>>156989"That's okay." He says
"Every little filly has got to have her first. It can hurt like that." He pats her again, and ends with his foreleg over her shoulder
>>156990"Excuse me, sorry." She dips out from under him and returns to her podium, preferring the dim light and cold draft.
>>156992>>156993Amber walks away from the bar, past Melon Mangrove, and to the podium. It's a little after the end of Amber's shift. If anything, she's free to leave.
>>156994And leave Mustard hanging there, stressed? Nothing doing!
>>156995Mustard Trim does not seem to have noticed Amber walk off and accept free drinks from a stranger, lying about her age to do so, and doing so within a few minutes of closing and while her coltfriend was basically still in the same room.
He is cleaning up a few tables.
>>156996Well, when you put it in
that context…
She decides to grab a rag herself and help him clean up. She thanks and says goodbye to customers who are leaving.
>>156997The bar still has some activity, though most customers are leaving.
Mustard Trim looks over to Amber, and smiles at her
>>156998Amber is well aware the bar still has activity, she wants to stay far away from it for now. She smiles and waves back at Mustard.
>>157000He waves to her with a warm smile. He holds his head higher, as he walks away with utensils taken off of tables.
>>157002She gathers up whatever's left on the tables, happy to help in any small way.
>>157003He works with a half smile, and a determined diligence unlike the scared and frantic pace she observed in him earlier.
Amber recalls her dream. Mustard looked exasperated, angry, raising her voice at her, and pleading with her not to go with the mysterious orange stallion who wore the dress of a yak maiden. He looked like he wanted to tell her that if she left with him, they were over, and there was no going back. If he had said that, Amber may have decided in that moment to stay with Mustard, instead of leaving with the stallion. But he can't, and he doesn't. So she doesn't, and she can't. Something draws her to go with him. She leaves the hotel ballroom with its gilded walls, chandeliers and patterned carpets, and goes down the hallway and outside. The automobile that waits is modern in looks with curves, black and chrome, and its white wall tires, and it serves a sharp contrast against the antiquarian braided stallion who speaks little, but always with strength and conviction. He looks as young as thirty, but there was never any question that he was much older. He holds the door open for Amber, then takes the drivers seat. As he drives the vehicle away from the covered entrance to the hotel and onto the Baltimare street, Amber begins to realize that she is not in control of where the car is going, or indeed, that she doesn't even know where it is going. The mystery of the whole situation, not knowing who he was, what he wanted, or where he was taking her, was always a part of the excitement. Now, she recognizes the danger, and wonders if she has blundered.
Amber and Mustard wipe down and clean off all of the tables they could be expected to, and are soon both done with their shifts. Mustard looks over to Amber with a charmed smile.
>>157005Amber thinks about that dream, about what it means. Mustard really looked hurt in that, which
almost made her reconsider, but her logic has been that she can always make it up to him later. The mysterious stallion didn't seem threatening at all, albeit mysterious, and Amber never liked shying away from adventure. Yet there's always an element of danger, and wasn't she warned by High Sewn against going with strange stallions?
She returns his smile and nuzzles him, provided they aren't in view of a lot of customers. However, right now one biological need trumps another.
"Want to get a bite to eat?" she asks.
>>157006Mustard closes his eyes and nuzzles her, a little less concerned about who sees. She can tell quickly he wants to nuzzle her much more than he is able.
"Sure." He says, smiling to her, and holding his tail high
>>157007Smiling, she suggests,
"Let's get some tasty food from the kitchen. Usually they have leftovers." Her stomach grumbles for effect.
>>157008"They might." he says. "I can also take you to a diner if you like."
>>157009"No no no, I like the food here. I'm honored though." She heads back to the kitchen.
>>157010Back in the kitchen is the zebra colt, and a unicorn stallion of an orange-brownish color. There is leftover sautéed onion, and a couple plates that were sent back. Creamy paprika soup, and a bell pepper cut open and stuffed with rice and vegetables.
>>157012The unicorn looks back to Amber briefly, and says "those are plates that have been sent back and things that have been leftover. I can't promise they haven't been touched or that they have been cooked correctly, and we would not serve them to customers."
The little black and white striped colt in his white uniform and white hat, however, is happy to approach Amber
"Well sure miss. Take what you want."
He actually brings the plates to Amber. He is definitely younger than her by at least a year.
>>157013"Aw, thanks, much appreciated," she says thankfully to the colt. She picks up the pepper plate with her mouth and the soup with one of her forehooves, very carefully taking them back to Mustard.
>>157014She can use her back as well.
Mustard sits at a table, looking happily at Amber as she walks back to join him.
>>157015She doesn't want to spill anything on her dress.
She sets the dishes before him on a free table, beaming.
"Take your pick," she says.
>>157016He looks at he dishes
"Oh, that's okay Amber. I ate before coming here."
>>157017"Are you sure? I can split something with you," she suggests with a smile.
>>157018"You take what you like. I'll finish the rest." He says
>>157019She starts out with the soup, taking a spoonful and tasting the flavor.
>>157020Creamy with ground vegetables or lentils or
something. Paprika heavy. Spicy.
>>157021She moves it around in her mouth, thinking about it.
Would be better with some bread."Mustard, could you please go back and get some bread? Make sure you have some for yourself, too."
>>157022"Uh, okay." He says, and gets up and leaves the table
>>157023She continues to enjoy the soup, though it's a little spicier than what she's used to.
>>157024Salt Mixer looks over, and almost approaches. Almost.
Mustard Trim returns with a third of a loaf, and a burned half a loaf
"Uh, this is all they had." He offers the bread to her
>>157025She smiles back at Salt. She realizes they've hardly talked at all, other than the passing of instruction.
"Thank you kindly." She takes the burned half.
>>157026Salt Mixer looks over confused at Amber. Whatever she's thinking or wants, he doesn't want to approach about it.
The bread is crunchy, as burned bread tends to be. Mustard does not eat.
"So, tell me about your day"
>>157027Amber is quite hungry and has to talk between bites.
"I think it was a pleasant day. High Sewn told me about why the price of clothes keeps going up. Sadly, there's not much any of us can do about it.""But I did make a sale today, all on my own!" she says cheerfully.
"Well, I didn't do the measurements or the adjustment, but otherwise it was.""Please, dip your bread in the soup and enjoy it," she offers.
>>157028"Aww, well that's too bad. What did she have to say about it?"
He looks up to her
"Really? That's great! Ever thought of a future in sales?" He smiles
"Now Measurements and adjustments, that's something I would do."
After some hesitance, he rips off some bread, and places it in the soup, and then eats it. Then he does it again.
>>157030Whether something so inelegant as what Amber and Mustard Trim are doing to the food can properly be called "dining" is a bit questionable.
"Yeah, I've noticed things are getting more expensive.."
And in response to "It takes years"
"So do most things that are worthy being good at."
He sneaks in a bite of the pepper
>>157031"I don't think I would be good at sales though. My cutie mark is in music, I should focus on that."Between the two of them, the soup is almost gone, so Mustard is wise to taste the pepper before his ravenous mate claims it.
>>157032"Well, I think you should then. Have you eaten today?" He asks
Mustard takes only as much as he thinks Amber won't eat, letting Amber have first pick.
>>157033"Not at all. I bought some things to cook with, but there was nothing left to buy things to cook. Not even oats."She switches over to the pepper dish.
>>157034"Oh." He says, smiling awkwardly. He leaves the pepper dish to her.
"Nothing left?" He asks
>>157035"I smelled some delicious onions in there. So they must have something," she says, smiling.
Even so, she eats only half the pepper, saving the rest for him.
>>157036"I do like onions" He says. He waits cautiously on the pepper, leaving it be for a minute. He occasionally looks down at it.
"It's been a long day" he says
>>157037"Don't tell me you weren't able to eat at all today, either," she asks, slightly alarmed.
>>157038"No no. I had lunch at school, and when I went home." He says
"I mean, it wasn't much of a dinner, but I was able to make something before leaving."
>>157040He looks at her, blinks, and then slowly slides the pepper towards himself.
It’s like a manticore tearing apart an antelope.
>>157041She looks in amazement as this pony is practically insatiable yet so scrawny.
>>157042It’s hard to say whether it’s more surprising that he’s that hungry, or that he likely would have gone the remainder of the night without eating but for Amber’s offering.
The two are done when there is nothing left to consume.
>>157043She smiles warmly at him.
"You're a wonderful pony, Mustard."
>>157044He smiles, and moves his hoof across to rub her foreleg and fur.
“D’awww, and you’re the sweetest, cutest little filly I ever met.”
>>157045She blushes and smiles at him.
"Thank you so much." She doesn't ask how many sweet, cute fillies he has actually met.
>>157046“Want to go back to your place?” He asks her
>>157047"Hold on."She goes over to the bar to see Salt Mixer. Hopefully she's alone.
>>157048pony holds onSalt Mixer can’t be had truly alone, but she can most certainly have her attention alone, and out of earshot. Salt Mixer sees Amber trotting up to the bar.
>>157049That will do. She whispers, with an awkward grin on her face.
"Hello ma'am, my coltfriend and I are off work now. We live in different parts of town and I don't him to walk home alone. Is there a private place around here where we can…be together, without bothering anypony and without spending any money?"
>>157050She looks to Amber with a somewhat surprised expression. She then turns around, tells the divorcee who has been chatting with her she has to tend to business, and then moves in closer to Amber to focus even more attention on her. She asks Amber at a slightly greater volume than Amber spoke to her:
"Who is your coltfriend?"
>>157054Her eyes go wide, and a grin starts across her face that grows larger by the moment, until she has a wide smile showing teeth. She looks over to De Sew and calls out to her
"Hey, Sew, come over here."
The black unicorn mare with a fiery red mane stops talking to some stallion, and walks over
"Yes?" She asks. Salt Mixer looks to Amber
"Miss Amber. Can you tell us who you are dating?"
>>157055"Uh…."She looks between the two with wide eyes, like a pony caught in front of headlights.
>>157056Salt Mixer, with a wide smile, says to Amber
"Well little filly. Do you have a coltfriend?"
>>157058Salt Mixer looks over to De Sew with a gleeful expression. De Sew, by contrast, sighs, and looks slightly defeated. She opens a pouch, pulls out a wad of cash, and extracts from it a 10 bit note, which she hoofs over to Salt Mixer. She cannot make eye contact with Salt Mixer as she does this, but Salt Mixer gladly takes it.
"Less than a week!" Salt Mixer says. "We have to tell Cornpop"
De Sew starts to recover, and looks back to Salt Mixer
"Cornpop said two weeks, right?"
Salt Mixer:
"Yes, but he though it would be Xandoo."
De Sew:
"Xandoo or Mustard, one of the two."
Salt Mixer:
"Well, then I guess you owe him 5 bits. Anyways, this little filly has a question for me, I'll talk to you in a few."
De Sew walks away, and back to the stallion she was talking to, while Salt Mixer turns her attention back to Amber, and leans over the table to be closer to her.
"So, little filly? What hours of the day are you wanting this private time? Because it makes a difference."
>>157059Amber is absolutely baffled by the behavior of the two mares. How was this a major event?
"Um…tonight? It doesn't have to be right away, but we will be goin' back to our separate homes."
>>157060"If all you are wanting is a few minutes, I can let you use our back office. There's a couch in there and everything. Locks on the door... But I'm wrapping up business. If you want somewhere you can linger, there's a building two blocks away where one portion was collapsed in during the revolt and it hasn't been rebuilt since. There's no lights, no heating, it's dirty and not necessarily safe at night. Honestly though, you get what you pay for. If you want to spend the night with someone, go to their place, go to your place, or go to a hotel. Get a taxi if transportation is an issue."
>>157061She smiles gratefully.
"Thank you. Let me talk it over." She goes back to Mustard and explains the options.
>>157062>bombed out building"That sounds pretty neat. Maybe we should go there some day"
>Back office"Wait. Seriously?"
>Hotel room"I don't think we can afford that, and you have you apartment, so we don't need one."
>Go back to your places"I like your apartment, Amber. I would like it more if there were warm water and more clean sheets, but um, I mean, it's nice. I like spending time with you there. I like spending time with you anywhere, but it's personal there.
My house would be great if I could get it empty. There's about an hour after the end of school that my mom is still at work, and so is my sister, but I think you work that time."
>taxi"I mean, if it really is dangerous, I can take a taxi. It's not that much money, really. And it's only a couple miles anyways. I could walk that far."
>>157064He moves his nose up, and nuzzles her
“I’d like to have you an hour or more, but so long as I get to have you for a few minutes tonight, I will be happy.” He says
>>157066She nickers at his action.
"Me too, I've missed you all day." Does she know where the back office is?
>>157068With Mustard in tow, she bashfully asks Salt Mixer where the back office is.
>>157069Salt Mixer has a huge, almost mischievous smile.
"There's a hall to the left of the bar, on the side opposite from the entrance, where there is a hall that connects to another business in the building, and to the kitchen. The door on your left is the office. It locks from the inside, but I also have a key. Never go there for more than 15 minutes, that is my rule, and do not go there while you are on shift, although maybe if it's the last 30 minutes of a slow shift I can let it slide. You can cry out if a colt or stallion crosses the line, but that is the one and only time I ever want to hear what you are doing back there. Please remember that I actually do have to use that office sometimes, so don't stay there too long, and keep the doors locked during private times as a courtesy so no one walks in. Please, please, please always be discrete. Try not to be seen going in with a stallion at the same time as you, and make sure no one is looking.
Please understand that the owner does not want the office to be used for anything like that. The reason I allow it, is because I do not want intoxicated employees to go home with stallions. I think that if they are told to go to the backroom instead, they will be much less likely to do anything at all, and less likely to do anything they will regret. I am sure you will be much less likely to be forced. I absolutely will not tolerate anything being stolen. Do not get in a physical fight or argument - take that outside. I don't mean to assume what exactly it is you want to do, but do
not leave behind love stains or used condoms for the owner or myself to find."
>>157070Amber can feel her knees shake, as her private activities are precisely known to her boss.
"I–I understand," she gulps.
"It'll be left precisely how we find it."
>>157071Poor little filly.
She nods
"Good. I have a thirty five year old shipyard worker who just got divorced, and De Sew has a twenty five year old something or other who's kind of handsome, and both them of them have been complimenting us and tipping us well. They probably hope they are on the short list for the backroom or taking us back home. But no, it's going to be the scrawny, runty high school student who messes up orders, and hasn't paid for anything who gets the privilege. So please, enjoy your time with your coworker. I am locking all doors by 10:15 though, so hurry."
>>157072"Oh-okay. Thank you," she says, and doesn't waste any more time heading there with Mustard, leading him by a distance.
>>157073Mustard walks behind her, shortly thereafter.
Amber sees that there are three doors, one on the end, one on the left, and one on the right. Naturally she opens the one on the right. Inside, Amber sees that it's actually kind of a small room, with a desk with many papers on it, no windows, a couple book shelves, a grey fabric couch, a chair, two filing cabinets, a yellow light, and a lingering smell of cigarettes. There is certainly plenty of floor for Amber's purposes as well.
Mustard just looks around the room in curiosity, though he does rub his body against her.
>>157074It's a tidy little room decidedly
not intended for her purpose, so she resolves not to cause any mess. Just like yesterday, the prospect of making love in a private, yet strange and even risky, place is highly titillating.
"H-how do you want to do this?" she asks Mustard, her voice quavering. She is still wearing her wool dress.
>>157075Among other things, inside the room is a telephone, a blanket, and a fan.
Mustard Trim moves behind Amber, and lifts up her skirt, exposing her hindquarters. He stares at it, with a proud smile.
"Is this the only time I will get with you until tomorrow?"
>>157076She has a nice and shapely plot, her ruddy tail hanging down beneath those firm buttocks. Then she lifts it, and he gets a fine view of the supple skin of her privates. Her labia twitch slightly and he can see something pink and smooth poke out slightly at their bottom.
"You can come back to my apartment with me if you really want after this," she proposes, looking back at him.
"You do have things to clean up with, right?"
>>157077"If we could get like a rag... I think that so long as it's on the floor and not on the couch, we should be fine."
Mustard Trim jumps up, and places his hindlegs overtop of Amber, standing on her shoulders. He moves his hindquarters closer, and the edge of his penis touches her vulva, then pushes it aside. He is already inside of her, and pushing deeper in.
"Can you keep all or most of it inside of you?"
>>157078Hindlegs? That's a difficult but interesting position"I-I can try," she says, giggling then softly moaning from the contact. He has a hard time pushing in as her vagina is too tight, but then it relaxes to let him in easily.
>>157079reee his forelegs"Okay Amber." If she is tight, this only provokes him to be forceful. He thrusts into her, and starts repeated thrusts, as deep as he can manage at the angle, at a rate that while not "fast" is rapid for a starting pace. His belly makes contact with her rump, tail, and part of her dress.
"When I am done with you here, I would like it if you gave me the chance to make love to you at your apartment."
>>157080"Oh, okay. We can–oh!–we can do that."She wishes she was able to enjoy more cuddling beforehand (beforehoof?), but Mustard is impatient and there's limited time. She moans out an
"Oh!" every time he pushes deep inside of her, his member roughly pushing her walls aside. She's not too wet right now, but she enjoys the feeling of Mustard on top of her.
>>157081Mustard is separated from Amber by her dress, save for the walls of her vagina, the top of her rump, and the base of her tail. That, and his hind legs occasionally rub against her. He tries to lay on her, but is unable to get a good angle, and stands up. Amber feels the friction certainly, especially the less wet she is. He makes heavier breathing sounds, and moves forward at a determined pace.
>>157082>>157081Mustard Trim has continued in this state for some time. He's certainly more than halfway there. And then he stops. He just stops. After a few seconds, he pulls himself out of her, and dismounts. He moves around to her side, so that he can make eye contact. He looks sad.
"The truth is that
you don't want me to come by your apartment tonight. So I'm not going to make you. I only have a few minutes with you. I only have a single go at you. So let's go to the couch. I want to make it count."
>>156617Mint Marine is by the small, ruined pier at the edge of the water, looking into it. He notices Silver, and looks up towards him.
>>157085"What do you think of it?" he asks the small colt.
>>157086“It’s not my first time to see the bay. But I think it’s the first time I’ve stayed in a house on the bay.” He looks out on the bay
“My aunt’s house was on a river. Well, not on it but pretty neat it. Actually a marshy wetland. I liked that. I would go out every day and spend time on the marsh. I like this too, I think. It’s different. I don’t think I’ll want to spend as much time away from the house here, I hope. It’s new.”
>>157087The stallion smiles at the colt.
"I was thinking of getting boat when I get some extra money. Not big or fancy boat, just something to head out onto bay for leisure.
Park it here after we fix up jetty."
>>157088“A boat!” He looks up at silver, excited.
“What don’t you have? I mean, that you won’t get soon.”
>>157089"Well, I do not know. This is first time living in house like this, or living by sea, so many ideas come to my mind."
>>157082>>157083She coos and moans with each movement. It's not the most intimate placement of him on top of her, but it's still very pleasurable. Initially she is mostly dry and it's almost painful, but either she lubricates herself or she has an emission of precum, or a mix of both, that makes the experience more slick.
She is almost there herself when he pulls out, and she is definitely breathing heavily, even desperately. She nuzzles his shoulder aggressively, play-biting at the skin a couple of times.
"Mustard, whatever you want, I want. Heh…please, come by my apartment. I love you, I want nothing but you." She rubs her bare rump against his.
>>157091[1d20 = 19]>>157090"How long have you had it?" Mint Marine asks
>>157092"Not long at all. It has not even been very long since I arrived in city."
>>157091>>157092Mustard looks around the room, and sees, of all things, rags on the shelf. He picks them up and places them carefully on a location on the couch. Then he picks up Amber, and tosses her over on her back on the couch.
>>157093"You've done a lot since you got here." He says
"More than I would have thought possible."