Essmoorelda was outside the cottage tending to the flower garden when a wonderful, pervasive scent wafted over her nostrils.
"Mmm... fresh milk," The girl smiled dreamily as she stood and dusted herself off.
Her skin was tanned and she was speckled with freckles everywhere, and her ample bosom wobbled through her yellow dress as she stretched languidly, "I guess I could take a small break," she yawned as her cow ears twitched at the top of her head, poking through her straw blonde hair.
The demi-human stepped towards the cottage and threw the door open, "Heyo, everyone!" She greeted the room warmly before she frowned: there was no one around.
Inside, the cottage was strewn with books and chemistry equipment. Essmooredla's master, Questra, was a renowned chemist and healer, and people would come from all over to buy her potions and treatments.
"Aw, man, where is everyone!" the demi-human cow pouted slightly as she stomped her foot. People were always leaving without telling her where they were going, and she was beginning to feel neglected.
The girl forgot about her strange family's absence immediately, however, as the smell of fresh milk came back to her. She looked around quickly and spotted a bottle on a table in the middle of the room, and she bounded toward it exuberantly, "Aha!"
It was a glass bottle, about a liter in size, and it was full of what could have only been wonderful, delicious, wholesome milk. Essmoorelda loved milk almost more than she loved dancing and singing, and she licked her lips and drew forward to pick it up.
She stopped short when she noticed that there was a note attached to the bottle. It read:
Don't drink the milk!! This means you, Essie!
The cow girl frowned deeply, "No fair, why not!" She huffed. Questra never let her have any fun, and she especially didn't appreciate being ordered around via a piece of parchment. Essie was about to slam the bottle down when she caught a whiff of it once more, and she sighed sadly.
She held the bottle up and stared into its infinite creaminess. It looked like it was super high quality, and it was so thick that it was almost buttery in texture.
"Why?" She whimpered as she hung her head. She clutched the bottle in her hands tightly and smiled slowly as she felt the cool glass on the tips of her fingers, "Surely, just a little couldn't hurt?" She licked her lips once more as she lowered the bottle slightly. "I mean... just the tiniest little nip... just a little cream..." she pulled the cork from the bottle and bit her lip, "Off the top."
She raised the bottle to her lips and tilted it just enough to allow a few drops of the white liquid to slide onto her tongue.
Her eyes widened as she tasted the forbidden milk. It was the most flavorful, most full bodied, most illustrious milk she had ever tasted, and before she knew what she was doing she was tilting to bottle forward to drink more.
"Mmm," she indulged quietly as she took a single, deliberate gulp. The creamy liquid gold seemed to warm her insides as she exhaled slowly.
"oh my goodness, where did this come from?!" She asked herself with wonder as she held the bottle away from her face. Interestingly, the bottle looked more full than she thought it would, and she blinked as she grinned, "Just one more couldn't hurt... just one more drink."
She raised the bottle to her lips for a second time and drank. Somehow, it tasted even better than before, and she closed her eyes as she completely forgot about the note.
"Mmph!" She breathed through her nose as she tilted the bottle further and dipped her head back. She'd never drunk anything so satisfying, and it tasted so good that she didn't even want to stop to breath.
She tilted her head back even further and drank hungrily like the greedy little cow she was. The heavy, buttery milk filled her entire mouth and coated her throat with it's life giving fattiness, and her cleavage strained through her dress as she tilted her head as far back as she could.
Then, the bottle was empty. Essie opened her eyes slowly and thrust the bottle away from her face, "Oh no!"
She didn't even think it was possible for her to drink so much at one time, but in the timespan of what felt like a few seconds, she'd drained the entire bottle. A frantic feeling rose up in her chest, and she looked around the room quickly, "I just gotta find more! There's some cows in the field that can..." her words trailed off as she felt an odd tingling sensation in her chest.
"Wha?" She looked down as her chest felt suddenly wet. For several bewildering seconds, she thought that she might have spilled some of the milk on her, but the two wet spots were right on top of her nipples, and they were growing steadily.
Essie's eyes widened as a lump rose in her throat, "Am I... lactating?"
As if her breasts were responding to the question, her nipples tingled hotly, and the two spots joined at her cleavage as her dress was soaked through.
"Ah! What do I do?!" The cow girl flailed her arms for a moment. "No...no, gotta calm down; I'm sure any minute it'll stop."
She frowned down at her pillowy breasts and watched in dismay as some of her freckles seemed to grow. Her breasts were feeling heavier by the second, and she took a deep breath as she pulled the dress away from her cleavage to peek down at herself.
Just as she'd feared, small droplets of white liquid were dripping from her big pink nipples.
"Oh, oh, oh," Essmoorelda wrung her hands together and paced back and forth , "Questria will be furious with me! She told me not to drink the milk, but I did it anyway! Why can't I just be a good cow and do as I'm told?!" She shook her head as she looked around, and she tried to ignore the spot on her chest that was beginning to soak through completely, "But I need her here, she'll know how to fix it. Where did she go?" The desperate cow girl mourned. "Perhaps she's..."
Before she could finish, the front door opened.
"Oh thank goodness, Questria, I..."
"Hai hai!" An energetic girl burst inside and waved enthusiastically at Essie.
"Oh...it's just Meowra," Essie frowned.
The girl who had just entered the room was every bit as curvaceous as the cow girl, though she was a little more slender in frame. She was also a demi human, and her cat tail flicked behind her as she furrowed her brow, "That's rude! What do you mean, 'it's just Meowra?!' I'll have you know that..." the cat girl's ears twitched through her short brown hair, "Essie... what happened to you?"
Essie's arms were crossed over her chest, and she heaved in exasperation, "It seems that I am..." she lowered her arms slowly, not seeing any point in trying to hide the truth, "Lactating."