Tom Lane was lost.
The last he recalled, he had taken a trail that was supposed to be a five mile round-trip hike.
Easy enough.
It had gone from gravel and wood to an increasingly faint track until, suddenly, he realized he was trudging through undergrowth, and it had been hours since he'd seen a sign or trail marker or another hiker.
The woods were hot with afternoon heat, the light of the sun filtered through thick leaves until the forest was lit in a deep green.
It was pretty, but Tom was hot, sweat caused his underwear and shirt and socks to stick uncomfortably to his skin, and he itched under the straps of his backpack.
He was tempted to stop and just pull of his shirt for a bit, to let his skin breathe, but he instinctively shied away from that idea.
He stared around him, wondering where he was for the hundredth time.
He pulled out his phone.
It remained unchanged. Well, almost. The battery indicator now read '%4'. Still no signal. Just like it had when he'd gotten all the way out of the city.
Tom sighed, and tried to find the game trail he had apparently started following instead of an actual trail.
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Tom was about ready to just sit down under a tree when he heard water. He made towards it, cocking his head every few feet to try and track the burbling sound, until he finally came to a rocky bank, and a clear stream chuckling merrily as it poured down the slight hill over which the forest grew.
He sighed.
He slung his backpack off, dropping it with a crashing thump on the bank, and plopped down, carefully untying his boots.
He pried his boots off, wincing at the smell as he got his feet out and his socks off, and finally, sighed with relief as he lowered his feet into the chilly water of the stream.
He relaxed, leaning back onto the trunk of a conveniently placed tree and looked up into the sunlit branches above, and closed his eyes.
He sat there, feeling the cool water washing over his feet and trying to ignore how the rest of his clothes stuck to him, when he heard, faintly, the sound of giggling.
He lurched up, took a breath and held it, and listened.
There it was again, giggling, and... a playful shriek.
He stood, grabbing his socks and hurriedly trying to pull them on over wet feet.
He struggled with his socks for a bit before cursing and just giving up, tucking them in the top of his boots, slinging his pack back onto his back and grabbing his boots, before walking carefully downstream towards the sound, rocks and twigs digging into his bare feet as he picked his way between trees.
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The giggling got louder, interspersed with shrieks, and he began to hurry, in the hopes of making contact with someone who might know where the hell he was.
He faltered when the giggling was suddenly interrupted by a deep moan.
What the hell were they doing?
The stream widened and deepened, and he came, finally, to a break in the woods, where the stream ran into a deep lake surrounded by a grassy verge and the thick trees of the forest.
The giggling was rapidly supplanted with deep moans and breathy, ecstatic cries.
He slowed, setting his pack aside in a small hollow full of dead leaves, and his shoes next to it, then stepped up to the last tree before the verge and peered past, to see something... unbelievable.
A dozen women were in the lake near the bank. A couple were sprawled on the bank, one girl lying on her back, legs splayed out, the other crouched between her legs, ass in the air, face buried between her legs.
The women playing in the lake were kissing languorously, or splashing each other.
They were pretty, their skin glistening in the slanting light of the afternoon sun, and every single one was naked. More, he could see the ass of the girl on the bank who's head was between the legs of the other, and there was a stubby little tail with a tuft of brown fur, and her partner's bare shoulders were dappled with dark freckles.
Tom found himself staring, feeling a strange combination of desire, and jealousy.
None of them were stuck in restrictive jeans and sweaty shirts and socks that stuck to their toes, none of them were lost, or if they were, they were together, they were just... free.
Seated on the bank, watching the women playing, was what he at first took to be a white horse. Until he saw the pearlescent horn, straight and needle-sharp, rising from the top of its skull.
She was huge, even seated, looming over the deer-girls.
Her fur was a shimmering, pearl white, that caught and refracted the sunlight into countless colors.
She was glancing about, one eye on the crowd of deer-like women, one on the verge.
She shifted suddenly, looking back towards where Tom was lurking beside a tree.
Piercing golden eyes like sunlight, that seemed to look
through
the trees and into him.
Half-remembered bits of stories and old myths sparked a memory in his head and he slipped behind the tree, turning around and sliding down it, heart pounding.
What had he run into?
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He breathed carefully, his heart pounding. Had the big unicorn seen him?
No cry went up, no shouts, nobody running towards the trees, maybe he was fine?
And he began to relax.
He was still lost. Maybe if he waited, let them... finish up, he'd be able to just... ask for help. As long as he didn't watch.
His dick was hard, pressing into his sweat-soaked underwear, and it felt gross.
And aside from the arousal, something gnawed at his gut. He wanted... he couldn't articulate it, but it was probably just lust, he probably wished he could be there, 'playing'.
The gnawing sensation steadily overrode the arousal, and even as he heard the splashing and moans and giggles, he felt something well up in his throat and tears pricked at the edge of his vision, and he couldn't for the life of him work out
why
.
He leaned back, waiting.
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The sky had taken on a deep red when he heard a booming voice, speaking an unknown language, the only voice he hadn't heard raised in a cry or a giggle.
He didn't need to see her to know it was the unicorn. Her voice was impossibly melodic, sweet and harmonious and sent a jolt of desire through him.
He'd finally gotten his shoes back on, and took a breath.
Maybe now.