“Well, that was an easy quest!” said Adrian, his blonde hair dampened with the sweat of another hot day at the magical forest. The young hero had been tasked to retrieve a necklace for a woman back in town, just one of the many ordinary adventures you would expect to have before getting better armor and gear to fight stronger enemies and face more perilous quests.

The necklace in question, however, was a bit more difficult to get than Adrian admitted. The damned thing was in a cave relatively deep in the forest. It took him a full day just to get to it. He had to fight a bear, the usual stuff, not even a magical bear for the matter. But he just didn’t have it in himself to stroll through this place another full day just to get some coin from that woman.

He just wanted to get out of the magical forest quickly.

The road is there for some reason. Those were the words that echoed in his mind as he decided to take a little shortcut through the trees, away from the road. The words belonged to that innkeeper. He forgot his name. But there was a look of a mix of respect and fear in his eyes as he said that. Adrian wondered why. The place outside the road seemed inoffensive.

He was casually walking through the place. He felt a strange shimmer in the air here, and felt slightly unwelcome, but there was nothing to worry about in his head. This part of the woods seemed… tranquil, peaceful, as if watched over by-

He now knew exactly what was watching over them.

She was quick as a thunderbolt. A fairy of short white hair, yellow eyes and tanned skin, (which reflected regular work outdoors), appeared suddenly in front of him. The fairy was dressed in a functional forest ranger attire that he had seen on elves and humans alike, but this was a miniaturized version of it, adapted to her dragonfly-like wings. There was the leather armor and the green cloak. But the sword that was being pointed to him was more like a needle.

“Halt human!” she commanded.

Adrian flinched, it was only natural, he was startled at first. But once his more rational side took over he realized he was being threatened by a finger sized nuisance, pointing a sewing tool to his face.

Adrian ignored her command, and walked past her. To her dumbfounded expression.

“I said HALT!” the fairy insisted, flying towards Adrian’s face again.

“Look, miss, I just need to get past this section of the fore-”

“This section of the forest belongs to the Fae, you may not cross”

“It’s just a small section in between roads miss…”

“Does it look like we need a lot of space?”

“Now that you mention-”

“ENOUGH human!” The fairy said, cutting him up again. “This is your final warning, turn back NOW!”

Adrian didn’t take the threat seriously. And he walked past her again. From behind him, he heard the fairy sigh deeply, and then calling “to me sisters!”

He didn’t have enough time to process what that meant. His head bumped straight into another fairy.

This one of long red hair and the same yellow eyes of the one before. Her wings a beautiful display of the wonders of the Fae, of intricate colors and shape. Very distinct to the functional dragonfly wings of the other fairy. She was also not wearing a forest ranger uniform at all. She was wearing something that could only be described as an attire he had seen on courtesans and dancers back in town, with a lot of exposed skin that left little to the imagination.

“Hello little human! Are you my new toy?” She said.

“Wha-” Adrian didn’t have time to respond properly, as his attention immediately went to the third fairy emerging from the woods. She was wearing a robe that reminded him of a scholar, and wore glasses that were thick enough to almost hide her yellow eyes, the same as the other two. Her wings were butterfly-like, not as precious as the red haired one, but definitely more on the fashionable side than the ranger with the needle sword.

“I hope this is important, Lilly, I was watching a fascinating ant colony back there” the blue haired one said in monotone, addressing the white haired one, Lilly.

“Of course it’s important Violet!” she said, irritated. “This idiot is trespassing!”

“Who cares?” she said “Let Rose have her fun with him and let me go back to my ant colony, it’s way more fun than bothering another would-be hero like him…”

Adrian was a little baffled. He genuinely thought for a second they would treat this situation a little more seriously. But as he was getting ready to just keep on walking, the one named Rose detained him by swiftly getting in front of his face.

“Aw, don’t leave, little toy, you haven’t let me have my fun yet…” she said.

He had to hide a blush.

But the argument from behind him stopped. The three yellow eyed fairies stood in front of him, blocking his path.

But then again, they’re just fairies.

“Look, ladies, I’m just passing by and-”

“You were warned” said Lilly

“As I said I was just passing by and-”

“The law of the Fae must be upheld… I suppose” said Violet

“I know you have your codes of honor and all that but-”

“You’re seriously ignoring me!?” said Rose, probably genuinely hurt that the human wasn’t falling for her charms.

“Alright, seriously, out of my way” Adrian said, fed up with all this Fae bullshit.

“Ohhh, you must be feeling all big and strong threatening us little fairies!” Said Rose, mocking him. “Quite a brave hero!”

Adrian drew his sword. To the shocked face of Lilly, the bright interest of Rose, and the cold indifference of Violet. At this point, Lilly’s experienced years as a forest ranger allowed her to act quickly in the presence of danger from big people. Elves, Humans, Half-foots, all had their countermeasures. As soon as Adrian had finished drawing his sword, Lilly had drawn a wand from her belt, and whispered a few words.

Adrian was getting ready to engage them. But as he was about to say ‘Final warning’ he noticed he couldn’t move his mouth, nor the arm holding the sword. He had been paralyzed. Lilly casted a paralyzing spell on him.

“Ha ha ha!” laughed Rose, wiping a tear from her eye “you seriously thought you stood a chance against us?”

“A fucking paralyzing spell Lilly?” said an annoyed Violet. “I was in the middle of disintegrating him!”

She was being serious. Adrian noticed the faint lightning bolts coming from her fingertips, they would have certainty formed a powerful beam of energy that would have zapped him out of existence in a flash. He wouldn’t have seen it coming.

Rose was right, there was no way he would have won against them.

“Come on, the offense isn’t bad enough to vaporize him, sis!” said Lilly.

“But I wanted to see if he turned to ashes or if he exploded!” said an annoyed Violet “I’ve never had the chance to test the spell on a human!”

“Shut up! You had your chance with that elf some moons ago and he turned into an ash cloud! You know exactly what happens!”

“Humans might be different!”

As Lilly and Violet yelled at each other, Rose quickly snapped the wand out of her sister’s hand. The petty argument between the two was so heated that Lilly quite literally didn’t notice this happening.

With a giggle, Rose waved the wand around, quickly stripping Adrian completely naked, his pieces of silver armor scattered across the forest. All without Adrian being able to do anything about it.

The red haired fairy waved her sister’s hand around again, causing Adrian to fall on his back. arms and legs extended. She then landed on his bare chest. While Lilly wore combat boots and Violet some fancy shoes, Adrian noticed Rose was completely barefoot. The sensation of the little toes in his chest was utterly alien and new to him. And it was made terrifying by the fact that he was completely paralyzed.

“Hm? What’s wrong, my little toy? Oh the paralyzing spell isn’t it!” Said Rose, gently walking around his naked chest. “If it were up to me I would lift it… at least just the mouth… I just looove listening to you human boys squeak and moan…”

If Adrian could have bit his lower lip he would have by now.

Rose was now dancing across his chest. A beautiful, alluring movement. Adrian would have enjoyed it a lot if it wasn’t for the fact that he was, well, completely paralyzed.

“Oh but don’t fret, little toy!” Said Rose almost as if reading his mind “The paralysis isn’t total, after all you would have suffocated to death some minutes ago wouldn’t you? I don’t bother with the intricacies of it… but I want to check something…”

She gently strolled to one of Adrian’s nipples. The boy silently praying that she would not do what she so obviously wanted to do.

Rose began stroking it. The small touch of her little hands was, for some reason, overly stimulating to Adrian. His breath began to accelerate. And his eyes, the one part that could still move, tried to look away from Rose.

“Ah… feels good right?” she said, Adrian still looking away. But the next sensation made him close his eyes and start sweating. Rose began to gently kiss and bite his hard nipple. She was clearly an expert on this. Adrian could tell.

Clearly amused by Arian being incapable to resist, she flew to his ear, and whispered softly to him“if you promise to be a good boy and *not* make any noises, I’ll let you leave unharmed, okay?”

Adrian noticed that the spell binding his tongue and mouth dissipated with a few movements from the wand in Rose’s hand. A thought came flashing by. That of calling for help. But he remembered that figuratively speaking he was in the fairies’ hands. Interrupting the ongoing argument between the two sisters who still hadn’t noticed his situation didn’t guarantee his safety. Violet could still disintegrate him with a few hand gestures and some words in an ancient language.

A few seconds passed and he noticed small, diminutive hands gently grasping his dick, gentler than anything he has ever felt before and yet still Rose felt like a complete professional in this matter. His mouth now free. He had to bite down hard on his lips not to make any noises. Putting all of his faith on Rose’s promise.

But then, suddenly, he feels her legs curling around his cock, and then her whole body mounting it, moving up and down. It was heavenly. And it’s too much to bear.

He starts biting his tongue, almost to the point of bleeding. But Adrian couldn’t keep it in himself any longer and he moaned loudly as he shoots a missile of his cum, which is swiftly dogged by Rose, and landed on his abdomen.

Adrian’s moaning is loud enough that it causes Lilly’s and Violet’s argument to end.

Violet’s face was hiding a malicious giggle, but Lilly was horrified. Swift as the wind and coming to her senses, Violet flew to her sister down in Adrian’s crotch.

“I can’t believe how GROSS you can be you fucking…” she said, biting her tongue at the end, not wanting to say a fairy slur to her sister and taking the wand away from her.

Rose was of course not even mad at this “Oh Vi, come on, I just wanted to have fun!” she said with a shit eating grin.

Still, Adrian saw that this one was the more mature and less prone to any mood swing from among the trio. He placed his hopes on her.

“You…” Adrian said “Miss Violet right?”

The most he got was a half interested ‘hm?’

“Miss Violet please, you’re clearly the voice of reason among your beautiful sisters, I just wanted to say that-”

“Why did you have to make him speak again?” Violet asked Rose, ignoring Adrian completely.

“Miss… Lady Violet, if you can find it in your heart to forgive my-” Adrian couldn’t finish the sentence. He was paralyzed again. Violet had motioned the wand to do so.

“Oh by the Archfey, your sounds and noises annoy me” she said.

Still seeing him naked, powerless and on the ground sparked Violet’s curiosity. She never had the opportunity to get this close to a healthy, young human male. Elves she had studied a plenty and Half Foots and Dwarves didn’t pique her interest like humans did. Humans were somewhat special. They were like a mix of Dwarf and Elf. Tall, inclined to the ways of magic in some cases, and yet gross and unrefined creatures.

Like this specimen in front of her right now. An adventurer. Lowest of the low in the chain of respect she had for humans. Mages and scholars she respected. Saw in them something almost like kinship, she respected their curiosity, their intelligence, the overall sense of tranquility they gave.

On the opposite side of the spectrum were adventurers.

Violet flew around Adrian, the powerless guy on the ground. Scanning him. He was pretty, although she wouldn’t say it out loud, especially in front of his sisters. Good musculature, and he had the sweet smell of sweat she secretly found so attractive in men of every race. But that was the extent of the good things she could say about him.

Adrian was also one of those filthy ‘fetch me this’ lowlifes, like a dog. Adventurers were always selfish, self serving creatures. Always entering caves and temples and dungeons and in this case the Magical Forest in search of, in the worst case, treasure that some other filthy guy in some filthy tavern is looking for but won’t go to grab it himself and in the best case, magical secrets they don’t themselves understand, for people more learned than themselves who didn’t have the time, patience, of felt that the work of scavenging around was undignified.

Violet let a small smile show in her face, a half smile at best, smug and with an odious air of superiority from Adrian’s perspective. She waved the wand and he could feel his tongue and mouth move again.

“Thank you… oh thank you Miss Violet I-” started Adrian before being cut off by Violet.

“Shut up, I find your voice annoying and I want to keep it to a minimum here, are we clear?”

“C-clear, Miss” said Adrian.

“Good. What’s your name, human?”

“Adrian, Miss”

“Age?”

“Twenty three winters, Miss…”

“Winters? You don’t know about the calendar year? Ugh, severely lacking in the education department, human…”

“I’m sorry, Miss, c-can you please let me-”

“Shh!” Violet commanded.

Rose was watching from a distance, entertained. Lilly, on the other hand, flew to Violet’s sister’s side.

“Alright, sis, what the fuck are you doing?”

“Conducting research, Lilly, here we have a fine specimen, I haven’t written that much on humans” she said, producing a small notebook and a quill. The two artifacts were suspended in air. They moved on their own.

“Research log number three hundred forty one, subject: human male” She said, and as if commanded by her voice alone the quill took notes on the open notebook. Lilly sighed and flew away, letting her sister have her moment.

“Description: Blonde hair and blue eyes, pale skin, athletic complexion… hmm” she interrupted her self.

“Adrian, dear, can you read words and numbers?” she asked, almost in a caring tone.

“Y-yes Miss Violet…” answered Adrian, a little humiliated in the fact that that was even a question.

“Average education” noted Violet, and the quill responded.

Rose flew to Adrian’s ear.

“Hey, don’t be scared, she’s not going to vivisect you like the others” she reassured him. A statement that completely backfired. Vivisection was a thing Violet even considered!? Adrian started to get nervous.

“Subject apprehended during trespass in forbidden sections of the Forest by my elder sister” Violet continued as she filled the log. “Then… humiliated by my younger sister” She said, struggling to find the words for it.

“Subject name: Adrian. Beginning physical exam”

“Physical wha-” began Adrian, but suddenly he felt his whole world moving. He was standing again. Violet moved the wand to make it so. He stood up so quickly that he actually got dizzy, and felt his heart struggling to get blood flowing on the brain again.

“Alright, this part is going to be a bit uncomfortable” said Violet, putting some gloves on.

“What are you-” he couldn’t finish that sentence, as he felt the strangest of touches. Violet was poking his balls.

“Testicles in good condition…” she noted

Adrian bit his tongue, he felt that protesting and complaining would only get him on a more serious situation.

“Boy, help me with this one would you?” said Violet moving the wand again. Causing Adrian to grab the semen stuck to his belly. He felt gross and embarrassed beyond belief. The sticky liquid between his fingers was still warm.

“How would you describe its consistency?” asked Violet “Be thorough, I’m not touching that”

“I-I-I-It’s…” tried to say Adrian, stumbling upon his words, causing Rose to burst out laughing, Violet to giggle softly and Lilly to sigh disappointedly.

“Come on, it’s not like you haven’t touched it before” said Violet.

“It’s warm… sticky… gelatinous…”
The quill responded by noting those words.

“And… how does it taste?” Asked Violet.

Adrian dreaded what would happen, he felt his hand again moving on its own and his mouth opening without him willing it to do so. He closed his eyes. But the load was already on his mouth. He wanted to spit it out, but Violet controlled every movement he made, even the intricate movements of his own mouth. The substance flowed from cheek to cheek, from under his tongue and through his palette until he finally swallowed. He wanted to cry.

“Describe it” commanded Violet.

Adrian breathed in deeply and held his humiliating tears. “S-salty… with a mucous texture…”

“Very good, very good” Said Violet, fascinated.

“Is… is this enough Miss-”

“Silence boy, we’re not done with the physical examination just yet, there are a few other things we need to test out”

Without explaining herself further, Violet waved the wand again. This time, it made Adrian stretch out completely, forming an ‘x’ with his body.

“You have good muscles… but how much can we stretch them…?” wondered Violet.

“Be careful!” barked Rose “Don’t break my toy!”

“It’s not ‘your’ toy to play with, Rose, now quiet! You’re distracting me!” said Violet. “Now, Adrian, dear, I’m going to run a little examination of your fluids, but I’m not touching you, so be a good boy and help me out, okay?”

Without waiting for Adrian to respond, Violet waved the wand to raise his right arm as far as far as she could. It stretched so much and so far that it almost caused Adrian pain. But it seems that Rose’s plea had at least an effect on Violet, as while she stretched her test subject she looked a little disappointed, as if she actually wanted to see how much she could stretch him until it hurt.

The next part of the test, that which Adrian dreaded, was the said ‘fluid examination’ Violet wanted to run. To that end, she waved the wand again, this time to cause Adrian to bend his head over to his left armpit, exposed by his raised arm. He closed his eyes, knowing what was coming. And gave his armpit a long, thorough lick. He could hear Rose giggling during the entire thing.
“So, dear, how would you describe your sweat?”

“S-s-salty, Miss Violet… like seawater…”

“Huh? Really?” Said Violet, with genuine curiosity sparkling through her voice. “That’s fascinating! Fairy sweat is sweet, elven sweat tastes pretty much like water, dwarven sweat tastes like sulfur… Don’t you find the subtle differences between races fascinating, Adrian?”

“Y-yes, Miss Violet… now could you-”

“Subtle differences…” Said Violet, ignoring Adrian. The magical pen and paper floating around her scribbling her every thought. “Subtle differences… Humans and Elves for example look almost entirely the same, except of course for the elves’ more regal and sharp features and their characteristic long ears… Do you remember the last elf that I had an opportunity to test on?” She asked, turning her head to Rose.

“Oh, yeah, Lafarallin? Lafaragwyn? Lafarallyndel? Something along those lines? I remember faces more than names”

“His name wasn’t important, what was important is that we discovered just how flexible elves were!”

Those words made Adrian’s heart beat faster.

He wanted to speak out, but he realized the mouth shutting seal was active again.

“Sorry Adrian” said Violet, as if knowing he wanted to speak his mind “I really need you shut up for the next experiment”

Adrian’s hands moved on their own, at the command of the wand in Violet’s hand. Not only that, he found himself falling on his side to the grass of the forest. The ground was cold, and the touch of grass felt almost a relief in these moments.

Along with his arms and hands, Violet was also moving his legs and feet. He wanted to grunt, because this time it really did hurt. She was bending his legs in a manner most unnatural. It was something he would have never tried. Both legs bent, to the point his feet were now touching his belly.

And then his arms and hands followed, stretched as far back as he could. Both of his hands were capable of touching his ass cheeks. Adrian thanked all those stretching exercises that were part of the adventurer’s daily training. Otherwise, he thought his arms and legs would snap.

“Aww” said Rose “Look at him! He’s in pain!”

“I don’t think this burdens him” Said Violet, the magical pen writing down as she spoke. “Humans seem to be of a very stretchy nature…”

As she said those words, and lost herself in her thoughts and observations, Rose snatched the wand off her hand. Violet didn’t react in time, as Rose had already input some commands into poor Adrian’s body.

His legs were lowered just a tiny bit. And his feet were now clumsily grasping his own dick. Moving up and down. Furthermore, his fingers were digging into his ass. He knew what the devilish red haired fairy was planning and he cursed in his mind. But on the other hand… he couldn’t deny the truth.

This felt really good.

His fingers were stimulating his most sensitive flesh… he didn’t even knew this was a thing men could do to themselves… and his feet were doing a fantastic job with his own dick.

Very soon the pain of the overly stretched muscles was a thing easily ignored. The pleasure of his own fingering and footjob took precedent in his mind. The fairies that were torturing him vanished from his mindscape, there was only the sweet, sweet pleasure.

“Rose what the fuck are you doing with my specimen!?” barked Violet. The magical pen didn’t register these words.

“Oh, he looked in pain, I just wanted him to have a little fun that’s all…”

“BOTH OF YOU ENOUGH!” screamed Lilly, finally stepping up.

“Hey Lee, we were just having a little fun…” said Rose in an evidently fake apologetic tone.

“Fun? I was doing legitimate research!” Said Violet.

“Detaining a trespasser is not an opportunity for you-” Lilly stopped herself from barking a fairy slur “you… irresponsible girls to have fun with”

Her eyes went back to the detainee in the floor, whose face was overcome with noticeable pleasure. Lilly held back a grimace of disgust and released the spell on his mouth, just to be greeted with a loud moan. Rose bursted out laughing and Violet was notably blushing, with her jaw dropped.

The fairies and Adrian just stood around silently, figuratively of course, as the fairies were flying in the air and Adrian was lying on the ground.
The trio politely waited for him to ‘cool off’ and return to his senses before speaking to him further.

Lilly flew to his face. Scanning his body and surroundings before landing in front of his face. There were bodily fluids… everywhere. It was an absolute mess of a scene.

Adrian was breathing rapidly. Each exhalation bathed Lilly’s tiny body in warm, heavy air. But she remained unfazed. Adrian was big, yes, but in these circumstances he was completely unable to intimidate her.

“Well” Said Lilly, breaking the awkward silence between them. “I’m sorry, my sisters can be quite chaotic some times”

“It’s… It’s okay…” said Adrian in-between heavy breaths “I… I think I learnt my lesson now Miss Lilly…”

“Lesson?” Asked Lilly, tilting her head.

“Yeah? I mean… that was my punishment for trespassing right?”

Lilly sighed. She produced a book from her cloak, Adrian couldn't read the title, as it was in what probably was the fairy’s own language and script. The fairy quickly browsed some pages, until she found what she was looking for.

“Title Two, on Tresspasers… article seventh… section B…” she muttered to herself, so low it was almost inaudible to Adrian.

She closed the book almost solemnly and shoved it back in her cloak.

“Fairy law states that the punishment for trespassing under your particular circumstances is humiliation, followed by banishment” she said.

“Humiliation? B-but Miss Violet wanted to vaporize me!” he replied.

“Well, look, the Law of The Forest is not a body of codified law… it’s uh, a guideline” Lilly sighed “anyways, you look properly humiliated in my honest opinion…” she said, looking at the mess his body was.

“Th-that means I’m free to go, right?”

“Oh, that, yeah, in theory…” Lilly said, losing the train of thought as her eyes wandered above Adrian, to her two sisters flying around, having an argument about ‘ruined a perfect experiment’ and ‘just having a little fun’.

Yes, her sisters were a chaotic bunch. Rose with her free spirit attitude towards life and Violet with her utter disregard for anything else except what picked her curiosity. Living with them wasn’t easy at all. But they were still her sisters. Her family.

“In theory… yes” Said Lilly, finally. “However, you still threatened my sisters with your sword”

Adrian wanted to speak up, say it was only self defense. But he soon realized his body was once again moving on its own. He now found himself sitting cross legged on the ground.

“If anything useful came from Violet’s ‘experiment’ is that we found out you were quite flexible” said Lilly, from the top of Adrian’s head “now be a good boy, I want to see how you suck your own dick”.

Adrian was shocked at those words, but he didn’t have time to protest. His back bent forwards. And his mouth was suddenly invaded by his own dick.

He silently cursed all those stretching exercises he did.

This sensation was completely foreign to him. His dick was warm, still wet, and a hint of the flavor of his load was still there. And Adrian found it delicious. That was the worst part.

“Wow!” exclaimed Lilly from the top of Adrian’s head “You’re… really into this aren’t you…”

Yes Miss Lilly, thought Adrian, savoring every inch of his member. I am really, really into this…

The silver haired fairy blushed and hid a giggle by covering her mouth. This was admittedly pretty funny. They sure did run into the weirdest human adventurer out there.

For Adrian, he began to get lost in that world of pleasure, the same as before. The forest and its tiny inhabitants all faded away. He was alone with his dick. He tried different techniques he came up with on the spot, like circling his tongue around it, or using his lips to give his flesh gentle massages, but none seemed to be quite it.

Then he figured out he could use his teeth and it was all over. He came. For a third time today. He didn’t even know he was capable of doing it three times. His mouth was flooded. His tongue savored every last drop. He didn’t need to obey the wand’s commands to swallow it. He wanted to.

When he came back to his senses, all fairies were in front of him. Laughing intensely, as if they all had the best fun in ages. Adrian avoided eye contact with all three of them. and with a blush still on his face, and noticing his limbs were free from the paralyzing spell, started to quietly gather his belongings from the ground and put his armor on.

It was awkward. And putting the armor on was especially difficult since he was, as said before, a mess of bodily fluids. And the fairies were laughing all during the process, making it all more and more weird.

Finally, he was done. Still avoiding eye contact, and swallowing his embarrassment, he asked Lilly for directions.

The fairy wiped some tears of laughter from her eyes. Took a moment to get her breathing back into control, and just pointed north.

“Th-thank you, Miss Lilly”

“N-n-no-” she couldn’t keep it in and bursted out laughing again “Whatever! Go away, human!”

Adrian embarrassedly started walking north.

“And by the way!” added Lilly “Don't you ever come again or we’ll kill you for real!”

Obeying her, he started running. Not looking back. The laughter of the fairies soon became more faint the farther away he went.

One part of him wanted to forget the whole incident. To simply get away from here. Disappear completely from the forest. Just straight up leave it all behind forever.

Another part, another deep, secret, primal part, considered this whole incident the hottest thing that had ever happened to him. The worst part, he thought the red haired one was pretty cute all things considered.

And as if hearing his thoughts, he noticed Rose was sitting on his shoulder as he ran away. He gasped, and the shock made him stop right in his tracks. The force was enough that Rose went flying forwards out from his shoulder.

The fairy was a bit shocked by this, but soon returned to her sultry behavior and posture. Adrian noticed she was holding a thin silver ring, with a red jewel and some words in that inescrutable fae language inscribed around it.

“For your troubles” she said, extending the ring to him with a wink.

Adrian hesitated for a second before extending his hand, Rose dropped the ring in it, and flew towards his face.

“And for being such a good boy” she said, with a kiss on his forehead.

She flew back to the forest, and Adrian resumed his walk back to the village he came from at a slower, more relaxed pace. The brief encounter with Rose was strangely soothing to him. He looked at the ring. It was a pretty piece of jewelry. He stored it in his pouch and walked away from the forest.

Once in town, he avoided getting too close to anyone, out of fear they could literally smell all that had happened back in the forest. He quickly went to the inn.

It was a big place. The building had several stories and was almost at maximum occupancy. Three different bards were playing for three separate audiences, and waiters were busy serving goblets of wine and steins of beer and plates of stew to the hungry adventurers coming for a rest from all the fights and, well, adventures.

Adrian went to the Adventurer’s Guild representative counter and gently deposited the necklace all this torture had been for in the table. The representative, a tall, elegant elf lady, took the necklace and stored it in a locked drawer in the wall behind her. Then she went back to the counter and without looking at Adrian, took a book filled with requests and missions left by the people of the town for adventurers and with a pen crossed out an entry.

Putting the book down, she once again went for the wall. This time for a safe, and took a handful of gold coins, which she left in the counter for Adrian to pick up.

“So, the magical forest, eh?” she said, looking at Adrian as he counted the coins.

“The magical forest” he said, nodding.

“By your looks, I see you tried to take a shortcut, right?”

Adrian stopped counting the coins.

The guild representative giggled “fucking fairies, eh?”

“Fucking fairies” Adrian sighed.

The guild representative smiled. “As a token for your problems I’ll send word to the innkeeper to prepare you one of the fancy rooms, with a hot tub, you’ll need it, boy”

“Thanks” Adrian said, avoiding eye contact out of embarrassment.

The representative was true to her word. The innkeeper gave him a key to a room that was larger than he expected. This one had a bed which Adrian couldn’t tell precisely what it was made of, but it certainly wasn’t straw, like he was accustomed to.

But best of all, the hot tub, filled with foamy hot water that smelled nicely of soap. Adrian undressed. and dropped the whole weight of his body entirely in the tub. The water that bathed his skin was just the right temperature. He soaked his hair, damped by sweat already, and cleaned it off. It almost shined now.

He relaxed in the tub, he was tired. The encounter with the fairies was in more than one way exhausting. He had spent his entire energy there, and had to borrow from the energy for a few more days in the future. He just needed a rest.

Adrian thought that tomorrow morning he was going to see if he could pawn Rose’s ring and reached for his pouch from the tub. The silver itself wasn’t all expensive looking but the gem itself could be very valuable.

It also reminded him a lot of Rose’s hair.

Once he realized this, he began to have doubts. That part of him that considered the events of today the ‘hottest thing ever’ didn’t want to lose the only souvenir he had gotten from the incident.

It also looked like it could fit the fourth finger in his left hand perfectly. So he tried it on. It went all the way down.

“You’re seriously the stupidest mortal I’ve met” said a familiar voice.

Adrian looked up and saw Rose, flying in the air above him. His heart accelerated but he didn’t flinch like before. A part of him was getting used to fairy shenanigans by now. He didn’t even bother to think how Rose got in here, how she followed him without him noticing, it didn’t matter.

He sighed deeply.

“What does the ring do, Rose?” he omitted the ‘Miss’ part. As if he subconsciously knew Rose was the younger one and didn’t deserve the same respectful treatment as her sisters did.

“What does the ring do ‘Mistress’” corrected Rose

That did make Adrian gasp.

“The ring marks you as my property, makes it so you’re bound to me now” she said with a smug smile.

“I… am your slave now?” Asked a terrified Adrian.

“Hmm ‘slave’ is a loaded term isn’t it? Pet is more adorable, I prefer that!”

Adrian’s first subconscious instinct was to take the ring off. As if reading his mind, Rose interjected.

“Oh and don’t try to take it off, obviously it kills you”

He was paralyzed. Not by any spells this time, just by the weight of Rose’s words.

“In fact you’re boring me right now, I command you to explode right now”

Adrian flinched and froze. Expecting the worst. But the worst didn’t come. He was still in the bathtub. Soaked in soap.

“Aaaand look at your dumb face!” Laughed Rose “The ring does nothing, silly!”

“I was just getting bored of the forest, trees all day, I wanted to go out and see the world! On adventures! And here I found the perfect mortal to carry me into a new exciting life!”

Adrian sighed in relief. The prospect of hanging out with Rose from now on seemed… chaotic at the least. But at least this time it was voluntary.

Although at the time it wasn’t that voluntary, it was really hot too…

Rose was going on and on about the things she wanted to do and places she wanted to see. All sounded dangerous, risky, and barely doable at all in some cases.

So while Rose was still talking, he silently sank into the bathtub for a moment. To give him time to process all of this.

“Fucking fairies man” he said underwater, to no one in particular.