“No? Nobody has any questions?”
The room was silent.
“...It almost feels like I'm speaking to a void. I know you're all listening to me, but you're not really saying anything, and it's kind of worrying. Almost like you don't even comprehend anything I have to say.
“Anyways. Peyton, I know you feel sore after what you did. But hopefully you won't feel so bad after this part.
“Cala, you're not eleven years old anymore. At least, that's what I gathered from your physiology. Seaponies take a long time to mature. It's not until their very late teens that females begin to develop eggs. The age of consent in Aquastria, from what I recall, is twenty-one years of age. They also live much longer than normal ponies; I've known a few seniors who had achieved over two hundred years of age. Yet, right off the bat, after your transformation you began to develop those reproductive cells. Another thing I noticed is that your brain is now fully developed. Part of my soul took root in the space your brain hadn't developed, and I hadn't even realized that until I was plucked from it. So you might notice an intelligence boost, along with remembering everything I had repressed from your consciousness. You're now much older. I'll bet even older than Peyton is, meaning you were actually correct when you said that... uh... yesterday, I think.
“I also wanted to tell you about how seaponies lived. Information that could be particularly useful to the state you're in now. You remember me talking about two spells that oricorns use to be able to live on land. Those were the two main ones. There's actually one—” Click.
Everyone looked at Cala, who had flipped the power switch on the radio. She sighed, looking back at them. “That's all I want to know for now, in case you're wondering. Renée, you're satisfied with the knowledge that a crazy spirit has been controlling my life?” The zebra in question laughed and nodded. “Willy... you, uh... you get the situation I'm in right now?”
He shook his head. “I'm still confused on the details. I think, at this point, I'd rather respect your privacy on the issue than badger you about it, though.”
Cala smiled. “Peyton. Do you feel better about all this, now that you understand all that?”
“I understand that whole situation even less now,” Peyton said, blushing.
Cala jerked her head toward the door, signalling the unicorn to follow her, then stood on wobbly legs to leave. Peyton helped her and they left the room together.
“Do you think they'll be fine on their own now?” Renée asked.
“I don't know,” Willy said. “It's not our problem. They need to work it out between themselves. We've been acting like their parents.”
“We have, haven't we?”
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They'd returned, once again, to their bed. Cala and Peyton laid next to one-another.
Cala was lying on her right side, digging her snout into the pillow, her left eye gazing at Peyton. She had her tail and her legs curled up tight to her body, her fins splaying out behind her on her back.
Peyton, lying on her left side next to her, laughed. “You look... absolutely silly, and adorable. Why did you bring me back into bed?”
Cala giggled. “Don't you get it, Peyton? This is okay now. I get what happened earlier, and I appreciate what you were trying to do.”
“You do?” She blinked. “You hated every second of it and I was too blind to see that.”
“No... you were just going about it wrong. Now I know how to do it right.” Cala leaned up and pulled Peyton's head toward hers.
Peyton felt Cala's tiny muzzle pressing into hers. She squealed as something pressed into her mouth. It was a new, totally alien experience. She had no idea what she was sucking on, but she shuddered while enjoying that feeling. She moaned in the kiss.
When Cala pulled their lips apart, she reached her tail up and wrapped it around Peyton's midsection. She pulled Peyton towards her, and their limbs rubbed against one anothex.
“Tell me, Pey,” Cala cooed, “how can I make you feel good?”
Peyton felt the entirety Cala's tail pulling on her. She glanced down at where the nubby tip rubbed against her chest. “I have a few ideas...”
...
And then they fucked. If we went into any more detail, this story wouldn't be appropriate for anyone to hear.
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Now, I should probably elaborate on something. I never got the chance to talk about this during my first monologue, but it's pretty important. Cala would eventually figure this all out on her own.
Seapony reproductive systems are much different than normal ponies. They're an entirely different species, actually. They're split into their own two races like normal ponies are their three ones. Oricorns and water ponies, as opposed to unicorns and earth ponies. No equivalent to pegasi, since they all have fins.
Anyway, what all this means is that their sex is really strange to others at first. I'll just run through an abridged version of it. First, the stallion and mare engage in a mating dance to build their arousal. The mare then deposits her eggs via an ovipositor into a large pouch on the stallion's belly. The stallion fertilizes and holds them until the fry are old enough to swim on their own, then releases them. The sexual roles are completely reversed.
It takes about a month for a mare to develop a batch of eggs. (Sound familiar?) If they don't find a mate to carry them, she has to eject them, because they're only viable for a day or two. That's basically what happened during Cala's first sexual encounter. It was all a big coincidence, and Cala crying had nothing to do with Peyton trying to do that. Peyton completely failed to do anything but witness this happening.
...What? No, it wasn't me who made her sad!
Okay, I may have helped cause it to happen at that time in particular. It'd have been a shame to just waste sweet roe like that!
The point is, it's not normal for this kind of pairing to happen. But it still does. It's a little less common than a gay couple of the same species. They share an intimate relationship because Cala wants to see Peyton happy. She found her chance and she took it.
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A zebra mare with a thing for caviar, and a one-eyed seapony mutant in a lesbian relationship...
Is it sad or funny that I've been online for enough years that I can hear that description and think: 'Daww, true love prevails!'?
D-, you are one of the only writers to ever actually make me feel sorry for their characters. eye eaten out, skin on fire from carpet, burned by poolwater? damn it man, you really are George R.R. Martin to that seapony
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well, at least we haven't heard the Rains of Castamere yet
6131263 I'm going to go back and retcon all of Part 3 so that Peyton is the zebra and Renée is the unicorn, now. That actually makes a lot more sense than the way it actually is.
Fun fact, when I was developing these new characters, Renée and Peyton had completely different attributes. Originally Renée would be the one who cared and helped Cala, and Peyton was just going to be indifferent and cause a lot of problems. I shifted around the properties of the two characters until I started writing Part 3, then at that point I just said ‘fuck it’ and left them alone. I think this turned out to make a much more interesting plot than what I had originally planned out.
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...I'd mixed those two up?
Well, happy to have helped, I guess?
6131322 I'M NOT EVEN JOKING MAN
I'M MAKING A BLOG POST RIGHT NOW SO EVERYONE KNOWS
I'M DOING IT
PREPARE YOUR MEMORY
I just decided that would be a really really bad idea.
Minor typo
And here I was expecting some sort of terrible train-wreck, but so far it looks like...
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6131828 That actually serves a couple purposes, and I'm going to leave it there because it:
1) Lets me know how closely you're paying attention. I've made some grammatical errors in the past, but they can be brushed off / ignored by nearly all readers. I can tell that you read slowly and attentively by noticing this, and the other two people who commented either read fast or just don't care.
2) Breaks whatever immersion you have in that scene so you can look at the big picture and laugh at how absurd that pairing is. It was not my intention for you to become immersed in the intimacy of that moment, but I wanted to show how close they are so you see how much they care for each-other. That was one of the things I did which hopefully breaks the slower readers, like you, out of the trance. ‘Anothex’ is such a strange typo, don't you think? X and R are nowhere near each-other on the keyboard.
Another thing I did to help with that second point is to avoid the typical phrases that I see in a lot of clopfics. One that stands out in my mind, in terms of the kissing segment, is the phrase ‘their lips met’. That's just such a cheesy phrase that gets handed down between clopfics and I didn't want this scene to become familiar in that way. Instead I tried my damnedest to phrase things my own way, both to help break the immersion and to make it alienate the reader a bit from the typical shipping they're used to.
I don't know how well I did with any of this, but hopefully it shows that I thought this thing through.
Anyways, I'm surprised that other authors even make any typos significant enough for the reader to notice, and that you'd assume I wouldn't notice if I made one. Don't all authors have an automatic spell-checker built into their computer?
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Oh, absolutely. But it's also an incredibly minor mistake. I generally get a typo or two ever other chapter or so, and it's never intentional on my part. It's just that the scale of the project is so vast, and updates are so frequent, that getting every single mistake is very hard. I even have a dedicated team of editors and a few slip by. Sometimes they're even spelling errors, though more often than not its some usage error or something that we just read over by accident during editing.
I'll probably keep pointing out minor typos (when I notice them. I'm not very good at it, which is why I have editors). Unless you ask me to stop.
... Who is speaking in that last part? Is that an author's note, or is it Lyra talking to the reader?