I hummed and tapped my hooves on the carpet under my desk as I pyed my card game. My parents' geion had solitaire, sure, but my geion's card game had music. That had to t for something.

  The front desk had beey dead today, which suited me fine. I would have had to call for backup for just about any possible issue.

  I looked up as the front door opened again. Deyha stomped to shake off snow and brushed herself down, clearing stray fkes from her jacket.

  "Damn it, Damn it, Damn it." Deyha muttered as she tried to brush the snow out of her fur. I pushed back from the desk and made my way over. "What's wrong?"

  "Stupid snow is melting too fast, I'm gonna be soaked."

  "Retable." I held out my hands and Deyha handed me the package she had been juggling.

  "Thanks." She used both hands now and made much better progress clearing at least her thighs. Little icicles swung around on her fetlocks from where snow had already melted and re-froze before she got in.

  "We should get you a warm bath."

  "Tempting, very tempting, but I really o finish logging today's receipts and updating the books."

  "Done and done." I smiled.

  "Oh? Really?"

  "I know you didn't ask me today, but I figured, why else would you teach me?"

  Deyha seemed ptive for a moment. "hanks Maddie, I appreciate it."

  "You're wele. Now bath! Bath!"

  "Okay, okay," Deyha took back the package and then paused. "What did you mean by 'retable' earlier?"

  "Hmm?" I could feel myself flush warm again but I held out hope that what little fur I'd grown would cover a blush.

  "You said me being soaked was retable, why are you soaked?"

  I shuffled in pce. We were alo it was still really out in the open, especially if anyone was looking in through the gss doors.

  "Maddie?"

  "It's nothing."

  I met Deyha's gaze for only a moment before looking down again.

  "Maddie." her tone had shifted, taking on a hint of the mischief that Carolyn was so fond of. It certainly did not help. "Show me."

  "Here?"

  "Yht it up, now show me."

  I shuffled in pce. Bung up the front of my dress.

  "Sometime today, Madeline."

  "So ter is good? Perfect." I took a step away but she caught my wrist.

  "Let me rephrase then. Show me. Here. Now."

  This was so much funnier in theory, but none of my squirming or whimpering was swaying Deyha's resolve.

  "Fine! Fine." Deyha released my hand and I lifted the front of my dress.

  "Oh you poor thing." Deyha cooed.

  I dropped the fabrid stepped back but she caught me again. "Ah ah ah, I didn't say we were done here."

  "Deyhaaaaaa."

  "I'm waiting."

  I lifted the dress again and screwed my eyes shut, but that only made her touch all the more surprising.

  "Deyha?!" I tried once more to step back but she was ready. This time she caught me around the waist, hoisting me up on her shoulder like I was nothing more than a sack of oats. "Put me down!"

  "Stop squirming, I will."

  "Put me down now." I amended, but this time I got no response. She seemed utterly immuo my pleas for mercy. Defeated, I stopped resisting, watg the hypnotic sway of her tail as she carried me through the facility. There was a bit of spinning and then finally she set me down.

  "What are we doing here?" I looked around the unfamiliar room. It was cozy and plush, the walls were painted a nice green with a variety of standing mps and light panels spaced throughout the room. There ile of stuffed animals in the er and--. "Why is my stuff here?"

  "This is your stall."

  "My stall?"

  "Your own special pce. We noticed you hadn't unpacked anything into your bedroom so I suggested you might like something like your own offistead. Carolyn took that and made the logical leap toward sex dungeon. Speaking of…" Deyha pulled out her phone.

  "No, don't-"

  But it was too te. Deyha held the phoo her ear. "Hey Lynn." she spoke in spiratorial tones. "I'm taking Brattie here to her stall for time out. Would you like to join us? … okay, see you soon."

  Deyha set her package on a table by the door and crossed her arms. Standing suspiciously ready to cover any escape attempts.

  "Fuck." I muttered and paced. They had piled my plushie colle in the er, and beside that there was a bag chair, a bookshelf, and a reading mp. A small puter was tucked into one of the shelves and my monitor had been adapted to a wall mount. That was where the cozy fy vibe ehough. The other side of the room featured a very cliche bck vinyl coud some sort of stockade.

  "Jake and Thad helped." Deyha added

  "Of course they did." I muttered.

  "Should I ihem too?"

  "No the fuck you shouldn't. I'll thank them privately."

  "Privately?" Deyha tio speak in sacious tones.

  "Fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck--"

  The door opened again and Carolyn stepped in, seeming the slightest bit out of breath.

  "That was quick." Deyha took off her jacket and hung it on the door knob. "We'll work oing a coat hook-- that is, if you end up regurly wearing clothes."

  "Of course I'm going to fug wear clothes!"

  "She's really riled up." Carolyn stepped around so that I was standiween her and Deyha.

  "Extremely." Deyha agreed. "Do you know she fshed me? In the lobby of all pces."

  "Oh my." Carolyn took a step toward me.

  "That's not what happened!"

  "The back talk is also rampant today." Carolyn tinued. She pushed the straps of my dress off my shoulders, running her hands down before ing her arms around my stomach, pinning my arms to my sides.

  "What are we going to do with you?" Deyha stepped closer, pleting the Maddie sandwich.

  "And more importantly, what are you going to say if it gets to be too much?" Carolyn's tone shifted back to serious.

  I resisted the urge to roll my eyes. "I'll say 'stop'."

  "You didn't fet to say stop earlier did you?" Deyha asked.

  I pursed my lips and squi her. "No. I didn't fet."

  "Iing. Iing." Carolyn murmured. She id a kiss on my shoulder and chills rushed down my arms.

  Deyha hooked her finger into the colr of my dress. "I think you might have outgrown this dress."

  "I think it fits fihanks." I squi her but she was already shaking her head.

  "No, you see it should have fallen to the floor by now but it seems caught on something."

  "Uh huh." I deadpanned.

  Carolyn groped my chest. "I don't think you've been paying attention, see you appear to be operating uhe assumption you don't need supportive undergarments yet."

  "No, I did outgrow those. I figured the dress was supportive so I didn't bother yall about it. Have you seen how expensive bras are?"

  Deyha nodded, but Carolyn squeezed instead. "No, I 't say I've done much bra shopping tely. It's one of the perks of being a gene modder, you see."

  "Uh huh." I tried to keep my tone deadpan again but now my voice came out as a gasp.

  Deyha held the colr of my dress with two hands now, and before I could protest she began to rip it.

  Carolyn giggled and released me to allow Deyha to rip. Once she had torn about a foot dowopped and dropped the fabric. The whole dress fell, pooling at my feet.

  "That's better." Deyha decred. She took a step baire her handiwork. "Perfect. I 't imagine why you would persist in wearing clothes."

  "Maybe having you tear them off of me is my kink." I id the sarcasm on as thick as I knew how to.

  "I do it more often, in fact we could go check your wardrht now."

  "Wait, no."

  She picked her jacket up and turhe doorknob.

  "Jesus. Stop."

  Deyha put her jacket back. "So you do know how to say it."

  "Of course I do, I don't see why you have to test me."

  Deyha smirked, "I wohe same thing every day."

  "So now what?" I waved my hands at the puddle of fabric.

  I felt a piny ear and suddenly there was something hanging there.

  "Gotcha!" Carolyn sounded extremely proud of herself.

  "Oh, I get it." I adjusted the tag to hang a little closer to my face. "What was it? Cute, happy, tagged and milked?"

  "Well." Deyha cupped my cheek, gently turning my head as if to admire their work. "For starters you could scarcely be less happy, and if I'm remembering what Carolyn told me… I think you missed one."

  I squinted. "Well. There is only so much teasing I enjoy iting, and I doubt either of you modded on a breeding apparatus just for little ol' me."

  "I dunno…" Carolyn sang behind me. "Personally, I'm warming up to the idea."

  "Of course you are, Carolyn. Deyha, do not give up your tail just to rail me." I poi her for effed then turned around.

  Whatever matg rebuke I had for Carolyn died on my lips. She had been busy while I'd been watg Deyha and now, proudly strapped to her pelvis, was one of my dildos. It was a horse odel I'd ordered ages ago on a whim, but I'd never worked up the guts to give it a ride, I'd never gotten into anal at all really.

  "Where did you find that?" I asked.

  Deyha peered over my shoulder and whistled. "That is rather rge."

  "Right?" Carolyn waved it a couple times for effect. " you believe our sweet little Maddie had this baby stashed away?"

  I caught the tip, cradling it in my palm.

  "Don't worry, I was very thh ing it. I used the ultrasonic er and everything." Carolyn held up a squeeze bulb and pi, causing a bit of lube to spill out onto my hand. "And this is fresh cum lube. The stuff you had expired forever ago."

  I stroked the toy idly, bemused at the idea of the old stallion being my first after all.

  "I gotta be ho." Deyha said. "For a while there, I thought you were going along with all the modding just fender affirming care, but I'm pretty sure you were born for this."

  "Though there are pretty huge differences between horses and cows."Carolyn mused "I mean, lit the difference--"

  She trailed off as I pulled on the dilding her along as I backed up toward the couch. Deyha caught me as I bumped into her and she helped me y down, half on her p.

  I struggled to be patient as Carolyn climbed onto the couch. Over the st few weeks I tried to manage my expectations, ving myself that the first time didn't have to be perfed that it was okay if it hurt, but that had mostly resulted in a lot of masturbating.

  Deyha collected my hands, g both of them in one of hers above my head.

  "Who could have predicted…" Carolyn mused. "That the stammering little egg at the job fair would be su easy little cow." She pressed the tip in, and held my knees.

  "I wasn't an egg and I'm not that easy" I tried to sound serious, but the effect oiled by a moan as she pushed. "Sue me for opening my heart to the ki people ever."

  Caroly forward, easing in even further as she kissed my forehead. "Any artist would kill for a vas such as you."

  Deyha hummed her agreement but I couldn't pass by an opportunity for a bad joke.

  "I get it-- " I sighed and arched into her as she made the tihrust. "--I'm a vas because you're about to paint my womb with your--"

  She cut me off. Pressing her lips to mine as she pressed impossibly deep. I whimpered as her hips meant mine and she seemed to put all her weight into squishing me.

  "How the fuck--" I gasped as she dragged out and ba again.

  "What?" Carolyn seemed all the more smug. "Did you expeething different?"

  "Uh, yeah?"

  "Silly Madeline." She sighed as if there was some sensation in it for her after all. "I only wao make sure you were fully equipped for your life of blissful breeding."

  Deyha id her free hand on my belly, spying her fingers out

  " you feel it?" Carolyn asked.

  "Of course I feel it!" I gasped and tried to pull my hands free, but Deyha held them firmly. Each little movement as I struggled sent shockwaves through my core.

  "I wasn't talking to you, pet."

  My retort was cut off as Carolyn picked up her pace.

  "Aww, look at her kig her little hooves." Deyha cooed as she began to rub my belly.

  "Stooop" I whined.

  Deyha released my hands and Carolyn pulled back, holding my knees as she caught her breath. "What's wrong Babygirl?"

  "Nothing, I meant--" I groaned. "This is why people make safe words."

  "Mmhmm." Carolyn hummed, pulling the rest of the way out. The dild free, and a rope of cum lube squirted out ay tummy, followed by a stronger burst that reached my .

  "Carolynnnn you're wasting it!"

  "I disagree." She squirted me o time. "Were you just feeling fussy about the teasing?"

  "Yeah, but it's fine. I didn't actually want you to stop." I resisted the urge to wipe the lube off. I was certain I'd only end up spreading it and making a mess.

  "That's good. Do you want to tihis or should we move on to milking?"

  "I doubt yoing to get anything."

  Carolyn leaned forward and cupped one of my breasts, squeezing toward the nipple until a bead of milk appeared.

  "You were saying?"

  "Nothing, I didn't say anything. We should move on to milking." I sat up and Deyha went to grab the package she had brought in before.

  "Wait, is this going to make milking a sex thing? Like I'll get horny as a pavlovian response?"

  "Ideally, yeah." Carolyn smirked. "Though I'm sure if you behave you may eventually be allowed to milk in the on room."

  "But I don't think that's going to happen." Deyha opehe box and pulled out a tangle of straps, wires, and tubes ected to two familiar looking cups.

  The normal harnesses I'd been shown before were based off of a stretchy loop of fabric with a few holes to feed the cups and vacuum throttle through. This was far less i looking.

  Pink rhione covered straps criss-crossed between a belt-like band and the two cups, along with wires and a battery pack for a pair of shiny bullet vibrators.

  Deyha uhe band and fiddled with it until she found the shoulder straps. She helped me into it and I held the cups in pce as she adjusted straps and tucked the wires away.

  "What about the throttle thingy?"

  Deyha ughed and fished in the box again, pulling out a jug and a colr with a bell.

  She dropped the jug on the coud opehe colr, holding it up as an invitation. "What do you think?"

  At face value it was just part of the whole kink thing. It matched the harness and had a little golden cowbell. It was absolutely a joke.

  But it really, really, wasn't.

  The inside was embroidered with our names; Carolyn, Deyha, and Madeline-- and on the end there was a loothing that would be eveely hard to pick, but heart shaped with a total of three little keys.

  What posure I might have had evaporated. My vision blurred with tears but I still mahe two steps to Deyha. I felt Carolyn take the ends of the colr behind me, bug it and clig the lock as Deyha held my face. I failed to hold back a sob as she wiped the tears from my cheeks.

  "It's okay Babygirl, shhh. It's okay." she enveloped me in a hug and I broke down. I'd prepared myself for the toug and kissing but this was too much. The tag was ohing, it just said I belonged here in general; that I art of the unity as a whole. This colr was from Deyha and Carolyn specifically.

  "I 't believe you two." I sobbed.

  "You haven't evehe charm bracelets for the keys" Carolyn whispered as she joihe hug.

  I was ughing and g now. I couldn't believe they had pnned all of this. My own room, the gifts… and I had nothing for them. Nothing at all. Deyha swayed, rog me side to side as I re-learned how to breathe.

  Carolyn rubbed my shoulders as I finally stopped shaking. "Do you want to try out the harness?"

  "No," I whispered into Deyha's chest. "No it's too much, it's all too much."

  "Okay baby, it's okay." Carolyn cooed as she uhe harness. I flinched as the straps caught and dragged. All the sensations that used to be mind blowing were making my skin crawl. My chest was sticky, my hooves ached from standing, my eyes felt puffy and gross, I was melting down on what should have been the happiest moment of my life.

  Carolyn touched the loy colr and I shook my head.

  "You want to keep this on?"

  I nodded, feeling rotten and pathetic for defaulting to nonverbal cues. I hadn't been this out of sorts in a long time and the whole clusterfuck was magnified by the new fear that I could get worse. I could sh out and hurt them and end up pushing them away forever.

  I gripped Deyha tighter. Listening for her heartbeat as I tried to block the world out.

  "Cold."

  "You're cold? I'll go grab a b, let's get you somewhere warm."

  The door en and shut for just a moment, and then it was just Deyha and me again. "I'm sorry Maddie." she kissed the top of my head.

  I shook my head.

  "It'll be okay." She tinued.

  "Shut up!" I cried. I pushed her off of me, twisting to escape her grasp.

  However, I immediately lost my band nded hard on my hip. I screamed into my hand, trying to vent the siing mixture of physical aional pain but everything tio thrardless. All that ged was I felt dizzy and lightheaded.

  I'd do. I'd dohe exact stupid crazy shit I thought I would do. I'd fucked it up and now they were going to leave me forever.

  The door opened and closed again, leaving me alone.

  Warmth fell over me and I cowered into it. It was dark uhe b. Safe.

  I squeezed my bell, relishing in the way the edges dug into my palm. And then I just breathed. In and out. Tensing and rexing as I sought out the bad thoughts and pushed them away.

  I uncurled a bit, feeling out he the b was and I bumped into something, or someone, rather.

  "You're still here."

  "We're still here." Deyha stated ftly-- not in an irritable way but as though she were merely firming the sky ah was down.

  "I'm sorry for…" I trailed off. Listing things seemed pointless.

  Carolyn spoke up "I know I promised I'd bite you for that, but I'm letting you off the hook this once."

  I sighed and peeked out from the b, looking at each of them in turn. They were still unbearably ed, but I hadn't hoped for anythier.

  I held out my arm to Carolyn. She took my hand and held it but I shook free.

  "What are you doing?" she giggled.

  "Rules are rules." I said. "Don't do the crime if you 't do the time or something."

  "You are such a goofball."

  "Not my problem."

  Carolyn rolled her eyes and lifted my hand to kiss the babsp;

  After a sed I realized that was the best I was going to get out of her for now, so I turo Deyha. "Ow." I deadpanned. "Carolyn bit me."

  "Good to see your humor still works." Deyha smiled.

  I shook my head. "We all know full well my humor is fug bsted beyond repair."

  I grumbled as I got on my hands and knees and tried in vain t the b with me. After a sed of effort I gave up and id back down.

  "Are you ready to go?" Carolyn asked and I nodded.

  Deyha helped me to my feet and I pulled the bight around myself, ign the arm holes in favor of wearing it like a cloak.

  "Do you want a bath?" Deyha asked but before I could reply they both busted out ughing.

  "What? The answer is yes but what is so funny?"

  "That was so cute!" Carolyn squealed.

  "What was?"

  "Maddie, your ears literally perked up when I said 'bath'." Deyha tweaked my ear and I shook her off.

  "Just for that, you better make it a bubble bath."

  Deyha nodded, scooping me up into a bridal-style burrito. "For you, my dear. I think we make that happen."