“So it is, and I’m more than happy to take responsibility for it,” he replied, scrunching his face up from the lick to his nose. “Just like I’ve got pony legs and fins and other interesting things. Being human is fine and all, but this has been, well, exciting to be honest,” Tom wrapped up, playfully licking her nose in return, getting a bit more aggressive with his hand as he watched her reactions. “You have a lovely voice, too, Wave.”

Wave burst into a giggle at the compliment as her own nose wriggled. "You read that somewhere, didn't you? Flattering a siren by calling her voice nice. It works every time." She drew a slow breath before letting out a wavering note that shook down to the bones, but it changed as she let the tone go on, and began to shake softly at the soul instead. She began to sing of her love, and the both of them were subjected to the warming and powerful penetration by pure love itself, flooding them with the echo of her feeling of utter satisfaction and adoration.

Tom felt himself get lost on those notes, holding her closely to him as he closed his eyes, running his free hand along her chest, legs and neck, basking in her melody. His hand continued its gentle assault, and only once the music ended did he open his eyes once more, looking down at her. “...you truly do. That was, easily, the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. Thank you for sharing that with me, Wave,” he whispered before bringing her deeply into a kiss.

Her note was cut off as he came in. She tensed, and then their lips met. She tilted her head to let their lips meet more deeply, then pressed firmly into it. The urges of her body became stronger and she slowly started rubbing up against him. Some part of her wanted everything he was offering, even if her mind was still scrambling to catch up with it.

Pulling her closer, he pushed forward with his kiss, tongue probing at her lips, the fact her teeth were extremely sharp forgotten for the moment as he put more of his weight against her, his hand moving as he felt his member against her fur and scales, shivering. Tom felt conflicted, like they could go all the way right now, and he was really wanting to, but her earlier words were enough to hold him back, for the moment.

The sensation of his shaft rubbing along her soft fur and naked scales made her draw back a little. With their lips parted, even if only a little bit, she inhaled sharply. She didn't have the breasts of a human woman, but that didn't stop her front from being sensitive to his presence. She pulled him tighter and ground her sinuous form against him. "We're going fast." She sounded excited, thrilled, and yet a little scared.

Mustering every ounce of self control he had, Tom nodded as he gently pressed a hand between them. “I… yes, we are. Do you still want to wait, because if so, we should stop,” he muttered, not that it would matter too much at this rate, with how she was moving he wouldn’t be long.

She tried to marshal her willpower and bravery, but she had come far enough. She gently squirmed away from her human, but she had a gentle smile. "I'm very glad we were together, like that. I want… I'm sure I want to do that again. Just let me get used to it? It's not the same as hunting down thieves and all."

Tom nodded, kissing her nose, but not trusting himself to wrap her up again. “I understand, Wave. Now, I need to use the bathroom, I’ll… be a bit, okay?” he asked, biting his lower lip as he painfully ached for release. “I can wait for you to be ready though, Wave, and thank you,” he softly spoke before getting off the bed, grabbing his shorts in hand and heading off to the bathroom with a look towards her.

Wave's eyes never left him. The way he walked off stiffly seemed to capture her interest, and curiosity. Had she failed? She felt like she had on some level, though she wasn't sure what to do about it. She flew at him quickly and hugged him from behind. "I'm sorry."

Stumbling, Tom nearly fell to the floor before he caught his balance. Using a hand, he held both of her hooves, shivering a bit. “Don’t be, Wave. I think part of the married bit is accepting each other, and pressuring you into having sex when you aren’t ready is, well, it’s really bad,” he explained, rubbing her fur with a thumb. “I just, really need to take care of this, otherwise I’ll be walking around awkwardly for awhile.”

His kind words did little to make her feel less awkward. She wished Cadance was around. Surely she'd know just what to do to make her husband feel better. She gave a little grunt and landed on the bed, and promised herself to play with him again soon, and maybe get further that time.

Tom took care of his personal business in the bathroom, coming back out in the shorts as he moved to the bed, sitting down on it and softly smiling at Wave. “At least we weren’t interrupted this time!” he playfully remarked, looking towards the door even as he said that.

Hearing muffled voices that sounded more like normal conversation than lovers intimately involved, Eric knocked firmly on Tom and Wave’s door, waiting patiently for an answer. No one else in this tower seemed to have any manners, so he guessed they would know it was him from that alone.

Wave flew at the door from where she had been. Her mouth grabbed the handle and she had the door open to reveal Eric. "Eric! How did things go? Me and Tom had a good time. We learned so much. I can't wait to tell you about it."

Tom was just a few steps behind Wave, shaking his head rather rapidly with a massive blush on his face. “Wave, I don’t think Eric will want to hear details, trust me. Just that we had a good time should be enough,” he muttered, burying his face in his hands. “How was playing guinea pig?” he asked, voice muffled slightly.

Eric paused a moment, amused at their contrasting reactions. “ We’ll hold off the sex talk for now, so your husband doesn't blush himself to death. Twilight’s analysis was quite informative."

Wave glanced back at Tom. "Why wouldn't we tell him? We're family, and I want to hear about his awkward encounter with Twilight, and I'm sure he wanted to hear about our awkward encounter. We'll learn together. That's what family does." It all seemed to make perfect sense to her, at least.

Weakly chuckling, Tom shook his head. “Some things should remain private, such as what we were doing, Wave. Just, even with family you don’t talk about some things, okay?” he tried explaining to her, scratching the back of his neck as he turned back to Eric. “Learn anything useful, though?”

Eric nodded. “The most actionable bit I learned is that I’ll probably need a unicorn horn to continue learning magic. At the very least that’s the most expedient way. I was actually wondering if that was something Wave could manage, without making you jealous.”

Wave looked between them before shrugging her shoulders. "You mean like the one Twilight has?" She frowned a little. "You'd look a little funny, having a unicorn's horn on your not-unicorn head." That didn't stop her from reaching for Eric's noggin without delay.

Eric braced himself, leaning towards her a bit to give her easy access. “I’ll deal with it for now, though I’m wondering if going full unicorn would make more sense in the long run. Let’s wait till I can lift stuff first before I lose my hands though.”

Tom watched the exchange, humming thoughtfully to himself for a few moments. “If you think that’s the case, and you want it, well,” he paused, lifting a leg, “I can’t really speak up against it, can I?” he jokingly questioned. “I think I wouldn’t mind going full pony, the only thing I’d truly miss would be my hands, but I’m sure I’d make do in time.”

The one critical error made was assuming Wave had much control over things. She thought of horns and gently rubbed at Eric's humanity, willing it away since she was asked to, and the power of her god flowed through her swiftly. She let out a deep grunt as the power tingled over her smooth flesh and the flesh under her hooves pushed out against her as a spiraled horn burst free of the skin that held it back in a bloody display of abrupt pain.

Eric bit his lip and grunted, bracing against the pain and struggling to avoid losing balance. He waited for the pain to subside before reaching a hand up to gingerly touch it, exploring it gently. “Th-thanks… thanks Wave, let me… see… I want a mirror this time.”

Tom put a hand on Eric’s shoulder and pointed to the bathroom where a mirror was at. “It’s… white, like snow?” he slowly said, blinking a few times at it before finally turning away, focusing on Wave instead. “Does Eric still itch a fair bit?” he asked her, lifting her up into a hug.

Wave waggled her hooves. "It feels like I'm still rubbing, even though he's moved away."

While her hooves were free, his hands were not so fortunate. Eric's hands clenched tightly, bound by her thoughts of them, even if they were 'don't touch them', the don't part was casually forgotten as they began to rapidly harden and reform, becoming black-shelled hooves with not a finger in sight, terminating into fleshy arms.

“Okay, this is just ridiculous,” Eric said from the bathroom. “Can you just finish the job? If I’m going to have hooves for hands, I might as well just go full pony. At least that way I can just deal with learning it all at once, and get on with it.”

“Still rubbing? Uh oh,” Tom remarked as Eric’s words reached his ears. Walking into the bathroom, he couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight, shaking his head. “Looks like you traded hands for a horn, huh? Levitation and all that jazz, I mean,” Tom clarified, looking to Wave. “Wanna do a two for one deal? We plan on being here for three days, maybe a bit longer anyways,” he asked Wave.

Wave smiled hesitantly, but with some smoldering hope. "You two both want to be ponies?" She suddenly withdrew. "Wait, are you doing this just for me? This is a big deal! I want you both to think about it a moment." She crossed her hooves and sternly looked at both of her family members.

Eric nodded. “I actually thought about it before knocking. Ultimately, if I’m here for good, being a pony makes life a lot simpler than trying to be the one, odd, human wizard in the world. And since you’re taken, it certainly opens up the dating pool. I was hoping to learn levitation before losing my hands, but there really wasn’t much other reason to forestall it. Well, aside from the fact I should probably undress first, rather than shred a bunch of clothes, incredible hulk style.”

Shrugging while holding Wave, Tom nodded at Eric’s reasoning. “Sounds enough. Mine is for me, too. Besides my hands, there’s no real advantage to being human here. I’m not saying it’s been such a bad thing, but I’m here to stay, already married to a lovely siren… might as well go full native. So, yup, so long as your, well, our goddess doesn’t have any weird ideas, I’ll be a pony and fit in a bit more.”

She rubbed her forehooves together a moment before she nodded and smiled. "One last thing. I don't want you two saying I didn't warn you, and it's been like this from the start but you never learn anything so I'll point it out. I can't control this! I can't say what you'll become or how you'll become it and it'll probably hurt and I don't want to hurt you, but that's how it works, so there it is."

Tom kneeled down and let go of Wave, rubbing her neck. “Wave? I know that, and you see this?” he asked, pointing at a leg. “Didn’t feel a thing, least not pain. Eric looked like he felt some, and I’m not really sure why, but it isn’t an issue for me. Thank you, though, for worrying about the both of us. It means a lot.” Tom kissed her chastely for a moment before falling back to a sitting position.

“The shadow didn’t hurt, but Twilight assures me it was half way through murdering me from the inside,” Eric pointed out. “I can cope with a little pain, from someone who actually wants the best for me. Now, uh, bro. Since you still have hands, can I trouble you to help me get this stuff off before I do have to hulk out of it?”

Wave flushed gently when she was kissed and returned it with a quick peck of her own. "You two are just the best. I couldn't ask for better stallions to be with." She rubbed her chin softly. "I still think I deserve my own herd. You two really should get over that. You two are such good friends already!"

Groaning and flushing a bit from Eric’s statement of the obvious, Tom was almost oblivious to Wave’s remark. “Y-yeah, I guess I can. This’ll be weird, but… yeah.” Tom started helping Eric out of his clothes, addressing Wave as he did so. “And, Wave? There’s just no attraction there… I love you dearly, but me being a guy and Eric here the same? I just don’t see any appeal.”

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