Elizabeth here: This is Ch.02 of The Downhill Fey Forest. Read the first part if you haven't already. I hope you enjoy it: happy reading!
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The sun was setting, the forest was darkening, and Alban's legs were still covered in honey and his own cum. He needed to find a place to clean himself, so he trekked deeper down the slope in search of water. Hopefully, Snowdrop and Sundrop would stop following him.
He could stave off sleep for now, but he wondered how long that gas-induced nap from half an hour ago would last him. Could he stay up all night and keep walking nonstop? And if so, would it even matter? He hoped both were the case, and that the fairies had lied about him being trapped. If so, he could break out of this forest, and reach Elagwyn's palace in Rosenia before he needed to sleep. At least food wasn't a problem. He had plenty of rations, and a canteen of water: not enough to wash with, though.
He paused, and decided to try something to check if the fairies might have been right. He turned around and decided to go uphill for a minute, to see if he could really only go downhill. The terrain was normal for a minute, but then he pushed aside some foliage: there was another downhill slope behind that, and he was now standing on the peak of a hill where there was none before. So, he really could only go downhill. But, he held out hope; maybe if he just kept going in one direction, he could escape somehow. He turned back around and kept going West.
The forest grew quieter as he trekked down the slope. Alban found it harder and harder to see as the sky darkened, and almost tripped a few times while going downhill. Although the honey and cum were slowly drying, they were still a nuisance, and felt awful.
Just as it became almost impossible to see, Alban opened his backpack. He filled a glass lantern with oil and lit it. He kept travelling forward, now with a dim source of light. Another half hour passed, and the terrain leveled out again. What was waiting ahead? Alban trekked forward.
This part of the forest had more flowers than normal, and the air was dark, still, and quiet. The tulips looked a fair bit bigger than normal, and so did some of the other flowers. The air smelled sweet, but not in a dangerous way like earlier. Thankfully, none of those white, gas-emitting flowers--dreambulbs, did she call them?--were around.
The trees started to thin out, and more flowers replaced them. Alban could see the stars above him, and a tiny sliver of a moon. Then he started to see the giant flowers. They were all kinds of species, and overpowered the surrounding flowers with their sweet scents. There was a person-sized red tulip bulb sticking out of the ground, an elephant sized bush of massive, blue hydrangea, and a white and purple pansy with a thick, knee-high stem and a table-sized flower.
Alban was suspicious of the large flowers, and trekked onward. He thought they might lash out at him and catch him in their petals. But, they would have been a beautiful sight in the daytime, and if he weren't so afraid of them.
He trekked onward. But soon, he heard a faint, muffled snoring sound coming from ahead and to the left. Alban paused. Was it a good idea to investigate? He crept forward: after peering around a giant orchid, he saw that the sound was coming from the inside of a four foot tall tulip bulb, surrounded by yellow daffodils. The tulip was dark red, almost as wide as it was tall, had no stem between it and the ground, and seemed to sag under the weight of something inside. This something was making the snoring sound.
Now that he was closer, the snoring sounded a bit like a girl was in there. Did he dare peer inside? Maybe if there was someone friendly in there, he could ask for directions, or for a way out. But, if it were some kind of murderous fey creature...
It was sleeping, so Alban figured there was no risk in a quick peek. One peek, a quick decision on whether it looked like it would murder him or not, and then he'd choose to talk or flee. He slowly crept towards the tulip bulb, stepping around the little daffodils. He dimmed his lantern and kept it low to the ground for now.
He reached the edge of the four foot high bulb, and peered over the top. It was too dark to see the snoring thing inside, so he raised his lantern. Inside the tulip bulb was... a thick, translucent blue liquid, gently vibrating whenever it snored. It looked almost like jelly in consistency; slime was a better term for the liquid. Was there something in it? Alban raised his lantern a little higher for a better look. Light shone into it. No, it was just the blue slime inside.
The liquid's snoring heightened for a moment, then stopped. A cute, but groggy female voice spoke from it. "Huh?" it said. Alban took a step back. The blue slime quivered for a moment, and something began to rise out of it. Alban took a few more steps back for good measure, and kept his lantern fixated on it as a woman's head and shoulders, made entirely of the blue slime, peeked above the lip of the tulip. The tulip shook and sagged a little with her movements, but held firm. Her hair was made of thick, blue tendrils of goo, and her face was round and cute. But, she looked groggy and tired.
"Wha--? Who are... It's, like, two in the morning, man," she stuttered out, groggy from sleep.
"Who are you?" Alban asked.
"Sleepy," she said.
"I mean your name."
"No, that's, like, my name. They call me Sleepy. Sleepy the slime. Because it flows nice, and I really like to sleep in. Not that you'd know it, since, like, everyone's asleep right now. Man, do you know what time it is? I gotta get up at one in the afternoon tomorrow."
"Eleven, I think?"
"P.M.?" Sleepy asked.
Alban pointed up at the sky. "Yeah."
"Oh. Well, this is why I sleep a lot. So I can get extra sleep in case someone wakes me up. Who are you, and..." Sleepy looked down, and perked up a little. "Whoa, what happened to your pants?"
"I'm Alban, I don't know where I am, and fairies did horrible things to me. I've been wandering around for eleven hours now, and I want to get out of this forest."
"Oh. Yeah, that'll happen. Fairies are dicks to travellers. Lemme guess, honey pit, and, uh, something else? I'm really curious about that smaller stain."
"There was a honey pit, and then dreambulbs, and a, uh... humiliating wet dream."