I woke up groggy. But I woke up without being in pain. My arm still worked and it didn’t feel all that broken. It was definitely broken though.

If this is as good as I can be… Then I suppose it was time to head deeper into the forest and find where the fuck I was.

None of the people from the sea rose or spoke. They just watched as I packed and was about to leave.

They did help me… Without a word, I waved and left.

The least I could do was bade them farewell.

While almost all the trees around the beach were coconut trees, there were all kind of other trees just a few meters inland. Palm trees were abundant, along with oil palm and some weird buttlike palm. It took great effort not to burn the place down but I was definitely going to if one of those things came fell me. Won’t I be dead if it fell on my head though? I had my fair share of sex monster trees, so I wasn’t taking any chances. In other words, I quickly moved away from the palm groves and marched deeper into the forest.

Unlike a typical jungle, this placed wasn’t as dense. And foliage didn’t invade every nook and cranny of the place. I didn’t see any animals or birds so far but that probably was-

Wait… I never heard any birds. And I never really saw anything in particular here. That was odd. It never even occurred to me that something was wrong with this forest till I actually entered the forest. Actually, had I seen any birds in these parts of the ocean?

Which way did I come from again? Uh… palm grove! But I couldn’t find the palm grove. I just couldn’t-

Why do all forests have to mess with me? Argh… well, at least this place wasn’t trying to fuck me or trying to get fucked.

I tried to stay calm and listen. Are there people here. Things moving… anything-

I didn’t know where to go, and I didn’t know where I was. So, there wasn’t much I could do. However, there was still a few things I could try. One of them was electrocuting a tree.

Buzz!

It nearly caught on fire and smoked.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

Humm… a very low-grade hum spread through the forest. As I thought.

“Before I set everything on fire, I’d suggest you showed yourself or at the very least, had the common courtesy to get out of my way.” I spoke loudly.

If there wasn’t anyone here and it was all in my head, things would be fine. I’d be a bit embarrassed but oh well. Since, well, there wasn’t anyone here no one would know of my shame.

However, if there was….

Rustle!

Up!

Trees!

Leaves?

Branches!

But I couldn’t follow- whatever it was- with my eyes. It was fast and it was almost invisible.

Still-

Heavy air. Behind me, isn’t it? I didn’t make any sudden moves. And I didn’t even try to turn. “What kind of courtesy is standing behind someone without introducing yourself?”

Please don’t be a monster, please don’t be a monster, please don’t be a mon-

Sigh… a rather large sigh. “Why do all you Halfatians have to be so… disastrous?”

“The who with the what?” I turned, saw a lovely brunette with huge tits, and got whacked on the face by some odd cat toy-like thing. “Those are some huge breasts.” I didn’t even know why I said it or felt drowsy or the fact that I spoke a bit too sincerely because she was blushing now and oh- I felt nauseated and was it me or was the world spinning, such pretty colors- lovely “BLUREARGHH!”

***

Moving trees.

Not again… I groaned but realized I was actually on some sort of a stretcher. With my hands and legs tied. Drugged again, huh?

The trees weren’t moving. I was. “What are you doing?”

“Precautions,” she said. She was dragging on me on some skin, attached to a rope of sorts.

“Aw… it hurts you know.”

“Deal with it.”

“I can walk.”

She stared back, pulled the skin stretcher from underneath me with one strong pull and made me roll on the ground. “Then walk.”

“At least untie my legs?”

“Just hop.”

The fuck is wrong with you?

The forest felt the very same. I didn’t see any rogue palm trees around so we were probably deeper than before. This woman… tall woman with a rather voluptuous chest… had taken me as a prisoner.

“Hey if it’s about the breast thing, I’m sorry. I just became super drowsy all of a sudden and spoke things I didn’t mean.”

She instinctively put a hand on her chest, covering. “What do you mean drowsy?”

“I got drowsy and nauseous all of a sudden.”

“And then you threw up?”

“Yes.”

I didn’t remember anything else from that. Just that.

She paused. Tall woman, black pants and an odd embroidered gray long shirt. I couldn’t call her lean, but she wasn’t necessarily fat either. Looked somewhat human minus the ears which were triangular and kind of pointy. And rather long?

Wait, elf.

Like not a southerner style one but… but an actual fucking elf!

“But I didn’t use that much-” she mumbled to herself. “Have you ever been overdosed with Brim?”

“I don’t know what that is but I have been under the influence of the Sirens and the things in the island west of here.”

Her eyes opened wide and she almost took a step back. “You survived them?”

“Yes?”

Huh….

Wasn’t that supposed to be obvious considering which way I was coming from?

“Wait, that means you’re not a Halfatian.”

“I don’t even know what that is.”