Sssssex A-peel...
"You can't seriously expect me to believe in an honest-to-goodness haunted house, can you?" Twilight asked with a sigh.
She and Trixie were en route out of town, following a set of directions scribbled in the front-page of Trixie's notebook. It was late evening, the time when the sun was just beginning to light the rest of the sky aflame as it fell behind the mountains, and the street-lights had only minutes ago snapped to life, casting spatters of warm light through the blanket of approaching night.
"No," Trixie said, smirking, "I don't expect you to believe it. Just that you'll stay there for the night."
Twilight sighed again and tilted her head to the side with a grumpy, scrunched-up mouth.
"And why am I expected to do that, exactly?"
"Simple," Trixie said, her grin gleaming in the fading sunlight. "It's the largest private collection of magical literature anyone's donated in centuries. There are rooms full of ancient books, old spells and forgotten enchantments... it's practically an inviation do spend the evening, wouldn't you say?"
Twilight crossed her arms with a grumble.
"Maybe," she said, eventually, muttering it quietly. "I mean... they're probably reprints, anyway."
"We'll leave that as a matter for examination," Trixie said. She gave Twilight a patronizing pat on the head and giggled as Twilight frowned on cue. "Has Trixie ever told you that you're adorable when you're angry?"
"Trixie has been telling me a lot of things lately," Twilight said, huffing and doing her best to ignore Trixie's aura of self-satisfaction, which emanated off her like the glow from a... glowing thing. Dang it. Even Twilight's similes suffered when she was distracted like this. Stupid, slightly-more-than-attractive Trixie... what were they supposed to be doing again?
"Come on," Trixie said. She put a hand in the back-pocket of Twilight's jeans and gave her bottom a squeeze. Despite Twilight's glare, the hand remained distinctly placed as the pair of them migrated down the out-of-town trail towards the mildly-mysterious mansion looming in the distance. By the time they got there, Twilight had practically gotten used to the squeezes—maybe even liked them a little.
It was only as Trixie removed her hand and used it to open the ominous antique set of locks on the mansion's foreboding entrance that she noticed it—the scale, that is. A little blue thing, clinging to her hand like a tuft of down to a baby bird. Though it stuck when she pulled at it, after a little more finicking, the thin, hard thing came lose, feeling in her hand rather like a shimmery sequin from one of Rarity's seemingly never-ending supply. She considered it for a moment in the dimming light, then tucked it into her pocket for safekeeping. It'd look nice glued to a walnut with a pair of googly-eyes, in any case.
And though she'd done her best to remain staunch in the name of stern and understandable science the whole way, Twilight's nervous shiver was noticeable enough to give Trixie another persistent grin as the two of them entered the unlit abode.
The door creaked loudly as it fell closed behind them.
They were in for the long haul now—or, one night, at least.
Somewhere, in the many overlapping patches of darkness, Twilight thought she heard a faint hissing, following her as she walked with Trixie down the mansion's introductory hallway. But when she listened closer to pick the noise out, it seemed to disappear.
Leave it to Trixie to begin playing games before the night have even started... Twilight ignored what little other hissings seemed to wriggle at the periphery of her perception, steeling herself with a reminder that Trixie was mostly bark and no bite. All Twilight had to do was weather the first set of juvenile halloween hijinks, and in fact see if the literature collection existed at all. If it did, she could look forward to an evening of studying, occasionally harangued by Trixie in the background, as it would be at least polite to let her hang around. But if there were no books... well, Twilight had been on the receiving end of pranks between frenemies for a little too long. Maybe it was time for her to cook up a deceiving concoction of her own accord. She did oh so love the look of wrung-out salty sourness that appeared on Trixie's face when she was the butt of a joke, instead of being the one butting other people. If nothing else, the rest of the evening could server as acceptable fodder for brainstorming suitable retaliation.
Of course, this was all assuming quite a bit on Twilight's part. Not least of which was the fact that even Trixie would struggle to surrender the advantage of having a location all to one's self before entering and escorting through the premises at night. There was a lot you could do, for example, with just a bucket of water and a slightly ajar door...
"Twilight," Trixie said, her voice piercing a veil of mental fog almost as thick as the clouds drowning the sunlight. "Are you paying attention? I was saying we're almost to the collection."
Twilight blinked and stared at Trixie like she'd been caught peeking through the cookie jar.
Trixie let out a loud huff.
"Don't tell me you're not even interested in perusing the professor's posthumous estate! Trixie made special care to invite you because she was sure you'd be overjoyed at an opportunity to study such archaic literature."
While Twilight's face sank, Trixie's lower lip quivered, and her eyes sparkled as she began to sniffle.
"Trixie just wanted to do a favour for her best—for one of her best friends." Trixie stared with her watery eyes down towards the floor, a chipped-and-scratched wood that had almost enough dust to serve as a rug.
Twilight's imaginary retaliations collapsed in her head. Suddenly she was worrying for nothing, a big jerk who'd ruined a potentially rewarding evening studying with a friend.
"Oh," Twilight said. She reached out a hand and put it on Trixie's shoulder, giving her a few squeezes in an attempt at reassurance. "I'm sorry, Trixie. You're right. I wasn't... I let myself get distracted." Twilight gave a small, soft smile, which was enough to get Trixie to lift her head a little, still sniffling, but with a tiny smile of her own. "I promise I'll pay attention from now on. You said we were almost to the books?"
Trixie nodded and wiped a tiny drop of water off her cheek with one hand. Behind her back, invisible to Twilight, two of her fingers were crossed.
"Thank you," Trixie said, tucking both hands into her pockets. "Trixie appreciates your apology."
"That's what friends are for, right?"
A bolt of lightning flashed down from the sky outside, illuminating the hallway windows and the interior of the mansion hallway like a brilliant set of stagelights, just for a moment, before everything returned back to almost pitch darkness, only just bright enough to see a few feet ahead of you.
As she turned the handle to the study entrance, Trixie smiled a private, devilish smile.
"Right," she said, barely loud enough for Twilight to hear. "That's what friends are for."
Because Twilight was behind her, she didn't see the look on Trixie's face, nor did she notice the rapid flick of Trixie's tongue, seemingly forked into two, darting out of her mouth before turning back just as quickly.
Twilight did begin to hear the hissing again, but like last time, she told herself to ignore it. Ignore it and follow Trixie into the study, where all her questions would be answered...
The door shut behind her with a snap, despite the fact that neither she nor Trixie had pulled it closed.
In the dark, the only thing visible was Trixie's shimmering, fanged smile...
"First, Trixie wants you to apologize for doubting for even a second that there was not an overflowing book repository here for your perusal."
Alright. It was going to be one of those nights. Twilight conceded she'd technically sealed her own fate by openly admitting she didn't trust Trixie entirely... but that was common practice between them by now. If she'd said otherwise, Trixie would know instantly she was lying.
Twilight let out a long, exhausted sigh, which blew up a hefty scattering of dust, clinging one moment to the faded covers of ancient volumes, the next, fluttering about at eye level and dancing in the lamp-light like miniature insects spiralling toward heaven.
Yes, they had gotten a lamp out. Finally. It escaped Twilight why they hadn't brought one in the first place. The fixture in use now was only a result of Twilight's conjuring, and thank Celestia she had a spell for summoning lanterns tucked away just for such an occasion... Trixie had been no help, of course. 'Just read in the dark. It's a more intimate experience that way.' Tsk.
"Alright," Twilight said, after weathering Trixie's stubborn stare as long as she could tolerate. It began to wear on you after a while, like a spinning stone wheel grinding away at a hunk of granite... "Fine. You were right. There were books here."
"And?" Trixie raised an eyebrow and tilted her nose up slightly, a masterful execution of the 'just snooty enough to let you know you're worth less than dirt' look. If there was one thing Trixie knew how to savour, it was the flavour of a beleaguered apology from one of her friends—and Twilight's were her favorites, of course. A little lavender sundae with whipped cream on top. And a cherry. With sprinkles. Yes.
Twilight let out another long sigh. Not that she could read Trixie's thoughts or anything—it was easy to tell what Trixie was thinking about almost all of the time.
Herself.
"And I'm... sorry." Ugh. It tasted bitter, like a lime covered in tumeric.
"What was that?" Trixie asked. She crooned her head to one side, sticking an ear in Twilight's direction. "I'm sorry, Trixie couldn't quite hear you over the complete silence of all these old, dusty books that are definitely here..."
"I said I'm sorry!" Twilight said with a huff. "Come on, are we going to do this all night? I want to start reading some of these!"
"Oh, very well. As long as you express proper gratitude towards Trixie for delivering such a treasure trove to your proverbial doorstep, we can be on with the remainder of our evening."
Twilight had already sat down cracked the spine of the first text in front of her. She looked up at Trixie and raised an eyebrow.
"By 'express proper gratitude', you mean..."
Trixie felt a little giggle in her chest, but she swallowed it and kept her face staunch, disapproving, almost expressionless. Yes, Twilight, that was exactly what she'd meant, but it was no fun if things were obvious that fast...
Trixie took a moment to gather herself, then stared dead-eyed at Twilight, the most humourless face she could muster.
"A 'thank you' is customary," Trixie said, her tone ice cold. "But perhaps that would be asking too much."
Twilight's stern exterior crumpled. Maybe she'd been too hard on Trixie. It was, after all, an incredibly kind thing of her, to share such a large, unexplored literary resource. Maybe it was just the dusty shelves and creaky old floor-boards putting her in a bad mood. Maybe she needed to go a bit easier on Trixie for a little while. They were friends, after all. (And friendship is magic! - Ed.)((I like the implication that 'Ed' is actually 'Mr. Ed'... you know. The horse. - Ed.))
"I'm sorry, Trixie," Twilight closed the book she'd been ready to get into and stood up from the old oak desk it was resting on. She went to Trixie's side and put a hand on her shoulder—which, after a moment of silent approval, transformed easily into a hug, Twilight wrapping both arms around Trixie's waist and squeezing her just tight enough to get a little 'umph' out of her; to feel the warmth of her body, again, just a little, and for Twilight's breath to 'accidentally' tickle the back of Trixie's neck.
Trixie's willpower was formidable, but she couldn't hide the shiver it gave her. Luckily, Twilight was too focused on apologetics to notice.
"It's alright," Trixie said. Somehow the night was only beginning, and yet she felt a swirling in her head, an unfamiliar, syrupy voice luring her forward into a tantalizing wreath of shadows.
With just the slightest emphasis on every 's'.
Ssssssss...
"Oh, Twilight?"
A sigh.
"Yes, Trixie?"
The night had crept on, as nights do, into the early sort of itself, when shadows were longer than they ever ought to be, and if you looked out the window you couldn't tell the difference between the darkness fifty feet away and th edarkness right next to you. Twilight was sure she remembered a set of stone statues set in array around the mansion, but now she couldn't spot a single spot of them, solid head nor hair, and she was beginning to consider asking Trixie if they'd ever been there in the first place. Passages she was scanning for relevant sections blurred together, and often she found she'd be reading the same page twice, often three times, unable to tell the words apart even though they were exactly the same. Reading fatigue, even more consuming as the scripts danced between different dialects and variants of archaic sigils. Twilight's head felt heavy and fuzzy at the same time, and she hadn't brought any coffee.
Then there was Trixie sidling up next to her, with a handful of something warm pressed against the small of Twilight's back. It felt like the start of a sensuous massage, and Twilight let out another sigh, this one decidedly less beleagured. Trixie patted her on the shoulder as she brought the source of the warmth around, a steaming cup of something with an aroma too varied to be the pungent singular sting of a blackened coffee bean.
Twilight inhaled deeply, and the rich scents painted her senses, a bouquet of warm-water flavours milked from the depths of a tea-bag. Watching Trixie set the steaming saucer on the desk brightened Twilight's face with a smile, and a patch of smog in her head seemed to clear.
"Oh," Twilight said. Again, she'd assumed the worst, and the guilt that followed was a heavy pang in her stomach. She wondered if it was possible to unlearn a year's old habit in a single night. "Thank you," she said quietly.
Trixie smiled and nodded to her.
"I thought you could use something to help you stay awake. Are you really planning to go through all of those?" Trixie eyed the giant stack of tomes Twilight had piled up on the desk. "Tonight?"
Twilight sat up in her chair, greeted immediately by the muted shouts of her spine, being crouched over for the better part of an hour.
"No," she said meekly. "Just... there's so much interesting material, it's hard to stop reading."
"Even if it's just as hard to keep your eyes open?"
Twilight sighed and rolled the eyes in question. She picked up her cup of tea and sniffed in the rich steam. Her eyes felt slightly less heavy, though her resolve remained unwavering regardless of the state of her body's fatigue. She took a sip of the tea, and it was delicious: she caught a hint of pomegranite, with an outline of citrus. Puzzling out the flavours in her head was more fun than asking about them.
"You know," Trixie said, moving quietly to Twilight's other side, "Trixie couldn't help but notice, as she came in, there were several secluded study rooms no doubt teeming with forgotten literature." Trixie's hand had worked its way onto Twilight's shoulder without seemingly any awareness of it doing so, and was now gently squeezing, working the hidden soreness out of Twilight's muscles and easing her along with the tea.
"Mhmmm... that feels nice." Twilight closed her eyes and leaned her head back, prompting Trixie's hand to climb higher, to the base of her neck, where Twilight's moans doubled in intensity. "Oooh..."
"Would you like Trixie to show you to one of the room's in question?" Trixie said, slurring her speech slightly, lapping her tongue insidiously just at the edge of Twilight's ear.
"Oh... y-yes... please..." Twilight shook her head, coming too suddenly, Trixie's hand reorienting itself simultaneous, so the two of them were just next to each other, nothing sinister or unbecoming between them.
Just the sensation of Trixie's fingers left over on Twilight's skin, the little electric tickles she could feel ebbing into her memory.
"Very well. Follow Trixie, and we'll show you exactly what you're looking for."
"Thank you..." Twilight's voice seem to come from far-away inside her chest, as though she was watching herself speak through a lens, able to tilt and sway the feel of the observation, but not the outcome itself. She was standing already, watching herself stand, taking the tea on its saucer and following Trixie, to the end of the giant library and down a dank hallway, lined with seemingly identical rooms on every side... one or more of which supposedly held the additionally enchanted stores even more teeming with ancient magic for Twilight to examine.
Regardless of the certainty of the situation, the potential payoff was too powerful to resist. Twilight felt like a dream she would later describe to herself in detail. Walking behind Trixie found her eyes falling halfway to the floor, for some reason watching the miniature bounces of Trixie's taut and toned butt bobbing in her skin-tight jeans. Twilight's own clothes felt surprisingly too tight, as though they'd grown smaller on her skin over the course of studying. Was that possible, or was it just a mood, the heat sweltering in the back of Twilight's head creeping in to insidious places.
"Here we are," came Trixie's voice from as far away as the rest of reality. Twilight dragged herself back in by sheer force of will, occupying her body fully at last, even though the outlines of reality did feel a bit fuzzy and insubstantial. It was very good tea, and she couldn't wait to drink some more once she was sitting down again...
"Thank you," Twilight said. She rubbed a hand against her forehead. "I'm feeling a little off all of a sudden..."
"Why don't just sit down for a little bit? I'm sure you'll feel much better." Trixie's hand was on Twilight's, pulling her forward into the murky room, even more unlit than the library, how was Twilight supposed to get any studying done when she couldn't see—
"Here you are," Trixie said. She shoved Twilight into the seat of the desk that sat somehow at the center of the room, piled around with scribbled papers and pieces of parchment that looked as though they'd been ripped from scores of texts in different scripts.
Twilight was sitting down. Her tea was in front of her, though she could barely make it out. And Trixie was...
Gone, behind her, smiling as she shut the door.
"Have fun..." she whispered, just before the click.
Twilight sat for a moment. Then she took a sip of her tea.
It tasted very good.
It was important to note that Trixie was relatively certain no immediate harm would come to Twilight, shut away in such a small room with the vestige of phantoms lurking around her.
Almost one-hundred percent, as a matter of fact.
The tea, for example, had just been that: tea. Trixie put special attention into eking out the deepest flavour from the 'bed-time blend' she'd selected, hoping to get Twilight a little on the sleepy and suggestive side... but there was nothing untowards about that. Simple suggestion, hardly admissable as evidence anywhere important...
There was, however, the matter of the little statuette she'd snatched up prior to inviting Twilight over for the evening. The one that had inspired the whole affair, and was presently practically burning a hole in the pocket of Trixie's robe... her hand curled around it naturally, the low, reptillian hind-brain satisfaction of holding something solid. She knew how gorgeous it looked out in the light, but even in the shadows, she was sure she there were new curves and particulars to the carving she had missed out on. It felt warm in her hand as she drew it out of her pocket, only cooling as she spread her palm open and studied it there, resting on a solid base that felt heavy, like stone, but light and glossy, like a polished volcanic shard. The curves seemed to take in the glimmer of the evening stars even through the sheen of the dusty curtains.
It was, in so many words, a snake.
Not one like Trixie had seen before—none of the snakes she knew stood up straight on their curled haunches, with arms and hands and bounding breasts. Trixie paid particular attention to that part, the sheen and polish of the curvature catching her eye the same as the moonlight. And when she clutched the statue tight, whether it was in her robe or in the mansion's dim interior, it felt hot, and sparkly, like a piece of lightning that had been solidified in the freezer. Trixie wondered more than a few times on her way to get Twilight what it might feel like to masturbate with the thing, and now might be a better time than ever to—
No. She ought to hold off, at least until Twilight was done 'studying' the small room. Trixie had gone to a lot of work to prepare her plans in the special niche between 'sexy' and 'terrifying'.
Of course, if Twilight screamed, that might mean she had tipped too far in either direction...
Trixie sighed and shoved the sexy snake statuette back in her pocket. It felt reassuring, sitting there, like an emergency button she could reach in and clutch tight whenever she needed reassurance. It made her feel more powerful, more complete... and having turned up in an abandoned mansion this full of arcane whatsits, who was to say it didn't have a little left-over magic lugging around?
A gentle hiss, Trixie tracing her tongue along her lower teeth and admiring how clean and sharp they felt. Sparkling as a chip of the starlight, a little scale surfacing on the back of her neck, and remaining there as the moonlight cascaded onward...
From down the hallway, Trixie could make out a faint moan in Twilight's voice.
Her fanged smile crept even wider.
Now there is the matter of magical texts, and that is where no one can ever be certain of things turning out one way or another. When you insert intent into the matter, especially left-over intent the remnant of a magical someone-or-other over a thousand years old, unaccounted happenstance are practically guaranteed. Twilight Sparkle knew all about this, and she would have told it to you if she was in any condition to do so.
The tea, as already explained, was nothing more than tea. That part perhaps Twilight knew, in the back of her head, whatever part of her was content to play along with Trixie's sudden insistence that she relocate, no matter how intriguing the volumes hidden away in this corner of the mansion might have been... there was the whole night to explore, wasn't there, and then some, as long as the mansion didn't vanish into a crack in the earth any time soon. Twilight fostered a minute suspicion in the back of her mind, more or less always present in some form or another, that at some point, the entire thing would collapse like a stage-show in primary school, all the book-cases would become clumsily-painted bits of staging, caricatured props, and Twilight would be at the center of a thousand pointing hands laughing in disbelief that she'd ever believed a word out of Trixie's mouth in the first place.
That inhibition had gotten her nipped twice already though. Maybe, at the end of the day, friendship meant not a lot more than forgiving what was in the past and making the best of the future.
So far, at least, Trixie had been true to her word. Twilight had scoured more unreadable combinations of arcane script that her brain would have been able to imagine on its own, even with the assistance of a lot of caffeine and a very large volume on ancient Equestrian. Not much had emerged yet in terms of actual, usable knowledge, but her thirst for the inscrutable had been whetted properly, and there was no way anyone, even someone as cunning as The Amazing Trixie could be capable of cobbling together that convincing a set of texts. Twilight had her hands on the genuine article, and therefore something even older and more awash in mystic energy than ever before.
Again, chiding herself for doubting Trixie, Twilight let her hands rest shakily on the cover of one of the forgotten books. The dust that scattered under her fingertips was like the first, wheezy breath from the dry-wracked lungs of a thousand-year old ghost, and enough to cause the hair on the back of Twilight's neck to stand on end. Though there was no one else in the room with her, she was certain the metaphor had come along with a real, genuine sound of someone wheezing.
The place was old though. Very old. Heck, Twilight heard her own place make similar noises at night when she was up too late reading, uh... 'anatomy' textbooks... It was probably just the room settling. Or a book falling into place as a spiderweb collapsed. Or...
"No," Twilight said out loud, "that's definitely an arm."
A translucent one, like a chain of smoke and vapour, reaching out of the wall just to Twilight's right and over the desk, towards her blouse.
Twilight was dressed as though she'd come straight from school, shades-of-purple button-up blouse and a skirt to match. She didn't consider an evening of reading to be an occasion for dressing up, and besides which, wouldn't have found anything more fasionable in her closet if she'd searched anyway. Who was she trying to impress... Trixie?
The arm, meanwhile, made its acquaintance with Twilight's shoulder. The fingers touched her skin, trailing on the surface like normal human hands, before sinking into her flesh, giving the sensation that her entire arm had been chilled with a bucket of ice-water from the inside. It wasn't terrible, or painful—almost invigorating, in a kind of 'dunk your head in a bucket during summer' sort of a way. But it did leave the lingering sensation that she'd been... well... 'intruded upon', in a way. One second, she was sitting there, about to crack open a good book about, uh... unreadable gibberish, and now she was... now she was...
Twilight checked again, tilting her body from side to side. She was, in fact, stuck firmly to the seat of her chair. An old wooden one, not too comfortable for long periods of reading, or even short periods of sitting. But an uncomfortable butt was, at present, the least of Twilight's worries.
"Listen," she said, hoping that whatever the apparitions intentions were, it at least spoke some of the local dialect. "Let's be reasonable about this. We've just met, and I'm only here to look at these old books." Twilight did her best to ignore the sensation of a second hand, which had appeared from the opposite wall and was dancing around the back of her neck like someone blowing little breaths onto her skin. It made her whole body shiver, another combined sensation she couldn't identify as fear or arousal. That in itself was a troubling revelation, but even more worrying as she realized she was beginning to enjoy the collapsed threshold of the two...
"Why don't you just let me get up, and I'll leave these particular books alone, so you can—eep!"
Twilight had a chance to let out a pitiful, almost-stereotypically-startled-sounding yelp, before a third hand, surfacing from the ceiling and reaching down like a chandelier, had snapped over her mouth and sunken in just like the fingers on the first hand. This had the result of plunging most of Twilight's head into the sensation of being frozen in dry ice. A little voice in the back of her head reminded her that in situations like this, it wasn't often that insidious individuals made concessions for the comfort of their captives—and Twilight, while scared and startled, didn't feel her life was in any overt danger.
Apparently satisfied with her silence and relative relaxation into the situation, the first two hands Twilight had encountered resurfaced, and made their way pointedly to the front of her blouse, which they unbuttoned just as matter-of-factly. Twilight's sizable breasts sprang free under the cover of her dark-purple bra, jiggling in a way that seemed slightly too comical given the approximate gravity of the situation. Twilight wanted to scowl and reprimand the hands for being so to-the-point in their attentions, but her breath caught in her throat as the hands extended a pair of fingers each and began to tweak Twilight's nipples through her bra. Just like the touches before, the sensation was of ice being traced along the skin... but Twilight happened to love playing that way, taking entire trays of ice cubes up to her bedroom in the summer months. Whether or not the hands knew that initially, it probably wasn't difficult to figure out shortly thereafter, as Twilight began to moan under the cover of the hidden third hand, and grind herself back and forth in a frustrated manner over the seat of her chair.
It was, in a way, still a bit spooky. Twilight had never met this set of hands before, had no reason to suspect they were well-intentioned besides the nature of their attention thus far. Then again, Twilight did remember reading about fringe crossovers in the annals of cryptozoology, of combinations betweens incubi and ghosts that had been left over by horny, disgruntled sex workers, or lifelong virgins who had stuck around in the afterlife to finally get laid. Twilight certainly didn't believe in anything of the sort... but, it was also true that 'belief' didn't matter much with reality right in front of you.
The hand attending to Twilight's left breast grabbed her nipple and twisted ever-so-slightly, and a jolt of lightning ran from Twilight's chest straight down to her pussy, clenching and leaking a little onto the old wooden chair she was still stuck to.
It was around then Twilight noticed someone else in her head with her. A little pair of invisible eyes, waiting for a response.
This part was difficult to communicate—if you've never felt a voice in your head, its nature could be too insubstantial regardless of articulation. It's not even a feeling—more like a hiccup in your thought, a little bit of thread that sticks up, reminding you there was more than one source for your clothing.
Right. Like, almost impossible.
Twilight gave it a shot anyway.
Hello? she thought... not just to herself, but to the thing as well, presumably the upstairs portion attached to the hands she was already getting well-acquainted with.
The thing waved back at her.
Maybe there was the possibility of negotiation after all.
Trixie felt like uncountable centuries had passed waiting for Twilight to run out of the room and down the hall shrieking. In reality, it had been about twenty minutes, give or take. Trixie had amused herself mostly by staring at the statue and twiddling it between her hands. Occasionally her forked tongue would flick out and snatch a taste of the musty library air before slithering back inside her mouth. Continually, she searched for just a tiny taste of Twilight's fear, but came up short.
There were no buts about it now—it was time to find out what was keeping Twilight from fright during her 'study session'.
As Trixie got up from the long table she'd been lounging at, she stretched her arms out extra far, and a coat of scales sparkled along them in the moonlight. To Trixie, nothing looked untoward—she'd probably always had scales there, something like that. Nor was she particularly alarmed about the way her canines had lengthened into proper, pointed fangs, dripping with a mysterious cornflower blue venom that sizzled when it landed on the carpet.
Lastly, as her legs seem to have shifted together into the lower half of a serpent, perfectly resembling the one on the statue, Trixie slithered her way down the hall instead of walking. And again, just as if she'd shown up that evening in exactly the same state, the newly transformed Trixie seemed to pay her snake-like state no mind. A cobra hood to replace her mane would complete the transformation, but something seemed to be holding back the final piece, a little hitch in the house of cards before the whole thing came down.
Trixie grumbled to herself as she glided elegantly to the study door. When she reached the grimy wooden door, she pressed her ear against it, feeling an increased sensitivity to sound that seemed to fit right in with the rest of her adjustments. Though she strained, Trixie couldn't make out anything that sounded sheer or terrified. Just... scribbling. A pen on paper, most likely.
With a defeated sigh, Trixie caved and opened the door.
"Twilight?" she asked before she'd even stepped inside. "I just came to check on you and make sure you were... you were..."
Trixie trailed off as her eyes took in the scene in front of her.
It was just Twilight studying.
Utterly unhorrifying, unhorrified, and uninteresting, but for the inherently intriguing properties of Twilight Sparkles in general.
"Oh, hi, Trixie," Twilight said. She looked up from the book she'd been studying with a tired smile. "Sorry I've been in here so long. These books just turned out to be really fascinating!"
If Twilight noticed Trixie's altered appearance, she didn't give any indication of it. Possibly the light in the room was too dim to see much by, or Twilight's vision was on a different plane of focus having spent so long staring at tiny words printed on paper.
Trixie hissed softly and ran her tongue along her fangs.
"You didn't happen to run into anything, erm... frightening, did you?"
Twilight gave Trixie a polite but confused smile.
"No," she said, "not anything I can think of."
Trixie furrowed her eyebrows.
"No... interplanar beings, or ephemeral entities, or perplexing ancient poltergheists? Nothing of the sort?"
Twilight tilted her head to one side. Her eyes went up and to the left.
"Oh!" she said. "Now that you mention it, there was a horny ghost in here, but we had a talk and they went off to take care of things on their own. Though I did have to show them my tits real quick." Twilight blushed brightly. Her blouse was still a little disheveled, and the top button was still undone.
"Oh," Trixie said.
The various lenses of reality sunk in to their respective ramifications.
"Um," Trixie said.
"Did you, uh... do anything?
With the ghost, I mean?"
Twilight shrugged.
"Not really. I was more interested in studying."
"Oh for heaven's sake," Trixie said. She kicked the door shut behind her and slithered over to Twilight's table until she was so close she could practically smell the hair on the back of Twilight's neck. Definitely could have, if she gave it a lick. "You conjure up a lonely spirit to do one job for you, and look how it turns out..."
"Hmm?" Twilight looked up at Trixie only half-attentive, already having been absorbed back into the book she was studying. "Sorry, I keep getting distracted, but this stuff is so interesting! Did you know the Proto-Equestrian etymological root of 'hoof' is the same as the word 'heart'?"
"Twilight," Trixie said innoccently, "could you please hand me the large volume on the shelf to your right, far enough away that it will require you to lean over and expose your bare and beautiful neck?"
Twilight raised an eyebrow, but got up from her chair to follow the request.
"Uh, sure, I guess, though that's a really weird way to ask that." She reached towards the biggest book on the shelf, matte black with //boots that's black to match// gold embossed lettering on the cover. "This one?" she asked.
Trixie couldn't quite get an angle yet.
"Yes, but could you hold it so that you turn a little more to your right?"
"What, like this?"
Perfect. There was just enough room for her fangs, like a vampire's kiss in snakebite.
"Yes, that's wonderful. Just stay there for a second."
"But I thought you wanted me to pass you the book—ooohhhhh..."
Trixie's fangs connected with Twilight's flesh like a ripened orange, and though she could have torn in and rendered the area unusable, Trixie restrained herself to a gentle suckle, not drinking any blood in particular, but more of a snake-like hickey, a little love bite for her lover that she'd been waiting to deliver for the entire evening.
"Trixie," Twilight said, swooning towards the wall and catching herself on the wall of books. "Is this the part of the night where you finally admit you didn't just bring me here to show me a bunch of books?" Though her head felt heavy and cloudy as Trixie's sky-blue venom did its work, the question she'd been essentially asking all night seemed finally about to get its answer.
"Oh, just hush and enjoy yourself," Trixie said. Her fangs seemed set on 'glimmer' permanently, somehow gathering the light even where it barely existed in the first place. Twilight's neck's two holes remained as boasted proof that the final strike of her prank was in place... though, she couldn't recall planning that bit in the first place. There was always a little room for spontanaeity in a Trixie Scheme™.
"Ohhh..." Twilight let out a low moan and pressed her hand to her forehead. "I'm feeling really light headed all of a sudden..." Through the cloud of heavy and hot fog building in her brain, Twilight managed to give Trixie a reproachful glare. "It's almost like someone bit me on the neck."
"It's just a little poison," Trixie said with a giggle. She licked her fangs and bared them to show off to Twilight.
"Actually," Twilight said, her head tipping groggily, "it's venom. Poison is for something ingested orally. Venom is transmitted by bite."
"You're such an adorable little egghead," Trixie said with a wistful sigh. She sidled up to Twilight and began to trace delicate lines along her back, drawing out gentle moans and shivers along with Twilight's continual swooning.
"Do you want to undress yourself, or shall I?" Trixie asked matter-of-factly.
"I can do it," Twilight said, her tone taking on a far-away, almost musically distracted quality. "I'm feeling kind of hot all of a sudden anyway, for some reason..."
Trixie did nothing but sit back and watch as Twilight disrobed. She'd been waiting for this show all evening.
It was a bit like watching someone with a head-cold or a hangover get ready for bed—a secret fly on the wall moment when someone at their most vulnerable was making themselves even more exposed. The way Twilight shut her eyes as she undid her hair and let it splash down over her shoulders... the way she stuck out her tongue between her teeth to concentrate when focusing on undoing her buttons... and the way all the bits of her clothing just kind of slid free from her, like layers of skin she was never meant to wear in the first place, until it was just a totally naked, wobbly Twilight, save for the pair of glasses she looked too adorable in to remove.
To Trixie's surprise and delight, Twilight also seemed to be sporting a starting patch of scales on her left leg. A few flecks on the right had already begun to glimmer, and surely in no time, the two of them could slither entwined like two halves of a wound coil.
But until then...
Trixie felt pulling inclinations in either direction, one to boss Twilight around like she was a little puppy on a lead, the other to guide her wordlessly into the same hooded and fanged wonderland Trixie had already begun to traipse through herself. In the end, subtlety won out, and Trixie turned her attentions to Twilight's bare neck again, this time keeping her fangs just for little prickles and extra accents of attention. The way Twilight shivered and swooned low to the ground with each touch, like too much pleasure might send her tumbling to the floor, made Trixie's eyes light up like storm lanterns. The moment she'd saw Twilight's skirt drop, Trixie's pussy had begun to drip, but now it was practically gushing.
"Mhmm..." Twilight moaned softly with her eyes closed, but caught herself falling midway against a shelf of books. "Geez. Can I sit down or something?" she asked. "I feel like I'm gonna pass out.
What was in that venom, anyway?"
Trixie smirked.
"Trixie has a better idea. Why don't you just come right over here..."
"Ah!"
Twilight let out a startled gasp as Trixie's tail wrapped around her and dragged her forward. Though it was short the size of a couch or proper seating arrangement, Trixie's scaled, snake-like body and tail made a perfect coiling cushion for Twilight to relax into—and, as a bonus, there was now absolutely no room between them save the few atoms that kept the universe from exploding as a result of spontaneous fusion. Twilight's meager breasts were pushed up against Trixie's bodacious melons, and, even more, her exposed pussy was pressed to grind perfectly against Trixie's, a dripping, bright-pink slit in her scales more or less the place it would have been before her tail expanded so much.
"There," Trixie said, smiling devilishly. "Now you're perfectly safe."
Twilight felt the nervous shudder in her own breath as she stared at Trixie's glimmering fangs.
"Oh," she said meekly. "Am I?"
Trixie was already too busy exploring Twilight's body to respond. No matter the size of Twilight's breasts, they were objects of endless fascination for Trixie, considering the person they were attached to, and she approached them almost reverently, taking her time until her face was only an inch away, and then extending her forked tongue and licking ever-so-gently at Twilight's exposed nipple. Smiling in delight as Twilight shuddered, her breasts jiggling slightly as her body shook.
It was all much more familiar than the different, from the fantasies and few times Twilight had actually spent the night at a girlfriend's house... but the little differences made things more particular, and Twilight caught herself being fascinated by things like the texture of Trixie's scaly skin, rubbing her hands along the glimmering patches like she was massaging a lamp for wishes.
She'd always been fascinated by Trixie's breasts from afar, not just from sheer size, but because there's always a lingering blackpowder between rivals waiting to be ignited. Now she could put her hands on them, finding them like twin mountains on new grounds of slithery skin. Twilight especially enjoyed the sensation of her nipples rubbing against Trixie's, a subtle dynamism between them, with Twilight's extra stiff and engorged while Trixie's were more soft and spread out... Twilight's cunt began dribbling a steady stream of arousal between her legs, and she rubbed them together, not even noticing the new sound of scale on scale.
While Trixie was more or less in control of a heady and swooning Twilight, she took her time with each attention, letting her fingers run across Twilight's taut, sensitive stomach and savouring each shiver at the tips of her touch. When her fingers traced lower, she was rewarded with the feeling of absolute dampness and a sharp intake of breath from Twilight, her body clenching tight in Trixie's coiled grasp.
"You know I've been waiting all night to get my... er, fangs on you," Trixie said. It's important to note that while snakes hiss, they do not hiss as a means of transmitting words. Try 'hissing' the word 'rutabaga' and see how it goes.
Swimmy head-feelings and venom sizzles eventually parted to allow a half-there Twilight to resurface into the conversation.
"Hmm?"
Well, mostly.
Trixie patted her on the head reassuringly.
"I thought I was supposed to... uhh." Twilight put a hand to her forehead and wiped away the thin layer of sweat. Transforming could take a lot out of a pony-cum-snake-girl. "I thought I was supposed to give you the benefit of the doubt?"
Trixie smiled with her fangs out.
"Oh, where's the fun in that. Trixie knew you had our number all night. We just needed something to distract you."
Trixie's fingers curled around the back of Twilight's neck, holding her head perfectly in place. The two of them kissed, with the insistence of Trixie's grip adding to the tension, and Twilight found her own tongue far more active than usual, learning new ways to explore Trixie's mouth and dance with her twin-tail end. Twilight's own tongue was beginning to mimic the split, swelling and parting in her mouth, until the two of them were hissing serpents exchanging saliva, drooling down each other's chins and necks and raking their fangs together for extra shivers. The heat in Twilight's head increased, spreading to the rest of her body, the flow of venom mimicking perfectly the natural spread of arousal in its little jaunts of insistent lightning and urges beyond word and reason. Scales crystallized on Twilight's skin, and her legs began to fit together more naturally than they could ever dream of separating.
Twilight's arms were there, but they felt ineffectual, like weights slung on the sides of her body. More than just her vision and sense of balance felt wobbly—her whole body felt like it was undulating too quick to catch, a continual sense that her skin had begun to cry for no particular reason. The wetness between her legs seemed to have spread to every inch of her body, and it was all she could do not to fall apart, thoughts scattered apart into impulses unable to crystallize into words she could comprehend. Want, need, passion, insistence. Twilight opened her mouth and found it dry, only to have Trixie moisten it again with her tongue.
Drinking in the desire that was there subsumed Trixie's senses in a heady wine, and the naughty things she could do with her new potential pet were spinning through like tabs on a Rolodex™. At the very least, she ought to attend to the matter of Twilight's quivering sex only a few inches from her hand...
Twilight gasped and shivered as Trixie's hand cupped around her warm pussy, a new source of friction besides their rubbing together, and more than that, the sensation of almost... almost touching, almost touching, almost being there but never quite coming together...
"Trixie," Twilight said, her voice shaking slightly "are you going to tease me like this all night?"
"That depends," Trixie answered languidly, regarding Twilight's insistence in the same way she viewed everything else about Twilight: with a sly and detached amusement. "Do you think you can be a good girl, and listen to what your Mistress has to say for the evening?"
"I feel like... I feel like..."
"Yes?" Trixie tilted her head to the side, smiling with her fangs hanging over her lower lip.
"I feel like my whole body is gonna throw up."
"Oh, dear." Trixie untilted her head, her brow furrowed. "Perhaps Trixie was too hasty. You seem overwhelmed by the changes."
"No, it's..." Twilight pushed at Trixie's chest with her hand, but it felt like punching a cloud in a dream-state, all her muscles being sent signals but never quite moving in accordance with plan. "I can do it. I can be good." Twilight pouted at Trixie, her pupils blooming magnificently in the dark, light now no longer the most immediate means of transmission between them. Whenever Twilight shivered, Trixie felt it course through her coiled tail, and as Twilight's legs began to meld and shift together, Twilight could feel each tingling touch of Trixie's hand hovering above her pussy lips, daring her to thrust her hips up only surely to be answered by Trixie's hand pulling away. Twilight bit her lip harder and whimpered like a needy puppy.
It was difficult to say no to her at the best of times. Trixie felt her natural dominant urges clashing with an overall sense of responsibility. While Twilight's new form was coming on, she need to be slow, and sympathetic, instead of just commanding and concerned primarily with her own pleasure. Twilight was the type to enjoy herself as a side-effect of making someone else happy, but Trixie felt determined to make sure to attend to Twilight's needs just as well as her own now.
So, graciously, Trixie pressed the flat of her palm against Twilight's pussy, pushing down lightly on her clit and rubbing in soft, miniature circles, quickly becoming slick with the juices flowing from Twilight's heightened arousal.
"Please," was the first word out of Twilight's mouth, sudden, as though yanked from inside her without warning. Her hips betrayed her and began thrusting to meet Trixie's attention, finally rewarded with contact, with the increase in pressure sending fire and lightning from her sexy bits all through her body. Yes, admittedly, it did still feel strange to have parts of your self slowly reshaping... but the wooziness was so close to the swirly head-clouds Twilight normally experienced when aroused that it made sense to give into the sensation, to just let her body be consumed by this hidden and forbidden need to be touched, just so, just right there...
"You want more?" Trixie said, hissing at the end of her sentence and flicking her forked tongue into the air. She knew the question was rhetorical, but Twilight's whimpers were too delicious a delight to pass up. Trixie wanted to make her feel good—not to pamper her.
"Yes, I want... I want more." Twilight bucked her hips up pathetically, searching for some kind of penetration but only meeting more flat, gentle rubbing. "Please."
"Tell Trixie exactly what you want her to do." Trixie smirked and ran her tongue along her fangs.
"I want... I want..."
"Go on."
Twilight swallowed a large, nervous lump in her throat. The words were there, they just had to come together, through the hot fog and constant need to continue the motion of her hips.
"I want Trixie to—you, I want you to..."
"Yes?"
"I want you to finger me!"
Trixie raised an eyebrow. Finally, she'd could a tiny crack emerging in the structure.
"Finger you?" Trixie ran her index lazily along the center of Twilight's pussy lips, drawing out even more shivers and whimpers than her palm had amassed. "Perhaps you could be more... specific?"
"I want you to finger my pussy!" Twilight blurted. "I want you to shove one—no, two—no, four—I just want you to put something in me, please! I need it so bad..."
Trixie's smirk grew even wider. She began to tease the inside of Twilight's lips with the tip of her finger, gaining a gasp and an up-thrust of Twilight's hips with each tiny motion. At last, she let one digit in to the first knuckle, then almost to the base...
"Ohhh, yes yes yes, just like that, please..." Twilight tossed her head back and forth with her eyes closed as Trixie's touching intensified. Her moans made mostly only small rebounds, being muffled in the surrounding towers of books and the shelves that housed them. Still, every word from her mouth was a bolt of lightning, an entire symphony in a second to Trixie. And though teasing was in a way its own reward, there was only so much willpower Trixie could muster to keep from finally giving the poor soon-to-be snake-girl what she wanted.
"Like this?" Trixie said in a hushed breath, her mouth right next to Twilight's ear, two fingers curled at the entrance to Twilight's dripping slit, and finally plunging inside.
Twilight's whole body shuddered, and she flung herself forward, clinging to Trixie with both arms in an attempt to steady herself with an ongoing hug. Trixie mercifully gave her one arm's support back, but Trixie's other hand remained persistently between Twilight's legs, schlucking in and out in a curving, come-hither motion that made Twilight feel as though the inside of her stomach was being pressed up. Her hips rocketed to meet the thrusts of Trixie's fingers, and she bit her lower lip so hard her fangs began to sink into her own flesh. Yes, her teeth were sturdier now, one piece of a puzzle sliding into place.
The light had all but faded from the interior of the mansion—a set of grim hours elongated between moonlight and dusk, where the only glimmers remaining were reflections of photons that no longer remained in earnest—but that was little concern to the slithery pair, their pupils wide to amplify the tiniest fragments of light, and their bodies naturally attuned to the vibrations of sound.
Twilight's body was nearing the completion of its metamorphosis now, the beginnings of her entire outside rippling and shimmering, then coalescing into hard and glimmering scales that felt smooth to the touch, lining her lower body like sequins on a fashioned dress.
Trixie's fangs were just a little longer than Twilight's, and they shared a sharpness with the hungry gleam in Trixie's eyes, sparkling like a wolf before the pounce.
Trixie leaned over and began to bite and suck on Twilight's shoulder, continuing the rhythm of her fingering and pausing occasionally to rub and diddle Twilight's clit with her thumb.
"Nnnh!" Twilight let out a high-pitched grunt, matching the pace of Trixie's fingering with the movements of her hips. Words were becoming beyond the both of them now, almost nothing more their bodies could do together but move in this fashion.
"You should be thankful Trixie is here to guide you," Trixie said, her mischievous tone like a gleaming gem with sharp, chiseled edges. "Otherwise your transformation might not have been nearly as much fun."
"Aren't you... the reason... for my transformation... in the first place?" Twilight asked, spacing her query between little 'unh's matched to the rhythm of her hips.
"Mhmmm... perhaps." Trixie stuck out her tongue between her teeth and gave Twilight's cheek a single, playful lick. "But let's be honest... we both know this is much more fun than an evening studying."
And though she might never admit it out loud, Twilight's face gave away the game—blushing on full point, her eyes wide and wavering, the expression on her face impossible to capture in anything but a mental photograph of the moment, that silly, slightly-slutty expression everypony has right before they're about to cum. Trixie could have stared at it for days.
Still, as Trixie's fingering went on, the two of them had continued to rub together in general proximity, tits pressing together, nipples occasionally grazing over each other. Twilight would gasp with each little contact, as though lightning had arched straight down to her pussy. Trixie's cunt was still so close, their lips would touch sometimes, Twilight could feel a wetness that rivaled her own, but she was powerless to reach out and touch it—
No. A deep intent bayed in Twilight's subconscious, rising from the hiss of the venom that was coursing through her veins. Serve, was its utterance, more or less, and Twilight felt instantly as though there was nothing more in the world she was meant to do. Her arms were no longer heavy, and though her head was still spinning, she could open her eyes, see clear enough what to do next.
It was a trick to restrain her fangs as she leaned down to one of Trixie's tits and began to suck—she felt so badly like biting down and suckling on one of Trixie's nipples like an eager foal, even though she knew the best she would earn was blood... but from Trixie's skin, the notion of that forbidden nectar haunted her like a dream, and her hips began to grind extra hard against Trixie's vigorous plunges.
"Mhm, that's very good," Trixie said, trailing a moan. "Trixie loves a partner who's self-motivated..."
Trixie took the hand that had been resting on Twilight's back and placed it on top of her head. She pressed down to help encourage Twilight in her attentions, and was rewarded with even more vigorous slurping and nibbling.
"Yessssssss, such a wonderful an attentive student..." Metaphors in Trixie's head began to mix together, all equivalent with the same essential purpose, in putting one person in hierarchy above the other. Surely, Twilight was used to being called someone's student by now, anyway...
Trixie began grinding her cunt against Twilight's in earnest, adding to the pounding sensation of her fingers slamming in and out, rubbing Twilight's g-spot with every arched movement. Though part of her always felt ashamed when she imagined the simple act of just rubbing herself against someone else, their matched parts touching in simple symmetry, a way to play she had learned when she was young but never fallen out of love with. So raw, so pure... Trixie savoured every inch of the contact between them, the sloppy, messy sound of their two wet places rubbing together. She would have been overcome with anyone in this type of situation—but Twilight threw the whole thing into overdrive.
All it took was a look, a simple exchange of stares, for both girls to communicate the closeness of their orgasm. Twilight's was desperate and doe-like, despite the predatory protrusion of her fangs. Trixie's glance was far more leisurely; something like, "do you really think I can't do this all night?" But, either way, there was an understanding, and each gave a last, loud moan as their bodies seized and began to shake in unison.
"Am I—unh!—am I allowed... to cum, T-trixie?" Twilight's tongue uttered her partner's name with reverence, and though it was simple and blunt, the power it held was undeniable. Heavy, horny chemicals rushed through Twilight's brain, rewarding her for a simple utterance carrying the weight of a contract in its syllables.
Trixie gave her a simple nod.
"You are. But you must say thank you."
"Thank you, Trixie, thank you, oh, thank you. Thank you so much, I love, I love you—"
Trixie cut off Twilight's rambles by tongue-kissing her, hard. It was, for all things, miraculous for them to have a library in private, or somepony would certainly have shushed them by now.
Trixie's orgasm came on like several gently cresting waves, but Twilight's was a hurricane, and she shook in accordance with the strength of her climax, shivering against Trixie and hanging on to her as though for dear life. Even though Twilight's legs had at last melded into a single, sleek lower-body tail, she felt so woozy in the head it was a miracle to keep herself upright any longer at all.
Twilight continued shaking, her cunt clenching around Trixie's fingers as though she was trying to break them off. Trixie knew the best way to ride out Twilight's orgasm, to rub Twilight's back in a reassuring way as she gradually descended the paralyzing heights of her explosive climax. Snake venom and endorphins could probably do a lot to someone, in combination.
Certainly they could make them look a bit different. Trixie and Twilight were practically sisters now, different color-palettes of the same slithery, curvaceous lamia figure. Both to match the statue in Trixie's pocket, in the robe she'd never taken off even during the prolonged rubbing session with Twilight. Presumably portions of her clothing were now drenched in girl juice; ostensibly nothing a good wash couldn't fix, anyway.
The room felt weirdly quiet. Twilight had come down her climax even shakier than she went up, and Trixie needed to remove her fingers rather rapidly to make both arms free to hold the poor thing up. That being said, Twilight had a good degree more support, now sporting a slithery bottom half to match her snake-like companion. The pair were a perfect fit for a haunted house... an 'adults only' version, maybe.
"So," Trixie said, her voice playfully casual. "Did you mean what you said?"
Twilight opened her eyes slowly, barely able to muster the energy to attend to consciousness now that her orgasm had wrung her out like a damp rag.
"Huh?"
"When you came," Trixie said slyly. "You said "I love you"." Trixie's smirk grew even wider. "Do you not remember?"
Though you would have needed snake eyes to see it, Twilight's face went back to full blush mode.
"Oh," she said flatly, staring down at her tail. "No, I—look, there was a lot going on, I felt all weird because of, uh, the snake, stuff, and—"
Trixie stopped Twilight's rambling with two fingers two her lips, saving the egghead from tumbling even further into the ditch she was rapidly digging for herself.
"Shh," she said. "It's fine." Her smirk was a genuine smile now. "But if you'd like to go out with me, all you have to do is ask."
"Um," Twilight said shyly, still staring down at her own tail.
Trixie crossed her arms and continued smiling.
"Trixie can wait."
Twilight let out a long sigh. She opened and closed her mouth a few times, finding it dry despite the fact that she'd tongue-kissed Trixie only a short while ago.
"I," she said.
"Um,"
"You can do it," Trixie said. "Go on."
"I'd, uh... reallylikeitifyouandicouldgoouttogether—"
"Slowly. Deep breath."
Twilight swallowed a large chestful of air as directed.
"Right," she said. "I just wanted to say, uh." Pause. "I'd really like it, if, uh." Pause. "You were my... you know." Pause. "Girlfriend." Pause. Pause. Very long pause.
Trixie grabbed Twilight's face with both hands and smiled at her.
"I'd like that too."
Smooch.
Twilight wondered what she was supposed to do to signal a feminine swooning now that she couldn't raise one leg up. She settled for letting herself fall forward and rest against Trixie's chest, using her like a big sturdy pillow. That felt right.
The kiss, like Trixie's attentions earlier, could have gone on forever, but it ended before the moment of 'now' stretched out too long, when Twilight could still catch her breath but also remember a time when she couldn't. Her mouth felt moist again, Trixie's tongue dancing around having done its work.
"Are you okay sleeping here tonight?" Trixie asked.
"Yes," Twilight said, then turned her head sharply with a sour expression, as though she'd just heard the question after answering. "Here? Like, in this room? There isn't even a couch to—"
"Not here, silly," Trixie interrupted. She flicked her tongue out at Twilight, leaving it to dangle in the air for a moment before snapping back between her fangs. "This place is gigantic. Spacious bedrooms. We'll be really comfy."
"Oh," Twilight said. She felt silly. Maybe she ought to give herself a nice night's sleep before assuming her intellect was operating at full capacity. There were a lot of differences between being a girl and a snake girl, for example...
"Don't worry," Trixie said. "Just follow me." A pause. Smirk. "It's what you're best at."
Twilight hissed, her eyes narrowing sharply in Trixie's direction.
And even though both of them had technically changed quite a bit, somehow, things felt about the same as ever.
Well.
Maybe with slightly more sex, then.