A Penny for your thought

by Damaged


45 - Exploration

Note: This is the "teen" version of this chapter. If you would like to find out what really happens, where all the lines are, you might want to read the mature version over here Warning: Link contains sex and gender-changing.

The pair of enamored mares left the guards to their job and wandered the castle halls back to their own rooms. "No more of these, you need to work on getting rid of them again." Penny nosed at one of Stick's hooves as it lifted into the bath. "I like my mare whole and snuggly."

The statement of preference had Stick giggling as her horn lit up, lifting Penny into the tub with her. "Well, we can start right now." Stick's mental touch reached for Penny and found the mare, getting a shudder from her.

"Mmm, well, what would my queen be wanting of her servant today?" Penny turned to Stick, lowering her eyes with modesty.

Ever prepared for some play, Stick sat a little straighter and gestured to her own tail. "Start on my tail, work forward, little snack." She exerted more force in the mental bite, feeling as Penny relaxed.

The lunar pony trembled a touch as she reached for the brush, holding it between teeth that trembled in anticipation. Using her magic sparingly, she brought over some products and started to work on Stick's tail.

With the changeling sitting as she was, it meant Penny had to lay down in the shallow water, her snout moving along that green hair again and again. 'If I keep this up,' she thought, 'I will start to get turned on whenever I smell shampoo.'

Stick sat impassive, at least physically. She adjusted her focus along Penny's emotions, it was felt not unlike teeth working at a chew toy. Penny gave a little whine. The sound got Stick's attention and she looked back at the mare but there wasn't even the slightest hint that her partner would go for the safe word.

"You know, my little mouthful, I wonder if this side of me is more 'changeling' than 'me'?"

Penny lifted her head from her task, suds having gathered around her snout. "You are a changeling, my queen, if this is 'changeling' then it is also 'you'." She looked up to her marefriend, the fun little role-play they shared not broken by the conversation. Penny reached to the mare's wings and started gently working them in her mouth, careful of sharp teeth.

The changeling lifted each wing obligingly, unable to stop from giving a happy sound at the continued pampering. "You are a clever little mare, nibble, I think it is time you had some cleaning done too." Stick, keeping in character, used her magic to lift another brush over and started scrubbing Penny.

Working together, Penny squirming every now and again in her tight mental grip, they slowly began to get clean. It wasn't until Stick had the unicorn on her back, with a brush working over more tender parts than the changeling abruptly let go of both brush and metaphysical throat. "Penny…" She inhaled deeply, a little smile curling her lips.

This confused the distracted Penny, her friend breaking the rules. "What's the matter Stick, do you need to use the safe word?"

Stick shook her head but leaned down, inhaling more to verify. The grin widened. "No wonder you were taking to that attention so much. Penny, you are in estrus."

With her back legs parted, Penny had such a silly look on her face. Her emotions and thoughts were thrown to turmoil. Heat? She was in heat? It didn't feel like it, she wanted to snuggle a little more than usual but not… well, maybe? "I… what does that mean, for us…"

The changeling flopped down into the tub beside Penny, nuzzling the other mare's belly, working up to her chest, neck and finally her mouth. "It means, we do whatever you want."

Penny looked up into Stick's eyes. "Should I want to… well, breed? I just want to snuggle more."

"Do you want to? You seem more adventurous of late, particularly when I work you right up, but I won't do anything with you, distracted and in my grip, that you don't agree to right now. So tell me, my snack, do you want to?"

Penny nuzzled and kissed Stick's searching lips. She let her thoughts explore her feelings, it was certainly a turmoil. "One of the guard asked if we needed a stud…" Penny blushed hotly. "I guess this is why he asked."

"Evasion gets you two kisses." With the words, Stick kissed Penny on the nose twice, the second making the mare sneeze adorably.

"Not fair I… I don't know what I want. I promised Luna…"

"Forget Luna, her will doesn't enter into this. It is your body, she gave it as a gift." Stick kissed that nose again and got a more violent sneeze from the mare. She really must play with Penny on her back more often. "This is you, me and some bath water here, princesses be damned if they want to tell my mare what she does and doesn't do in our bedroom."

Penny blinked up at the changeling, smiling. "If the mood is right, if I don't freak out and yell our safe word at the top of my lungs…"

Stick waited for the mare to finish.

"Go for it. It would be silly not to try something new, at least once. Especially once."


Moon and Slow had been chatting, discussing the state of affairs in Canterlot of late, when each seemed to notice the absence of both Fast Change and Twilight Sparkle.

"I haven't seen Twilight around for a while…" Moon brought up the topic, having another scan of the brightly lit ballroom.

"Nor Princess Fast." Slow raised an eyebrow and Moon nodded. "Then lets see if we can find them, without startling the pair."

Together they slipped off. Moon was wearing the amazing creation that Rarity had designed, it had slightly muted versions of her own colors worked into it, ensuring that while the dress captured attention, the wearer was the eventual target of any stares. Slow, on the other hoof, had gone for a more formal yellow dress, with small green gems on it that seemed to make his tail and mane shine all the more brightly. Nopony had commented on his choice of attire, but then they were still getting used to having changelings actually around, social norms as to what they wore were yet to be established.

Moon Dancer was using her magic to good effect, opening doors carefully and taking just a peek. Slow, being anything but his namesake, was ensuring there were no guards or other wandering guests to deal with. "What's that sound?" His voice was low, low enough that Moon could hear the giggling coming from the next room, too.

Advancing on it, they heard a squeal and a laugh, both sounding very much like Twilight. "Calm down, princess, I am not going to hurt you." That voice was different, certainly not either Princess's.

Moon crept up to the door, Slow looking over her shoulder as she used her magic to open it just a hint.


Penny was past the gasping, breathlessness. Stick had held her tight through that, keeping her safe and snuggled close.

"That… wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be." Penny rubbed her cheek against the changeling, now once more a mare. "I was so scared, I thought it was meant to hurt, the first time?"

Stick laughed at this and shook her head. "I don't know what you heard, or did, as a human, but here there should never be pain."

Penny blushed a little. "Did as a human?" She booped Stick on the nose playfully. "Silly changeling, you were my first."

Stick looked absolutely shocked. "First… but, I thought you meant first here… like 'first' first? Ever?" Penny nodded and kissed her partner. "Well, how was I?"

Penny shook her head. "Best I have had so far."

This earned a kiss on the nose that had the lunar unicorn laughing happily before something occurred to her. "I might have a foal, from this." She didn't sound sad, to Stick's delight.

"We might."

One little word earned the changeling a whole lot more snuggling and a repeat performance.


"You were smaller that time." Penny nosed at Stick, who blushed. "You were I… what is so funny?"

Stick had broken to giggles, falling to her side in the bed and then onto her back to roll a little in place.

"What? What's gotten into you?" Penny poked at Stick's side, getting a laugh and a return poke from one of the changeling's hooves. "Okay, that was a bad question, and I am sure you have a terrible reply, so lets just assume all is said and done and go get food."

This was very agreeable to Stick, who, with one last squirm on the bed, jumped up and to her hooves but, when Penny made to get dressed, she quickly led her partner off to the bath. "New to being a mare, my mare, does not exempt you from cleanliness."

Penny blushed all the way as she was shown, for a second time since coming to Equestria, how to take care of her body's needs.

Clean, dressed in a shawl, Penny made to lift her bags on to her back but Stick lifted them back. "Not today, today is relaxation, just my mare and me."

This earned the changeling a kiss on the cheek and with high moods they made their way from their room and the castle.

"Penny, Stick. Good to see you." It was Sharp, the stallion having found some rest the previous night, now back at work in less magic-focused things. "Going out for a walk?"

Stick nosed at Penny's jaw and nodded. "My mare needs some food, as do I."

The phrase, as it was spoken, got a nod from Sharp but an odd look from the other guard. "I thought changelings fed off ponies?" He had spoken without meaning to, the relaxed chatter from the more experienced Sharp having derailed his normally stoic demeanor.

"I do. When Penny eats a meal, I eat from her." Stick's reply seemed satisfactory to the stallion, but now that they were talking, more questions tumbled out.

"Does it hurt?"

Sharp laughed and shook his head. "I am told she fed lightly from me, with permission." He was quick to defend Stick's action. "Didn't feel a thing. Might be different if she really drank though…"

Penny remembered what the rogue changelings had done, suddenly wondering if Stick would have even tried her own mental fangs if she hadn't had that happen. "It can hurt, if they are mean about it. Stick would never do anything to hurt me, or anypony."

This got a happy nod from the younger guard, but a raised eyebrow from Sharp. The stallion had of course seen Stick defend Shining.

"Oh." Stick quickly turned the conversation back to their present mission. "Either of you know where two mares could find somewhere to eat that is nice? Bonus points if they serve fish."

"Nowhere serves meat." Sharp shook his head, as if that were a silly idea anyway. "But the Crystal Cabin does a great spread for lunch, you should be right on time for that if you don't hurry too much."

Penny grinned, the name of the place springing back up as where she had been told to go by another guard. Just as she was about to thank him, Stick replied. "Then my mare will soon be there. You off duty soon?"

Sharp nodded and gestured to the other stallion. "After Cadance took your books back, I don't really have anything pressing, after lunch we are both off."

This reminded Stick of the books and her cut-short learning from them. She had worked out two spells, but adapting unicorn spells to changeling magic was annoying and a slow process.

"We may linger there, if you want to drop by and chat. I need ideas for a few things to buy my mare." Stick's words got a little jolt from Penny. Before the unicorn could complain Sharp nodded.

"Of course, being around you two is certainly a full time job for one guard, and never boring." The words seemed of interest to Stick, but she was clever enough to hide her thoughts and instead lifted one hoof, bearing a single hole, to clop it against the guard's.

"See you after I have stuffed Penny's belly!" Stick grinned and turned.

"Sometimes," Penny began, as they were walking off, "I really hate you… damn that was terrible."