"It is time." Umbra stretched out atop her bed, willing the lights in the room to go out, one of her daydarks shining briefly in its shadowy way, making the darkness absolute. "Good night."
"Good night," came a chorus, both her daughter and her maid. Trying to shoo that maid out was a battle long since lost. She'd just sneak back in and be ready for any call. Some ponies took their job seriously. Her son would have liked to sleep there. It took some time to explain that huddling for warmth was not required, and even seen as a bit unseemly once a given pony was past being a foal, which he certainly was, learning or not.
Softer times meant less hugging? Strangely true in that specific instance. So he had his own room.
She closed her eyes and went right to sleep. It helped that the magic of sleep included such a spell. She didn't have to wait for sleep to find her. She grabbed it instead and drew it over, plunging immediately into the dream world.
She 'awoke' in a treasure vault. Every scrap of gold, gem, and other shining value, she could feel it was a pony's precious dream. She picked up a pearl necklace and could see each and every pearl had a different pony's slumber. They were tied together for a reason. A family? They were peaceful, so she simply set it right back down without disturbing it. "Is this what Luna sees?" Unlikely. Every watcher had different ways of seeing it, and even that could vary over time.
Like the dreams themselves, they were loose fragments of the watcher's mind, so there was so much to seed different views of the same thing. "There you are." A large tiara, and one she knew well. It was Cadance's royal regalia, atop a small pile of others, making it one of the tallest set things in that room. "Come here, you."
Umbra willed the tiara free to float towards her. "You're just as pretty as you usually are." Pony, tiara of dreams, still pretty, so far as she saw it. Umbra held the tiara gently, turning it left and right. "Now how to get inside..." A pool of water was simple, just jump in. How did one 'enter' a tiara?
"Oh." She reached up and knocked her own Tiara free and replaced it with Cadance's.
Cadance sat atop her throne, making decrees for a long line of ponies. Yes, no, yes, let me consider... yes, no... She was quite busy, and the line stretched out into infinity.
Umbra scowled at the infinite line. "A dream is the time to relax." She extended a wing at the line, forcing it down to just two ponies remaining.
Cadance's posture relaxed, as if she could see that the line had gone from unfathomable to manageable, without knowing why. "Next." And she saw to the next pony without pause or hesitation. "I see..."
Umbra slid herself in as pony #3. Cutting in line wasn't fair.
Forever and a moment later, it was Umbra's turn. "It's time."
"It's time?" She skewed an ear to the side. "Oh, yes. Of course." She rose to her hooves. "Seeing as you're the last, court is dismissed for the day." She stepped down and they were in her bedroom. That didn't make any sense, but dreams were like that. "Thank you for coming. I was worried you'd get scared. I thought you'd prefer to do this in a dream."
That was a good reminder that Cadance didn't know she was dreaming. Umbra twisted the threads of the dream world around them as she spoke the fact, "Cadance, this is your dream. I am visiting."
"Hm? Oh..." She sank to her haunches. "Oh..." She looked around a moment, focusing slowly on Umbra. "Now that you bring it up, yes. This is like when Auntie Luna visits. So you have gained her ability? I thought she'd guard it quite jealously."
"I had to promise to use it only for good, and only for ponies far away from her." Umbra closed with her for gentle nuzzles. "Good night. Nice to see you."
Cadance returned them, standing up as she did so. "Well, you didn't come here for small talk." And so she was he, but no big bruiser of a stallion. He was a soft and effimate stallion, but still undoubtedly a stallion. Even as a stallion, Cadance was Cadance, pink and gentle. "This being a dream... are we skipping the wining and dining phase of things?"
"Probably for the best." Umbra inclined her head at the transformed Cadance. "May I note you manage to be pretty, even now? It's a curious clash, but not one I've never seen before. I had a fair few guy friends that were adorable or even pretty. It happens."
"Glad I have your approval." Cadance walked past Umbra towards the heart-shaped bed. "But I'm coming out on top today."
"Phrasing!" Umbra blushed faintly. "Did you even mean half the innuendo you just fired at me?"
"In this dream, it's not really innuendo." He flicked his tail, watching Umbra with smoldering eyes. "Nobody here but us two, and we know what we're here for."
Umbra laughed awkwardly. "Soften up a little... This is my first time."
"You've mentioned that. You're a virgin? You were with Starlight, hardly virgin." He raised a doubting brow. "Are our definitions askew?"
"It's complicated, trademark." Umbra stepped up onto the bed, willing her tiara (when had she put that back on?) off and starting to remove her other clothes. "I have never, as a proper biological female horse, had a male horse for sexual company, to put that as bluntly as possible. I... want this, but I'm also scared, because change is scary. It always is. That doesn't mean I'm running from it, but I am a bit tense. Help me relax?"
[naughty stuff now]
"Thank you." Cadance nuzzled gently along Umbra's side, nipping at her quivering flesh. "For trusting me, and for telling the truth." In a fit of dream logic, Cadance was behind Umbra without actually circling her. "But you are a lady pony, a mare." He kissed Umbra, nuzzling her delicate petals. "The proof of that is right here, though there are others, which you pass."
Umbra arched her back with a shivering whicker. "Oh... hearing you say that... I feel like I could cry, and feel silly for it."
"Then cry," invited that male Cadance. "This is your night, to do whatever you want." He nipped at her left leg. "I'm just here to try to make it more fun."
Umbra widened her stance, letting out her breath in a slow woosh. "Alright! I feel ready to try the next part." It being a dream, she was exactly as wet as she wanted to be, and she wanted to be ready. "Let's see what it's like to have a horse on me."
"You keep saying that." He flicked her tongue across her nethers in a slow drag. "Kinky... We're not horses. Are you trying to invite me to be a savage?"
"No!" Umbra squeaked. "No... Sorry." The connection became clear, like inviting a male human to go 'ape'. That had particular meanings in bed. "I'm still, relatively anyway, new to pony life, especially when we do new biological things. I want you to be a gentle and loving pony."
"Wish granted." He grabbed her from behind, but didn't hop up. Instead, he was nudging her down to lay on her side, then on her back. "We're not animals, silly dear. We don't have to do it that way."
Umbra was stunned a moment before laughter came to her. "Duh... Right." She reached with her arms and hooves towards Cadance. "Come here and hug me."
This Cadance did with pleasure, nestling right in above Umbra, hugging tightly. A new presence pushed against Umbra, throbbing stallion urgency nudging at her as they cuddled. Cadance wasn't trying to put it anywhere not invited, but it was there, making its presence known. "Many ponies do it this way, or side to side. We're sapient creatures, silly. We can do it from most any angle we get in mind."
"Sure..." Umbra curled up a hoof to nudge at Cadance's throbbing sheath and its occupant. "But you have this. Doesn't this limit your options a little?"
"Not nearly as much as you're thinking." Cadance winked. "Trust me... I've tested Shining no few times... Take it easy and you can get a stallion's magic wand pointed in all kinds of directions. Advantage of being a thinking pony." He nuzzled at Umbra's chest. Being a pony, there was little immediately sensitive there, but being lovingly cuddled was delightful on its own. In such situations, the entire body could become an erogenous zone.
Umbra curled both arms and legs about Cadance. "You are a treat... I trust you."
Cadance could hear the import of those words. "Thank you. What do you want to do next?" He was willing to wait, do what she wanted, when she wanted it.
Umbra squeezed at her lover. "I think I'm ready to try. Nice and easy."
"Nice and easy," echoed Cadance, backing up a little to line up the show. His horn glowed. Unicorns didn't need to reach down to align things, or wiggle about, no. He directed his male pillar into position with his mind, kissing her lips with it and nudging forward just barely past the surface. "This is funny."
"What's funny?" Umbra shivered at the sensations, her own mind stiching it together in a blend of things she did know. They were all good things. "Funny isn't the word I'd use."
"Too bad, used it." He kissed Umbra's snout. "I never did this, as a stallion. I can feel me guessing what it should feel like. It's a strange thing... Further?"
Umbra answered by angling her hips and driving upwards, sinking that stiffness into herself. Her eyes widened with a shuddering gasp. "Ooo, mmm... I think... we can start now."
"As if we haven't already." Still, permission was given, and Cadance began to slowly rock deeper and deeper, exploring into the depths of Umbra with little pushes deeper each time. "Lovely mare, my mare... You are as wonderful inside as out. Thank, mmm, you for sharing it with me..."
Umbra moved against him with increasing eagerness. "Oh, fucking hell... I forgot how... nice it is... to just rub these parts together." She rolled suddenly, putting Cadance under her and riding him with wet squelches of their forms coming together, faster and faster with each drive of the love engine between them. "My pretty pink stallion, harder! Fill me with your sparkling filling."
Cadance broke into laughter even as he drove, perhaps a bit slower due to the laughter he couldn't entirely stop. "Unicorns don't glitter down there." He winked. "I checked."
Umbra leaned in over Cadance, touching noses. "Maybe not normally, but this is a dream, and you are magical. You could make it sparkle if you wanted to."
Cadance inclined his head. "You have a point. My love power, filling them..." It took a moment, it happening with each push, but she was inflating her heavy stallion orbs, starting to sparkle and send rays of light across the room. "I hope you're ready to be filled with my unending love."
"To the very top," growled out Umbra, fluttering about Cadance's shaft in an eager milking twitch.
[naughty stuff ends]
Umbra sat up in the black room. She threw off the bed cover to confirm, yep... Mares could have wet dreams. Blushing, she got to cleaning up, thankful that her maid appeared to be gone, for the moment. She didn't need help cleaning certain things...
"Morning?"
"Yes, mother." The filly was there, watching her.
"Ready for breakfast?" Umbra tossed the last bits in the hamper. "I have a monster of an appetite."
"The best kind." Morning flashed a deadly smile. "Let's take care of that, mother. It's earlier than your usual time."
"Just feel like it." She had a feeling Cadance would be there, awake for much the same reason.