"...Rose!"
The cream-colored, red-maned flower pony stands there in silence; no movement from her face or body.
"W...what's that you said? You want to cuddle with me?"
"Yep.", you say, smiling at her.
"Oh. Well, I did want to, but I did not expect that.", she says. "What I was thinking during the time you were thinking was that my name was unlikely to be called. Wow."
You don't point out that you considered your probability of selecting any of the nine options to be equal. All you want to do is appease Rose. "Well, you are the one.", you say, walking up and holding out your arms to her.
To your surprise, she completely hops into your grasp. "Whoa!", you say. "Looks like somepony likes to be held!"
Rose blushes and changes the topic by pointing to her sleeping bag. Not having to grunt at all in carrying her due to her light weight, you take her on the trip.
Rose's area of the room is in the bottom left corner, and her sleeping bag sports a color matching exactly with her mane and tail. She even included the pink strands, with that being the color of the pillowcase. "Such accuracy!", you compliment.
You two head under her dark sleeping bag and enclose the area with the zipper. "So, what do you want to do with me tonight, Rose?"
"Everything.", she says. "I want to try out different positions, be pet all over, and use all of your techniques that you've ever used in physical affection with ponies. Yes, including tickling."
Wow. She was really into it.
"Sounds good to me.", you say, giving her a nose boop. One down!
Rose has a short burst of giggles mixed in with snorts, then spreads out her limbs for you. Okay, you'll start with the honeymoon hug.
You clasp around her body with two arms, then reach out with one to pet her straight mane. You start at the top of her head and then make the whole trip down, repeating that process a few times, then go back-and-forth while lightly putting on extra movement with your fingers, for more of a massage.
"Mmm. Oh yeah.", she breathes.
You then focus on the ending strands of her mane, which become shorter and separate like Lyra's. You hold together each strand with two fingers and swiftly give it a stroke, going one by one.
"Yess. Please keep going.", Rose encourages in a softly squealing voice.
You continue going at that for a while, before you consider it time to move on with her requested session featuring everything. There's only so much time before you need to sleep.
"Alright, so I'm thinking what we should do is change cuddling positions every time we move to petting a different area on your body.", you say. "So let's change positions now."
"Which one?", she asks, lifting her hooves off of you.
"Depends on what technique you want next. Do you want me to pet your back next? Or, perhaps belly rubs next?"
Rose spends some time thinking, as you find trouble in waiting to know where you'll be touching. Stop the suspense!
"You choose.", she says.
Ooh, okay!
Hmm... you'll go with belly rubs.
"Okay! Can you lay on your back?"
Rose does just that without saying a word, turning over and leaving her soft belly exposed. You, with her to your right as you lay on your back as well, wrap your flattened-out right hand over behind her neck and around, then start stroking her tummy softly, using circular motions.
"Heehee!", she giggles, flicking her tail up. "This tickles a bit!"
"Well, tickling is on my list of techniques.", you remind her. "And you said you wanted all of them, so..."
She giggles again as you continue to rub. Whether that's due to the rubbing or your sentence, or perhaps a combination, you don't know, but she's about to confirm the existence of a green light.
"That's true. I did.", Rose says. She doesn't say anything further; only more giggles come out.
You were planning to do this part later, but the silliness has progressed too far. You, still with your hand on her belly, launch an early, unexpected tickle attack, using your fingers.
"Heeheeheehee! Hahaha!"
"Heeheehee-yo-hu-hu're good at this! Haha!
"Thanks.", you say, moving your fingers to her right side.
"Hahahaheehee!", she laughs out loud.
"Wow, you're more ticklish than I thought, Rose!", you admit.
"Heeheehee!", she laughs, probably in response to both the tickling and your tease.
You ease off your fingers, and Rose catches her breath while still letting out the lingering laughs.
"Heehee. That was fun.", she says. "I like tickling as affection."
"I do too!", you say. "It's part of my list for a reason."
"Not to mention, I also allow reciprocation of any technique.", you say, holding your pointer finger up.
Rose giggles. "I think I want to get back to cuddling now."
"Okay," you say. "What technique? I mean, we haven't pet your back yet. Or scratched your ears or your chin. So a position where all three of those can be done?"
"Yes please.", Rose nods.
"Okay.", you respond.
"I think I have the position for you. Here, I'll lay on my back, and you can lay on top of me facing down. Does that sound good?"
"Yeah, that sounds good!", Rose says. She lifts her right back leg to land it left leg, then does the same on the other side, and finally, lowers her body down on top of you.
"There you go!", you encourage. "You've got the position!"
Rose blushes. She's doing better than she thought.
"Do you want me to scratch your ears first?", you ask.
"Sure.", Rose says, lowering her head onto your chest. The feeling of that relaxes you significantly; you start considering using this position for sleeping.
Your right fingernail hits the base of Rose's right ear and you move it back and forth. The mare closes her eyes and lightly squeals in delight.
"Ooh... yeah, that feels good!"
You then briefly scratch her left ear, before you request "Chin up", and scratch under there. Rose falls into the dog-like behavior you know from chin scratching, sticking her tongue out, then almost falling off of you! She narrowly avoided it by realizing just in time and grabbing onto your shoulders.
"Whoa! Heehee!", she says. "I guess I really like chin scratches."
"Oh, you sure do.", you tease, ruffling her mane.
Rose is loving it, and she has something to add that may seem like bad news, but there is a caveat.
"I have to say; trying to get through all the techniques became a little tiring. It was hard for me to lift my chin up due to the fatigue.", Rose says.
"But luckily; we have only one technique left, and it's perfect for relaxing into sleep."
That's right! You haven't pet her back yet, and it was a perfect ending before you fall asleep.
Your right hand strokes up and down across her cream-colored back, to periodic up-swishes of her tail, particularly when you hit the center.
Rose gets so into it that she grabs hold of you and turns sideways, flopping you both into a sideways cuddle.
"Whoa!", you say in surprise, giggling. "Somepony's into this!" Rose had been in it on the surprises tonight, doing this as well as jumping into your arms after you chose her to cuddle with. Seems like it's one of her things.
She lightly giggles again, and changes the position to where she's hugging your upper body and her nose is close enough to nuzzle yours. You respond in resting your left hand on her side and the other on her mane. You give her mane a pet, and it's off to sleep.