Pistol awoke exhausted. He had slept fitfully, being awoken many times by the cries of tiny hungry foals. Each time, he had gotten himself to his feet before placing each foal on a teat until it was full, then placing it back in the fluff pile. It helped that Pistol was also lactating, which sped things up and lessened the load on Sally. Sally, on the other hand, was still out cold, but she could hardly be blamed, having just queefed out thirteen foals, although by the end of the night she had run out of milk, as she was sleeping instead of eating to produce more milk. So as the sun started to rise, it fell to Pistol to keep switching between nursing foals, sprinting to the food machine to stuff his face, and sprinting back to feed more tiny mouths.
Eventually, Pistol managed a few hours rest before being woken by Dave preparing his breakfast in the nearby kitchen.
âDaddeh,â Pistol whispered loudly, having used his collar to let himself out of the safe room, âPistow nee hewp. Pwease gib Sawwy big nummies fow make miwkies fow babbehs.â
âIâm sorry buddy, but since you used to be an outside fluffy, you need to be the one bringing Sally all her food, otherwise your babies wonât grow big and strong.â Dave sweetly lied. He then put on a hoodie and turned up the air conditioner.
âOh-okay, Pistow undastan,â and as the exhausted alicorn trudged back to the safe room, he muttered, âBe bestest daddeh, be bestest speshul fwend, Pistow wiww du it fow dem.â He then proceeded to make the grueling journey of ten round trips to the food dispenser and back to fully fill Sallyâs kibble bowl before doing another round of foal nursing after which he fell into a sleep not far separated from that peace known only to the dead.
Four hours later, Sally awoke, famished. Once she had eaten for a few minutes, she looked up and took stock of her surroundings, only then remembering her new litter of foals, who by this point were feeling cold with Pistolâs body heat only on one side of them and, ever hungry, were starting to peep and chirp to garner attention. Sally rushed over to them and, as her breasts had dutifully already started filling with milk, she was able to immediately start nursing. She made sure each foal had its fill of milk, even though that meant stopping halfway through to stuff her face as fast as she could so as to have enough milk for all her children. All through nursing, she sang softly to her foals,
âMummeh wub babbehs, babbehs wub mummeh,
Mummeh gib miwkies, babbehs dwink miwkies,
Babbehs gwow biggies, babbehs gwow stwongies,
Mummeh wub Pistow, babbehs wub Pistow,
Pistow gib nummies, mummeh gib miwkies.â
And so the day went, with the new parents lovingly caring for their tiny foals. There was a brief crisis when one of the foals made a milky poop on the floor, but the red âbad poopiesâ light on the kibble dispenser didnât light up, only the yellow âclean up good poopiesâ light lit up so it looked like babbeh poopies didnât count as bad poopies, which relieved Pistol, who quickly licked up the mess.
âBabbeh poopies am wowest-nu-gud-tastie poopies, but Pistow wub babbehs an Sawwy, su Pistow cween babbeh-poopies. Pistow du it fow dem!â Pistol declared.
âPistow am bestest daddeh ebah! Sawwy wub Pistow suu muchies!â Sally said as she and Pistol finished licking up thirteen tiny pools of milky shit. âSawwy sowwy bestest fwend, Sawwy nee make poopies 'gain, Sawwy twy tu make cwean nu-ickies poopies fow Pistow tu move.â
âDat am okay, Pistow understan,â Pistol replied, and once he was done clearing the litterbox, âIt tuu coldies fow babbehs, Pistow teww daddeh nee bwankie fow put on babbehs.â
âDaddeh?â Dave turned on a fake smile before looking down from his emails.
âWhat is it Pistol?â
âIt am tuu coldies fow babbehs, can daddeh gib bwankie fow Pistow put on babbehs?â
âFuckâ Dave thought, âShe just had to fuck an alicorn didnât she. Probably the only feral one for miles and she finds it.â
âOf course Pistol, we can just pretend you found it while you were out looking for nummies.â Dave wasnât about to give up the game yet, not when it was just getting interesting, and so he got up and handed Pistol a medium sized kitchen towel, hoping that it would rapidly be saturated in urine and become useless at retaining heat.
âTank-uu daddeh!â Pistol said before dragging the towel to the safe room with his mouth, mumbling something about âwucky hab gud-niceie daddehâ
To Daveâs dismay, when he checked later, he saw that Pistol had suspended the towel between himself and Sally, creating a tent of warm air above the foals sandwiched between them.
By the next morning Pistol, with Sally helping with the foals, had actually had meaningful sleep, his body seemingly adjusting and getting used functioning on little overall sack time. The foals were still little more than hungry balls of fluff that pooped occasionally, but during downtime, both parents made sure to play with the foals. Each foal would be held up by a parent several times a day, talked to, and gently hugged.
âWingie babbeh gunna gwow biggest wingies an be fastah den da biwdies.â The little blue colt wiggled in Sallyâs arms, eager to show what a good babbeh he was as he buzzed his tiny wings and peeped happily.
âPistow gib widdwiest babbeh gud huggies an wikkie cweanies! Soon babbeh make wunnies an wowdies and gud wittahbocks poopies wike big fwuffies!â Pistol said as held up the blue runt, who was excited by the attention and tried to hug Pistolâs hoof as he was gently placed back with the rest of the litter.
Dave, meanwhile, was watching on the safe roomâs security camera. This was baffling. Everything he had read had told him that the chances of Sally being a good mother at such a young age were vanishingly small, and yet there she was, being mother of the fucking year. Dave had been happy with just having Sally, and since he was an alicorn, keeping Pistol probably wouldnât be that much work either. However, by this point the issue was edging closer to one of principal- simply put, fluffies arenât supposed to be very good parents- theyâre supposed to pick favorites, neglect foals just on the color of their fluff, be terrified of newborn alicorns, and kill runts. Then a though occurred to Dave- perhaps they will behave âproperlyâ only when they are âproperlyâ stressed. But how would he do that? If Sally or Pistol realized he was trying to make them fail, then the jig was up, and the game no fun anymore. At the same time, he could just lie and tell them that he couldnât find them anymore food, but then they literally had no chance, and it wouldnât be a game at all.
Then Dave had an idea. An awful idea. Dave had a wonderful, awful, terrible, used car salesmanâs racist uncle kind of idea.
Dave grabbed his coat and headed for the local fluffies âRâ [unforgivable slur]