It's Not Creepy (It's Sweet)

by Captain_Hairball

First published

Having a foal has slowed down Shining Armor and Cadence’s sex life. Unfortunately for Shining Armor, there are only two mares who Cadence trusts enough to help take care of her husband’s needs — Twilight Sparkle and Twilight Velvet.

Having a foal has slowed down Shining Armor and Cadence's sex life. Fortunately for Shining Armor, Cadence understands that stallions have needs and she wants to make sure her husband is satisfied while she's recovering from foalbirth. Unfortunately for Shining Armor, there are only two mares in the world she trusts to help her with such an important task — Twilight Sparkle and Twilight Velvet.

Squick/Trigger Warning: contains incest. Lots and lots and lots of incest, sibling and inter-generational, with more implicit in the backstory.

Fetish List: Incest — obviously — plus m/f/f bisexual horse sex, swinging married couple, MILF, seduction (female seduces male), male solo, lingerie, glasses, wet and messy, light mom-dom, light magic sex (restraint and spanking), oral, anal, and vaginal sex, cum swapping, underwater blowjob, and lots and lots of sex talk.

Not in continuity with Twilight Gets Her Data On — Shinny gets his innocence destroyed all over again in this story!


Edited by Cerulean Starlight

He's Always Been a Mama's Boy

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“But I thought we agreed she was going to sleep with us!” Shining Armor was sitting on the imperial canopy bed, watching Cadence levitate the sleeping Flurry Heart while she got a few things for the night.

Cadence shook her head. “Flurry can sleep with us most nights. But we’ve been through a lot the past few weeks and you need to rest, okay?”

Shining narrowed his eyes. “You need the rest more than I do. You just had a foal! You shouldn’t be staying up!”

“I’ve had rest. It’s your turn. We’re in this together.” She kissed him on the forehead. “Though I don’t know how much you’re actually gonna sleep tonight.” Cadence gave him a strange, sly smile.

“What exactly do you mean by that?” asked Shining, suddenly suspicious.

Cadence floated Shining’s beautiful, perfect little daughter over for him to kiss. He pecked her on the forehead, and she cooed and stirred in her sleep. “Your mother and your sister wanted to stop by before they left. They have a little surprise for you.”

Shining raised an eyebrow. “What kind of a surprise?”

Cadence gave him that strange slow smile again. “You’ll see. I wouldn’t want to spoil it. But they told me all about it, and I think it’s an excellent idea. Anyway, I’ll be with Sunburst and the nurse if you need me. Don’t have too much fun!” She kissed him, and with that she was out the door.

The gears in Shining’s head ground, trying to sort that interaction with Cadey out. It was a struggle — he hadn’t slept a full night through since Flurry had been born, and clear thought was difficult. His wife’s smile hadn’t made any sense — that was a sex smile. Why would Cadey give him a sex smile before going off to leave him alone with his mother and sister? He flopped his head down on the bed and grumped. Sex. Pregnancy had killed his normally randy and ready Cadey’s sex drive (bad luck — some pregnant mares couldn’t get enough, but not his wife!), and now that the baby was here there wasn’t a lot of time for that kind of thing. And even if there were, it would be months before Cadey’s sweet little pony pussy was healed up enough for any fun.

It was worth it, though. Shining was a very proud daddy — how many fathers could say that their daughter had almost destroyed an empire at less than a week old? She was going to be an awesome kid. Dangerous, but awesome.

Still. He was horny! Maybe he’d have a quick clop before he fell asleep. Or maybe not. His porn stash was up in his secret office in the restricted wing of the Imperial Library, and try as he might he couldn’t summon mental images hot enough to get himself to more than half mast. “Come on, little Shiny. We both need this.” He ran the frogs of his hooves across the squishy length of cock nestled against his belly. It felt good, but it didn’t generate any more blood flow. He reached down to cup his balls with one hoof, jiggling them from side to side while the frog of the other hoof pressed against his flare, simulating Cadey’s oral sex technique. He thought about that little pink mouth struggling around the end of his massive cock, her drool rolling down the shaft as she bobbed…

There was a knock on the door. Oh shit. Twi and Mom were coming up! How could he forget that?

“BBBFF? Can we come in?”

“Just a second! Just a second!” Shining rushed to the bedchamber’s bathroom to wash his hooves, then hopped back on the bed, hiding his huge, pulsing cobalt blue dick beneath his barrel. Oh, sure, he thought. Now you’re hard. “Let yourselves in!”

Twilight peeked her head shyly through the door, a lovely little blush on her round cheeks. Ah, Twily. He’d always harbored a more than brotherly love for his dorky, curvy younger sister, but that sort of thing just wasn’t right, so he tried not to think about it. “Everything all right in here?” she said.

“Yep. Everything aboveboard and not awkward at all. I’m just really tired, or I’d get up to let you in.” Wait. Why was she blushing? Had she heard him jerking off?

The double doors swung open. What the actual buck?

“My big, strong son. How does it feel to be a daddy?” Twilight Velvet sashayed in, beaming with a mother’s love. Or, sort of a mother’s love?

“I’m so happy for you!” said Twilight, hopping up on the bed to the left of to her brother. “This is such an exciting time!”

“It is,” said Velvet with a nostalgic smile. “I remember the night you were born, Shiny. I took one look at you and knew you were destined for greatness.” She climbed up onto the bed on his right side, and nestled against Shiny so that he was sandwiched between the two mares. And he was very aware of them being mares, and not just family, not least of all because of the way they were dressed.

“Um, Mom? Twily?”

“Yes, son?”

“What is it, BBBFF?”

“Why are you both wearing sexy nighties?”

They both wore matching light purple bits of floaty lace, filmy and soft, ending halfway up their croups to draw attention their plump, wide, smoothly curved buttocks. Twilight was wearing barrel-high lace stockings and a choker set off by a little bow. Velvet was dressed more simply, but was wearing a string of pearls around her neck. Both of them had their manes in pigtails, and, as he turned his gaze back and forth between them like a mule between two haystacks (racist metaphor; he made a mental note never to say that out loud), they both reached behind their bodies and pulled out horn-rimmed reading glasses.

It was as if they knew his list of secret sexual fetishes. They knew! How could they know? There was only one pony that knew he liked all those those things. And incest. There was definitely only one pony who knew he harbored secret incest fantasies. That kinky bitch!

“Cadence… Cadence…” Shining struggled to find his voice. How could this be happening to him?

“She’s really sorry she hasn’t been able to satisfy you lately,” purred Velvet, running her hoof through her son’s chest fluff and looking at him over the tops of her glasses. “She knows stallions have powerful needs, and she doesn’t want you to be deprived.”

Twilight chimed in cheerily. “But she didn’t want to give you over to some street hussy or a palace maid. You need ponies who know you! Who understand you! And who are highly motivated not to tattle imperial bedroom secrets to the tabloids!” She grinned wide and toothily, bouncing up and down beside him. “And that describes us perfectly!”

“What… what about Dad?” said Shining.

Twilight Velvet pinched a tuft of her son’s neck fur between her teeth and pulled gently. “You mean my cousin Night Light?” she said between bites. “He’s fine with it. He says I deserve my turn.”

“Really, BBBFF, if you’d done any research into family history, you’d know that incest is an institution in the Sparkle line. Our family tree looks like a cat’s cradle! It’s a miracle any of us even have our eyes on the right side of our heads, at this point. Let alone are the heroic geniuses we actually are. I think some genetic conventional wisdom needs re-examining.”

Shining eyed Twilight sidelong. “Don’t tell me you and Dad…”

Twilight blushed brightly and looked away from him. “Yeah. He was my first!”

“Blaugh!” said Shining.

“It’s an ancient unicorn tradition that fathers deflower their daughters!” protested Twilight.

Shining Armor snorted, nostrils flaring. “Well, the ancient unicorns were vile, and it’s not one I’ll be carrying on.”

Twilight Velvet rolled over on her back, arching her plump belly at him. “We’ll see how you feel in eighteen years, hmmm?”

Shining buried his face in the sheets. “Fine! Fine! I’ll have sex with you two! But for buck’s sake stop talking about Flurry that way! I’m starting to get peeved!”

“Son! Language!”

“Sorry, Mom.”

“It’s all right. Now give Mommy a kiss.”

Shining closed his eyes and took a deep breath, leaning towards Velvet just the slightest bit and letting his mother take the initiative. He felt the familiar feeling of her lips against his — Sparkles had never been shy about kissing on the mouth — then the thrilling tingle of an older mare’s experienced tongue. His mouth opened of its own accord, letting Velvet’s tongue flick across the tip of his. He wrapped his lips around her tongue, sucking it gently as it caressed his own.

A hoof thumped his opposite shoulder. “Don’t hog him, Mom! Let me have a turn!”

Velvet broke the kiss. “Twilight Millicent Sparkle! We do not talk to our mother like that!”

Twilight ducked her head. “I’m sorry, Mom.”

“Ask nicely,” said Velvet.

“May I please kiss my brother on the mouth, Mom?”

Velvet smirked, looking at her children over the tops of her glasses. “As long as you use tongue, yes.”

Shining Armor turned to Twilight. She was grinning and blushing up at him, eyes dancing behind her glasses as they looked him over. “You heard Mom, BBBFF. Kiss me, and make it sloppy.” He leaned down, and their tongues wrapped around each other, making wet slurping noises as they slid in and out of each other’s mouths. Drops of drool fell onto the bedsheets. Shining’s cock pulsed under his belly, squirting pre. It had never been harder. He rolled his tongue into a cylinder and pushed it into Twilight’s mouth to the top of her throat. She sucked it hard, without gagging. He began to hump the bed.

“Twilight, sweetie,” said Velvet, “your brother looks like he’s suffering. Should we give him relief?”

“Certainly not!” said Twilight, after nipping Shining’s tongue so hard he gave a muffled yelp of pain and covered his mouth with his hooves. “It’s way too soon. Anyway, I think we could get him way hornier.”

“Really,” said Velvet, flopping on her side on the bed. “And how do you think we could make little Shiny so horny he begs for release?”

“Oh, I think I know a way.” Twilight smirked, and her horn glowed, lifting Shining Armor up and setting him up against the headboard.

“Twily, what are you doing!” said Shining, fumbling with his hooves to cover the massive, dripping erection that his sitting position revealed.

“You’ll see. Just sit back and enjoy, BBBFF.”

Twilight and her mother scooted across the sheets until they were lying side by side on top of the damp spot from Shining’s pre. Their tongues slopped and slurped against each other, drooling heedlessly, adding to the mess on the sheets. Shining Armor moaned, and the hooves that had been trying to hide his massive erection began to slide up and down, frogs running along the sensitive shaft. Velvet bit her daughter’s jaw, then her throat, then her chest. She kissed her belly through her nightie, then nuzzled up under its lower edge. Her nostrils flared as she inhaled her daughter’s scent.

“Oh, sweetie, your pussy smells just like a little flower. And such lovely purple lips! You must take such good care of it!” she said, stroking the insides of Twilight’s thighs.

“You taught me everything I know!”

“You know it,” purred Velvet. “May Mommy lick it?”

Twilight grinned. “Please do!” She spread her legs wide and settled her forehooves on the back of Velvet’s head as she began to nose gently at her daughter’s pussy. Shining Armor leaned forward and to the side to get a better look, mouth hanging open in awe as Velvet slid her tongue over her daughter’s purple lips, and then flicked the tip against her clit.

Twilight shivered, and gasped. “Oh, Mom!”

“Tell me what you want, sweetie.”

“I want you to make me come, Mom. I want it so bad.”

“How do we ask?”

“Please make me come. Please?” Twilight looked down her barrel at her mother, eyes wide, trembling, desperate. Velvet giggled and buried her little muzzle in her daughter’s snatch, grinding her nose against the clit while her tongue probed deep inside her. The purple princess arched her back, one wing waving in the air, one hind leg kicking. Shining Armor gulped. Lust tingled through his body; his heart was hammering and his cock was pulsing. At the same time, he felt sickened by the grotesque spectacle of watching his mother eat his sister’s pussy. It was… it was wrong. He glanced at the door. Maybe he should make a bolt for it?

Then he felt Twilight’s magic grip around his neck like an iron collar.

“Your cock. My mouth. Now,” commanded his little sister. His legs swam helplessly in the air as she lifted him up and hauled him over her face. Perfect purple lips closed over his flare, and he gasped as silky wetness wrapped around him.

“Twily! Oh, Faust, Twily, your mouth… It’s amazing!” Her magic closed in like a sleeve around the part of the shaft she couldn’t fit in her mouth, pumping it vigorously, compelling him to hump her face. A flat paddle of magical force came down on his cutie mark, leaving a burning pain. His ass muscles bunched and churned, making his cock pump deep into Twilight’s face and come out glistening with spit. He looked down between his legs to see his sister looking lovingly up at him, bubbly drool frothing around her lips as his mammoth cobalt shaft rammed in and out of her mouth. Further back he could see his mother’s ass wiggling happily as she chowed down on Twilight’s pussy, making wet smacking noises.

“You two… you two are under some kind of spell,” ranted Shining Armor. “You must be under a spell. A horny spell or something. Do they make those? They must. I’ll find a counter-spell, I promise! I’ll have Starburst help!”

Twilight’s face contorted in pleasure as her mother guided her into a violent, thrashing orgasm. Shining Armor watched as those chubby purple thighs clamped down on Velvet’s head, squeezing her ears flat, holding her there for almost two minutes until her shaking subsided. A shove of magic flipped Shining onto his back, cock exiting Twilight’s mouth with a pop and bobbing in the air over his barrel, gleaming wetly.

Twilight squealed. “Oh, mom, that was amazing! I literally felt my soul leave my body!” She hopped up on her haunches. “Like, literally! I literally experienced the ‘little death’. Can we do that again with me hooked up to a thaumoencephalogram?”

“I think that might kill the mood a little, sweetie,” said Velvet, producing a handkerchief and daintily wiping Twilight’s mare goo from her lips. “Anyway, of course it was amazing. I was licking mares before you were a perverted twinkle in your father’s eyes.” She glanced sideways at Shining Armor, who was lying with his hooves in the air, chest heaving as he stared at them. “I think it’s time, don’t you?”

Twilight grinned. “Oh, indubitably. Which end do you want?”

Velvet gave Twilight a slow smile, stood up on the bed, and strutted over to squat over her son’s face. Shiny let out a low moan of lust and despair. “Oh… Mom…” he groaned.

“Do you like it, sweetie?” she said, spreading the lips open with her magic. “You came out of there, you know. You were not gentle with your horn, let me tell you.”

Shining Armor had to admit it was a beautiful flower. Light gray pubic fluff framed full, glossy, dark gray lips. Her inner lips were a rich pink, framing a tiny hole that he couldn’t believe had born two foals. He inhaled. Copper and wine. He leaned his head forward and ran his tongue through her wetness. She arched her back in pleasure.

“Oh, Son!” she wailed.

“Oh… oh Mom.” smack “I love you…” slurp “…so much.” All of his guilt and shame fell away as he lost himself in the silky texture of his mother’s pussy. He licked and licked, working his way closer and closer to her clit. Then he felt a hot, punishingly tight wetness close over the end of his cock and he freaked out again.

Twily!” He shouted.

“Are you all right, sweetie?” said Velvet.

He looked up at his mother. “Mom, I want this, but I need to see her face while we do it.”

Twilight Velvet blushed, and stroked her son’s sticky face. “I’m sorry. I should have known. You two have always been so special to each other.” She rolled off to one side, a hoof drifting between her thick, maternal thighs. “You don’t mind if I watch, do you?”

“No, Mom,” he whispered, staring at his sister with fascination. She had mounted him in reverse cowfilly style, fat purple cheeks resting on his lean white belly. She was looking over her shoulder at him, though, her eyes full of love as she lifted up and turned around without ever fully dismounting. “Twily,” he said, looking into her violet, almond-shaped eyes.

“Oh, BBBFF!” she groaned, churning her hips, soft belly jiggling gently as she rose and fell. “I don’t want to come between you and your wife… but I love you. I love you so much.”

“I love you too,” said Shiny. “More than anyone else in the world.”
Twilight sniffled and wiped a tear from her cheek. Velvet rolled her eyes, and kept clopping away.

Twilight lay down on Shining’s barrel-like chest, and pushed her small body back against his cock. “And I really… like… how massive your cock feels inside of me.” She grinned, her eyes twinkling wickedly. “I knew you were big, but it feels like I’ve been mounted by an elephas maximus.”

Twilight Sparkle’s tunnel hugged his cock, tight and hot, making every nerve in it sing with pleasure. It took Shining Armor several seconds to gather enough presence of mind to frame a reply. “I appreciate the compliment, little sis, but is…” unf “… is sex really the right time to show off your knowledge of taxonomy?”

Twilight smirked. “No better time, Big Brother Best Fuck Forever. Now, kiss me, you fool.”

Their bodies churned together, tangled at mouth and groin. Pleasure and love swelled together, brother and sister locked in an intimacy both had always longed for, but never dared know. Their bodies moved as one, an endless dance of incestuous delight. Shining liked the wet slapping noises his balls made when they slapped against his sister’s pussy, too. Pleasure grew in an almost unbearable cascade, every motion lifting them higher and higher, until a burning need filled Shining’s body and…

“Shit!” he screamed. “Twiliy, I can’t come in you! Deformed incest foals might happen! Get off! Get off”

“I’m on seventeen birth control spells!” she huffed, ass bouncing violently up and down on top of him.

“Don’t care! Off!” And he lifted her and heaved her onto the bed next to him just as his pearly goo started to jet out of him. His mother was in there with a speed he wouldn’t have expected from a mare in late middle age, locking her lips over her son’s spurting cock, still clopping. He bellowed in pleasure, and his mother screamed around him, managing to make herself come just as her mouth began to fill with seed.

“Mom!” said Shining Armor, both horrified and aroused.

“You ain’t seen nothing, yet,” said Twilight, and laid her head on his tummy. She opened her mouth wide, and her mother leaned over and drooled Shining Armor’s cum out on a narrow stream into Twilight’s mouth. Twilight let it pool up there, and when Velvet’s mouth was empty, she leaned down to kiss her daughter, the motion of their tongues forcing white goo out onto Twilight’s round purple cheeks.

“Sweet holy Faust,” whispered Shining Armor, stunned by the grotesque display.
Twilight swallowed, grinned, and said, “Your cum tastes just like Da…”

Shining Armor put a hoof over his sister’s mouth. “No. I don’t want to know.”

———

They lay cuddled together for a while, soaked in spit and cum. Sexy nighties were plastered to sweaty barrels. Glasses were splattered and faces streaked. The were silent for a while, basking in the warm glow of love that suffused their bodies.

Finally, Twilight stirred, and raised her head. She cleared her throat and said, “Okay, I didn’t want to be the first one to say it, but we’re all pretty rank right now.”

“I don’t know what I’m going to tell the housekeeping staff about the stains on the sheets,” said Shining Armor.

“A bath, perhaps?” said Twilight Velvet.

Shining watched his mother and sister peel themselves out of their lingerie and head for to the bathroom, lovely rumps swaying in the dim light as they walked away from him. Twilight made a light, and they talked softly as they got the bath ready.

“Are you coming, sweetie?” said Velvet, easing herself into the bath.

He was hard again — the erection pulsed with pain after being in Twilight’s brutally tight tunnel, but he didn’t care. He wasn’t likely to get to do this too often, was he? He climbed out of bed and trotted into the bathroom.

They had used excessive amounts of bubble bath. His mother was leaning against the back of the tub, watching him over the tops of the bubbles. A pair of purple ears was almost but not totally covered by the bubbles on the other side of the large crystal tub.

“I can see you, you know,” he said as he lowered himself into the wonderfully hot water.

“No you can’t,” said Twilight. “I’m a submarine.”

Shining Armor cuddled up with his mother, she put her head against his shoulder, and they began to kiss. The ears drifted towards them, and then vanished beneath the bubbles. Shining instantly recognized the tingling sensation on his dick as the event horizon of a type 2 semi-permeable bubble shield, followed by the feeling of dry air, and then Twilight’s sweet lips. He relaxed into the exquisite pleasure of his sister’s mouth on his cock and turned his attention to his mother’s body. She had the succulent curves of a healthy older mare. He still felt a little guilty about thinking of his mother that way, but he put that aside and instead focused on the feeling of running his hoof along her sides and down her belly. She guided it to her teats, which were soft and full, with hard, large nipples. He massaged them for a while, then slid his hoof down, caressing his mother’s pussy, rubbing his frog firmly against the apex. She moaned hotly into his mouth as he took command of her, pushing her against the back of the tub and roughly kissing her while he ground away at her sex. It didn’t take long for her to come, her body tensing and shuddering against him. He held her there, rubbing her sex until she pushed him away, too sensitive to go on.

“Oh, Son,” she purred, looking up at him with heavy-lidded eyes. “That wife of yours did a good job teaching you about a mare’s body.”

Shining armor grinned. “Aw shucks.” He felt Twilight’s mouth leave his cock. She gasped as her head broke through the bubbles. “Gosh! Sorry. I ran out of oxygen. I thought of trying to teleport more in, but that generates a lot of waste heat, and I don’t want to boil our bath.”

Shining reached over to stroke his sister’s ass. “I want to fuck both of your sweet little pussies. Over the edge of the tub.”

Velvet laughed. “Do you kiss your mother with that mouth, soldier?”

“Actually I do!”

They got into position for him, kneeling up the bathroom floor, bellies on the edge of the tub, big fat asses turned towards him, gleaming wet and covered in suds. Shining Armor was a gentlecolt, and saw to their needs first, licking and sucking at Twily’s clit and rubbing at his mother’s pussy until they’d both come again. Then he reared up and climbed on top of Velvet. Her pussy had been stretched out by foal-birth and a lifetime of pounding by his father’s… no, he wasn’t going to think about that part. Anyway, it was looser than Twily’s, but still very tight. He started slowly, gentle thrusts going deeper every time. Once he’d worked his way in up to his balls, he picked up speed, looking down to watch the flesh of Velvet’s ass ripple every time he hilted in her.

“Do me, too, BBBFF!” whined Twily. Shining Armor reluctantly pulled out of the exquisite pleasure of his mother’s cunt, and, trailing a string of mare goo, slid in behind his sister. He wasn’t as gentle with her — sibling rivalry and all that. He just grabbed her by the dock and hammered away, making her ass flesh bounce. She screamed into the bathroom rug, clutching it up around her face.

“You two are amazing!” said Shining Armor, drawing his cock slowly out of Twilight, and pushing it back into his mother. He pushed them together, mashing fat ass against fat ass and cutie mark against cutie mark, and switched between them every stroke.

“Oh, you nasty boy,” purred Velvet. “You’re loving this, aren’t you?”
“I am,” groaned Shining Armor.

“Mommy wants you to come in her ass.” She levitated a jar of the lube that Shining Armor used for his and Cadence’s anal adventures from the sink counter.

Shining Armor almost choked. “Up the ass? Really?”

“Ew!” said Twilight, wrinkling up her nose. “Gross!”

“Oh, it’s an amazing experience, Twilight. Help lube your brother up, and watch closely. You could learn a lot.”

Twilight smeared goo all over Shining Armor’s dick and then helped him guide it towards their mother’s ass. Her ponut winked open for him, and Shining Armor slid inside.

“Oh, that’s perfect,” moaned Velvet. “Don’t be gentle. Mommy can take it.”

Shining Armor pulled Velvet’s tail aside so that he could see every detail. Her ponut was stretched to a tight ring around his cock — which looked way too big for her, but her ass was hungry, letting him in up to his pubic fluff with barely any effort at all. He slammed against her, balls smacking her taint, slowly at first, but faster and faster until he was jamming her thighs and belly hard into the edge of the tub. Twilight sat on the edge of the tub next to them — she’d gotten paper and a quill from somewhere, and was furiously making notes and sketches.

“This… this is amazing!” she said. “How do you even get that in there?”

Velvet’s face was dripping with sweat, her eyes rolling up into her head in wanton pleasure. “Once… unf… you’re through the… oh! … the ring, it’s… Oh Faust pretty easy. Faster, son! Faster!”

Even exhausted as he was, Shining Armor didn’t last long in his mother’s ass. He rammed himself into her and held himself there, every cell in his body vibrating with pleasure as he unloaded squirt after squirt into her. Getting out was more of a problem than getting in — he was amazingly over-sensitive, and she warned him that he’d hurt her if he pulled out too fast. It was a process.

Twilight squinted at her mother’s gaping, cum-drooling ponut. “Ew! Is that going to close on its own?”

“It sometimes takes a minute or two. I’m not as young as I used to be, you know,” said Velvet.

Twilight nodded. “I’ll have to research anal sex further. Hold still, Mom, let me make some sketches.”
“You could start right now,” Shining Armor said, even though he wasn’t sure he could even get hard again tonight, let alone come.

Twilight looked alarmed, squeaked, and turned her bottom away from him. “No! I… um… prefer to observe, thank you!”

———

Shining barely remembered getting into bed with them again. The next thing he knew, morning light was filtering into the room, Twilight and Velvet were curled up against his sides, and Cadence was leaning over him, grinning.

“Oh my Faust!” said Shining, sitting bolt upright. “You didn’t bring Flurry, did you?”

Cadence giggled. “No! Of course not! She’s with the nurse. I just wanted to check in on you. Did you like my little surprise?”

Shining Armor blushed and nodded.

Cadence kissed him. “Good. Maybe I’ll let you do it again sometime. Maybe when I’m feeling better I’ll join in too.”

“I’d like that,” said Shining Armor. “A lot.” But something worried him. “You aren’t jealous, are you?”

She grinned a wicked grin. “Shining Armor. I’m surprised at you! How could I be jealous that you love your family?”