A wake up call.
Prince Solaris' sun had yet to rise in Equestria, which meant Ponyville was safe from the searing heat of another summer day, for now at least. Over at the town's local farm, Sweet Apple Acres, resting deep within the recesses of the east orchard, lay three sleeping forms; two of the forms were ponies, but not just any ponies, they were the two oldest siblings of the Apple family, Applejack and Macareina, an orange stallion and red mare. The third sleeping mass was the resident, purple scaled dragoness and girlfriend to Applejack, Barb. Macareina and Barb laid snuggled up to either of Applejack's sides, while said stallion had both of his arms around them while he laid back against an apple tree. The three of them were naked and sleeping off the previous afternoon of hours of intense sexual intercourse.
Unbeknownst to the three sleeping figures, a lone cloud hovered over them; on it was a sleeping, cyan furred, rainbow maned stallion who had gotten quite the thrill from watching two of the sexiest girls in town going at it with his friend. The whole town knew this stallion as Rainbow Blitz, the stallion with one of the biggest egos in Equestria. Blitz held his flaccid member in his right hand while he slept with a perverted grin plastered on his face.
On the ground, Applejack stirred as he yawned and looked down to see his sister and his girlfriend slowly awakening.
"Mornin' you two."
"Mornin', lil' bro," the red mare said as she stretched and gave her brother a peck on the lips.
"Morning, baby," the purple dragoness told her boyfriend, giving him the same treatment that Macareina gave him, albeit a much deeper kiss.
After separating from Barb, the stallion made a move to stand up and get his shorts while both of the girls got up to pick up their own clothes, their assets bouncing slightly as they did.
"You know," Barb started. "I had alot of fun yesterday."
Applejack smirked and went over to the Dragoness, placing his arms around her and gripping her scaley ass cheeks. "Ah'm glad ya did, Barb. Ah did, too."
"Eeyup," Macareina agreed.
Barb leaned up to give AJ another kiss, which the stallion all too happily accepted. The red mare off to the side smirked, but she felt something in her neck, causing her to close her eyes and move her head in a circle as she cracked her neck. Once the mare was done, she looked up, relieved from the pressure in her neck, and saw a cloud and, more importantly, she was sure she saw part of a familiar rainbow colored mane hanging over the cloud.
"Sis, whatcha lookin' at?" Applejack asked curiously.
Macareina didn't respond, instead, she kept looking up at the cloud.
"Well, whatever's up there has her attention," Barb stated.
The other two looked up and sighed as they saw the same tuft of mane Macareina saw.
"Yah've gotta be kiddin' me." Applejack facepalmed.
"What d'ya mean, brother?" Macareina asked.
"Dusk has been getting a bunch of complaints about fly boy being a pervert, and spying on all the mares in town when they're about to shower or have sex," Barb said as she copied AJ and put her hand to her face.
"And he always tries to come back."
"He does?" the red mare asked as she took her attention away from the cloud Blitz was sleeping on.
Barb only replied with a growl.
"Ah'm gonna pound some sense into him one of these days," The orange stallion said as he looked around for something to throw at Blitz.
"Ah think Ah might be able to... do... somethin'..." the red mare started, but stopped as she and her brother noticed the purple dragoness' mouth lighting up with green fire.
"I'll just burn him a little," Barb said coldly.
"Barb, just calm down; Ah wanna hurt him fer spyin' on us, too. But tryin' to burn him ain't the answer."
"We can't let him just get out of this with something we all know he's just gonna shrug off after a couple of days." the dragoness hmmphed and snuffed the fire in her mouth.
"Ah think Ah might have an idea where he won't tell anypony and he won't walk outta this unscathed," the crimson mare off to the side said.
The stallion was curious. "And what might that be, sis?"
"Yea, what's the plan?"
Macareina thought about it for a moment and smiled deviously. "You just let me worry 'bout it."
"If ya say so, sis," AJ replied.
Barb caught a whiff of something in the air. "I think we could use showers."
"Ya got that right, Barb. Why don't we just get dressed after our shower? Pappy and Buck ain't even up yet."
The dragoness gave her coltfriend a seductive stare, walking up to him and kissing him on the lips. He returned the kiss in kind and, once again, put his hands on Barb's ass cheeks, causing her to jump up and wrap her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck, with their clothes in one of her hands, all the while starting to grind into his hardening member. Macareina could only chuckle as she watched her brother carrying his frisky girlfriend towards the house, and no doubt getting warmed up for some fun in the shower.
After the stallion and dragoness were out of her sight, the mare set her plan in motion; she looked around for something to throw at the stallion above her and wake him up. A breif moment later, she bucked an apple out of a nearby tree and brought it down towards her marehood, using her free hand to stimulate herself and drip her juices onto the apple. When she was sure it was ready, she mustered some of her earth pony strength and hurled the red fruit up at the cloud, sending it through the fluffy mass and landing on Bliz's stomach.
The rainbow maned stallion jolted awake when he felt something land on him and looked around before looking at what woke him up. He smirked to himself and was about to take a bite, when he smelled an enticing scent, the scent of a mare that was wet in the right place. Blitz took a quick lick of the apple and bit down into it, savoring the combined taste of the apple and the mare's juices coating it.
"Well, I could get used to eating a mare flavored apple." Blitz chuckled to himself as he was still chewing the apple.
The stallion's ears perked up when he heard the unmistakable sound of feminine moaning and he looked down to see something that made his morning, Macareina, laying on the ground, touching her snatch and her breasts while moaning loudly. Blitz only watched as he took another bite of his treat and felt his 'little blitz' starting to harden at the show the red earth mare below him was putting on. "She must've given this to me so she could give me an early morning show." He snickered at his comment.
"Mmmph... o-oh, fuck. Ah wish Ah had a stallion down here!" Macareina moaned out as she continued putting on a show for her unsuspecting target.
'Yeah, you know you want this, you little slut.' Blitz thought as he stroked himself up to full mast and tossed his savory treat over the side of the cloud as he stood up and took off from the cloud, gliding down towards the naked mare on the ground, while his shorts were just barely hanging onto his left leg and were ready to just fall off.
As soon as his feet hit the ground, Blitz lifted his leg out of his shorts, but kept his tank top on, and walked towards the mare in front of him, his member bobbing ever so slightly. He loved girls that had big chests and Macareina was a favorite of his, seeing her E-cup bust just made him want to grip those red tits as hard as he could and make her scream as he fucked her brains out. As the stallion was in front of Macareina, the red mare stopped fingering herself and licked her juices off of her fingers, gazing seductively at what was in front of her.
"Well, howdy, fly boy."
The stallion started pumping his raging erection in his hand, getting it ready for what he thought would be an easy score. "You've got a wet pussy and I've got a hard-on; we both know where this is gonna head, babe. Why don't you spread 'em for me a little bit more so I can tap your snatch?"
"Ah did say Ah needed a stallion t' buck me, but what makes ya think yer that stallion?" she said huskily as she got back to her feet, with her bosom bouncing a little.
"I know I can last longer at fucking a damn fine mare than your brother can," he proudly boasted.
"Ah'm sure ya could, but, before we find out, Ah've got a surprise for ya," the red country mare said while moving forward a bit.
"And what're you gonn- Oof!" the stallion groaned out as he was punched in the gut and bent over holding it with his hands, and just as he was about to lift his head up to ask the mare what her problem was, he found himself knocked upside the head by said mare and fell to the ground, where he lost consciousness.
Macareina looked down at her victim. 'By the time Ah'm done with you, fly boy, yer gonna wish ya hadn't spied on me, AJ and Barb.' She then proceeded to hoist the unconscious pegasus stallion up over her shoulders, and walk towards the barn.
"Ugh... my head." he groaned as he woke up. "I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind when I find her."
The cyan stallion tried to get up, but he found himself bound to a chair, with his arms tied behind the chair, his wings tied behind his back, and his feet tied to the front legs of the chair. Blitz tried using his strength to bust the ropes that had him bound, but said ropes wouldn't even budge. He looked around, his eyes scanning through the dim light for any sign of a certain red mare in the early morning, only to be interrupted when he heard the barn door open and close.
"Well, Ah'm mighty glad to see yer up." she smirked.
Blitz tried wiggling in his chair to bust out of his ropes and get in the mare's face. "What's your deal, huh!? Untie me now before you have to deal with all this awesome!"
"Yeah, that ain't gonna happen." the crimson mare smirked as she stepped in front of the stallion, exposed in all of her curvaceous glory that made his hard on return.
"And why not?"
"'Cause Ah'm here t' deliver somethin' fer ya that'll set ya straight. Yer such an airhead; goin' 'round and spyin' on all of the mares in town like the pervert that you are, just hopin' that you'll get you some'a that. Well, lemme tell you that it ain't gonna happen again." she said as she raised her hand and slapped Blitz hard across the face
"Aggh! Bitch, the ladies know they want it, and I sure as hell can give it to 'em better than any other stallion out there, even A-"
*Slap!*
"That's enough talkin'. And, that's another reason Ah've gotcha here right now, cause ya did yer thing and spied on me, Barb and AJ," the country mare said in an icy tone as she left another mark on Blitz' face.
"I don't know what you're talking about, babe." he grit teeth as he fought back yelling out at the second slap Macareina gave him while still trying to play it cool.
*Slap!*
"Didn't ya just say that the mares know they wanted ya t' buck 'em silly? And yer tellin' me that ya weren't sleepin' on a cloud that was floatin' right over mah head not even 15 minutes ago?"
He felt as though his head would snap off from another slap, but said nothing.
Macareina crossed her arms, lifting her cleavage a bit. "So, it's the silent treatment, huh, flyboy? Then, how do ya like this?"
Without warning the she kicked her left leg out, breaking the back legs on his chair, causing it and the stallion on it to fall backwards onto the floor. Blitz winced in pain as he felt his arms get buried under the combined weight of his body and the chair he was bound to. "Fine, I did see you when I was flying around, so I just wanted to see the show you were putting on for me," Blitz admitted.
"See, was that so hard?" she teased.
The next thing the cyan stallion knew, he had his feet untied as he was lifted from the chair, but thrown back onto the ground. He felt relieved to know that the red mare had a little mercy in her, but he became nervous as she loomed over him.
"So, I told you what I did, are you gonna let me go now?" he asked, confused.
"Nope, Ah said Ah'm gonna punish ya fer bein' such a pervert, and Ah meant it. So, just stay right there and we can get started," the apple mare spoke sternly, then squatted down by Blitz's side.
The cyan stallion could only watch as the red mare extended her hand and grabbed his still, surprsingly, hard member, the only thing keeping it erect was the sight of such a sexy mare in his field of vision. Macareina cooed as she started to stroke the raging, cyan hard-on in front of her, eliciting a groan here and there from Blitz. "Ah... fuck," was all he could muster up the strength to say. "Y'know, fly boy, yer not as big as mah brother, but you still have a decent size... fer an airhead."
Girl, I'm j-just...getting started," muttered a pleasure drunk Blitz, who was enjoying the skilled hand of Macareina. To him, this would be a punishment to remember.
"And so am Ah," she shot back, unraveling her tongue and trailing it over the the sensitive head of the stallion's member.
Blitz's whole body spasmed as he felt his punisher flicking her tongue over his cock and making him groan a tiny bit louder with each swipe of the slippery appendage over the tip. The red mare upped the ante on her captive by trailing down to the base of the shaft and licking her way up from there. The jolts of pleasure the mildly beaten stallion felt surged up his spine, causing him to buck his hips impatiently. Sensing her captive's hip movements, she engulfed the throbbing member whole, nearly making him cum right then and there.
"Mmmph," was all the mare with cock stuffed in her mouth could say as she bobbed her head up and down on the throbbing erection, and used her teeth to very lightly touch the sides of the shaft.
"Hnngg... hnng, a-ah...damn, that's one awesome mouth you've got. I'm pretty damn close."
Bobbing her head even harder a few times, she felt the erection pulsing as it fired the first of many shots down her gullet, savoring the taste washing over her tongue as she swallowed around it.
Blitz groaned out loudly as he filled Macareina's mouth with his spunk, and by seeing her focusing on swallowing his load, he knew he would be at this for a while.
Disengaging her mouth from the shaft with a 'pop', the red mare stroked it back to its original stiffness. "Well, Ah didn't remember tellin' you you could cum just yet, but Ah think we can solve this here problem."
"What do you have in mind?"
The stallion's question was answered by the mare grabbing her bosom and licking her nipples and tweaking them with her fingers, making sure they were hard. She then proceeded to envelop her mind blowing rack around the shaft in front of her. "How 'bout if you last longer than ya did when Ah sucked you off, Ah'll give ya a little treat. But, if ya blow yer load early, we're just gonna keep at this till ya git it right. Sound fair?"
"W-What happened earlier was... just luck, but I'll take you up on that," he let his ego speak for him.
"Huh, ya just told me mah mouth got ya pretty damn close, ya sure ya ain't bluffin'?" She teased.
The stallion could only give his signature, cocky grin. "Bitch, I'm not bluffing. Bring it."
"Alright then. But remember, you asked for it. And one more thing," the mare spoke.
"Wha-ahh!" he cried out as he felt a fist connect with his left eye.
"Call me bitch again, and Ah'm gonna have t' beat some sense into ya."
"Bit-"
"What was that?" she glared.
"N-Nothing... just saying sorry," he strained out as he felt his eye start to swell.
"Heh, that's what Ah thought, now onto the real fun."
With that said, the mare went back to her original intentions and began moving her rack up and down the stallion's shaft, being sure to lick at the head each and every time it popped out of her cleavage. She kicked up her tit fuck a gear by holding her arms to the sides of her breasts, squishing them tighter around the throbbing erection nestled between them, and bouncing her clevage just a bit so the mammaries were bouncing in circles, leaving Blitz hypnotized by the red, squishy orbs with erect pink nipples.
"Hnnng, o-oh... damn it to Tatarus, I'm getting close again,"
Macareina let out a satisfied smirk. "Yer close, huh, fly boy? What happened to not bluffin'?"
"Well," he began. "how can you expect me to not cum when I've got a drop-dead sexy mare in front of me, usin' the goods on my dick?"
"That's mighty nice of yah t' say, but it ain't gonna hold back another one of yer loads, but Ah do 'ppreciate the effort."
"Hnng... I-I can say how h-hot a mare is can-can't... angh," the cyan stallion groaned out as he released another load of his seed all over the chest of the mare, leaving the red, furry orbs with a slightly sticky mess on them, only for that mess to be licked up by said mare.
Seeing Blitz panting and his cock going flacid, Macareina finished licking up the spunk that covered her chest and used her mounds to stroke her victim's softening member back up. The panting stallion gasped when he felt his cock being stroked by the awesome red orbs in front of him again, feeling himself quickly rising up to blowing another load, but he calmed himself, not wanting to let the mare one-up him. Upon seeing him concentrating on not blowing his load, said mare had a smirk on her face from seeing the pegasus' face contorting as she continued her handiwork on him.
"You gettin' close again, fly boy?" she asked in a sultry tone.
"N-Not as... close a-a-as you... think."
"Then, maybe yah wouldn't mind if Ah went harder?"
It was Blitz's turn to smirk, albeit weakly. "B-Bring... it."
Hearing him say those words made the mare squeeze her tits tighter around the cyan shaft enveloped between them. She used her hands to move her rack up and down at a faster pace, making the stallion almost instantly regret being lured in as he felt the same pressure from his previous orgasm building to its breaking point.
"Oh, f-fuck... this is so d-damn good," Blitz said as he knew he would last just as long as he did with an earlier ejaculation.
Macareina had a devilish grin adorned on her face. "So, Ah've only used mah tits on ya once already, and yer tellin' me that yer gonna cum so soon?"
Her victim only groaned and nodded, feeling her only moving her assets even harder and faster on his raging erection, making him cum moments after; this load managing to spray the red mare's face.
Macareina gasped a little when she felt Blitz's third load coat her face as well as her rack, a strand shooting over her left eye and down her cheek.
"Mmm, ain't that bad," the mare boasted as some of the seed trickled down her face, and into her mouth.
The rainbow maned stallion went into another session of heavy breathing. "I-Is... that all... you got?"
"Still rarin' to go, huh, fly boy?"
"O-Only if you... can handle all this... awesome."
"Y'know what they say: Third time's the charm," Macareina teased.
"Yea, for me," Blitz shot back.
"We'll see then, won't we?" the mare said through her half lidded right eye, conveying the sulty expression she was giving off.
"I can take it; I'm awesome like that," he said in his famous, cocky tone.
Without another word, Macareina exchanged a smirk with her victim, both ready and raring to see if Blitz could really last longer than the last two times he had his shaft enveloped between the two squishy, red orbs.
Tightening her furry assets back around the shaft between them, the mare started moving her rack up and down the stallion's throbbing erection, lowering her head to suck and lick the tip of the member each and every time it popped up.
He could tell Macareina was going all out on this round, making sure he would miss out on a treat by blowing his load too early; just like the previous two sessions. The very thought of the big titted country mare purposely inducing his climax during the first two times had the stallion fighting back on this one; he was the one and only Rainbow Blitz, and he wasn't just gonna lay there and take it. No, he was gonna show this mare that he could last. He began bucking his hips up each and every time the furry orbs came down, surprising the mare with the feeling of his hips jutting up against her cleavage.
"Now, that's what Ah like to see, fly boy; a stallion who knows just not to lay there and take it."
He didn't respond; instead, he bucked his hips up harder against the rack surrounding his cock.
She started bouncing her rack up and down again, making a slapping sound each and every time the cyan stallion's hips jutted up. "Ah'm willin' to bet that ya wanna buck as hard as ya can against mah tits, huh?" she teased.
He only brought his hips down to the ground for a brief moment, and bucked up even harder, signaling her that he was still hot and raring to go. The mare started grinding her rack harder than the first two times over the stallion's shaft, eager to see what he had in him.
"Ha... ha," Blitz huffed out. "If that's the best you can give my cock this time around, I've got you where I want you."
"Oh, really? Cause, from the way Ah see it, Ah've gotcha where Ah want ya." Macareina smirked as she kept her bosom moving, making the stallion shudder from her skill.
He could only smirk. "Well, I think I just... OUTLasted the... fuck... the f-f-first two times you've had my dick in between th-those awesome boobs."
"Ah'd say ya have, fly boy; Ah haven't gotten any more of the good stuff outta ya yet, but, give it a lil' bit more and we'll see about that treat Ah promised ya."
He only grunted as he thrust his hips up, and groaned as he felt her using her rack to milk his cock for everthing it had in it; he felt drool going out of the side of his mouth just from thinking about what kind of reward he would get.
The red mare's eyes lit up with satisfaction as she felt the cyan stallion's body quiver, causing his hips to go even faster than his mind could keep up with. With a final thrust between the red, furry orbs,"Ugh." he came again, this ejaculation spewing out more of his spunk over the mare's chest than the first two times; the mare on the recieving end relishing the feeling of her chest being covered in it.
"W-Well," he panted out. "How'd I do?"
His answer came in the form of Macareina putting her mouth over his cockhead, licking away any cum still on it, and giving it a kiss. "Good boy," was all she said. "Now, Ah hope yer ready for yer treat. Trust me; Ah think you'll love it."
With that said, she brought her hands up to her mounds, running her fingers through the spunk coating them and bringing it to her mouth, savoring the taste of a cocky, cyan stallion. Blitz only watched as Macareina put on her erotic display of running her fingers through the spunk, causing his flaccid member to harden again, making him eager to see more from her.
When she was finished licking up the spunk, she gave a few licks and sucks on her nipples before sauntering over to him until she was standing over his face, her legs on both sides of his head and her pussy in plain view for him to see, making his mouth water in anticipation for an actual taste of earth pony snatch.
"Now," began the mare. "Yah wanna have a taste'a mah drippin' pussy, don'tcha?"
He nodded at her statement, ready to enjoy the taste of some juicy apple pussy, only to be confused when she leered over him with a serious expression.
"Ah did say Ah'd give ya a treat, but it ain't what you think it's gonna be." she smiled deviously.
He only looked at her with more confusion, "What are you getting at?
"Yer 'reward' is to give me a rim job, and, if'n yah do a good job and make me cum, Ah'll really letcha have a taste of mah drippin' cunt."
"Ugh, I hate giving rimjo-" Blitz said until he was interrupted by Macareina lowering her ass down over his face, with her puckering star going over his mouth. He tried to say something else, but his tongue ended up caressing the flesh of the red mare's back door, causing her to start pushing her ass further into his face.
"Mmm... yea, fly boy, keep it goin' and don't stop till Ah cum," She moaned out as she clenched her sphincter tightly around Blitz's tongue and brought her left hand down to her pussy, teasing and pinching her clit.
"Mmmphh," he grunted angrily at not getting a taste of what he really wanted. 'You're lucky you've got me doing th- his thought was interrupted when he felt a pair of lips going around his cock again, sucking hard once again on the throbbing phallus.
"O-Oh yea, fly boy, keep goin'; Ah'm fuckin' close," the mare moaned as she took her mouth from his cock for a brief moment before diving right back in, and pushing her ass even harder into his face.
Blitz groaned as he felt himself quickly catching up to her, bucking into her mouth, and forgetting about how much he hated rimjobs to eat out her plot with more ambition.
"Ugh, fuck!" she moaned out as she came, also feeling the cyan stallion eating out her ass with more ferocity and letting loose his own load, all over her face.
The crimson mare fell to the floor on her back, laying there panting along with the cyan stallion.
"Hey, fly boy, you still with me?" she asked.
"Y--Yea," he panted out.
"Care t'... have a taste'a mah pussy fer real this time?"
He only nodded, his body feeling like it just lifted a dragon.
Without another word from Macareina, said mare crawled her way over to Blitz again, getting up on her knees and hoisting one leg over his face, letting him see her dripping pussy again, dripping in anticipation.
"Get ready, fly boy, cause Ah hope yer ready."
With that said, she lowered her dripping snatch down over his face, finally letting him have a taste of the flowing apple juices from her nethers. Macareina almost instantly rolled her hips against his mouth, relishing the feeling of Blitz's tongue assaulting her inner walls, and retracting every now and then to flick and tease her clit; the sensations driving the mare wild as she leaned down to play with the throbbing erection waving in front of her face again.
Giving into her lust for fellatio, she put her mouth back onto the throbbing appendage, flicking her tongue over the head each time she bobbed back up, and moaning as she was eaten out.
"Mmmph," they both moaned out at the service they gave each other.
Taking her mouth from the cock slowly, she inched foward a bit and wrapped her tits around it once more, making sure to keep her pussy close enough for Blitz to keep up his cunnulingus.
"O-Oh... oh fuck! Ah bet ya wish ya had Glide's pussy on yer face right now, don'tcha, fly boy? Y'know that wonderbolt mare ya keep talkin' 'bout?!" She loudly moaned out as she ground her hips harder against his face and her tits harder against his dick.
"Mmmpph," he just groaned out as he felt that incredible cleavage surrounding his cock once again while his tongue kept up its assault on the dripping pussy, licking even harder and faster.
"If'n that's the case, then make me cum!" she screamed out as she felt her climax coming, the body of the stallion below her shaking, signaling that he was close once again.
Blitz lost it as he felt Macariena's orgasm splash all over his face. "UNG!" he groaned out as he unleashed his biggest load of the punishment all over the her chest and face.
After they both calmed down from their highs, they both lay on the ground, panting lightly with sweat all over their bodies. Macariena's face and chest were smothered with the load of cum that Blitz just unleashed, enjoying the globs covering her upper body.
"A-Ah think... that oughta do it fer... yer punishment," she uttered out as she stood up and looked over him.
"M-me... too, I had... fun, Mac-" was all he said before he passed out from exhaustion, his body racked with sweat, and a few good sized bruises over his face, the biggest being on his left eye.
Flipping the stallion over on his stomach, the mare began untying the ropes from around his arms and wings, leaving small impressions in the fur and feathers. She then managed to gather her strength and hoist him over her shoulders, keeping him from hitting the ground.
As she walked towards the barn door, she looked back at the part of the floor where she gave her punishment, smirking a little as she turned her head forwards and walked out of the door, straight in the direction of the rising sun.
"Sleep well, fly boy." she uttered.
Blitz woke up, panting a little as he tried remembering where he was. The pain that he felt on the left side of his face came back full force, making him remember what happened. He found himself laid back against an apple tree, and also found that his lower half was clothed again, but he also found a slip of paper sitting in his lap.
Howdy, fly boy,
I hope ya had fun durin' this lil' session of ours; sorry if I hurt ya too much, but let this be a warning. If ya spy on us again, I'm gonna let Barb and AJ have a go at ya, and I can promise they won't be as nice about it as I was.
Stay out of trouble.Your punisher,
Macareina.
P.S. If ya happen to find yourself by me, and you want to have some fun, just ask.
"Ugh, my head hurts, but I think I can live with it," he said as he stood up and took off, taking his cloud with him to go back into town and spy on some hot girls getting ready for their day.