Dark Star starts has embarked in a new venture - infiltrating cells of leftwing radicals at a local university.
>>150190“It was really eye opening, but you know, ponies like Mars load and her friends have been telling me those sorts of things for a while now you know. I didn’t believe them, so they wanted me to go hear for myself. So I can understand what they were saying better now and I can see their point.”
>>150191"Oh really? What have they been telling you?"
>>150192"Well, about..." She breaks eye contact and looks away from him.
"About sexuality. Heh. She.. they say that it's okay to be more free with sex and to not worry about marriage now. That will all work itself out later. My mother says that stallions are bad news and not to trust them. But I haven't really heard any different from her... And then I hear this lecture and it's what they were telling me."
At this point in the conversation, not only is she not looking at Dark Star, she is looking down at the ground besides Dark Star on the floor, and has run her tail up underneath her, and has it in her hooves, playing with it. Her tail is naked for most of the length until a set of black fur at the end, like a lion.
>>150189Iron couldn't help but glance with a satisfied smile at the sight of Cauldron's belly, gently placing a hoof on it to give it a slow, tender, circular rub for a moment. "Is it comfortable in there?" he softly asked.
>>150197She moves a hoof near Iron's in reaction.
"It's... it'll do for now. Soft enough. Firm enough..."
>>150196"I Find that mothers always want whats best for their children. even if they go about it in a strange way. i like your tail."
>>150199"Yeah..." She pauses for a moment, and looks back up at Solar Night, mouth stuck partly open
"Oh, haha." She lets go of her tail and it falls to the couch. The hair on the end of the tail, the same black color as her mane, is short, with the remainder covered in the same cloud grey short fur as her coat.
"Thanks... It's not really like a pony tail. As you can see."
>>150198Iron chuckles softly before gradually sliding the tummy rubbing hoof out in order to support his methodical and careful entrance into the bed and on top of Cauldron, all the while locking his eyes with hers. "So in the end," he prefaced with a smile "I got the best bed."
>>150200"Can i touch it?" he asks quizzically
>>150201She turns her head to face Iron
"No. I think I did." She says. Her head rests on a pillow, her forelegs lay to each side, her belly up, and her hind legs spread out, with her tail hitting the end of the room and curling a little upwards. The bed is maybe six and a half feet by three feet, if it is even that wide, so there is not much room for a second pony, though there is room to either side of her for Iron's hooves.
>>150202She blushes (though she has been blushing), she pulls her lips back in a smile, and her ears go down for a moment.
"Uh, sure."
>>150203Solar night touches her tail with the frog of his hoof
>>150203Realizing this, Iron receded slightly to instead continue along his tummy rubbing next to Cauldron with an added hoof to sink itself inside her short chest fluff. "What about best pillow?" he tried instead with a hopeful smile, making sure to accentuate his sentence with a noticeable stroke along her chest.
>>150204It's horse hair alright, although it's much shorter than the hair of the average tail, and so it feels more firm and less likely to bend. It's not especially soft. Her tail has a
much longer than normal bone in it, only ending in the ball of fur near the tip, rather than half way down like a normal pony. If dark star feels the hairless portion of her tail, he can feel it is bony, though it will bend, and is covered in that short cloud-grey fur, with a few stripes.
>>150205She smiles
"Oh, am I a pillow now?"
>>150206"You do melt my worries away," Iron lovingly answers in turn. "Is that not what pillows do?"
By now, he was starting to form a little plan on how to properly enjoy Cauldron's touch while still laying down. He first needed to know if the chair could be moved about.
>>150207"Hehe, well not quite."
It looks like the chair can indeed be moved
>>150208"I guess you are better than a pillow, then," Iron concludes with a happy smile.
Not wanting to cut the moment short, he'd first try to get to the chair with a spare hindleg to drag it towards them.
>>150206"Wow it feels very cool, although it doesnt feel similar to mine."
>>150210“Heh heh heh… What, what is your’s like?” She asks, ears still low.
>>150209Because of his it’s positioned, this is more of a foreleg task, but possible all the same. There isn’t much room to move it at all between the lavatory and the bed, especially not with a shovel and multiple other items propped up on one side of the lavatory.
>>150211In that case, Iron simply lets himself enjoy the belly rubbing, chest stroking action he managed to squeeze into a little more before actually committing to the act. "Are you enjoying your extra special service?" he asked the zebra mare in a cordial, butler-like tone.
>>150212"Heheh, what?" she places a hoof down next to Iron's
"That kind of tickles."
>>150213"It came along with the big native package when you bought your..."
Iron got a little sidetracked trying to remember what did Cauldron buy just moments ago, having not really understood what it was. "...your train papers," he finally revealed with a happy smile. "I take much pride in my work, so if you require more intricate services, please do not fret to ask."
>>150211"You can touch it if you want."
>>150215Nadir reaches her hoof down to try to touch Solar Night's tail. Perhaps Dark Star didn't quite realize what he was agreeing to, as his - presumably - short cut tail, cut to the shorter length normal to males, is a bit closer to his hind quarters than he may have intended her hooves to go. Still, she places a hoof into his tail, and tries to move the hair to the side, until she can find the bone. The bleaching and dying job earlier in the day has caused his hair to be weaker yet harder.
"All covered in hair... oh! There's the bone. Right there. You can't even see it. Heheh"
>>150214"bahaha, what?"
She doesn't seem to quite understand, but she's enjoying it all the same
She places a hoof up, and rubs his chest near his neck
"You're adorable."
>>150216Iron's heart practically skipped a beat when Cauldron's hoof was neatly placed on his chest as his cheeks turns the slightest bit red. "I-I am?" he stuttered out, unsure how to properly received such a compliment.
>>150216Dark Star chuckles nervously
"Yea the differences are astounding. This is why i want to take hippology"
>>150217"Yes. You are adorable. Cute, even."
>>150218"Ohhhh, Yeah, hehe, that's one reason to do it."
>>150219"C-cute?" Iron repeated, now even more unsure, which caused him to slowly sink a little under the side of the bed with an everincreasing blush on his cheeks. "W-what do you mean?"
>>150220"I mean, You. Are.
Cute." She takes the hoof out from under him, and touches the end of his nose
"
Boop"
>>150221Iron's face immediately went red at the gentle boop on his snout, scrunching heavily with a look of utter shock at the mare. "W-wh-" he tried to say, only to come out in a flustered stutter instead.
>>150219Dark star laughs
"Well i had a great time at the party. im getting very sleepy. where do you want to meet up tomorrow?"
>>150223"Oh, you're going home already? Uh... we should meet up in the morning. You, uh, you will help me register, you said?" She smiles awkwardly yet again. Her wings are still out.
>>150222"Hahaha" she laughs, turning her head to the side
>>150224"Yea of Course i'll help you register. where do you want to meet though? at the school?"
>>150224Iron's scrunch deepened further, now getting quite miffed until a bright idea popped into his head. Without warning, he soon used the hidden move that nopony but the most daring would use: The Sacrifical Boop!
Thus, with relentless yet careful trepidation, he soon bumped his snout against hers with a little dry kiss as a bonus.
>>150225"Yeah. Sure. At the administration building. Um... what time do we need to be there?"
>>150226As Cauldron turns her muzzle towards his,
BOOM she is hit with the end of Iron's snoot. Her face is covered in utter shock at this sudden move.
>>150227"Uh im not actually sure."
"maybe 8?"
He puts his hoof to his chin in thought
>>150227Iron's snout still scrunched even after his bold move, as fired up as ever yet has a faint feeling he may have gone a little too far. Nonetheless, his snoot remained glued to Cauldron's with an unfortunately cute determination.
>>150228"Well... If you want to attend the classes tomorrow, we should probably register before classes tomorrow."
She has the same wide smile
>>150229She pulls her lips back, though firmly closed, as if trying to stifle a smile.
"Pfft. Pfft!"
>>150230"do you know what time classes start?"
He smiles back
>>150231"Well... uh... They'll be having them all day, with the very earliest ones starting at 8."
>>150232"Hmmmm so about 7:00 or 7:30?"
>>150230Cauldron's stifled laughing was a little bit contagious, as his own red face soon started to form an evergrowing smile despite how hot under the collar he was. "Snnrk~" the stallion let out of his softly quivering lips, almost ready to burst.
>>150233"Uh, sure, if they are open that earlier. I can be there! Heh heh."
>>150234"Bahahaha!" She starts laughing, and almost flailing her forelegs about.
>>150235What time is it currently?
>>150238She closes eyes, and her long, tufted ears pop up, almost as if hero grab Dark Star’s hoof. When he finishes, she looks up at him.
“See you.”
She smiles, and readjusts herself in the coach, raising and lowering each hoof, and then wrapping her tail around herself.
June, Mars Loaf, Star Cut and the yellow mare have removed themselves from the kitchen. With the doors to the bedrooms closed, perhaps they haven’t left.
>>150235Thus, Iron laughs along with her in turn, burying her head in the bed she was laying on in order to muffle his own howling, joyous laughter.
>>150240Presumably, Iron is standing over top of her.
It takes her a minutes, still laughing, to finally recover. When she does so, she makes a sound like a sigh, and raises a hoof, petting Iron’s shoulder.
>>150239He waves Goodbye to Nadir
Dark star walks into the main room
>>150242She waves back to him happily
Lens, the one mare, and the short cut stallion are still there, over by the kitchen, surrounded by empty cans. Mars and June are gone, as are Star Cut and the yellow mare.