching after the sound it made sent a surge up is length that he couldn't fight anymore. Testicles pulled up, and thick ropes of semen escaped his shaft, coating his wife's inner walls still hugging him tightly. “Ahhh! Ah! Haaaaah... ahhh... ugh...” Even after he had finished ejaculating inside her, waves of pleasure rocketed through his groin, making his whole body twitch and shiver in response. “Hmm... mm...” he groaned as he leaned back, his shrinking length slipping out of Cadance. The pull made her squeak as a heavy stream of cum emptied out of her lips and onto the sheets.
        “Ha... ha...” Cadance breathed out as she watched him reel back. Pushing herself up on her forelegs, she heaved herself backwards and pulled herself up to face Shining head on. The stallion laid on his side with his head cradled inside his hooves. “Honey? Are you okay?” She asked him tenderly. 
        “Oh, man...” Shining muttered. “I'm such a freak.”
        “What are you talking about?” Cadance tilted her head in earnest confusion.
        “Just... ugh. What kind of stallion gets off on watching his wife poop?”
        “You do, honey. What's wrong with that?”
        “It's weird!”
        “It's... different, yes. That doesn't mean it's- hey, Shining, look at me.” She reached her hooves up to his face and pushed his down, so that she could see his face. “Do you know why I fell in love with you?”
        “Because up until now, you thought I was normal?”
         Cadance shook her head. “I've met plenty of normal stallions in my life, and they all bored me to tears. I love you because you're different from them. There's no other stallion like you, and that's what I love about you.”
        Shining Armor looked away from her, a look of unease still on his face. “I still think it's a little weird.”
        “Hm... maybe it's a little weird,” she acknowledged, rubbing his hoof in hers. “I think you're using 'weird' in this instance the same way you think something's 'bad'. And trust me, this isn't bad, not even in the slightest way.”
        The nervous stallion looked back at her. “Promise?”
        “I swear to you honey, I'm not bothered by it.”
Upon hearing those words, Shining finally allowed himself to smile, and reached forward to kiss the love of his life. “In fact,” Cadance added, “I think it's a little interesting. I'll have to see what else I can eat to make it come out differently. Ooh, this is going to be fun!”
        Shining Armor leaned his head against her chest as he felt his face turn red. At every instance, she continued to amaze him. How on Earth did a simple unicorn like him get to win the heart of such an amazing princess? He felt his head move gently as Cadance's chest slowly rose.
        Pppuuupupupuput
        “Aah...” Cadance sighed as her behind reeled forward following the sound that had emanated from behind her.
        Shining Armor pulled his head back with an astonished look on his face. “You're never going to hold those back in front of me again, are you?” he asked.
        “I've been holding them back in front of you for years, sweetheart. I've got a lot of time to make up for.”
        Shining Armor smiled and shook his head. “I love you so much, Cadance.”
        “I love you too, Shining Armor.” she replied as the stallion rested his head against her chest once again. The staunch aroma of her blast still hung near her, and filled his nostrils. It sounded a bit strange, but he had yet another addition to make to the list of things he loved about his wife soon.