With a huge sigh, the lone human of Herd Blush collapses into his seat at the table. The chime of magic has two plates floating through the air, the first lands in front of him, the second at the empty place next to him. Though in moments, the pegasus of the herd lands on the second seat. Silver takes a long look at the fork on the table, considering whether to fit it onto his hoof. Finally his decision is reached, and he buries his face in the chicken alfredo, growling a bit as he wolfs down the food as quickly as he can suck it into his maw. Tim is a bit more reserved, though he understands the pegasus a lot more after the last week and a half. Cayenne is out of heat now, though the rest of the mares of the herd are quite insatiable still. Tim looks up while chewing a decidedly excellent morsel. The cabinet with the potions they had bought is on the wall, the door ajar. He can glimpse the last sterility potion and he knows there is one more enhancement potion as well. Silver has used more of the enhancement potions than he has, but he has used a couple himself.

“We are almost through this.” Comes Silver's voice, causing Tim to turn. The silver stallion has white sauce covering his muzzle, and a fettuccini noodle is hanging from his jaw, getting a chuckle from the human.

“Yeah.”

Cayenne walks up and rears up to embrace Silver, though she darts her head forward to suck the noodle into her mouth, then she licks his cheek. “You’ve done wonderfully, my big, strong, stallion. You bred me nearly constantly for, what, five days?” She winces a bit and looks over at Tim. “It has been pretty intense though. I did read somewhere that heat in a herd, thanks to all the mare’s pheromones and hormones somehow mingle and reinforce each other, can be extra rough the first time or two.”

Silver’s eyes widen. “So, you are saying…”

That gets a throaty chuckle from the spicy mare. “You two got dropped in the deep end thanks to biology.” She steps back to drop to four hooves. “I know Twilight could explain it a lot better than I could. But it doesn’t always happen, and we are in a herd with an alicorn. And you are aware that her pheromones tend to be quite a bit stronger than a unicorn's.”

Silver looks at Tim. “I knew it would be amazing to mount a Princess, but making heat even stronger than it usually is.” He slowly lowers his head to the table. “Tim, you just had to fuck her, didn’t you?”

“Hey, it wasn’t entirely up to me.” Tim says, his cheeks aflame. “She was interested in me from pretty early, I didn’t even know for a long time.”

“Chill, dude.” The pegasus makes calming motions with his forehooves. “I was just ribbin ya. I wouldn’t trade Twilight for anything, not only is she a blast in bed, but she’s so damned smart. I swear I gain a few IQ points every time she talks. She’s just so interesting, she knows so much. It’s fun having her in the herd.”

Cayenne turns from the counter, three more plates suspended in her magic. “I’m gonna feed the beasts.” With a flip of her tail, she trots up the stairs.

Silver turns to Tim. “One potion left. I should take my last sterility potion. But there’s one giddy yap potion left. You need some help getting it up, pal?”

Tim looks at the bottle just barely visible in the cabinet. Nearly two weeks of near constant sex. He actually finds himself smiling. “I know it’s been tiring, but ya know, it’s been fun too. You weren’t kidding about falling asleep exhausted and waking with a smile on my face.” He stands up and walks over to the cabinet, pulling out the last of the enhancement potions. “I think I’m gonna sleep for a month after this, though.” He sets the potion next to his seat as he sits back down.

Silver’s wing claps him on the back. “You and me both, Cock Blockington. Remember, we are keeping four mares, one of them a fucking alicorn, happy over this time. Something to be proud of.”

Tim looks at the pegasus stallion sideways. “Okay scarface, are you fucking kidding me? I had to deal with three while you just had one to play with for almost a week until you were fairly certain she was gonna get pregnant from this.”

Silver guffaws. “Yeah, and I guarantee you, over that week, Cayenne was as insistent as all three of the others. I did you a favor.”

Tim rolls his eyes. “Yeah, getting ridden by Twilight in my sleep multiple times a night, almost every morning being ridden by a different mare as the way to wake up. I swear, if one of them tries to wake me up with a blow job or trying to rut me awake for the next couple of months, they are going to have a hell of a ride.”

“No kidding. But let me let you in on a little secret. After heat is done. The mares will not be all that interested in sex for a while.” He glances at the empty stairs before looking back at the human. “I know they are wanting it all the time right now. But you’ve got to understand, they are getting just as worn out as you are. I guarantee they are all sore back there. And I know that Cayenne is pretty chaffed herself. Did you watch her walk up the stairs? I guarantee every step had quite a bit of soreness.”

Tim gapes, “Chaffed? Every mare has been dripping wet, how would they be chaffed?”

Silver shrugs. “Friction is friction. The mares are going to all breathe a sigh of relief when all this is over. Happens every heat season.”

The clip clop of hooves down the stairs gets both males to perk up. A faintly blue unicorn stops at the base to the stairs. She smiles happily before hopping up on the seat.

“North, you okay?”

She smiles happily as she glances over at the platter that Cayenne had been serving from. A plate floats over and is loaded up before flying quickly to land in front of her. She picks up a fork and twirls it around in the noodles before taking a bite. After chewing and swallowing, she nods with a smile at the stallion. “I’m really good. I woke up clear headed this afternoon.” She shifts a bit on the chair. “I’m a bit sore, but that’s to be expected.” She glances back at the stairs. “Citrus was snoozing a bit when Cayenne came up with food. Twi is gulping hers as fast as she can.”

“So, she’s still…well…you know.” Silver chokes out.

She nods. “Yeah, but she’s an alicorn, start early, keep going late. It’s just the way she is. She was making some noises about being mounted again. But she is really tired. I think you can probably stay out of the bedroom for a couple more hours before she starts getting really demanding.”

Tim stops and looks at his plate, running a finger along a small line of sauce on the plate, he sticks the finger in his mouth before standing up. “She needs the attention, and she really has been very sweet.”

North looks at Silver, then back at Tim. “You know, she’s still in that weird form she made for you, that half pony half human design. Do you like it?”

Tim smiles. “Yeah, she’s quite pretty like that. And Citrus likes it too because she’s found she likes holding hands with me.”

North nods. “And it helps that your form is pretty flexible. In that shape, she’s gotten into positions that would be impossible as a pony. I don’t know about the other mares, but I’ve got to say it’s pretty hot to watch you go at it in some of those positions. Even though I don’t even understand how you can thrust in some of those.”

Tim shrugs, “I read a book once, showed all kinds of sex positions. But some are harder than others.”

Silver perks up. “What book? I’d like to read it.”

Tim blushes and looks away. “It’s a book from my home. I don’t have a copy of it.”

“Aw man, that sucks.”

Tim nods. “I wouldn’t mind having it here in Equestria.”

North giggles. “Well, it would be all over Canterlot, fun sex positions of the humans.”

Silver watches Tim’s cheeks get even more red. “What is it?”

“I just think it’s crazy. The amount of sex you ponies have on a regular basis would be called nymphomania back home. I’m not complaining, but you act as though humans are sex machines.” He stops and takes a few breaths. “I’m about totally worn out after this. Karen liked sex, I mean really liked sex, but you ponies put her libido on her strongest days to shame." He stops for a moment. “I wouldn’t trade this life for anything. I know that Twilight hasn’t stopped looking for a way to at least send a message back to my family, she has pretty much ruled out sending me home. But Silver, North…” He looks at both of them, “This is more than almost every human has ever experienced in a lifetime.”

Silver guffaws loudly. “That’s hilarious! And you’ve been doing damned good keeping all three of them happy. North, you ready to swear off sex after that?”

North’s fork hovers inches from her mouth. “Maybe not permanently, but the thought of being mounted right now.” She stops and shudders. “Yeah, I’m good.”

Both males laugh in response. Tim turns and looks at the stairs. “I’ll see how she’s doing.”

“What a trooper.” Silver hoots.

“You can take a break, Tim.” North murmurs.

He smiles. “It’s okay, it’s almost over, but you all were in need, and she still is. If I can help her, I will.” He walks slowly towards the stairs. Cayenne is coming down the stairs, and she pauses to rear up and hug the human quickly before he starts to climb. As he gets to the second floor of the apartment, he walks down the long hallway. At the end is the master bedroom. He passes first the first spare bedroom, where the magical focus for teleportation is, then the second spare bedroom, where Spike is now sequestered, and finally he puts his hand on the door handle. A quick push down and a second push to open the door has the dimly lit bedroom greeting his eyes. Floor lamps are on low, giving the room an eerie, half lit look. He passes the small sitting area and moves into the room proper. On the large bed are two lumps covered by the duvet cover. Citrus is the one he sees first, she is curled up into a ball, her head lying on her flank. He leans down and kisses her cheek, getting a happy sigh from the exhausted yellow mare and she murmurs his name before stilling once again. He crawls between the two ponies and gathers up the larger body of the purple alicorn. She murmurs fitfully in her sleep as she reaches an arm out. He lets it curl around his shoulders and she pulls him closer, her other arm wrapping around him as she murmurs happily in her sleep. He brings his lower half fully onto the bed, pulling the covers around so he’s fully body to body with the alicorn. He smiles as he lets the exhaustion that’s been dominating his mind finally win.

He’s woken by a finger running along his cheek. He opens his eyes to big purple eyes gazing lovingly into his own. “Morning Twilight.”

She smiles. “I can think clearer now,”

Sometime while he’s slept, Citrus had moved over and is now pressed up behind him, her forehooves wrapped around his middle. He reaches out and traces a finger along the soft fur of the alicorn mare’s jaw line, she leans her head into his touch, getting a smile from him. “So, you are out of heat?”

Her smile falters a bit. “No, but I can tell I’m on the back end of it.” She huffs. “This isn’t the worst I’ve had to experience it. Trust me, Tim, without a stallion to keep up, heat is miserable for mares.”

“So, this time wasn’t miserable?”

She leans forward and kisses him. Their kiss continues, her hands roaming along his body. But finally she breaks away. “No, not miserable at all.” She shifts her legs a bit. “A little painful, but between you and Silver, I haven’t had to deal with as much pressure as the last couple of times.”

That gets him thinking. He squeezes her tightly. “You had mentioned Cadance when it came to your heat last time. What did you do?”

She flinches a bit, her face could light the room. “It’s not all that appropriate to discuss, love.”

“You are lying in bed with me, after we’ve been having a mind blowing amount of sex for nearly the last two weeks. I think intimate subjects would be commonplace to talk about after this.”

She stops and looks at him, obviously mulling things over in her head. But after a bit, she seems to come to a decision. “When it comes to mares in heat, there are a few ways to alleviate the problem. For the first couple of times, when a mare comes of age. Around thirteen or fourteen years of age, the typical methods to assist her are the use of coolers. Though for some herds, a mare getting to that breeding age is a celebration. Very often with earth ponies, it’s quite the celebration. If she has her eyes on a stallion in her age range, quite often he will be given sterility potions and they will be able to have private time. For the first few times for young mares, heat is over in a couple of days. And while their bodies are technically ready for carrying foals, we don’t want them having foals just yet. In four or five years, heat will become what you have been experiencing for the last couple of weeks.”

Tim mulls over her words for a moment. “So the younger ones go through a trial heat before the full effects come in?”

She nods. “That’s a good way of putting it. It also allows the older members of the herd help curb some of the more destructive behaviors associated with a young mare in heat.”

“Destructive?”

She nods again. “Oh, yes. Most of the fillies wouldn’t fully realize what they are feeling, and would be presenting themselves to any stallion. And it’s quite taboo for a stallion to breed a young filly. And the poor stallions would get a nose full of the pheromones, it would be quite difficult for them to resist. You’ve experience first hoof how strong those can be.”

“Yeah.”

“And also, young mares have broken up established herds by enticing a stallion away and ending up pregnant by him. And if the mare isn’t mounted during early heats, it could be very detrimental to her health. So, it’s incumbent upon her family to help restrain her natural instincts, and to direct that energy into more productive uses. Many young stallions get their first mountings with fillies their age during their first heats. Very rarely does that result in a new herd, though it has happened.”

“What if there are fillies that haven’t found a colt they are all that interested in?”

She cocks her head to the side. “Well, that’s a pretty rare occurrence. Even with the lopsided birth rates between mares and stallions here in Equestria. But if no suitable stallion is available, coolers would most likely be used by some of the older mares of the herd on the filly, to help ease her stress. It isn’t as satisfying as the real thing, but it does alleviate the excess of hormones associated with heat. So the health problems can be avoided. That situation is rare, but it does happen.”

“Okay, how about you?”

Her eyes get a bit dreamy. “I was normal as a filly, it happened when I was at Celestia’s school. My herd was informed, naturally, but my sire was out of town on business, and my dam was actually on a research mission for one of her books. The only one available to come was my brother.” She stops and her ears flatten. “I love Shining Armor, but he was just a few years older than I was. He came to the school, but I never actually saw him until it was over. Princess Celestia took me under her wing from when I got to the school. She noticed my first heat starting to happen. She asked me if I had any colt at the school in mind.” She turns and hides her face in the crook of his neck. “I didn’t really have a colt I was really interested in. I was more absorbed in my books, in learning. I didn’t really understand what was happening to my body. I mean, well, I knew what it was, I did read about that. But actually feeling that pressure, that desire, really confused me.”

He holds her tightly. “So, what happened?”

“Princess Celestia had a nice older stallion come to my room with her. I was so overcome with heat, I couldn’t think straight, she offered me to use a cooler on me herself, to help me. I’d read enough about those, but it didn’t sound all that fun. And she offered the stallion to help me if I didn’t want the cooler. I chose the stallion immediately. He did seem surprised, but I turned around and lifted my tail for him right in front of Celestia.”

His eyes widen. “Oh no.”

She nods, “He was so nice. I wish I remembered his name. He was chosen because he wasn’t particularly well endowed, but Celestia liked him, I found out later that night, because he was a very considerate lover. He was interested in the mare’s pleasure more than his own.” She laughs briefly. “Celestia excused herself, after giving me a long hug and telling me that she knew I was going to do wonderfully. I knew he was ready pretty quickly, my eyes were fastened on his stallionhood as he moved closer, and I had to watch what he was doing.” She closes her eyes. “It was fascinating to have what I’d only read about happening to me. And yes, he was gentle, and loving.” She stops and looks into Tim’s eyes. “Much how you make love to me. How you show that giving me pleasure gives you pleasure.” She squeezes him tightly, he lies there, just enjoying the love the purple mare is offering.

After a bit, finally he is able to get a lung full of air, that mare is damn strong, for being as small as she is in relation to him. “Okay, you’ve told me about your first time, and how it typically is for mares in Equestria. But back to my original question. What happened when you became an alicorn?”

She flinches. “I’m sorry, I get on a roll when it comes to explaining things.” She flinches. “I was just about to go galloping off on another tangent. But I caught myself this time.” She clears her throat. “Well, to lead up to last spring’s heat, I need to tell you about my first heat as an alicorn. After the elements had worked their magic on me, it was late fall, so I had some months to wait until the first one happened. But when it came in, it was before you had arrived, and I hadn’t really found a stallion that I really was interested in. There aren’t all that many single stallions in Ponyville, and already I was having the gold diggers and toadies starting to gather. Which really turned me off. So, I went to my friends a couple of weeks before it started, and I actually spent my first heat as an alicorn at Applejack’s place. She had a couple of stallions she was thinking of courting into making a herd, and wanted a real stallion for her heat. We had a great time, actually. Caramel was a real sweetheart, but I think I drove him away, I was so insistent, every time we weren’t having sex, I was almost to the point of begging him for sex, and while he was good for it at first. He started shying away towards the end. Applejack was a little upset with me for that. But she quickly forgave me, she can be quite understanding.”

“Okay, and then last spring?”

“I’m getting to that. That was a learning moment for me.” She stops, her ears flattening. “He wasn’t like most of the others. He was a pegasus pony, a member of the guard, and he was sweet, smart, and fantastic in bed. I thought I was in love. And I thought he was in love with me.” Her ears flick back and forth. “Turns out, he did like being a consort of a Princess of Equestria. And quite a few of the perks associated with it. Not only did he love being with me, he loves cloaking himself in my royalty and helping himself to the treasury. And some of the mares that were looking to herd with a Princess, he really loved them. I wasn’t the only mare he loved body and soul. To make a long story short, he’d brought me a healthy bacterial culture from another mare’s nethers that decidedly liked me enough to get a roaring infection going.”

Tim flinches. “I think we’ve talked about sexually transmitted diseases before.”

She nods. “Yeah, given the normal way ponies are when it comes to sex, pony healers are dedicated to isolating and eradicating anything like that. I was in the hospital for a couple of weeks being cared for. Then I found out all of what I just told you about with him. The money he was spending, the mares he was bedding. Though tracking them down was easy, they were coming in with that nasty infection as well. Healers found all the mares with it fairly quickly, and that strain of bacteria is no more.” She groans. “I only barely escaped being an absolute scandal because of that. Though he did teach me one thing.”

“What was that?”

“That I do enjoy some of the sex play we do sometimes, getting trussed up, some of the different things I ask you to do to dominate me. I learned that I loved saddles, and halters, and some of that stuff that a lot of ponies consider to be a bit perverted.” She nuzzles his cheek. “Once heat is over, I want to get back into some of that. Sound good?”

He nods, she smiles fondly. “Then you fell into my life, quite literally. That first spring and fall after you arrived, I was thinking about you. Wishing I could do something with you, even though you were recovering from so many injuries. And working to help you. That first spring heat, I was so busy, I essentially ignored my body. Did you know I lost thirty pounds over that year? I barely ate, and I neglected myself so badly my friends were scared for me. Then you moved in with Citrus. And I had to realize that you and I wasn’t probably going to happen. I called Cadance to help me with that. I first confessed my feelings for you to her. She used magic and a couple of coolers to help me. And she encouraged me to talk to you. Talk to Citrus. And of course, you remember what happened with last fall.”

He hugs her tightly. “Yeah, I remember, it was difficult for all of us. But it worked out in the end, right?”

She kisses his cheek. “I’m glad it did. I was actually looking forward to heat with you. And it was just as wonderful as I was hoping it could be. Both you and Silver have been wonderful.”

“Silver is ready for it to be over.”

“Are you?”

He stops and thinks. “Well, I wouldn’t be upset if it were done with, I am super tired. I could probably fall asleep with you right now.”

She giggles. “Yeah, but I’d want you to ride me first.”

“Still going?”

She nods, biting her lower lip. “Though even without heat, there are times where I just sit there and watch you. If you are busy with something, or even just sleeping. You are so beautiful, I just want to touch you, to be close to you. Make love to you. And that is just heightened when I’m in heat. I don’t think I could get into sex with just anypony now that I’ve discovered what it means to be in love.”

He reaches out and runs a finger along her breast. “I like the idea of a nap, but for that, need some riding first?”

Her hand works its way south on him, her eyebrows rise. “I’d love some play before another nap. Keep it slow, okay? I’m at least as sore as every mare here.”

He wraps his arms around her and brings her close for a kiss. “Can do, love.”

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