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// Gorge by Europa (Hearts and Hooves Special) 
// Story: Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab 
// by Foals Errand 
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by Europa

Darkness on ephemeral wings flitted beneath the rooftops, unnoticed by the food-sources engaged in chatter within their homes. Cluster, without his Imperial Guard armor since he was off duty, moved from one house to the other. Under cover of night on this most holy of holy days, Hearts and Hooves day, Cluster and his fellows were free from guard duty, free to move around the ponies and gather up their sweet, sweet emotions.

He buzzed his wings by a house, having layered noise-canceling illusions over his wings to achieve silence. He lit up his horn and began drawing in the energies from the house inside. Emotions had no flavor has ponies understood them, so it was tricky to describe. From this house he felt the smooth energies of familial love and the nauseating yet filling love of a widow. After having his fill, Cluster moved along to the next house.

It was the cloud-house of the Bearer of Loyalty, and his emotion senses revealed that she had company over. He reached in, ignoring the other changelings buzzing around, and found the stallion Soarin's love, and felt the intoxicating rush of romantic love. Then he reached towards Rainbow Dash herself and took the slightest of whiffs of her romantic love's aura. But even that tiny taste sent him reeling, energy overflowing from his holes and tingling his horn.

Cluster shook himself off and landed. He knew the Rainbow Power made their love strong, but by the Queen!

He got an idea; he winged his way over to the Crystal Palace under cover of Luna's night.

Once there, he opened his senses and was almost struck numb by the sheer amount of love and lust radiating from the palace, and -

'GET OUT!' thundered the Queen's voice in his mind.

'Y-Yes, my queen!' he sent back hurriedly. Cluster's magic flared to life and, still empowered by the Rainbow-infused love from the Bearer, he wrapped himself in green fire and inferno-dashed the buck away from the castle. He landed some distance away in Sweet Apple Acres.

Worth it, he thought.