Author's Notes:

When Cimmerian is away, the queens will play.

Takes place during Practice makes Perfect.

Pandinus carefully ran the brush over her sister, making note of the sensations and making changes to her own form accordingly. She stopped just under the wings as the other queen burst into giggles, an familiar sensation flooding their shared sense of touch.

"He's ticklish under the wings? Oh, I'm filing that away for later! Where else?"

So the experience continued, the two queens trading notes and learning a few tricks about brushing that would be put to use later. At long last though the two arrived at the part Zelus was dreading.

"You do know that if we do this too many times, Cimmerian's not going to be able to fly," Zelus chimed in. "I'm going to pull out too many feathers."

"Come on, it's not that bad. Besides, this time you'll feel how hard you're pulling and know when to stop. I'll go first to show you the amount of force you should be using," Din explained, both queens preparing for the preening practice. It didn't take long for Din to once more run across a few sensations that struck her as strange.

"What is, whoa! That's what he felt when I did that earlier?" Din asked as the queens both gasped. The smaller queen had accidentally hit a sensitive point on the wings once more, discovering the warm echo it left in both their bodies. Curious, Padninus began working on the area specifically, attempting to find the full range of contact the point was occupying.

"S-stop it, we're supposed to be, we're supposed to be practicing," Zelus moaned, her wings tensing up.

"I am practicing. I need to know what will make Cimmerian feel good. This is very important information to have, Zelus. I would think you'd be more than happy to help. Maybe we can get him to, hmm reward us?" the smaller queen said, her hum buzzing against her hive-sister's wings. Zelus squeaked at the pleasure running through her body, but the second she tried to move away Pandinus was making her move.

"What's the rush, Zelly? We've plenty of time before Cimmerian returns for the night, and we're far from done. There's just so much more to learn!"

Zelus gave a worried squeak as her hive sister began to grind sensually against her flank, nibbling on the shape shifted mare's neck and running her tongue up and down Zelus' neck much like Cimmerian had done in the past.

"B-but we can't feed on each other! Why would you want to do this? It doesn't do anything for us!"

"Because it feels nice," Din answered easily, easing back and preening the larger changelings other wing, quivering in delight as the sensations were shared. "I love the feeling, enjoy feeling the sensations that I've come to associate with my mate. He may not always be here though, so why could we not enjoy some time together without him? Besides, Sapphire and Cadance's memories say such things are easily done even if there is no male. I wish to try some of these things."

Din began preening the changeling turned alicorn once more, making certain to spend extra time on any locations that elicited a sensual reaction from the other mare. Before long, Zelus' excuses were running dry while her marehood was sopping wet, each wink ejecting a bit of lubrication.

Din turned back to their flanks, raising her tail and giggling a bit when she found they were both dripping wet. In fact, she made special note of the fact that Zelus' flower seemed to be dribbling an overabundance of fluids. Much more than a changeling usually gave off.

"I thought you said this wasn't doing anything for you? Our bodies are telling a different story"

For her own part, Zelus was weakly pawing the sheets, feeling herself begin to prepare for a rut. She'd made the body as close to natural as she could manage, and it was beginning to leak all over the bed in anticipation of what was to come. Not wishing to leave her hive sister hanging, Din backed off and trailed the thick form of her alicorn tongue over Zelus' winking heat. Both queens shuddered, the connection telling Pandinus exactly what was being done to the second shape shifter.

"Oh, this is going to be fun!" Din muttered, grasping Zelus' flanks and driving her muzzle deep into the larger mare's nethers. Zelus squealed as she felt the tongue begin to search the inside of her canal, running up and down her need and sending both of them moaning in pleasure. Din's own moans were lost in Zelus' depths, the vibrations from the moans just adding to the sensations.

This is heavenly,' Zelus mentally whimpered, her tail raised as high as possible.

'Now I know why ponies do this even when they're not viable,' Din answered. 'I wonder what would happen if...'

Suddenly Zelus was rolled onto her back, the smaller mare jumping onto the bed and placing her own heat right above Zelus' muzzle. A look of understanding flashed over the older queen's face and she plunged in, both of them moaning lewdly as Zelus returned the earlier ministrations. That wasn't to be the end of it though. As Zelus worked over Pandinus' lower lips, Pandinus began once more lapping at Zelus' winking need, leaving the mares feeling the sensation of two tongues working their dribbling flowers.

Zelus squirmed, the sensations leaving her body clenching in anticipation of her coming climax. Curious of what such a shared experience would yield since the last few the two had shared had been from Pandinus to Zelus, Din began suckling on her hive-sister's clit, remembering just how powerful the sensations had been from her own experiences.

She nearly burst into giggles despite the situation. The first time she'd mated with the stallion, he'd tried doing this to her and she'd yelled at him for not just rutting her. Now she looked forward to such things. Not just for the love and seed either, nor the joy and happiness the male gave off in reaction to her squirming, but for the waves of pleasure such contact brought about.

Pandinus hummed and suckled the other queen to bliss, feeling the building sensation inside both of them. She knew they were almost there now. With how their current connection worked, it would be impossible for one to climax without pulling the other over that peak as well. It wasn't Pandinus that sent them over the edge though.

Zelus had been busy running her tongue up and down the smaller mare's tunnel, allowing Din to work their clits while she employed a more thorough method. As they worked, the larger mare began noticing a strange bump on the vaginal wall and paid close attention to the echos of pleasure it yielded. It was extremely sensitive to any and all contact so she waited, finding the perfect moment to employ it. The moment she knew Pandinus was busy on their clit, trying to rush the last bit to their peak, she struck. Zelus began working the bump over viciously, barely surpressing her own reactions as she felt the younger mare buck against her.

The two queen's cried out into each other's depths, the flashing fire of dropping disguises lighting up the room temporarily as their shattered focus dropped the transformations.

"I, I hope we have that in our changeling form," Din gasped, finally managing to free her muzzle from the grip of Zelus' seizing opening.

Coughing and spitting Din's weak flood of fluids away, Zelus chuckled softly.

"Give me, give me a second to catch my breath and, I'll gladly find out."

After a few seconds spent gasping and attempting to get some sensation other than pleasure into their minds, Pandinus lifted herself off of the bed and trotted over to her desk. Pulling open a drawer, she withdrew a large bottle of brightly glowing love, popped the cork, and took a few chugs. After the potent elixir had done its job of refreshing her, she levitated it to Zelus, who also drank greedily. About half the bottle was consumed, enough to feed a queen for nearly a week, but it was to be used for other purposes. Both queens focused, directing the energy to bring life back into their fatigued bodies and preparing for a second round of experimentation.

"Ok, I think I'm good. Same as before, only as queens?" Din asked, a large grin on her face as she put the potent love on the desk. She didn't want it too close to the bed in case they spilled it, but neither was she ready to put it away just yet.

Zelus grinned lecherously, now fully invested in the activity and wanting to waste no time in rejoining their quest for pleasure. They met just shy of the bed and pulled into a heated kiss, Din humping into the larger mare as their lips locked together. It felt right, like it was something they were supposed to be doing, like something that would only improve the sensations that were to follow.

Parting, the two giggled at the flush of feelings that had just traded between them, the weird echo of each other's mouths and the rebounding sounds of heartbeats. Using her larger bulk to the advantage, Zelus pushed forward, pinning the smaller mare to the floor under her weight and grinding needily against her hive-sister. In a moment of inspiration, the larger queen disappeared in a flash of fire once more, this time taking the form of Cimmerian.

"Oh, now that I can appreciate," Pandinus muttered before the other queen shoved her new organ into the smaller mare, earning a simultaneous squeal of pleasure from the two. Even as she started to feel detached as the pleasure flooded her mind, Din couldn't help but laugh. Zelus was so lost to the pleasure she didn't seem to notice she forgot to change her voice.

Zelus panted, rutting the younger queen with abandon as she felt the building pleasure inside of them. She had no idea how much pleasure or just how sensitive the new organ was supposed to be, but that wasn't the point. She was getting all the pleasure she needed from her connection with Pandinus. The dick was molded perfectly, every vein replicated to the smallest detail. It was an exact copy of the stallion's rod; from the swinging balls to the flared tip. She was certain of it. After all, it was the only one she'd bothered to remember over the years. It was also the only one she'd truly felt.

Instead she focused on what Pandinus was feeling, allowing the ecstasy of mating to roll over her and carry her on. She shifted, aiming for the point she remembered from earlier and was rewarded with a white flash of pleasure that caused both of them to clench, gripping each other tightly before resuming their pace. Spurred on by her success she began trying different depths and angles, both queens taking special note of what they found to be the most powerful of sensations. It vaguely occurred to Zelus that she would need to experiment later from the receiving end to learn of her own sensitivities, but at this point it was something she was looking forward to. Giving a few last thrusts and feeling the ring clipping Din's clit, Zelus held tightly to the smaller mare as her transformation faded away with the bliss of an orgasm. It left them both clenching uselessly, but that hardly mattered at this point.

It took much longer this time for the two to recover from their peak. Pandinus managed to roll the other mare off of her and stand up, carefully levitating the rest of the love over to herself. She just didn't have the physical strength left to walk to the desk. She chugged about half of the jar, relishing in the intense flavor and the energy but soon realizing just how much love she burned to keep going. After only two orgasms, the love she burned to keep her body active was beyond what she had access to at the moment. Would even three full jars be worth what the mare pulled from her mate to keep going?

"I, I guess this is it," Din said, passing the rest of the jar to Zelus. The larger mare weakly swallowed it, only managing to make it back to the bed before her legs gave out a second time.

'Poor Zelly. We're going to need to improve her stamina if she's going to be mating with Cimmerian in the future,' Din thought with a smile. Approaching the older mare's displayed and still leaking flower, Pandinus began once more running her tongue up and down the outside, earning a pitiful mewl of pleasure as Zelus realized that somehow Din wasn't as exhausted as she was.

'How? How are you still going?' Zelus asked over the link, not having the breath to voice the question.

'Simple. Cimmerian can go for at least an hour, and we usually try to peak at least three times each time,' the smaller mare answered, never removing her muzzle from her hive-sister's nethers. 'Once your body adapts to this kind of thing, it is easier to recover; it will take less energy and you'll be able to go longer. That, and the love he radiates is at least twice the potency of what was in the jar.'

That had been an odd discovery. The love focused on her by the stallion was so potent at times it couldn't be properly recreated with the emotion gel. The gel couldn't hold it at that concentration, it just began to break down due to the strain. The love from a creature given to his mate just seemed to be something changelings would need to experience for themselves.

Pandinus dove in with what was left of her energy. She'd have to be careful of course, as she didn't want to finish so hard she was unable to get back in bed. She flipped Zelus onto her back, already planning on spending the rest of their time together resting on the larger mare's barrel. She snaked her tongue inside once more, this time searching for the lump that Zelus had found earlier. Whipping her prehensile tongue over the entirety of the moaning shape shifter's insides, it didn't take long for her to find it, working it mercilessly as she felt the powerful build up one last time. It was going to be wonderful, just as they always seemed to be.

She gave a few more licks to Zelus' lower lips before a devious grin split her muzzle. Wrapping her lips around Zelus' clitoris one last time, she braced herself on the bed and buzzed her wings.

Both mare's squealed as the vibrating lips on their clit sent them over the edge once more. Zelus gave a few weak bucks before slumping senselessly on the bed. Even over the link, Din couldn't hear any activity from the armored queen. Slowly and shakily the smaller changeling stood, barely managing to get into bed under her own power. She took her place in her hive-sister's forelegs, nuzzling gently into the embrace and returning it with what little strength she had left. Even as she dozed off, she saw the door swing open, her mate walking in and spotting the two in an obvious position. She could taste his confusion turn to shock, then resignation as he shook his head.

He made a few comments, once more changed the sheets (much to her irritation), and climbed into bed beside the two of them.

Din smiled as she sat there, so close to her hive sister and mate. It was so close to perfect. Only one obstacle remained. Seeing as how the two queens rutting hadn't evoked the same reaction this time, perhaps they were almost there? Perhaps they'd almost reached the day when he'd accept them as one, and love them both with the same intensity?