Hunny

by: Anathema 
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Synopsis:Approximating what would happen if Ed Miller dropped acid while handcuffed to a typewriter inside a daycare center as XXXecil sipped martinis in the background and shouted suggestions.
Categories: Age Regression  Bizarre Body Modifications  Chemical or Drug Induced Change  Female to Male Transformations  Humor  Magical Transformations  Mind Altered, Hypnosis, Brainwashed  Physically Forced or Blackmailed  Stuck 
Keywords: Use of Sex Toys 


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1. Neither Ed Miller nor XXXecil are actually associated with this story in any way. They are therefore quite fortunate. Their style of story did, however, serve as inspiration to write this dreadful heathen smut. Thanks, you two!

2. This story is SEXY! So if you're not allowed to be exposed to sexiness yet, or more pointedly your parents would yell at lots of people if they caught you exposing yourself to sexiness, GO AWAY. On the other hand (the one that's not wanking), if your parents have already come home and caught you having sex on the sofa, you can probably get away with reading this, so CUM ON IN! Did you see what I did there? Did you? OK. Good.

3. This story is also WEIRD! If you think sex, even freaky gender- bending sex, should remain between a man and a woman, GO AWAY! If you don't feel that "9 1/2 Weeks" is a good date movie: GO AWAY! How about "Eraserhead"? GO AWAY! Remember your childhood fantasies, where your favorite plush toy came to life and woke you from your peaceful dreams for some midnight sodomy? GO AWAY.

4. If you post this somewhere else and try to take credit for writing it... good god, why would you want to do a thing like that? More power to you when the FBI carts you away instead! MWA HA HA HA HA HA!

5. Don't post this on any site that doesn't allow anyone to read the stories, for free. Because let's be realistic here, no one wants to read this, and no one to the -1st power wants to PAY to read it.

6. Top hat on animal legs.

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HUNNY by Anathema

AH, but the woods are beautiful in May, aren't they? Well, around here they certainly are, especially the grand forest just outside the city. This forest that seems to stretch forever toward the mountains, full of lush pine growth and the lovely, intermittent clusters of maple and oak... I think there's some beech in the forest too. But you already know about this. I should explain the stuff that's not so obvious, that's much harder to figure out. I should explain how all this began.

- I -

ALL this began on a day in May, why yes, one just like this one, in these beautiful woods, a year ago. It's amazing how time flies, especially after an experience like that. Anyway, I was enjoying one of my marathon hikes, where I'd park at the edge of the forest and then just wander the trails for hours, alone in the peaceful quiet. I never had a specific goal in mind, and I rarely - if ever - followed the exact same path, either going in or coming back. As you might expect, this often took hours, and usually the entire day, which is why I only went on these excursions on weekends.

Well, that's not entirely true. Sometimes I'd go in the middle of the week, savoring the joy of seeing zero bars of service on my cell phone screen. When I finally got back to my truck and saw the deluge of missed calls, I would feel content in the excuse that I'd "had no service all day long." Ah, I was self-employed, you see; freelance graphic design, some print stuff, some web design, a few drops of Flash animation here or there. Nothing important. No, nothing you'd recognize, don't flatter me. But it did give me the schedule flexibility that I could disappear for a little bit whenever I wanted without endangering my livelihood.

Anyway. So on this particular May day, as I engaged in my particularly favorite pastime of wandering the woods at the edge of the city, I chanced upon a new trail. This was not unusual; the forest is truly grand in scale, and well-known for having numerous little twists and turns and hidden spots for diligent hikers to find. For casual explorers like me, stumbling upon a path you hadn't seen before was an absolute treat, promising a whole new part of the forest to discover.

The path was obviously not used very often. It was largely overgrown and at first I was tempted to dismiss it as a one-time excursion by some teenagers or something, which had just trampled the tall grasses a bit. But no, the more I looked at it the more it became clear that at one point some time ago the undergrowth had been cleared away and tamped down firmly; most of the overgrowth was encroaching from the sides of the trail, not growing up through the dirt. What's more, the remnants of a wooden signpost remained, though thoroughly rotted-out and faded beyond legibility. I still have no idea what the sign said originally, but I expect it was likely some sort of warning.

Standing at the edge of this new path, I finally took notice of the shift in lighting; what had started as a bright, blue, clear, sunny day had turned quite ominously gray and overcast in the course of my several hours hiking. It looked very much like it might begin raining in due time. I glanced over my shoulder at the trail behind me, knowing that, responsibly, I should turn back now. It was unwise to risk being caught in a rainstorm in the middle of the forest. On the other hand... I never kept track of exactly which trails I went down. It could take me years to find this spot again, if I ever did.

That was simply too much for the adventurer in me, and I shrugged my shoulders defiantly and began brushing the encroaching plants out of my way as I embarked down this new, exciting path.

- II -

THIS proved to be the strangest hiking experience I've ever had. As I continued down the trail, the tall trees around me thinned more and more and I found myself approaching a lush green clearing, I'd even call it a meadow, apparently nestled somewhere in the forest. More oddly, as I walked down the path the plant life around me gradually transitioned from drab, functional grasses, ferns, and the like into uncharacteristically bright and colorful flowering plants. From there the flowers became larger and even brighter, and the grasses and leaves greener and greener, until the surroundings began to feel outright psychedelic.

Naturally this only encouraged me to carry on further, and I excitedly broke out of the trail, fenced-in by tall flora on either side, into the expansive meadow, with much shorter (but equally large and vibrant) flowers and grasses. A bright blue stream burbled right through the middle of the meadow with a pleasant, happy cadence to its flow. I furrowed my brows a bit at the vibrant blue of the water, considering the sky above was still resolutely gray and overcast, but didn't pay it much more mind. I assumed it was some optical phenomena that a physicist would enjoy giving me a headache over explaining it, and left it at that.

So here I was in a bright green meadow, with its own bright blue stream, and bright pink, orange, purple, red, and yellow flowers all about me. It was an unreal, marvelous sight, and I was quite glad with myself for having decided to forge onward down the rarely- traveled path. Finally, over the light breeze that was whipping my hair and jacket, I detected a faint, chirpy singing. It sounded somewhat like a child.

Was my spot not so secret? Had I interrupted a family picnic or something? Feeling a bit disappointed, I decided to nevertheless seek the people out and say hello, trailing the sound of the singing toward the stream. From there I followed it to a large pile of gray stones lying near the banks, surrounded by a large clustering of big, poofy dandelions. And sitting on those stones was a rabbit. A gray, round, fluffy little rabbit with a bright white cotton-tail, its back to me. Apparently, it was singing. I began to thoroughly question whether I had unintentionally ingested a psychotropic substance.

Before I could react further, the rabbit stopped singing and looked over its shoulder at me. It had... frankly disturbingly large eyes, not like any rabbit I'd ever seen. It looked like one of those stereotypical, huge-eyed Japanese cartoon characters had its eyeballs amputated and glued to a rabbit. And then it smiled. No, it honest-to-god smiled at me. You have no idea how creepy it is to see a rabbit grin. "Hi!" it said, in a putridly saccharine sing-song voice. Yes, it said "Hi!" Yes, as in a human sentence with proper pronunciation and vocalization.

"Uhm..." I began, assuming I was speaking to my own hallucination and unsure whether it was worth engaging it seriously.

"What's your name?" it sang out, the nauseating sweetness of its voice sufficient to kill a diabetic. I stared, and I guess it took this as a cue to keep talking: "I'm Carrot Topless!"

It then turned all the way around. And I saw that this rabbit had tits. No, I'm not talking teats, like little bunny-nipples. Or mammary glands like a pregnant animal would have. No. This rabbit had TITS. As in, boobs. Bazongas. You get the idea. It was sitting on its hind legs, and they were right over where its pectoral muscles would be if it were... you know... human. And they were round, and big. No, huge. Each one was the size of the thing's head. Granted, that's like... the size of a grapefruit, but that's pretty big on a rabbit, you know?

It giggled, a putridly adorable little twitter: "Hee-hee, you like my tits?"

I blinked. Did a rabbit just ask me if I liked its tits? "Uhm." I replied.

It giggled more. "That's OK, everyone does! They're swelllllll!" It said this last word with a rising intonation that kept going forever, until I was about to throttle the thing, and then it finally stopped, laughing happily to itself. This caused its freakish bust to jiggle wildly. Then it kept laughing, even harder, and fell onto its back, causing even more lagomorphic wobbling, and began hyperventilating with laughter.

"I, uh..." I began, then simply started to back away. It noticed, and immediately stopped laughing, sitting bolt upright. Its breasts hit it in the face, then stopped moving a few seconds later.

"Oh!" it said, giggling a bit, "Don't go! I'm sorry, where are my manners?" It thrust its chest out, making the two breasts look absolutely enormous in comparison to its body: "Go ahead, feel 'em up!" It emitted little bursts of air for a few seconds, as if holding in a laugh, before finally exploding in roaring guffaws again: "Get it? Get it? Feel 'em up? It's like fill 'em up but it's not!" Somehow its face turned beet-red with laughter, even though it was covered in white fur.

"I... no thank you, I have to go." I stumbled out, totally convinced I was involved in illegal substance abuse of some sort.

"Oh no no no no!" it shrieked, suddenly appearing behind me, moving with unbelievable speed for a rabbit so weighed-down. And then it leapt in the air and swiftly kicked my calves with both its powerful feet, sending me flying to the ground and landing in the meadow grass with my face a few inches from one of the poofy dandelions. It hopped (and bounced) over to sit behind the dandelion patch and face me, then giggled: "You're funny! No one's ever refused a good rub of my titties before, not even a girl! That makes me laaaaaaaugh!" Again the rising intonation went on forever, and I wanted to scream and plug my ears.

Before I could reply, it continued: "And I looooooooooove laughing! So I'm-a gonna give you something speciaaaaaaaaaal as a reward for makin' me laugh!" I was about to open my mouth to beg it not to, whatever it was thinking. Before I could, though, the thing - "Carrot Topless" as it were - took a very deep breath (thrusting its chest out very, uh, prominently), grabbed the dandelion stalk directly in front of my face, and then blew on it full-force, sending an overwhelming cloud of little fluffy bits swarming and swirling into my face.

I yelled out in irritated protest, amid the sound of its demented, insane, endless giggling. And then I sneezed. And then I sneezed harder. And then my entire body was wracked with a coughing, hacking, sneezing, wheezing, eye-watering, itching, tingling, spasming hay fever from hell. I was incapacitated. Simply existing was an excruciating experience in whole-body irritation. I had never had any sort of outdoor allergies before in my life. Whatever that thing had blown into my face, it was no normal dandelion. But then, given the circumstances, are we surprised?

I stumbled to my feet, blinking away from my puffy eyes an endless stream of allergenic tears that warped my vision, and desperately tried to find the path back to civilization. But as I scanned the circular enclosure of the meadow, all the grasses looked the same. Wherever the path was, it was well-hidden by the overgrowth, and only a careful full-perimeter search would turn it up. At least, that was my instant, panicked assessment, and so I instead tried to stumble blindly toward the stream to wash my eyes out. Since I could barely see anything by this point, the idea was easier conceived than executed.

And still that infernal giggling continued! "Eeeheeheeheehee, ahahahaha, heeheeheeheeheeAAAAAAAAAH!" The giggling turned sharply to a cry of terror as, while I stumbled around frantically, the toe of my hiking boot fortuitously hit Carrot Topless head-on, punting the awful little thing to who-knows-where. I heard its startled shriek trail into the distance, but was really far too distracted to pay it much mind.

Eventually, I did lumber into the stream, where I plunged my face in and eagerly washed the dandelion debris off. This helped to curb the intensity of the reaction, but my eyes were still watering a bit, I kept sniffling, and my entire body itched ferociously all over. To top it off, a large portion of my clothing was now sopping wet.

Disoriented, confused, terrified, bewildered, and so on, I wandered to the edge of the meadow and began circling it, trying to find the original path. I couldn't, even with a careful examination. My mind flashed back to earlier in the day, when I had contemplated taking an extra 30 seconds to leave my condo in order to find my compass. Of course, I hadn't. I never needed it before, why would I today? I kicked myself (as best I could) and sighed. The clouds overhead thoroughly obscured any chance of using the sun for navigation. I sighed again. The treeline was so thick and tall that it was impossible to identify any landmarks. I sighed a third time, and just struck out randomly into the forest, on the assumption it was better than standing still.

- III -

WANDERING through the woods without a beaten path to go on was considerably less fun than casual trail-walking. The ground cover was thoroughly inconvenient, the tree limbs were often hazardously low, and it was really quite impossible to keep track of which way you'd come from and where you were going.

To make matters much worse, the persistent itching all over my body wasn't fading a bit since the reaction to that godawful dandelion had begun. It was getting so bad that I was rather willing to do anything to make it better, and thought that perhaps my clothing rubbing against my skin might be increasing the irritation. Since my shirt was already uncomfortably wet, I tied my jacket around my waist and then took my shirt off, slinging it over my shoulder. Since I went on endurance hikes so often, my body was well-toned, even if it wasn't particularly muscular, so I figured I wouldn't be offending any attractive women that I might (hopefully) pass by. And that's what matters, right?

The cool air on my skin did help a bit, but not much. Still, not having a piece of soaked fabric clinging to me was also an improvement, so I left the shirt off. It took thorough willpower to resist scratching at my newly-exposed skin, but I reasoned that an allergic reaction probably wouldn't be helped much by scratching at all. No need to rough myself up and look like I'd been mauled by a bear.

As I kept wandering further and further into unguided forest, I surrendered more and more of my clothing to the itching feeling, until I was walking completely nude, one hand held gingerly in front of my genitals to prevent any sharp sticks or branches or stinging nettles or poison oak from making the situation any worse. At one point I realized that I didn't have my clothing any more, and stopped to look for where I had dropped it. I couldn't find it. That was odd; when had I let it go? Overcome by panic at the darkening forest and the maddening itching, I just shrugged and forged ahead. At that point, embarassing myself in front of the rescue crew would be worth it just to see a rescue crew.

Though, honestly, I didn't really expect to see a rescue crew any time soon. I lived alone, had broken up with my most recent girlfriend several months ago, and didn't have any deadlines coming up. With my freelance work and aloof tendencies, it could be a week or more before anyone took any serious note of my missing status. That only increased the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach; but that feeling was quickly rivaled by the furious itching and irritating sniffling, and I went back to gritting my teeth and trying to will my nerve endings to shut up.

At some point I began to realize the reaction was worsening, not fading, as I was experiencing swelling in my chest, thighs, face, and oddly even my ass. The areas weren't especially sore or tender - well, except my chest - but they were just ... bloated. My thighs were scraping against each other as I walked, and my butt was starting to be a noticeable presence behind me. On my face, I could feel my cheeks much more prominently, and my lips felt puffy and swollen. Again, they weren't sore at all, just bigger.

My chest, though. Ow. Every time I would forget and accidentally scratch at it a little again, I would have to grit my teeth extra hard. It was very, very sensitive in addition to being swollen. Even my nipples were swollen. My chest practically looked like my sister's had when she was going through puberty (two teenagers and one downstairs bathroom - you see a lot, whether you want to or not). This prompted me to wonder just what the hell kind of allergic reaction my body was having, and worry that perhaps this wasn't just an allergy but a serious toxic substance.

Whatever I had run into back there... wow. I knew that I must have gotten into something - mushroom spores maybe? - that caused me to hallucinate that freakish and unsettling rabbit. And I wondered what kind of hellish plant had masqueraded as a dandelion in that hallucination and itched, sniffled, watered, and swollen me up like this. I mean, not only was I lost, I was having what was becoming a serious physiological reaction to some plant substance. I realized this was getting really dangerous, and again kicked myself for being too cheap to spring for a GPS device or satellite phone.

One thing - or I guess things - that weren't swelling were my genitals. Compared to my puffy chest, seeing my perfectly normal- sized penis and scrotum was highly reassuring. It looked like I'd get out of this without damaging my ability to reproduce someday.

The other swellings, though, were getting much more severe as I walked. My thighs went from just brushing together a bit to being wide, fleshy cylinders that slid tightly against each other with every step, proving not just distracting but difficult to walk with. I tried to hold my legs farther apart as I walked, but that proved so awkward I gave up and just put up with the temporary crazy swelling. I stopped to turn and look at my ass and was equally disturbed, as it bloated out behind me with a noticeable shelf, quite unlike my usual non-existent bony boy butt. It even jiggled a bit with every step, which was just... weird, and also made moving more cumbersome. My lips were so swollen now that I couldn't help but notice it at all times, and though I couldn't see my reflection, it felt like they were bloated to the point of being forced into a perpetual pout or purse. They were noticeable in the corner of my vision whenever I looked far enough downward, along with my curvy cheeks. This was, I reasoned, not healthy.

Plus, I was still itching all over, and sniffling, and periodically wiping away more of my watery eyes. Or was I crying, because I was scared and alone and my whole body was sick and messed up? I mean, at the time the idea never entered my mind, but in retrospect, all things considered, I really don't remember sneezing at all after the initial burst of dandelion. Just a lot of sniffling and eye-wiping during the long walk. Oh well. Anyway, so I was itchy, and teary, and sniffly, and my body was becoming cumbersomely swollen and jiggly all over and it was just so overwhelming and I was totally lost and...

And that's why it was such a wonderful, wonderful sight when I came across the odd little cabin built into a great big oak tree.

- IV -

YES, really... built right into the tree. The tree itself was huge, big around as a small house, and the living arrangements looked to be mixed right in with the trunk. I imagined that it resembled what would happen if a home exploded with hurricane-force right next to a tree and embedded bits and pieces of house-shrapnel into the bark of the thing.

At the base, near the roots, was a quaint little doorway with a cheery, worn welcome mat depicting a cartoon bee waving, with a cursive "Bee My Guest!" above it. A little ways up there was a small circular cross-barred window, and a little ways further above that was another window. A crude metal chimney-pipe stuck out at an awkward angle from the side of the oak and ascended into the treetops.

The trees of the forest were growing in so close and so thickly in this region that practically all external light was blocked out, making it clear the oak-house was well-lit from within. A warm yellowish glow exuded from the two visible windows and the lites of the door; this made my heart jump excitedly, since it meant this strange little cottage (or whatever) was inhabited! Grisly images of me lying dead and devoured in the forest litter faded away reassuringly.

I stumbled sluggishly toward the oak-house, taking great effort for each step since the swelling all over my body had become ludicrously extreme. I could barely slip my thighs past each other, since they were so round and fleshy that the spillover from each thigh somewhat interlocked. That, and my butt was now so noticeably enlarged that it genuinely added enough weight to each step to further slow me down. In light of these two distractions, my puffy chest and swollen facial features were easily ignored, since they didn't affect my movement very much. The infernal itching still remained, and I'm sure that my immense efforts to prevent myself from tearing my flesh off also slowed my progress down.

So I moved, probably at a comically dull pace, toward the oak-house. Even fighting against the discomfort, I was able to keep myself moving forward toward that goal, powered by the reward of medical attention and a safe environment... until I fell. I don't know if it was a wet leaf or a patch of fungus or a dead raccoon or heaven knows what, but I felt something squish under my right foot and then the world rushed by me in an unpleasant vertical arc. A split-second later I was on my butt.

It was a good thing that my swollen areas weren't sore, or I'd likely have been in agony. Instead, I merely hit the ground with a soft 'paff' as the immense swelling of my rear end and thighs cushioned me considerably. In fact, the swelling was so unbelievably severe that I was propped off the ground at a slight angle rather than lying flat on my back. I hoisted myself to a sitting position, and it was like my torso was attached to a giant bean-bag chair; my immense thighs and ass spread out beneath me so extensively that they felt more like furniture than a part of me.

This gave me another chance to examine myself, as I caught my breath. It was obvious the problem was swelling from fluids or tissue inflammation, since my thighs and bottom weren't draping off of me like fat deposits but rather quite round and firm, if a bit soft. They looked to be healthy tissue, other than being freakishly oversized. That made me feel better, since I felt much more confident that when the swelling went down I'd be left without permanent damage.

I turned my examinations to my chest, and saw that my pectoral area was still bloated out as well, more prominently than the last time I looked. More startlingy, my nipples were thoroughly swollen half- domes protruding obscenely off my already-swollen chest area, and the little nipple-nub itself was puffed up to the size of my pinky- tip. A ginger touch revealed that my chest definitely still held the honor of being the only swollen area to be sensitive. I ran my fingers over my lips and they felt just as fat and oversized as earlier, which was quite bad, considering. I tried speaking - "Teshting, teshting" - and quickly shut up; the swelling in my lips made my speech noticeably slurred and lispy.

Getting panicky again, I decided I'd spent enough time taking a break and it was time to finish the 100 or so meters between me and salvation. The oak-house in the distance had never looked better. So I rocked back on my swollen haunches and - rolled back into place. My eyes grew wide as I realized that my backside was so heavy I was having trouble lifting it! This was thoroughly "medical emergency" territory. So I steeled all my muscles, took a deep breath, and - failed to get off the ground, again. My eyes were watering like crazy now, the itching was overwhelming me, and I literally could not get my ass off the ground.

A third, flailing effort resulted in me losing balance and tipping over, and now the immense weight of my thighs was pinning me to the leaf-and-debris covered forest floor. I continued twisting and squirming about, occasionally brushing or slapping my chest against something and crying out from the sudden burst of pain. Soon I was filthy and coated with dirt and debris, but still stuck on my side. Determined not to be found by a predatory animal while in this state, I engaged in another panicked round of efforts, and managed to roll myself into a position on my hands and knees. "Well, thawt'll hoff tew do," I muttered unhappily through bloated lips, and began crawling like an infant toward the tantalizingly-close sign of civilization.

As I crawled ploddingly forward, it became obvious that rolling around in dead leaves, pine needles, ferns, and whatever else likes to cover the ground in deep forests is not an antipruritic, because the itching on my skin had somehow gotten even worse. Lugging my immenese thighs and butt forward was even less fun on all fours than it was upright, and I was becoming exhausted rapidly. My puffy chest kept brushing against some devious fern or stick or flower or mushroom or whatever that was just the wrong height, prompting frequent bursts of stinging soreness that would make my eyes redouble their efforts at watering. In short, if progress up to this point had been frustrating, this was now outright hell.

Then, about 50 meters away from the oak-house, I unwittingly pressed down a young, thin branch or shoot of something - whatever it was, it was long and supple. Whiplike is an important word here. As soon as I crawled forward a moment later, my hand unknowingly released it, and it whipped forward and slapped me with unbelievable force right across my two puffed-up nipples. Instantly, I collapsed to the ground; the entire world became neon-colored sparks and spots as my whole body shuddered with unbelievable pain. It was like being kicked in the testicles, but less nausea and more stabbiness, all radiating out from my chest. Memories of accidentally bumping into my sister in the hallway while her breasts were budding immediately popped to mind, and I muttered expletives that this stupid allergic reaction or toxin or whatever was making me as hypersensitive and wimpy as an adolescent girl.

An eternity later - actually a few seconds, most likely - the nerve responses quieted down to a manageable, sore throb, and I became more consciously aware that I was once again lying on the forest floor, this time curled into a fetal position. I tried to get up, but my swollen body was exhausted and didn't want to comply. I tried to move at all, but every motion of air over me seemed to make the itchiness even worse. A few more seconds elapsed, and I openly burst into frustrated, hopeless tears, then began crying out for help in a blind panic. I hoped my voice would carry to the oak-house and that they'd be home. I screamed and screamed muffled pleas through my swollen lips until I was too tired to even do that (much less time than you'd imagine, really - I was pathetically exhausted at this point) and then just slipped into silent sobbing.

I remember it only murkily, because I was almost completely passed out when it happened, but I heard a distant creaking sound like a sturdy door opening, and then a cry of shock. Then footsteps, I think, crunching over the forest litter. "Oh, you poor little man, have you gone and gotten into?" The voice trailed off at the end, but I think that's because I passed out, not because the sentence ended. The memory is pretty blurry, anyway. All I know is that I felt OK closing my eyes knowing that someone had finally found me, and I wouldn't be eaten by a bear or something.

- V -

I awoke inside the oak-house. At least, I assumed almost immediately I was inside the oak-house. The walls - well, wall, singular, is more appropriate, was circular, wrapping all the way around the living area with a color and appearance that looked like golden, dried wood. Above on the wall I could see one of the little circular windows. A quaint staircase carved right into the wood of the hollowed-out tree seemed to lead down to another floor, where I assumed the other window and the doorway would be found.

A brightly-colored plaid quilt was draped over me, and a fluffy goose-down pillow supported my head. The frame of the bed I was in seemed to be carved right out of the tree also. Various other little country-cottage accoutrements like a soft pink carved-wood dresser, a storage trunk, and a wardrobe adorned various areas of the circular room. Everything inside seemed lit with a vibrant, slightly golden light, making the whole place seem vivid and cheery.

More important to me, though, was the state of my body. I lifted up the quilt: I was still swollen, but considerably less so. My thighs looked capable of normal walking, with a bit of friction, and my ass no longer propped me up like a Swiss ball. My chest still seemed pretty puffed up, but since moving the quilt didn't bring tears to my eyes, at least the soreness seemed to have faded. I ran my fingers over my face and found that the swelling in my lips and cheeks seemed much better also. Great! Whoever had found me must have gotten me proper treatment. Maybe some mountain-man who knew a tried-and-true herbal remedy or something.

Since I was feeling so much better, I decided to go find him and thank him profusely for coming to my aid. As I gingerly made my way down the carved stairway, I noted how low the ceilings were - was he some sort of recluse dwarfed person, fleeing to the mountains to avoid the ridicule of "civilized" folk? Eh, whatever, I was just glad they lived where they did. As I continued down the spiraling stairs, I suddenly realized - the itching! The horrid itching was gone! For ridding me of that loathsome reaction, I was contemplating kissing the guy in addition to thanking him. If, you know, that didn't sound so gay.

I was thrown a bit off-guard when I came out of the stairwell into the ground floor of the oak-house. I had to continue stooping; the ground-floor ceiling couldn't have been more than 5 feet high, if that. A tidy little sink full of bright white dishes sat under the circular window in the room, which had a bright and cheery pair of light-blue drapes opened on either side of it. "He must have a generator," I murmured, noting the bright white refrigerator. An archaic little TV with bent rabbit-ear antennae sat in front of a plush sage-green couch with all sorts of multicolored little patches all over it. A small circular dining table with proportional highback chairs took up the middle of the room, and an intricate set of teapots, teacups, coasters and placemats was strewn across it. I noticed one of the chairs was considerably larger, and looked like I'd almost be able to sit comfortably in it, if I was a little shorter and thinner. Finally, a pair of doorways in the "back," that is, opposite the entry door, I assumed led to the man's living quarters and possibly a water closet or storage area.

The entire ground floor had an equally vivid lighting to it that made all the colors seem flatter and brighter, and the entire setting seem cheery and happy. Since it appeared he had gone out while I slept off my affliction, I wandered over to the pantry to see if there were any snacks available; I was feeling a might bit peckish after not eating for practically the entire day, what with the frantic wandering and all. I figured if he was willing to save a stranger's life, he wouldn't mind them borrowing a bit of food.

I was a bit perplexed to see the entire pantry contained nothing but quaint clay jars marked "HUNNY", which seemed to have been glazed on at the time of firing. Shifting them around a bit, I realized that behind the jars of "hunny" was just... more honey. At least, I assumed it was an uneducated misspelling, not a whole new substance. Well, I didn't really want to eat a handful of honey, especially with my blood sugar operating off an empty stomach. A good hiker manages their energy intake better than that. A good hiker also doesn't explore unfamiliar trails without letting someone know when they expect to be home, but let's not get into that.

So I gave up on my snacking idea and decided to just find this mysterious mountain-man savior and see if he had any ideas for lunch. Or breakfast. Or whatever. The oak-house was so well lit, and the forest was so dark here, that without a clock it was quite difficult to guess the time of day. I was about to stroll out the front door when I noticed I was naked except for the quilt! I had forgotten about losing my clothing in my inflamed haze... oops. Well, if the guy found me naked, I'm sure he'd be okay with me walking around covered up by a blanket. Maybe once he knew I was up he'd have a change of clothes for me.

- VI -

I opened the front door (now realizing it was much tinier than it had looked from a distance), stooped further, and made my way outside, where it felt good to be able to stretch to full-height again. With my back arched, my puffy chest added a subtle but noticeable little bulge to the quilt; that was a little embarassing, but I reassured myself that I was still legitimately recovering from a severe reaction so it wouldn't be fair to tease me.

I glanced around the immediate forest area and didn't see him anywhere. There was a noticeable trail through the leaves and debris of the forest floor where he had obviously dragged my unconscious form to the oak-house, and some ways in the distance I recognized where I must have passed out. Then I pondered how he managed to get me up the stairs if he couldn't carry me to the oak-house, and searched the back of my head for a bump. Nothing, and no headache. Well, whatever.

I stretched again, and startled when something brushed my hand. Glancing up, I saw that a very cheery-looking bluebird had settled on my fist. And it was very, very blue. And very red on its belly. And had rather disturbingly large and animated eyes, reminding enough of that freakish rabbit to make me wonder if I was experiencing another hallucination.

But thankfully, the bird didn't talk to me. It just chirped, then winked at me with one of its big, Japanimation eyes. I cautiously lowered my arms and it remained perched on my fingertips, trilling out a happy little song while bobbing its body. I smiled, even though this was bizarre. Then another bird landed on my shoulder, similarly-proportioned and equally vibrantly-colored. Well, that was cute, I thought. They both began singing.

Then another bird landed on my head, and another on my other hand, all singing away happily. Well, that's neat, I thought. So much wildlife, and so friendly! I absent-mindedly wondered if we usually had these species in this forest, since I'd never seen them before, but whatever.

Then another bird landed on my shoulder, and another on my arm, and another, and another. Soon there were about 25 of these strange little birds perched all over my body or hopping around my feet, flitting about and singing little birdsongs with enthusiastic gusto, creating a mind-jarring cacophony of tweets and chirps and more kept flocking onto me and -

I screamed, shaking the birds off, who went flying in various directions with stunned looks on their faces. Then I took off running into the forest, making sure to keep the oak-house in sight, and hoping that whatever had attracted the birds to me was left behind. Drawing the quilt tighter around me, I stalked off toward a nearby ridge in the forest floor, hoping I could hike up its modest slope and possibly manage a look over the tree-line. I wanted to figure out where I was while I waited for the woodsman to get back.

And, as I approached that very ridge, I coincidentally ran right into the individual that had rescued me, who was just reaching the crest of the ridge from the other side, holding two water-pails in their arms. It was a cartoon bear.

- VII -

YES, really. I was convinced I was once again hallucinating, and worried I might need psychiatric help, because it looked exactly like that one bear character - Vinnie the Fooh, or whatever - was cresting the hill and carrying buckets of water in its stubby arms. It had the solid-golden skin, or fur, or whatever, and the bright red T-shirt, and the adorable little face with the black button eyes. The only difference from my childhood memories was that this cartoon-bear-thing was wearing a trucker's cap with a naked woman posed on it. Well, that was odd, but the whole thing was an odd hallucination so I just rolled with it, you know?

Anyway, at that point I didn't know this was the one who rescued me. I thought I was just having another mental breakdown. So I rolled my eyes at myself, and began walking backwards slowly, wanting to make my way to the oak-house and sleep off whatever fever was afflicting my brain. As I took another step backward, I heard a branch crack audibly behind me. And to my shock, my hallucination took notice.

The cartoon-bear-thing looked up in curiousity, then saw me. Its face turned to shock and it dropped the water pails. Then it spoke, in a soft, slightly raspy, very adorable and friendly voice: "Oh my! My dear new friend, you should not be up! You should not be up at all yet, your treatment has not reached the stabilized stage yet!"

My treatment, huh? So this must be the mountain man, and I was so hopped-up on his homemade remedy that I was hallucinating cartoon birds and seeing him as a cartoon bear. Well, I'd show my warped perceptions who was boss, I thought, and marched toward him in a friendly manner. "Hello," I called out, reminding myself that, when you discounted my hallucinating, this wasn't a cartoon bear but another human being. "Thank you so much for rescuing me," I added.

The cartoon-bear-thing just stood there, muttering fretfully to itself as it picked up its water-buckets and frowned at how much liquid it had lost from them. Then it shook its head and turned to look at me again: "You simply musn't be up yet, friend. I wouldn't have left if I thought you'd wake up so soon. You got into a very bad batch of bussie-boppers and musn't expend any unnecessary energy until we've gotten your condition under control!"

"I appreciate your concern," I replied, noticing that a very mild itching sensation was becoming present all over my body, "But I'm really feeling much better. It feels good to get up and stretch my legs, and I'd like to help out around the place a bit as a ways toward saying thank-you for..." As I continued with my humble and courteous little speech, I scratched absent-mindedly at my chest through the quilt. The cartoon-bear-thing's eyes immediately bugged out.

"Egads! You're itching again! That isn't good, that isn't good at all! We've got to get you treatment, we've got to get you medicine immediately!" It looked around frantically, as if making a tough decision.

"Uhm, listen..." I said, approaching it to calm it down, "It's really just a mild little itch, let me grab one of those buckets and we'll head back - " I was cut off.

I was cut off as it finished climbing the ridge at a breakneck pace and lunged itself at me like a terrifying rabid raccoon. Now, in the two seconds it took for it to be in mid-air flying toward my face, I was able to visually register one other addition this thing had that the familiar cartoon bear of my memories did not. One was the trucker hat, and two was... this gigantic set of male genitals. "It" became "he" very decisively in my mind. And good lord. While the creature was only about 3-and-a-half feet tall, its penis must have been 9 inches long as it swung flaccidly between its legs. "Third leg" was more apt slang than usual here. It had some equally- proportionally-impressive balls to go with that. It was like some horrifying pornographic nightmare of a children's movie (well, besides what ends up between-frames in most actual children's movies).

And as I said, it was flying toward my face. But this all happened so fast I barely had any time to react. I just stood there, feeling mildly itchy and very dumbfounded, as my brain tried to process what was happening. It propelled itself through the air with amazing distance and speed from one leap, and as it crossed the distance to me its large penis sprang from flaccid to fully erect (ending at a size which was a truly humbling sight for any male ego, I might add) in less than a second. Just as my brain finished recovering and started to send signals to my leg muscles to RUN, the thing impacted my face.

It - he - was amazingly lightweight, and so I only stumbled a bit as the quilt fell to the ground, standing there with a cartoon bear- thing in a red T-shirt with no pants and a huge erect penis clinging to my face. Naturally, I was frantically beating on it and trying to rip it away from me. But this thing had claws! And they were dug in, gently but firmly, to the back of my scalp, so that ripping it away was both difficult and painful. I instinctively began to scream, and it instantly seized the opportunity to deftly manoeuvre its penis into my mouth.

This was more than enough for me to decide that whatever was actually going on, in my head a cartoon bear-thing was trying to face-fuck me, and so in my little hallucinatory world, it was going to die. I fumbled around, came in contact with a (vertical) tree trunk, and immediately began bashing my face against it. Cartoon bear-things are surprising good insulation against concussive force, but they also seem irritatingly durable, since the thing didn't flinch or budge at all while I frantically tried to beat it off of me.

"Take your medicine! Take your medicine!" it hollered at the top of its cute little lungs, and began undulating its hips in a lewd and awful fashion. I felt smooth, huge cartoon bear-thing penis sliding back and forth inside my mouth and against my tongue. My natural reaction to this was to bite down on the bastard, but even as my jaw began to move I felt warning claws dig deeper into my scalp. "No, you fool, don't fight it! Take your damn medicine!" it screamed.

No thanks, I thought, my vision obscured by its advancing and receding smooth, fuzzy golden abdomen. I decided to chance it and began to bite down on the offending cartoon bear's... thing.

WHAP!

Before I could even figure out what had happened, I was dealt such a furiously strong blow upside the head that I was knocked off-balance and fell to the ground, stars ringing out in my field of vision. How in god's name could a little cartoon bear-thing hit anyone that hard? Disoriented and stunned, it took me a few seconds to regain my bearings (ha, ha) enough to realize I was now on my back on the forest floor, with a cartoon bear-thing sitting on my face and pumping an enormous schlong in and out of my mouth. My swollen lips were betraying me, as they were still bloated enough to wrap themselves around my teeth even if I didn't intend them to, and so the little ursine rapist was having a fairly smooth go of it.

Finally my brain stopped rattling enough for me to grab the thing around its torso and attempt to rip it off me again, but it just swung its arm back and slammed into me with about as much force as it had used on my head. My arm flew right back into the dirt, stinging horribly and feeling borderline-fractured. I screamed around its penis, trying to roll over and smother the bastard in the dirt of the forest floor, but to my shock a large number of little feet were holding me to the ground quite firmly. And familiar chirps and twitters were ringing out from the direction of my torso and legs. Good god, I wondered, what kind of disturbed individual has hallucinations like this?

My pondering was cut short as the cartoon bear-thing let out a happy gasp and my blood froze. No. No way. But yes, yes way... a moment later I felt the balls against my chin flex a bit, and then a thick and soupy substance pour forth into my mouth. Before I knew what I was doing, I was reflexively swallowing.

And... it was oddly comforting. Why did it taste so familiar? Why did it make me feel... better? It was strangely sweet and flavorful, without any of the overt saltiness or nasty flavor I expected based on what girls had described to me before. I snapped back to the present moment with the disgusted realization I was deliberately swallowing each pump. Yuck! But when I tried to stop, and tried starting to force it out, I just... couldn't. I would inevitably just swallow it after a few seconds of indecision. And jesus, did this bear-thing ever have a load in it. Its penis seemed to keep pumping for millenia.

Finally, it trailed off, and with a flutter of air I felt the weights on my legs lift. The penis slowly turned flaccid in my mouth, but I kept dutifully making swallowing motions, and then to my horror realized I was suckling needfully on the flaccid penis! Deciding this was entirely too much, I forcefully spit it out and turned onto my side, wanting to throw up. Wanting to, but feeling no real need or motivation. My mouth had a sweet, soothing, pleasant taste in it, and my stomach felt warm and happy. And the itching was gone, again.

"There, friend. See, it wasn't so bad. I know we've never done it quite like that before, but I hope you'll realize when you're in better spirits that it was an emergency situation." I heard the bear-thing say to me in soothing tones, stroking my hair. "Now let's get you back to bed!"

I lay there, in a numb and confused daze, as I felt the quilt draped over my body and then myself being dragged across the forest floor back toward the oak-house. Had I just willingly swallowed semen? Not just willingly, but enjoyably? Even if this was just a disturbing hallucination, what did that say about my state of mind? Was I a latent homosexual? I'd never had thoughts like this before, though. Not even mild urges. I was always very confident in my sexuality. I'd been friends with several gay men and never felt threatened or uncomfortable, just... not their type.

As I felt leaves scrape my ear, a hazy image suddenly flashed into my mind. Of being in bed, in the upstairs bed I had woken up in. Of the bear-thing sitting on a stool next to the bed. Of a ceramic jar nearby, and a spoon being fed to me. The word "medicine" was present in its otherwise memory-garbled speech.

The itching had stopped after I swallowed.

Was that it?

Was this... thing... or this man I was hallucinating as a bear- thing... was he feeding me his cum, maybe with an addictive substance mixed in, to make me some sort of sex slave? That would explain my sudden comfort with swallowing a load of semen.

I wanted to jump up and escape, but I felt too numb and drowsy. Far, far away, through a rushing sound filling my ears as I blacked out, I heard a heavy oak door creak open. He had won for now. But I now realized I wasn't safe. I had to escape.

And as soon as he left again, I would escape.

- VIII -

I woke up to the warm feeling of sunlight filtering on to my face. I snuffled a bit, then pawed the quilt off my face and batted my bleary eyes open. A familiar sweet taste coated my mouth, and I tried to spit, but my mouth was too dry. I settled for making a grossed-out face and frowning hopelessly. So it wasn't a dream, I was still in the clutches of a madman. What a terrible day!

Or, apparently, based on the lighting... days, now. Which then struck me as odd. If the top-floor window was visible from the forest floor, that meant it was under the treetops. But if the forest was so thick around here that it was perpetually darkened, how was morning sunlight filtering in through my window?

Unless I was on the third floor, and that spiraling stairwell hid an intermediary level between my "guest" room and the ground-floor living quarters. My imagination began to wander, wondering if that was the secret chamber where he kept his other captives, other lost hikers he used as sex slaves or maybe he ate them or...

"So sleepyhead finally wakes up!" I heard his horrid, soft, adorable, breathy voice announce loudly and cheerfully. I gritted my eyes closed in disappointment; my escape opportunity was cut off, for now. Then I looked at the doorway which led to the stairwell.

And saw a... cartoon bear-thing, sans trucker's hat, but still in a red T-shirt and lacking pants, and still well-hung enough to upset the MPAA. In his stubby arm-hand... things, he held a simple wooden tray, upon which sat a bowl of steaming something, some toast, an empty glass, a tall pitcher of milk, and some slices of fresh oranges, strawberries, and mango.

"Good timing, friendly friend," it continued, "I was afraid your porridge might have to get cold" - so that's what was in the bowl - "because I didn't want to wake you if you were sleeping. You certainly need your rest after getting into bussie-boppers."

It set the serving tray down on a little wooden TV tray that had appeared next to my bed overnight, then sat down on the stool near my bed and continued: "How do you even manage to get into those bussie-boppers? Most forest folk have the sense to steer clear of them. Oh, I bet it was that awful rabbit, always causing mischief and trying to get people to grope her tits."

I jumped a bit. The rabbit? How did he know about the rabbit? I thought that was a hallucination. Maybe I had rambled deliriously in my sleep. Or maybe I was hallucinating this entire experience! Maybe I was wandering around inside a big dead log or something, talking to myself and stepping on opossums or something.

"Uhm, you know the rabbit?" I asked cautiously, as the bear-thing lifted a spoonful of steaming porridge toward my mouth.

"Blow it." it commanded.

My eyes darted uncontrollably to its large sexual organs, and I felt immediately embarassed at the reaction. It laughed lightly and happily: "Oh, not that silly! The porridge... we don't want it to burn your mouth!"

Feeling utterly ashamed, and very confused, I downturned my eyes to the quilt and blew gently on the spoon. This caused me to notice the swelling in my chest still hadn't gone down. The bear-thing continued: "Anyhow, of course I know that rabbit... so it sounds like you did encounter her. Awful, awful little cunt, she is. Always trying to trick people into groping her tits, then she lures them into some stupid prank or another."

The bear-thing turned to me, a stern expression on its face: "Let me tell you, one time I showed her what-for, I knew she was trying to lure me into a part of the forest where she'd just thrown rocks at a hive of killer bees. Rotten bitch. Well, I don't want to chew your ear off, but suffice to say that by the end I was fucking her from behind while a swarm of very angry bees stung her face until she was so swollen she looked like a piece of cauliflower with rabbit ears, but she's such a little tramp that she just kept squealing out 'More! More! Oh you big bear, touch my tits! Go on, rub em!' And I went, I said, 'You want me to rub your tits? I'll rub your tits!' and I flipped her over and let me tell you, boy scouts could've started campfires with the friction I was building up and she just kept squealing and - "

I held up my hand. "I think I get the idea, thanks." It was bad enough feeling like I was losing my own mind, I didn't want to hear some other poor mentally-ill individual's delusional ramblings. Rabbits were common creatures in fantasy, it was probably just a coincidence we both imagined the same kind of animal.

"Oh, pother... I apologize. I do tend to get carried away when I'm excited. Anyway, if you ran into that nasty little rabbit I'm not surprised you're in the state you're in. It's too bad you didn't meet her sister, Bare Rabbit, instead. She is the very model of a modern cultured animal." said the bear-thing, placing another spoonful of porridge into my mouth.

"Uhm, so..." I asked.

The bear-thing's face lit up. "Oh! Of course! Where are my manners? We still haven't been properly introduced and here I am already talking about how well I fucked that rabbit. I'm often called the Hunny-Bear, and that name suits me very well, so if you please, do call me Hunny-Bear whenever you wish to greet me."

"Uhm... OK, Honey-Bear." I replied shakily, now absolutely convinced I was the drugged captive of an insane gay woodsman.

"Hunny." he corrected. I blinked.

"Hunny?" I tried.

"Yes, there you go! And your name?" asked Hunny-Bear.

"Uhm..." I began. I wasn't sure I wanted this guy to be able to track me down. Creepy people like to use the Internet to pursue their disturbing little hobbies, after all. I glanced down at the quilt to hide my lie: "I can't remember." I mumbled, trying to sound upset.

"Oh!" exclaimed Hunny-Bear. "You poor thing! You must have gotten a very, very bad dose of bussie-boppers, indeed!" It... he... whatever... frowned in thought for a moment, then brightened up: "I know! We'll just call you Bussie-Bopper, until you can remember your name! It fits, don't you think, considering?"

"Uhm, sure." I replied. Lovely. Now I had a nickname too. Hunny-Bear and Bussie-Bopper. I couldn't wait to see the adult-baby fetish films I would be forced to produce at gunpoint.

Hunny-Bear clapped his hands together happily. "Alright then, my good friend Bussie, I am very pleased to make your acquaintance!" It then extended its arm... hand... how did this thing manipulate objects with these stumpy, digitless arms? Well anyway, it extended one to me, and I took the hint and shook it half-heartedly. It chuckled: "You've got such a weak handshake... don't worry, you keep taking your medicine and we'll get you back up to full strength in no time!"

I shuddered visibly at the mention of the word "medicine." "Thanks, but, uh, I don't think I want any more medicine." I replied, crossing my fingers that he'd accept the concept of No Means No.

He just laughed happily again, closing his eyes briefly and smiling happily. Then he looked at me: "Oh, silly Bussie. I don't know why you're so stubborn, but I suppose nobody likes having to be sick and take medicine. That's why I mixed your medicine in with your porridge. You've already gotten your morning dose!" It giggled happily to itself.

I stared at the empty bowl of porridge and the little bits drying on the spoon and edge of the bowl, ready to feel sick. Ready, but it never happened, because I instead became aware of how oddly delicious the porridge had been. I didn't really pay much attention at the time because we were busy chatting, but now the taste in my mouth was extra-savory, for porridge. This man just admitted he mixed his cum into my porridge, fed it to me, and was straight-faced calling it "medicine." And my stomach wasn't turning. I was just thinking about how lovely the porridge tasted. What was wrong with me?

I was convinced it involved psychoactive substances, but I was also well aware of how much better I felt than the last few times I was awake. This internal debate prevented me from responding fast enough to announce my indignance, and Hunny-Bear continued: "Tricked you, huh? I know, I can be a cretin sometimes. But honestly, it's for your own good! You grown-up people can be just like children when you're sick, for heaven's sake."

It leaned over the tray and picked up the pitcher of milk. At least, it was a crisp white liquid I hoped was unadulterated milk. "Now, let's get you some mugril milk to wash things down!" As it poured my glass full of what seemed like cold, frothy milk, I wondered what the hell a "mugril" was. Deciding I had nothing to lose, I asked:

"What's a mugril?"

Hunny-Bear chuckled. "Oh, mugril is a wonderful creature, to be sure. We'll go visit her when you're feeling better, I bet you've never seen a mugril before!"

"Is it like, moose-milk or something?" I asked.

Hunny-Bear laughed. "No, no, moose-milk is pain-pig sweat compared to what mugril produces. Just wait till you're feeling better, then I'll let you milk her yourself!"

Great. So there was some species of milk-producing animal that this thing called a "mugril," or whatever, and he owned one, and he wanted me to milk it for him. My mind flashed back to the water- buckets he was carrying when we had our first (conscious) meeting. Maybe they were actually milk-pails?

"Anyway," I said, "I'm actually feeling much better now" - he held the glass to my lips, interrupting me and forcing me to drink - "so can we go today?" The milk was very cold, very refreshing, and very different from cow's milk. It tasted... reassuring and familiar, somehow. I inwardly hoped it wasn't because it was also "spiked".

Hunny-Bear just laughed lightly again. "No, no, no. You need to rest and let the medicine fix you up! When I'm sure you can handle getting up and walking about, we'll go out into the woods, I promise. Now eat your toast."

As I crunched away on the delicious, grainy bred (it must have been thoroughly home-made), my original question - that I had tried to ask before it... he... whatever... thought I was trying to exchange names - popped back into my head: "Oh, hey? Uhm, Hunny-Bear?"

Hunny-Bear smiled a friendly smile: "Yes, Bussie?"

I winced internally at that stupid name. "I was all swollen up when I passed out and you found me - "

"Yes," interrupted Hunny-Bear, "a very common side-effect to a bussie-bopper infection raging out of control."

Infection? This was a disease? I hoped it was just a mountain-folk colloquialism equating allergies with disease, because I didn't think I could contract something that nasty just by falling into some dandelions. Anyway: "Yeah... well anyway, the swelling has mostly gone down - "

"Yes," interrupted Hunny-Bear again, "a very common side-effect of taking your medicine!" It laughed lightly and happily.

"Right... OK... well anyway, uhm... I notice one area is being kind of stubborn in that regard." I gestured to my chest, the area of the quilt that rose up quite noticeably in comparison to the rest of it. "When will my chest go down?"

Hunny-Bear frowned a bit, looking thoughtful and adorable if you subtracted the giant dong. "Oh dear," it said, "My medicine is only so powerful. I can stabilize the bussie-boppers but I can't cure them entirely." There was that word it had used earlier, again: "stabilize". Apparently I would need proper medical attention to really fix things. Oh well, as long as the condition didn't deteriorate in the mean time I could live with it for a while.

Which brought me to the concept of "mean time": "Oh. OK. So, then, do you have a way I can contact the outside world? To, you know, get picked up and taken home?"

Hunny-Bear stared at me: "You want to leave?" That made my stomach sink. Then he sighed: "Oh, pother. Very well. But I don't go out of the forest much and wouldn't have any idea how to lead you home, wherever you came from, and I don't have a telephone."

I frowned. This was getting worse. "Do you know where the nearest ranger station is?"

Hunny-Bear stared at me again: "Ranger-station?"

I gave up. "Never mind."

"Alright," replied Hunny-Bear, smiling. "Now you just get some rest, and you'll feel so much better in a few days!" It patted me on the head, tucked my quilt in, and then tottered back down the stairwell, tray in hand. I was left feeling drowsy and with a full stomach.

- IX -

WHEN I awoke it was dusk. Or at least, from the reddish-purple lighting coming in through the window, it seemed to be dusk. I felt terribly hot and stuffy, and quickly kicked the quilt off, and then a comforter than had apparently been added below that. I definitely felt my chest react when I did that. In the murky lighting it was hard to really see, but the vague outline of two serious swellings on my chest was enough to make me quite sure the pectoral inflammation had not decreased.

I sat up. God, they jiggled whenever I moved! I grimly thought that I knew what having breasts must feel like. Then I swung my legs off the bed and stood up - something didn't quite seem right, but I couldn't place it - and began looking around the room.

I was still naked, and all the furniture was in the same place. I walked a little further and startled sharply as I ran right into the TV tray; I managed to grab it before it tipped over, and prevented too much noise from being made. If I had a chance to escape now, I was going to take it.

Creeping down into the stairwell, I absent-mindedly brushed my hair behind my ear and peered around. No sign of Hunny-Bear. But it was dark. Most animals have better night vision than humans. I became paranoid. What if Hunny-Bear was lurking in some alcove, watching me? My heart started beating faster. No, no, don't get afraid! Animals can smell fear!

I took a deep breath, noticing my chest rise out of the corner of my eye, and tried to calm down. I took cautious steps down the spiraling stairway, careful to come down slowly enough to be able to stop if a step started creaking. About halfway down (I estimated, based on the number of steps traversed), I heard a noise down below. Damn it! I quickly flattened my back against the wall, very conscious not to press my chest into anything right then, and -

And fell backwards. I was suddenly in another room, with a circular window. Ah-ha! I had found the missing "second window" visible from the forest floor. To my chagrin, I hadn't fallen through a secret wall... just an unlocked, slightly-ajar door. Apparently I hadn't paid much attention to the walls on either side of the stairwell the one other time I'd come down it, but here was the second-floor door, in plain sight if I'd looked.

Closing it carefully behind me, I peered around the room. It was almost pitch-black, subject to the light-blocking of the forest canopy. I spied a small lamp near me along with a box of long matches, but didn't risk lighting it in case the glow under the door gave me away. Instead I closed my eyes tightly and counted to 50, then opened them: success! The contrast made my eyes readjust, and I could make out vague outlines in the dark room.

Most importantly, I made out a coat rack. And on it were my clothes! I was elated. I could now escape without being on the 11 o'clock news as the crazy, lost, hallucinogenic, nude hiker. Now I would just be crazy, lost, and hallucinogenic. Oh well, some improvement was better than none. Creeping over to it, I saw how much dirt and debris was stuck to the fabric... I must have been going through some dense underbrush in my inflamed haze when I shed them.

Then a wonderful thought hit me. I fished into the pocket of my jacket, and was rewarded with my cell phone! Freedom! Freedom in a tiny rectangular object! All I had to do was find a location with service, any service, a single bar would do if I could just fire off one text message. I thought of the crest, that approached the treetops. It probably wasn't high enough to receive a signal, but I had to try.

I punched in a basic message:

LOST IN WOODS NEAR CITY, VERY DEEP. MOSTLY PINE. MEADOW AND WEIRD OAK-HOUSE NEARBY. PLEASE SEND HELP!!!

And then selected my ex-girlfriend, my boss, two friends, and several family members as recipients, then set it to "Send Later". This way I could fire it off at the touch of a button if I saw a bar of service pop up for even a moment.

Feeling very nervous, but very hopeful, I put on my jeans, shirt, and jacket. My shoes were nowhere to be seen, but I wasn't going to take the time to hunt them down. Everything felt very dirty, and very loose - I had probably lost a lot of weight during my feverish daze. And my shirt sat awkwardly over my bloated chest, and rubbed uncomfortably. I took four steps before the shirt came back off and I just wore my jacket loose and open. I looked forward very much to getting proper medical attention for this damn allergic reaction... or whatever.

Creeping back to the door, I paused and listened for the sound of activity... and grimaced. The immediately-familiar noise of dishes clattering in the sink drifted up to my ear. Hunny-Bear was washing plates, and humming happily to himself. The sound of a very static- laden television broadcast was audible in the background, sounding like a news report.

Well, I wasn't going anywhere now, so I fretfully crept back away from the door. What was I going to do? I considered my options. I could lurk in this room until Hunny-Bear left again. Or I could creep back upstairs and hope he didn't hear me, and pretend as if I never got up. Or I could rush downstairs and try to drown the little bastard in the sink suds, but considering how successful I had been in attempting to use physical violence when he was... ahem... humping my face... that option seemed fairly doomed to failure.

Well, I didn't want any more "medicine" mixed into foods and force- fed to me, that was for sure. Just thinking about it was making my skin crawl, and itch a bit. Ugh. I decided to take my chances in this room... what kind of room was it, anyway, I wondered? It seemed like a familiar household "junk room" full of things that didn't fit anywhere else in the house but people couldn't bring themselves to throw away. Or cartoon bear-people, as it were. Odd.

I backed further into the recesses, trying to find a good hiding spot in case Hunny-Bear was perceptive enough to search the spare room when he found me missing. This led to my hand finding another knob, which I turned carefully. This led me into a small closet, from the feel of the clothes brushing against me. I smiled, and closed the door behind me again. An excellent hiding spot.

Groping around, I found a chain hanging in the air, which I impulsively tugged on. A trapdoor didn't open, but an ancient- looking lightbulb did turn on above me, illuminating the closet. This allowed me to see that there was a rustic-looking, dust-covered full-length mirror in the back, opposite the closet door. Intricate woodwork made up the frame, but the glass had such a thorough coating of dust it was literally unreflective.

Having time to kill, I grabbed one of the almost-as-dusty coats from next to me (strangely human-sized, not bear-thing-sized) and used it to rub the dust off the mirror, since it wasn't mine. Hey, my clothes were already dirty enough, I didn't need them coated in dust too! It took a couple attempts, constantly turning the fabric to expose an un-dusty area, but I finally got enough of the polished surface to show to get a look at my facial reflection.

And screamed. Well, almost. I managed to just catch myself, which was amazing considering the circumstances. I looked like... a woman. I mean, I didn't have any make-up on, or earrings, or anything, and I was dressed in my manly hiking jacket and jeans, but... no one would mistake my face for a man's. You know trannies who get their faces dissected and rearranged so they can pass as girls easier? Yeah, this knocked that kind of stuff out of the ballpark.

I wasn't a pin-up vixen, but, I mean, my face was a WOMAN'S. It wasn't cartoonishly perfect - perfectly feminine; there were little masculine feature here or there. But I mean, it was a woman's face. Not a girly man's. I don't think "Hunny-Bear" could have paid a doctor to do a job that good, is what I'm trying to get across. I could see parts of "me" in it; the eyes were really similar, and the general facial... I dunno... "pattern". But it was me, if I'd been born as an X-blooded girl.

This wasn't just "swelling" from an "allergic reaction", or whatever. My face was finer and softer, my nose was way smaller and had a bit of an upturn instead of a hook. My cheeks stood out way stronger, my lips were fuller and thicker - not bloated or weird, just more prominent - and my chin was way pointier, and much shorter. And my forehead... wow, it seemed tiny. I pulled my hair back and was amazed and very confused to see my M-shaped hairline now a perfect line again, like when I was... I dunno... 8 years old. Everything was softer and smoother. My eyelashes were longer and thicker.

The only really masculine feature was my eyebrows, which were still fairly unruly - thought a bit thinner in coverage and length - and had a bit of unibrow-threatening stray hairs in-between them. But I guess most girls' eyebrows aren't perfect, huh? So that actually creeped me out, because it was like my body had changed genetically, instead of being cosmetically tampered with. I shook that thought out of my mind quickly, though, because it was ludicrous.

Shaking my head made me aware of two things quite clearly: my bouncing chest, and my hair whipping my face. I dunno if I mentioned this already, but my hair is usually cut very short. I don't like hiking with even-remotely-grown hair because it bugs me in windy weather and is just asking for bugs and branches and crap to get stuck in it. But no, here was my hair, and it was chin-length after being a centimeter long when I started on that hike. That doesn't happen in 3 days. So either I was out for way longer than I thought, or something really freaky was -

But that's when I noticed the color, too. Usually my hair is a very, very dark brown, to the point of most people referring to it as "black". This hair was not just chin-length, but sandy blond. No, not gross unnatural platinum-blond or glorious shining golden blond. Sandy blond. The kind the girl-next-door has and nobody pays any attention to. But that's not the point. The point is, my black hair was now sandy blond. I did a double-take. Though I had completely looked past it a few moments ago, so were my eyebrows... and eyelashes! And were those... was that a light spray of freckles on my face? And if my chest kept jiggling - no way. No way!

That did it. I frantically rubbed the mirror up and down its whole length, feeling my chest, appropriately, keep jiggling like mad, until I had the entire polished surface clear. Trembling, I stepped back so I could see my whole body at once and lowered my jacket.

Boobs. I had boobs. There was no calling this "pectoral swelling," these were tits. Apparently that "infection" had caused spontaneous gynecomastia on top of everything else. Though, glancing back at my face, I wasn't sure "gynecomastia" was really the right condition here, not anymore. Then I started thinking about the Greek roots and realized maybe it was the right -

I shook my head, and continued gaping at my chest. Big, plump, fully-formed areola looking like any healthy girl I had ever banged were radiating out from the tips of my boobs. And big, No. 2 pencil- eraser-sized nipples were standing out perkily, aroused to attention by all the movement and clothes-rubbing. They were pink. And they were big, giant nipples on my chest. And they were crowns on top of boobs. Big, huge, enormous boobs.

Well... alright. They were probably middle-B cups. Maybe a little larger, definitely not much less. I think average-sized B-cups is a good estimate, if my memory serves me. But you know, when you've never had boobs before, suddenly seeing B-cups on yourself feels really, really big.

I tentatively touched one. It didn't hurt that bad. At least they weren't feeling so sore, now. It was very sensitive, though, just not in a painful way. I jumped a little at the touch, and then touched some more. I thumbed a nipple a bit in disbelief. But I didn't spiral into a masturbatory fest, because my eyes snapped to the rest of my body.

Like my narrower shoulders. My lithe arms. My dainty little hands! My tinier feet! My smoother, streamlined kneecaps and legbones. My hips! Yow! I was shorter... maybe 5'7" now? And my hairless chest... goodbye sternum-fuzz and happy-trail. My narrower ribcage, my... wow, my waist. I mean, listen, I was not a knockout. I wasn't Playboy material. Maybe I was cam-girl material. But, you know, nothing jaw-dropping compared to any other reasonably fit and active 26-year-old woman. Or man-turned-woman, apparently. But from my perspective, all these average female proportions looked like the curviest porn star ever because, you know, I was very used to my thick, rectangular, flat, boxy, upside-down-pyramid male self.

I think my mind was deliberately avoiding the final check, so I turned around and noticed my firm, curvy butt and thicker thighs. While I was there I observed my slightly padded, curvier hips, in addition to the increased width I noticed a few moments ago. It was nothing like the ludicrous swelling I encountered before Hunny-Bear found me. Was this what was happening? I wondered. Was I turning into a girl, back then? Was that what this whole "toxin" business had really been? Or was I still hallucinating? Was I ever hallucinating? Anyway... these curves, these swollen bits, looked like a healthy, everyday woman instead of the victim of the world's worst case of localized anaphylactic shock.

The switch finally clicked in my mind, and my eyes let go of the blind spot they'd been kindly treating me to. I turned back around. Yes, there it was. A smooth curve into my thighs, with a healthy growth of bushy, muffy, unshaved feminine pubic hair. In the same sandy-blonde color. I think I was so shocked already that this news didn't crash into me quite as severely as it ought have, so I just lightly touched it, shivered in confusion and disorientation at the familiar wet, rubbery feeling mixed among the grainy hairs, and then blinked a few times.

Then I looked at my shoulders, and noticed the light spray of pale freckles extending across them. Well, this was all very weird, and now I had a cunt and a girl's body and I was probably experiencing all of this inside a mental institution and -

CLUD-THUMP!

The sound of the refrigerator down below swinging closed startled me out of my dazed reverie. I began frantically gathering up the clothes -

"Don't worry," a sharp voice said to me, sounding very much like a gruff 1930s detective. I turned to see a fist-sized spider with more of those big, Japanese-comics eyeballs and a big, straight-combed moustache. A tiny cigar hung out of its mouth. "The bussie-bopper - "

I screamed, and picked up the first weapon that came into reach, which was a shoebox.

"Hey wait kid - " began the talking spider. I smashed it hard enough to break its web-line and send it into the nearby wall, then brought the box down several more times until it was a grisly, gooey mess, its little cigar smoldering pathetically inside its cracked jaw. One giant, cartoonish eyeball was smashed to oozing bits, the other stared up at me lifelessly.

Admittedly, I probably overreacted. But when you've been face-fucked by a talking cartoon bear in a trucker hat, begged by a pornographic rabbit to rub her tits, and exposed to a dandelion that's apparently toxic enough to change your physical sex, you become very unwilling to risk any further encounters with enchanted animal hallucinations.

The only thought that crossed my mind had nothing to do with remorse, but rather the sudden fear that this spider was Hunny- Bear's friend. Not wanting to be subject to a murder trial in this demented plot of forest, I quickly scraped the cracked and oozing remnants of its body into the shoebox and placed it back on the shelf in an inconvenient location under several heavier shoeboxes. A few moustache hairs remained stubbornly glued to the floor, stuck to a puddle of dried ichor. I moved a pile of clothes in the corner so that it covered up the evidence and then quickly crept out of the closet, making sure to turn the light off.

As I exited, I heard footsteps outside the door. I froze, waiting and listening... they were on the staircase, going up to my room. I stood stock-still. I hear Hunny-Bear let out a gasp of surprise, then sound quite worried as he called my name repeatedly. I could hear my guest room being rummaged through rapidly, then the sound of a tray being set down and Hunny-Bear's footsteps coming down the stairwell.

My heart pounded in my chest. I'd never be able to move to a hiding place fast enough if he opened the second-floor door. The footsteps came closer down the stairs, one step at a time, each one taking forever as the blood pounded in my ears and I felt a sheen of sweat flow over me, clutching my clothes tightly for comfort...

And the footsteps kept going. They continued down the stairs, then I heard another door opening, some clothes being put on, and the sound of Hunny-Bear hurrying out the front door, muttering what sounded like "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!" over and over again. I heard the front door slam, and waited several agonizing minutes before creeping forward, dressing myself quickly and -

No, wait. My man-shirt still rubbed against my new nipples way too much, so off it came. Again. I tied it around my neck as a crude scarf to keep my hands free, patted the cell phone in the pocket of my jacket reassuringly, closed my eyes, and turned the knob.

I stepped out into the stairwell without being leapt upon or triggering some cartoonish booby-trap (which seemed Freudianly ironic), and let out a relieved breath. It was still odd to feel my chest rise so obviously when I did that. The lights were still on in the ground-floor living area, so I was able to creep down fairly effectively. I was glad the oak-house had so few windows, so that my silhouette wouldn't be obvious from a distance.

With enormous trepidation, I opened the front door and stepped (okay, lurched, what with the 5-foot ceiling) quickly outside.

- X -

I glanced around rapidly, looking like an idiot trying to imitate a spy film, and then sank back into the shadows against the curve of the big oak-house's trunk. It felt odd to feel my soft, firm butt press against a hard surface without immediately hitting bone. The forest was very, very dark. It was obviously nighttime, since what had looked "dark" the first two times I was out here seemed utterly lucent by comparison now. Absolutely no light was filtering through the dense pine canopy, and that made things frighteningly pitch.

After counting to 50... it was still really dark. Alright, so there's only so much you can do when there's no ambient light at all. I resolved to get as far away as I could by touch, then: anything was better than being trapped here, turned into a female, and fed some freaky cum "medicine"! Was this some sort of... Indian shaman? Was I involved in some spirit-ritual? Could I get any more culturally ignorant?

I sighed, and struck out, literally sticking my arms in front of me and groping, moving by feel. The entire time, the terrified notion that I could be caught by Hunny-Bear, leaping out from any angle from the 360-degree ink-black darkness, was ever-present in the back of my mind. I kept trying to take deep breaths to calm my heart, and was still perplexed by the feeling of my boobs rising and falling. After what felt like 20 minutes of slow, anxietal progress, I heard something in the distance. Hunny-Bear? Wolves? Oh god, I felt like crying.

Then I saw the glow. A lantern. Please be a hunter, or a boy scout, or... or a golden cartoon bear-thing in a red T-shirt with an adorable little overcoat tied tight around his rotund abdomen. He was wandering around in the distance, calling out my name periodically. Well, calling out "Bussie-Bopper" periodically. I really didn't enjoy thinking of that as my "name" at that moment.

I groaned inwardly. Of course, of all the random, blind paths I could stumble through the forest, I had managed to run myself right into Hunny-Bear and his demented search effort. My breathing was rapid and hyperventilated now, but I did my best to grope for the silhouette of a large tree trunk and crouch down behind it, opposite the light source. Hunny-Bear continued into the distance, the sounds of my name being called fading.

I was shivering in the cool forest night. My nipples were rock-hard, which was never very noticeable before but was now very hard to ignore. I felt hungry, since I hadn't had dinner. I was cold. I was miserable. I was even a little itchy, from crouching among the debris of the forest floor. I sniffled a little. I started to cry, silently and stoically, refusing to actively sob but finding it therapeutic to let my frustrations leak out of my face. Deep down, I was terrified he'd find me again, and determined to stay alert the whole night.

I think I fell asleep five minutes later.

- XI -

I awoke to biting cold. My eyes snapped open. Oh god! Huh? Whuzza! That disoriented set of random gibberish that flies through your brain when you realize you've fallen asleep with important business unfinished was ricocheting around inside my skull, and my skin had that weird, pulsing hot/cold sensation that uncomfortable sleep seems to bring upon waking. My head shot around like a nervous sparrow, trying to make sure I wasn't bound, or gagged, or bound and gagged, or otherwise recaptured.

Unbelievable relief flooded over me as I realized, from the brighter dim surroundings, that it was early morning. And Hunny-Bear hadn't found me. I felt for my cell phone, the reassuring little false god that I currently worshiped as a source of impending salvation, and was happy to find it still in my jacket pocket. I stiffly stood up; a night crouched against a tree trunk not being ambrosia for the joints.

And noticed I still had boobs. Every time I woke up, I seemed to become aware of yet another thing I desperately wanted to remain behind me in the land of dreams. Somehow, minds seem highly capable of being very shrewd in prioritizing concerns when it's really important, and at that moment my body turning female was a concern marginalized in the face of escaping from the hellish clutches of Hunny-Bear and Friends.

So I quickly glanced around once more, and then began walking again. I was able to make progress much quicker now that I could navigate by sight again, but was hobbled by the problem of having absolutely no sense of direction. I didn't know which way the oak-house was, exactly, or where the crest I had found before was. Since I remembered which side of the tree I had hid on, I knew which direction I had been coming from when I stopped last night. And since that was my best guess as to which way the oak-house was, I went with my best chance of leaving it behind and kept going in the direction I had been when I stumbled upon Hunny-Bear the night before.

It was odd feeling my boobs jounce with each footfall. At first I tried holding them in place with one arm, but with my nipples already erect from the crisp morning air, that created too many interesting and distracting sensations. I preferred not to be reminded of my new anatomy - or my imagined anatomy - or, god, whatever! Anyway, I didn't want to think about anything other than escaping. So I just kept walking, and walking, and constantly glancing at my cell phone. No Service. No Service. No Service. No Service. No Service. Argh!

This went on for about an hour. I can say this fairly accurately thanks to the faithful digital clock on my cell phone's display, which, incidentally, also revealed it was Wednesday. That meant I'd been lost in the woods for four days now, and was starting in on a fifth one. I sincerely hoped that soon, my absence would be enough to trigger a search-and-rescue effort even if I never managed to find a pocket of cell reception. Though, considering my aforementioned tendencies toward working on my own schedule, I didn't get my hopes up. Disappearing for a week at a time wasn't unheard of from me, and I was acutely regretting what was previously a point of independent pride.

I hadn't thought to look at the date display when I first found my cell phone in Hunny-Bear's storage room, distracted as I was with typing my escape message and then staying hidden. But once it occurred to me that morning, after I had started out again and made my first check for a service signal, the knowledge gave me something to think about while walking.

Four days? I could only count three. The first day, when the whole mess started, that ended with me passing out. Based on the lighting in my memory, waking up inside the oak-house must have been the second day. And waking up in my bed at the oak-house a second time, when I got breakfast-in-bed, would make a third day. Dusk when I made my escape would be the evening of the third day, and today, Wednesday, should be the start of the fourth day out here.

But it wasn't, it was the start of a fifth day. In an already disturbing situation, finding yourself with a day-long gap in your memory only exacerbated it. What was in that medicine? Just how long had I been passed out, or delirious in bed being spoon-fed ... bear spunk? My stomach growled suddenly at the thought of Hunny-Bear's "medicine" and its strange, permeatingly sweet flavor. "I'm not that hungry," I murmured morosely, trying to shake off the sensation that it almost sounded... good.

Anyway, continued my thoughts, either my reaction to that dandelion- looking plant's toxin was much more severe than I thought (not unlikely, given the severity of the swelling), or that Hunny-Bear guy... thing... cartoon bear... whatever! had drugged me into a coma for a day, or...

Toxin? I glanced down at my body, my slightly-swinging hips, my rounded, bouncing chest, my thinner, smoother limbs and my tinier hand clutching my cell phone, with my now-oversized clothing draped over these features as I brushed my now-blond... blonde? Whatever! hair out of my face. This was no "toxin". Even if this was a hallucination, this sure felt real enough to make me believe I had a female body at that moment. Plants don't just do that to you. Something very weird was going on. I mean, that was obvious a long time ago, but -

- XII - MY thoughts were suddenly stopped cold as I came upon a familiar sight: a thrashed-up area among the leaves and dirt of the forest floor, with a shallow rut of disturbed litter leading away from it in a meandering pattern into the distance.

I was back at the spot I had been found by Hunny-Bear. No. On closer examination, I was back at the spot I had first fallen over under the weight of my hilariously-bloated ass. I turned to look at my curvier, softer backside, and giggled lightly. My butt may have felt big, but when I compared it to my memory of the initial swellings, it was nothing. I playfully smacked my bottom and again stood in bewilderment at the cushier, padded sensation.

Then I snapped out of it and got back to business. If I was here, that meant... And indeed, a glance into the distance revealed the oak-house. Lovely. I had somehow circled back to nearly where I started. Or perhaps, in the dark the night before, I had groped my way into a semicircle instead of a straight line away from the oak- house. As I thought about it, briefly, I realized that I must have spent the last hour walking on an extremely long diagonal that was taking me away from oak-house, but not in the direction I originally intended, and far too slowly.

It was bad, but it was also a landmark, and that counted for a lot. I could actually attempt clusmy navigation now, if I managed to keep out of reach of Hunny-Bear and his terrifying home remedies. "Just stay calm and keep moving," I muttered to myself shakily.

Let's hit Pause in our minds and let me take a moment to comment on my voice. You might have been expecting, with my entire body becoming feminized, some comment or other about how my voice was now tinkly and gay like a gentle spring breeze over a crystal windchime. It wasn't. It still sounded almost exactly like it always had, which is why I've yet to make any observation about it. I'm not an otolaryngologist, so I have no idea how to explain that.

*-*-* But our friend here, Owl Nightlong, is the wisest inhabitant of the whole forest! Owl, would you care to comment?

"Why yes," comments the studious-looking owl with squinting eyes, adjusting its bifocal spectacles to sit properly on its beak. "You see," it begins, pulling down a medical diagram of the throat, "Puberty alters the male voice due to an enlargement of the larynx, which forces the vocal folds (which vibrate to create vocalizations) to grow longer and thicker. Assuming a female body was created by outside forces rearranging genetics bit-by-bit, it's entirely plausible to have an overtly female form externally but still have an unmodified voice box inside the throat, which would allow a 'masculine' voice to escape from an otherwise womanly body."

Wow! Well, thanks as always for your wonderful insight, Ms. Nightlong! And with a flurry of feathers, there she goes, off to pore over some more books in her librartree. *-*-*

Alright. But interesting as that may be, I had shit clue about it at the time. In fact, honestly, it didn't even occur to me. Trust me, when your whole body seems to poof from male to female in the course of one nap, it just doesn't sink in very strongly. So when you still hear your normal voice, you don't go "oh gee, I sound so un- womanly!" You just hear something familiar, and don't even think about it because, well, it's familiar.

Right. So there I was, a precarious 100-or-so meters away from my place of bondage, knowing that my tormentor or his creepy anthropomorphic faunal servants could leap out at any moment and capture me. I grimly "flexed" my arm and laughed despite myself at the sad little curve that tried to imitate a bicep. Alright, so I had girly muscles to go along with the body. I'd be even easier to overpower than before.

That thought sent a little thrill through me. That probably wasn't right, but things had been so thoroughly fucked-up the last several days I was willing to allow room for some odd thoughts in my addled brain, and just let it go. I scratched lightly at my shoulder as I tried to come to a decision about which way to go.

Yes, the itching had continued. It was mild, but it hadn't gone away since it came to my attention, crouched down and hiding behind the tree trunk the night before. A paranoid part of me thought it was getting a little worse. I thought about the "medicine". A pang hit my stomach. Not really my stomach, but a holistic entity encompassing my stomach, tongue, throat, and brain. So maybe I had an "appetite pang" as opposed to a "hunger pang". Well, I tried to shake it off, whatever it was. But my mind drifted back.

I was itching. Hunny-Bear said the itching was caused by the dandelion-thing, and I believed it based on my original experience. And he said his medicine cured the condition. I didn't itch when I was in bed at the oak-house. Was he telling the truth?

I shook my head, battering my cheeks with soft sandy hair. No. That was dumb. I was violating basic concepts of logical investigation. A magical cartoon bear whose cock dispenses medicine was not the simplest or most plausible explanation. A severe allergic reaction that swelled me up, using a lot of my bodily fluids in the process, and thus dried my skin out, making me much more susceptible to itching in the dry, cold, pine-forest air... now we were getting somewhere! And everything else was the product of severe psychoaffective chemicals inside that plant.

But... I looked down. Why did I have a female body? A hallucination, of course, like all of this. OK. Sure. That was as good an explanation as any, and explanations make scared people feel better. So I felt better, and just needed to find a way to contact the outside world.

I scratched my cheek lightly, and spun in a slow circle. Approaching oak-house was out of the question ("Even if I am imagining this"). In the opposite direction of oak-house, approximately, must be the meadow. On one hand, the meadow was a gateway back to the trail, if I could search more thoroughly, and then I'd be home free! Plus, I could take some of these dandelion-things with me and make a killing selling them as black-market hallucinogens. On the other hand... I quivered involuntarily at the thought of encountering Carrot Topless again, or accidentally incurring another furious, paralyzing allergic reaction to the plants in that place.

The alternative was marching off blindly into the forest again. I could go back to the crest - it would be easy to find now that I knew where oak-house was - but if Hunny-Bear's mugril was kept in a barn on the other side of the hill, I'd risk running right into my captor. Or I could just strike out into the forest with deliberately no goal, hoping I found the mountains or high ground or a campground or... anything. Hopefully a detox center, I thought sardonically.

The more I thought about it, the more the meadow seemed clearly the way to go. I knew for certain that it connected back to familiar territory, I would be able to monitor the position of the sun and develop a rough mental compass, and since it was such a wide-open clearing I might even get a cell signal! My heart danced in my chest as I realized just how perfectly this might work out. All I had to do was find the meadow again, and I could do that by keeping a careful eye out for the disturbed underbrush that followed my stumbling haze after I was first afflicted.

- XIII -

THIS proved more daunting that it had sounded when I first set out. For one thing, the itching was coming back full-force now. Not as bad as it originally was, but it had upgraded from "mild background presence" to "excuse me, but I need to go buy hydrocortisone cream". If only I could have. I grumbled dejectedly and tried to resist scratching.

But the bigger impediment was just how convoluted a path I had taken after crashing into the forest following my original experience in the meadow. I guess it's hard to follow a straight line when you're constantly sneezing and your eyes are so swollen and watery you can barely identify your own hand. So I found myself taking an irritatingly roundabout, looping hike as I carefully retraced my footsteps back whence they came. I didn't dare deviate, though, because that could easily get me totally lost in the forest all over again.

I had woken that morning at 5:45 AM, according to my cell's digital clock. It was 7:05 AM when I started following my path back toward the meadow. At 10:22 AM, I finally noticed the tree growth thinning a bit, and a flood of relief washed over me. I still had a little ways to go, but it was obvious my effort wasn't all for naught.

Curiously, I had been noticing some incongruous disturbances in the litter where my trail was. I was by no means a tracker, but certain irregularities kept standing out in what had become a familiar pattern of debris shifted around by my footfalls and kicks. It was almost like another animal had been trailing me. That made my blood run cold. Images of a hungry wolf, mountain lion, or black bear sniffing intently at my sweaty, feverish scent-trail, salivating at the thought of a wounded animal and an easy meal, flashed through my head. Thank god Hunny-Bear had found me when he did!

I shook my head violently. Why did I keep thinking of this as real? I bit back tears at the sinking realization I might be genuinely mentally ill. I kept worrying about "running into the rabbit" or "what Hunny-Bear would do to me" or... I had taken general psych in college and was reasonably educated enough to have a vague understanding of severe mental disorders. I knew that some, like schizophrenia, could often descend upon people rapidly and with little warning, consuming their life. Wasn't high stress a good trigger for certain psychological disorders to manifest? What was more stressful than being hopelessly lost in dangerous wilderness?

I stopped, took a very deep breath, noticed my boobs rising, as had become the usual, and let it out slowly. With an enormous effort, I convinced myself to calm down and just focus on getting through this. Everything else could be sorted out once I knew I was going to live past the week.

Pausing gave me a chance to examine the surroundings a bit. I had been keeping such a brisk pace this whole time, what with the over- long path I had to wind through, that I had been focused rather myopically on the ground right in front of my feet and making sure I didn't lose the subtle disturbances in the undergrowth that would keep me headed home.

So, deciding I had made sufficient headway - it was only 10:29 AM now - I paused, caught my breath, glanced around at the beauty of the forest. Tall, thick pine trunks dotted my vision, and a rich forest floor of ferns, grasses, and other plants poking up out of a heavy layer of dead needles, dry leaves, twigs, logs, branches, dirt, mushrooms, lichen, moss, and little scurrying bugs here and there filled in the gaps between the trees. The air was still cool and crisp, though a lot more light was filtering in at this point, and the thick, earthy scent of the soil mixed with the rich pine aroma to make for a very satisfying smell.

I was about to keep moving when I noticed that a cluster of mushrooms - just to the side of the disturbed litter that marked my trail - had been eaten recently. Probably some enterprising forest rodent, like a squirrel or raccoon, I pondered. The chew marks were still quite visible and the remaining mushroom caps and stalks had only mildly browned and wilted, indicating it was a recent meal. My heart thrummed a little; I hoped I wasn't seeing the experimental meal of a bear cub or something.

In fact, wow, was it ever recent - I could still see some shiny saliva on the mushroom stalks where they had been bitten off! Stooping closer, my curiousity outweighing my fear, I realized it wasn't saliva. It was too thick, looked too viscous, had a mildly golden hue, and was semi-opaque. But it was shiny, which is what had given me the initial impression. Let me put it this way: if it was saliva, it was the kind of saliva exuded by Star Wars monsters, not any animal I'd ever heard of.

Was the thing sick? Maybe it was bear-snot, or pus oozing from a wound. Maybe the mushrooms were toxic and caused blisters to form as soon as some hapless fox brushed against them. I kept examining the shiny slime, fascinated by how it had gotten there. I leaned in for an even closer look, sniffing the air to see if it had a readily- identifiable scent. Maybe it was some amphibian's slimy eggs. Maybe a giant snail had eaten these mushrooms! Maybe -

Before I really realized what I was doing, an urge that had been building at the back of my muscles suddenly sprung into control, and I slid my finger into the viscous goo and stuck it into my mouth, sucking it clean. Then I spit furiously.

What was I doing? Was I retarded? Who knew what that stuff was! It could be diseased or poisonous! And if it wasn't, the mushrooms probably were! I crouched there, clutching my stomach anxiously, contemplating sticking a finger down my throat to make myself throw up. That actually sounded kind of fun, but that wasn't the point. I pondered my actions for a few more seconds.

Then I ripped the mushrooms out of the ground and began sucking eagerly on their bitten stems, taking every last drop and trace of the goo off of them. After a frenzied 30 seconds or so, I finally detected I was just sucking on raw mushroom, and disinterestedly tossed the clump of fungi onto the dirt near me.

And once again, my actions finally registered with me. I had been vaguely aware I was doing something stupid, but so overwhelmed with the urge to do so that I had utterly ignored my saner protests. Now I crouched on the ground, feeling rather nauseous and disturbed. Why did I do that? I was probably going to get sick now, if not from some woodland creature's STD, then from some mushroom toxin or just common disease-spreading microorganisms that lurked on unclean surfaces.

Well, I tried to feel nauseous and disturbed. Truth be told, I felt pretty fine. Good, even. My stomach felt better, and even the itching seemed to have gone down... a little. I sort of felt like a little kid being chastised by an adult for trying to run around naked. Like, I hadn't done anything wrong, and I knew it felt right, but the authoritative part of my brain felt compelled to scold me anyway more out of pressured habit than any real good reason.

I looked down. Was my body really female? Or was I rocking in the corner of a mental asylum cafeteria, sucking on a spoon I was hallucinating into a clump of mushrooms? Or, you know, something along those lines? If so, why did everything feel so real? Why didn't this experience have any of those characteristic dream-tics that clued you in that physics and reality weren't quite applying? Sure, lots of weird... really weird... shit was happening, but it all followed, I dunno, the logical rules of existence. It didn't feel like a dream or a delusion.

Then again, I thought grimly as I stood up, don't delusional people often think their experiences are totally real? Isn't that the whole problem with being delusional? I sighed. This wasn't getting me anywhere, and with a glance at my cell phone - No Service, Wednesday, 10:34 AM - I gathered my wits back together, spat a few more times to get the admittedly harmless flavor out of my mouth, and then focused back on the trail I was following.

- XIV -

I was right when I observed that the trees were thinning noticeably, because after 10 more minutes of walking, I could see peeks of the vibrant green meadow in the distance, and hear its trickling blue stream. My heart danced even more. I was going to survive this! I was going to get out of this!

5 minutes after that, the running of the water was very audible, a light breeze could be heard rustling the grasses of the meadow, and some of the Crayola-colors of the giant flowers were beginning to show up quite clearly through the grasses. And a light humming sound, sort of like singing, could be heard. My blood froze. Was Carrot Topless back? Well, what if she was? I'd just punt her away at first sight this time and keep going. The only thing that harmed me the first time was that the freakish little lagomorph had the element of surprise on me.

10:54 AM, and I was at the break in the trees where the meadow started decisively. I crept out of the taller grasses that girded the forest's edge, peering carefully into the meadow. The humming - now clearly soft singing - was still audible, but I didn't care. I was getting out of here. I walked out into the meadow officially, the brightly-colored imagery and the very bright blue stream matching my memory perfectly.

And the sun was out! The warmth felt good after being in the cool forest for so long. I closed my eyes and basked in the sensation for a bit. If I waited here an hour or so, I could watch the direction of the sun and -

The singing. With my eyes closed, I placed the direction it was coming from easier, and also realized it had gotten closer. No - I had gotten closer, when I stepped into the meadow. It was coming from my left, which was out of my line-of-sight when I first entered the area. I slowly opened my eyes and turned in the direction of the soft little song.

And saw the pile of gray rocks next to the stream. The rocks that Carrot Topless had been sitting on originally.

But Carrot Topless wasn't sitting on them.

Hunny-Bear was.

And he was looking directly at me with a happy smile on his face, as if he'd been watching me ever since I first showed up at the edge of the meadow.

As if he'd been waiting on that rock for hours.

As if I'd just walked right into his trap like a stupid little girl.

As if his already-erect penis had been waiting for me, too.

- XV - He smiled at me warmly and pointed one arm-paw at it, as if inviting me cordially.

My eyes flicked from his warm smile and sincere, twinkling, beady little eyes, down toward his penis. They didn't have to flick very far, since it was so long for his body. So large. So big. And huge. And thick. And smooth. And so very erect.

My mouth was watering, and my lips were quivering a little. I fumbled clumsily for my cell phone, my eyes never leaving his erect penis. I tried to tear them away, but quickly lost patience with that battle and just held the cell phone's display in between my eyes and his penis, allowing me to switch focus to look at it.

No Service.

I turned to run. Well, I turned. My legs were shaking a little, and it was hard to make them move, like they had wet cement in place of muscle. I yelled over my shoulder: "Y-you're not keeping me here! I'm not going to be your captive or slave or whatever!"

I waved the cell phone above me frantically, my arm feeling like jelly. "See this? I've... I've sent a text message out. They're going to send help! They're going to come help me!"

Silence. Hunny-Bear didn't reply. I risked a glance over my shoulder, making sure to will my eyes to stay on his face. He was just smiling at me bemusedly. I almost started crying, but held it back.

"I... I'm getting out of here! Don't chase me or you'll... or they'll probably find you and... and arrest you!" My voice was quivering. I tried to run but found myself taking sluggish, shaky steps. I didn't even know where I was going. I didn't have time now to check the sun's direction, or carefully search for the old path that had lead me to this meadow originally. It would be a hopeless dash, but I could get away from him and find a signal pocket and -

"Oh, Bussie-Bopper!" he exclaimed in a friendly, sympathetic tone, "I do feel so terrible tricking you, but it's for your own good! If other people found you, why, they'd take you away, and then your condition would get much worse!"

I turned back to look at Hunny-Bear, slowly and shakily. My stomach felt cold already.

"I love all the new friends I meet so very dearly. I can't bear to see one consumed and destroyed by the bussie-bopper infection! If I didn't keep you here, oh, you'd think you were getting to safety, but then you'd realize just how dire a situation you were in... and it'd be too late to save you then! I'd never find you in time!" Hunny-Bear's expression seemed genuinely apologetic now. My stomach sank further.

"W..." I began, my voice rattling horribly with anxiety and... something else. "W-What did you... what did you do?" I asked, my voice falling apart but my intense feminine eyes piercing, warning daggers.

Hunny-Bear threw his arms up and let them flop down as he let out a dejected, exasperated sigh. "Oh, my dear friend, my dear Bussie- Bopper! I had to! I had to tear the little antenna out of your cellular telephone, you see, because I had a feeling you might try to use it to escape! And that would be bad for you, so bad for you, I simply couldn't allow it!"

I didn't even reply. I just slowly turned the cell phone over and looked closely at the antenna area. A thin line - around the label that warned you not to put your finger there while talking, lest you disturb your signal - was the only indication it had been tampered with. I pressed my shaking fingernail into it and worked a gooey, glue-like substance out, absent-mindedly sucking it off my fingertip. The re-positioned plastic popped off, and inside what had once been the antenna technology was an empty, mangled mess with a few scraps of shattered, gold-plated green plastic still wedged inside.

My eyes stared, but at nothing in particular. I was defeated. Found, trapped, and my one weapon totally robbed from me. Far away, I heard the cell phone slide out of my hand and hit the ground below with a dull plastic 'paff'.

I was going to turn, or run, or... I don't know. I was going to do something, keep fighting, keep trying to escape. But then Hunny-Bear coughed lightly, and I looked over to him. His cock was still quivering erectly in the bright meadow sunlight. The pang in my appetite ripped through me again. The itching of my skin came to my attention once more. The shaking in my legs, the quivering in my body, the cold electric feeling up and down my spine... it wasn't fear, this whole time. I kept ignoring it, but it was giddy, guilty, secret desire being forced to fruition. And now my hopes were broken and there was nothing to dangle in front of my brain as a shield.

I felt the short, crisp grass of the meadow slide and rustle under my bare feet. I felt my jacket sliding off my shoulders, my shirt being tugged distantly off my neck. I felt my tiny, rounded little feet step first one, then the other out of my dropped trousers.

I felt my feet contact the cold, clean water of the stream for one, two, three, four, and a half steps. Splish, splash, splish... Then they were drying in the sunlight. I felt myself take a few more steps until I was in front of the pile of gray rocks that served as the throne of my tormentors twice now.

My knees felt the grass brush them, gently, tickling. My field of vision was dominated by a smooth, golden, thick cock with delightful little ripples and veins bulging out its surface aesthetically, all 13 erect inches of it. The girth was mind-boggling.

I saw my hands reach out, tiny, smooth, pretty little hands attached to thin little limbs, and both wrap around it, fingertips just overlapping, holding it worshipfully, the amazing warmth radiating into my palms wonderfully.

I saw his face smiling down eagerly at me, looking friendly and caring instead of lustful and dominating. I was almost disappointed.

I saw his cock again. I saw it tilting towards me as my hands manoeuvered it, and then I saw it getting closer, and closer... my heart battering against my chest like it might explode at any moment, I smelled the delightful scent of a fresh, healthy cock, and then my lips were around its head, giving it an exploratory suck, and then, satisfied, they descended further, hungrily, seeking more, more...

I felt a place between my legs flare up with heat and begin leaking down my thighs. Floating above it all, I gloried in the visceral presence of these unfurling new genitals.

I felt my mouth fill, then cram, then become painfully stretched as my eyes stared at the little belly button on the plump golden stomach I was trying to reach. Like floating through a dream, I just kept working through the soreness, distending my jaw like an anaconda, feeling inch after inch slide past my lips.

At some point I gave up on that goal, without really giving it much thought, because it was becoming anatomically implausible. I didn't really think of it that way, I just... got bored, I guess, and backed up, feeling the glans pop back out of my throat.

I felt my hands roving up and down the length I couldn't fit in my mouth as my tongue and lips played along happily while I bobbed up and down slowly, sometimes drifting one hand to admiringly caress a large and heavy testicle or just feel the thin, pleasant scrotal skin. Hunny-Bear was so delightfully smooth all over.

This vague, far-away haze eventually broke as I felt the erection tense, and I knew quite well what that would mean. Hunny-Bear let out his adorable, happy gasp like before, and both of my hands flew to his testicles, roving over them in slow, gentle strokes as my lips took firm hold about a quarter of the way down his massive penis. A supernova began to explode out from my brain and my crotch simultaneously, making me quiver with pleasure and anticipation.

The familiar flavor burst, then oozed, into me orally, jet after jet which I kept swallowing as fast as my throat muscles could manage. That sweet, happy flavor permeated to every corner of my mouth, flowed between my teeth, coated my tongue, laminated my throat, seeped into my vocal chords and made them tingle with warmth, comfort, delight...

I know it stopped coming... he stopped coming... at some point, but I kept stubbornly sucking on the deflating cock, since that was fun too, in a different way. Eventually I ended up with my head propped against Hunny-Bear's thigh, lying lazily in his lap, sucking methodically on his big, flaccid penis while he gently stroked my sandy blonde hair. I closed my eyes and purred happily, basking in the warm sunlight, the awesome cock, and the gentle affection.

"Oh, dear friend, I'm so glad I guessed right about where I'd find you." he said softly, relief in his voice.

I reluctantly let the cock slide out of my fuller lips with a muffled 'pop'. "Me too," I murmured, my voice soft and feminine, then quickly used my tongue to get the cock back into my mouth as I nuzzled closer to my Hunny-Bear.

- XVI -

I woke up once more to the feeling of warm, gentle sunlight filtering onto my face, and a massive headache.

Well, not really. But it felt like I should have a headache. Does that make any sense? Like, after all the intense experiences of the previous day and night before, which were dancing at the fringes of my memory and trailed off abruptly near the end, it seemed like an appropriate time to wake up with a headache.

Instead, actually, I felt great. Just... refreshed, and cleansed, and full of clarity and vigor. Better than I'd woke up in a long time.

Then the grogginess cleared out of my head, and my eyes shot open. Everything came flooding back. Including what had been in my mouth in the last memory I had before waking up. I spat reflexively, my skin crawling.

Well, that's what I would have liked to say. Instead I just thought about it a bit, and couldn't manage to work up much reaction. In fact, a tingly little thrill buzzed up my spine at the thought of having Hunny-Bear's cock in my mouth. A vehement part of my mind raged embarassedly that this was all wrong and I should feel disgusted and violated, but... I just didn't.

A quick flip of the quilt revealed my body was still quite female as well. I acknowledged this as weird and obligationally disturbing also, but again, just couldn't work up more of a reaction than a flippant shrug. I poked my right boob a few times and giggled at its indignant, wobbling response, then lost interest. I just felt too great to really care about anything. You know that feeling? Like when you manage to get it just right and have a perfect night's sleep, and you wake up feeling like your bed is the best place in the whole world you could ever be, and the sheets feel like cozy lovers you refuse to budge from, and even your biggest problems just can't quite get through the happy energy circling your brain like an electron cloud?

Yeah, I was feeling like that. So I just brushed a few strands of hair out of my face - it hadn't seemed to have grown past its chin- length - smiled dopily, and pulled the quilt back up over my head, rolling onto my side for a little more savory sleep.

- XVII -

I woke up, again, to the feeling of warm sunlight tickling my face out of sleep. I opened my eyes again, still feeling cozy and happy.

Wait, I realized. If I was feeling morning sunlight, then that meant... did I sleep all of yesterday away? I fumbled for my cell phone briefly before I stopped and realized why I didn't have it with me, and that it was probably still on the ground in the Meadow. I did feel a little infuriated about that. The nerve of Hunny-Bear, breaking my property like that! And to keep me here? Like some prisoner? Did he think I was just going to sit around and take it?

Glancing down, I realized I was indeed sitting around, under the covers in his guest bed, luxuriating in how cozy I felt. Maybe he had a point. I certainly didn't feel like escaping, not when I was this comfy. Really, I was just mad that he would do that to my stuff without explaining his reasoning first. That was a perfectly good cell phone.

Not that I needed a cell phone anymore, though. I stopped. Had I really just thought that? But at the moment, it seemed true. My attempts to escape had all proven utterly pointless, and... and Hunny-Bear seemed awfully nice, and it was a rather pleasant environment here, very soothing, so little stress...

A part of me, a mischievous and dancing little devil riding up and down my spine from my pelvis to my brain, was secretly adding another reason: if I stayed, I'd get more of Hunny-Bear's cock. But my brain ignored that one, like some prudish individual who tries to avoid being associated with a friend who's creating a scene somewhere by pretending not to know them.

The sound of short, padding footsteps caught my attention, ending my internal musings. Hunny-Bear was coming up the stairs. On the surface I tried to convince myself I didn't care at all, and remained flat on my back, quilt covering me, head on the pillow, idly pondering the ceiling. Deep down, my heart was skipping a little, secretly excited.

He appeared at the top of the stairwell and I smiled involuntarily. "Good morning, friend Bussie-Bopper!" he sang out cheerily, holding a tray with another pitcher of cold milk, some poached eggs, and a plate of steaming pancakes.

I couldn't help myself. I smiled brightly: "Good morning, Hunny- Bear!" I sang out. My female voice startled me. It wasn't beautiful or siren-like or what-have-you, but it definitely wasn't male. Not even little boy. It was a woman's voice, quite decisively. But I kept smiling regardless.

"Well!" he announced happily, "You finally seem to be in much better spirits, friend!" He set the tray down on the wooden TV tray near my bed. "Perhaps we've finally got that nasty bussie-bopper affliction under control!"

That made me feel better, knowing Hunny-Bear thought I wasn't sick any more. I looked back at the ceiling and closed my eyes, savoring the aroma of the pancakes and eggs. And... something... else.

I opened my eyes and turned to ask Hunny-Bear if he'd brought any other food, and found myself face-to-head with his erect cock. He must have seen the startled look in my eyes: "The fresher the medicine is, the better." he said gently, smiling wide.

My attempt at a show of indignance didn't even last long enough to be vocalized. I couldn't take my eyes off the beautiful, fleshy, erect rod of delicious masculine tastiness. Within a few moments I had sat up in bed, turned, and wrapped my lips around it, giggling with glee as I felt the bulging head push through into my mouth and give way to the (slightly) narrower main shaft. My tongue and my little hands joined the action enthusiastically, and soon I was rocking and groaning with primal pleasure at having this thing pumping in and out of me. The sensation of Hunny-Bear stroking my hair approvingly just made it even better.

And then, all too soon, it was over, and I was swallowing my medicine eagerly - but I wished I could have sucked for longer, first. I tickled his testicles as he unloaded in my mouth, and he giggled appreciatively and began flicking my nipples. That did it, and I felt the pleasant electric burning wash over my body from head to toe. Then he was done, and as he tried to back away from the bed I firmly grasped his cock and held him in place until I had vigorously licked him clean of any delicious excess. Then I flopped back onto the bed like a toy whose batteries had run dead, breathing slowly and dreamily in a lethargic, happy haze.

- XVIII -

I was woken - again - about 10 minutes later by Hunny-Bear rapping his stubby little arm-paw against the top of my head over and over again. "Up! Up, dozy friend! You can't sleep another whole day away!"

I groaned and rolled over to face him, the fear, the distrust, the confusion of previous times vacant from my eyes. Instead there was just a glittering, happy admiration, a playful desire to know and please him. "Do I have to?" I drawled, grinning lightly.

"Yes," he responded in a friendly manner, smiling, "I can tell the bussie-boppers have stabilized, which means we've got to get you up and about if we want your strength to come back!"

"Oh, very well," I pouted, sitting up and stretching luxuriously, running my tongue over my lips with mischievous happiness. I tousled my already-tousled hair a bit, then turned to look drowsily at the tray. "I wouldn't want your delicious breakfast to go to waste, after all."

"That's right!" he replied, then added: "Oh, friend Bussie! I am so, so very glad you're in such better spirits!"

He set the tray on my lap and poured me a cold glass of mugril milk, and we chatted while I ate.

"Aren't you hungry?" I asked, gesturing toward my plate invitingly.

He held up his stubby paw. "Oh, I've already eaten. Now that you're feeling better, perhaps you can take breakfast downstairs with me each morning?"

I smiled and nodded eagerly. "I'd love that!" I replied, hoping he didn't notice my uncontrollable glance at his crotch.

A few seconds passed in silence as I started in on my poached eggs. Then Hunny-Bear spoke up: "Friend Bussie, I would like to apologize." I glanced at him and stifled a laugh. His expression was so remorseful he looked like a wet cat.

"Yes?" I asked, trying to be solemn.

"For tampering with your cellular telephone." He glanced up toward me furtively, trying to gauge my reaction, I assume.

I had expected to confront him about this ever since I woke up and first thought about it. I had imagined the many angry things I would say to him about violating my privacy, lying to me, tampering with my personal possessions, and even risking my life and health!

But... now that I had the opportunity, I found myself forcing down a smile. So he had trapped me here. So what? He meant well. And it wasn't that much of a punishment, was it? Not with a cock like that around, it wasn't!

My eyes went wide at what had just slipped out of my brain. Since Hunny-Bear couldn't read my mind (at least, I don't recall him ever doing that), he misinterpreted the look on my face as one of anger. Hunkering down on the footstool, he covered his head with both arms and groveled out another apology, repeating his earlier statements about just trying to look out for me.

That was too cute. I just couldn't hold it in any more, and I burst out laughing. He looked up, confused. "Hunny-Bear, don't worry your little head about it. I was mad at you at first, but honestly, you're just the nicest bear I've ever met, and I know you didn't mean any harm by it. Let's just call it water under the bridge, huh?"

He looked infinitely relieved, and smiled a big smile. I kept staring at him, feeling an electric impulse building inside my chest. Then, I shut out the embarassed part of my brain that kept trying to hold me back, and gave in - I leaned forward and quickly planted a kiss on the tip of his little black nose. He turned beet red, and giggled nervously, staring at the floor, but smiling ear to ear.

I turned back to my breakfast, feeling strangely... pleased that I was able to make a guy nervous with a kiss. Isn't that what pretty girls did? Which was an odd thought, but... Then another thing crossed my mind, which was stirred up by thinking about the cell phone. It concerned that other room I had found:

"Hey, Hunny-Bear..." I began.

"Yes?" he replied happily, then added: "You know, Bussie, you can just call me 'Hunny'." He glanced at me shyly: "I mean, you know, that is... if you like."

I felt more flirty tingles flush through me, and smiled. "Oh, of course... Hunny." He smiled. "Anyway, uhm, I guess you know I wandered into your storage room the other day."

"Oh?" he began, then continued: "Oh, of course, since you found your cellular telephone. Yes, well, don't worry at all... my home is your home, especially now!"

I blushed and smiled at his generosity. "Oh... well, thank you! But, uhm, well I was wondering... the closet had a lot of clothes in it, and..."

"And they were your size?" he finished.

I nodded. "Why?" If we're being completely honest, part of this was motivated by a newfound sense of possessiveness about Hunny-Bear. I was a little, well, paranoid I guess, that he might be living with another girl.

He didn't laugh in a friendly manner. Instead he had a wistful, sad look on his face. "They belonged to Cris." he said, in a distant manner.

"Chris?" I asked, "As in Christopher?" For a moment I was glad it was just an old friend of his, not an old girl friend. Less to compete with. Did I just think that?

"No," he replied, "As in Cristina."

Damn it, I thought, disappointed. An old flame's stuff lying around the house. That's competition, for sure.

He continued: "She was the last person who came to live with me, but that was a long time ago."

Hunny-Bear seemed genuinely guarded and upset. I didn't want to pry. Well, yes I did. So I pried away: "What happened? If you don't mind me asking."

He smiled mildly. "No, not at all. She... well, she had a bad case of bussie-boppers too, actually. We had a lot of fun together... so many lovely days! But..."

"But?" I prompted, as he trailed off.

He buried his head in his paws, then cried out: "But one day I sent her out for mulberry muffins, and she wandered very far into the forest and was found by other people! And they tempted her so much with memories of her old City that she ran away from me in an impulsive moment."

"Oh my," I replied, patting his fuzzy little shoulder, "That's terrible!"

"No, no," he sniffled, "If she was happy it would have been fine. But she was bussie-boppered! And by the time I worked up the courage to travel very far away from here, and find her... oh, it was too late, it was far, far too late! The bussie-boppers had gotten to her completely, there wasn't a thing my medicine could do any more... she didn't even recognize me..."

The room fell into silence. Finally, I spoke, quietly: "Hunny?"

He seemed glad I had broken the silence, and looked at me with a little smile and a little happiness returning to his beady eyes: "Yes, Bussie?"

"Am I ... I'm stuck as a girl?" I asked, fidgeting my hands a bit.

He looked sad, and turned away. "Yes, I'm afraid so. That's the way the bussie-boppers always stabilize. The bussie-boppers are terrible little things, you're never quite the same after an encounter with them."

I glanced at my big, rounded breasts. No kidding. They looked vibrant and healthy in the morning sunlight, since I had let the quilt drop around my belly when I sat up to eat. I didn't care if Hunny-Bear saw me naked, of course. In fact, I rather preferred it, I thought with a giggle.

He looked up again. "Is something funny?"

I was stuck as a girl. I should be upset. I seemed to keep thinking that a lot lately, that I should be upset. Always "should". But I never actually was, so I decided to stop doing it, and just let myself feel as OK and happy as I actually did.

I smiled naughtily at him: "Oh, no. I was just thinking that my pancakes were kind of dry."

He seemed genuinely shocked. "Oh dear! Oh, pother! What an inconsiderate host I am!" He stood up: "Let me go get you some butter immediately."

"No," I said, stopping him, "Actually, they could definitely use something, but butter isn't what I was thinking of..." I trailed off, grinning mischievously, as I playfully grasped his flaccid penis.

I've never had more delicious pancakes!

- XIX -

MY hands really weren't that tiny. I mean, in contrast to my big ol' man-hands I had before the bussie-bopper incident, they were much smaller. But they weren't really any tinier than the average adult woman's. Same with my boobs, and my butt, and... well, and pretty much everything else about me. I had been pretty toned and fit as a guy, and that transferred to my girly body, but other than that, I'd blend into a mall crowd - no sweat.

Those are the kind of observations I made as I primped my hair in front of Hunny-Bear's big powder-room mirror. That's what one of those two ground floor doors I had noticed led to. The other led to his bedroom. And there was a third, which hadn't been visible from the front door, which led to a big walk-in pantry.

I moved my hair behind my ears. Then I shook it back out so it hung in front of them. I couldn't tell which style I liked better. "I could use some hair clips or... one of those plastic hair band things," I muttered, then gave up on 'styling' my hair without a brush or clips or products.

I leaned my naked form closer to the mirror, the quilt still piled up on my bed two floors up. I loved walking around naked in my smooth female form; it felt so much more... I don't know... sensual and, uhm, aerodynamic? Whatever. Anyway, I leaned closer to my reflection and noticed that all my freckles had darkened up considerably after the hours spent basking in the sunny Meadow yesterday. How neat. I'd never had freckles before, and these worked just like the real ones!

And then Hunny-Bear was behind my reflection. I turned and verified that he was behind me in reality, too. "Ready to get all washed up?" he asked in his adorable, raspy little voice.

If it means I get to wash your cock, I thought lasciviously. I smirked inside my head at my unruly sexuality, but no longer flinched at it or chastised myself. Aloud, though, I replied: "Where? I thought this was your washroom."

He grinned. "No, this the powder-room, where all the grooming goes on. The washtub is out back!"

I briefly hesitated at the thought of washing myself, naked, in the open outdoors. Then I laughed, because we were so deep in the woods that no one was around for kilometers. Miles, even. And honestly, the thought of some surly band of hunters stumbling upon my skinny, naked little butt washing up just sent a thrill through my spine I can't describe. "Lead the way," I smiled, holding out - and down - my hand for Hunny-Bear to take.

He lead me out of the powder-room, a few feet to his doorway, and then into his bedroom. It was quaint and adorable, much like the third-floor guest room, but with a larger and more luxurious bedframe and a differently-patterned quilt. A big bookshelf occupied part of one wall, along with a small writing desk; another wall was taken up with a wooden sliding-door closet; and another featured a chest-of-drawers, a big storage trunk like my guest room had, and a large standing lamp. The last wall was prominently occupied with a big glass slider which led out to a patio adorned with wooden reclining chairs and ringed by a well-maintained flower garden.

I was lead through his bedroom - a tiny part of me thrilled at being invited into it - and out onto the patio, where the cool stone sent a chill through my feet and up my back. Then he lead me down-hill through a meandering path of stepping-stones to a small lake, around whose shore was a large white bathtub with a shower attached, a wooden bench right next to it, and various trays of soaps and shampoos and sponges and other wash-time accompaniments.

"Here we go," he said cheerily, and brought me up to the tub, then began fiddling with some knobs on the shower-pole. I noticed with dismay that the shower, being sized for Hunny-Bear, was a little low for me. He seemed to anticipate that thought, and continued: "Don't worry about the shower height, I've had enough people guests over my years... just grab it here... yes, like that... now tug up gently. Perfect!"

Perfect, indeed. The showerhead telescoped up to around 6 feet tall, and I could easily fit my 5'7" (maybe 5'6", I didn't really check) frame under it. "Just remember to put it back for me, I can't reach," he reminded with a smile.

He turned one more valve and a clunky-looking series of metal pipe pieces held together with all manner of makeshift nails, screws, and plumbing tapes rattled to life, extending all the way down into the lake. Then the ice-cold water sprayed onto me like horrible, frozen daggers, and I screamed loudly and brightly. Hunny-Bear, being cretinous, just laughed so hard he fell over onto his back, clutching his stomach and gasping for breath, as I danced around, shivering. "I suppose I should warn you that I haven't a water heater about, so the shower can be a bit chilly." I frowned threateningly.

Ten minutes later, teeth chattering wildly, nipples like iron thimbles, I was cleaned up nicely and drying off with a towel provided by Hunny-Bear. I wrapped it around myself pathetically, trying to feel any form of warmth. Then I felt Hunny-Bear tap my thigh, and I looked down at him: "Bussie, friend, could you adjust the shower please?" I glared at him morosely, tugged the shower-head back to its shorter height, and turned back around to continue pouting in the sun.

Later, as we walked back uphill the stepping-stones toward the Oak- House, Hunny-Bear chuckled a little more and then spoke up: "Are you really that dreadfully angry with me about the water prank?"

My iron frown melted into a smile. "No," I replied, patting his head. "Sorry if I got nasty about it."

He just laughed. "It's alright, I don't blame you. I can be just rotten sometimes, but I do mean it all in good fun. Anyhow - there is a reason I've made sure you were all fresh and cleaned up bright and early today."

"Oh?" I asked.

"Well, you've expressed interest in seeing mugril, haven't you?" he dangled.

"I have?" I replied, then tried not to sound mean: "Well, I guess I've been curious ever since you mentioned it, but you were the one who suggested me visiting."

He nodded, seemingly unfazed by my modest enthusiasm: "Oh yes, and also that you try your hand out at milking mugril! I mean, heavens, you enjoy her milk every morning, it's only fair you get to know her."

I smiled. Hunny-Bear had such a quaint, country-folk way of seeing things... like you should make friends with the cow you get milk from, since "it's only fair". I ruffled his ears a bit playfully, causing him to squirm with irritation and fluff them back into position. "Alright," I said, "you're right. In fact, I can't wait to see this 'mugril'. I've had goat's milk, cow's milk, soy milk, even donkey's milk, and I think human's milk - you'll have to ask my mom there - but I've never even heard of a mugril. So this should be an interesting experience."

"Oh, I rest quite assured," he replied, elated, "that very few people have ever heard of a mugril!"

- XX -

WE returned to the Oak-House, and I finished drying off and tidying up in the powder-room. Hunny-Bear, helpful little thing that he was, provided me with a finely-carved wooden comb and a smooth-bristled wooden brush, which made working with my new, longer hair much easier. Then I strolled out - well, approximated a stroll as best you can when you're 5'7" and living under a 5 foot ceiling - naked as nature and feeling not the slightest bit self-conscious about it. I even loved the way my partially-stooped posture in the downstairs rooms caused my boobs to hang down below me and sway sensuously, reveling in the thought of what it must do to any boys watching. Like Hunny-Bear.

Well, actually, Hunny-Bear was pretty gentlemanly about it. I definitely noticed - or felt - his eyes on my tits quite often, but I didn't care; it turned me on, more than anything else. For the most part, though, he kept eye contact when we spoke and never made much of a deal about my female form. At least, not during the work- day, as it were.

I'm getting ahead of myself. So anyway, I stoop-strolled out of the power-room, raring to go milk a mugril, but Hunny-Bear was already waiting for me there in his little red T-shirt and trucker's hat, along with the two big metal pails he had been carrying the first time I saw him. He tut-tutted. "Where do you think you're going, looking like that?"

I froze, and frowned, feeling suddenly self-conscious and embarassed in a previously wonderfully free environment. "What's wrong?" I asked, trying not to cry.

Hunny-Bear looked mortified, and then laughed. "Oh! Oh dear Bussie, I do apologize. I don't find anything wrong about you at all, you are an exquisite little specimen through and through. I merely meant that if we're to go visit mugril, you musn't be naked like that. Even I have to dress, you see?" And he gestured to his hat and shirt, seemingly oblivious to his lack of trousers.

"Oh. Your mugril is a prude?" This was getting weird - a cow that wanted its owners clothed - but I tried to keep the word "weird" in perspective, all things considered.

Hunny-Bear laughed heartily at that, then a little sadness twinkled in his eyes. "You could say so, but I wouldn't put it quite like that. Let's just say it would not be appropriate for either of us, and especially you, to show up buck-naked in front of such a creature."

I stared, then clamped down any further questions I had. One thing I was beginning to learn about this experience was when to just shut up and accept the rules of this little world. So I shrugged: "Okie- dokie. What do I wear, though? I think I left my clothes in the Meadow."

"I gathered them up for you, my dear - no sense littering! - but they wouldn't well fit you, anyway." I could only nod agreement. "But surely you recall the upstairs storage-room?"

I nodded, smiling happily - then stopped, and my blood froze solid. Oh god! That... that creepy little spider-thing! I had killed it, hadn't I? It was a panic response, but... what if it was Hunny- Bear's friend? Oh god, would I be put on trial before a tribunal of woodland creatures? Horrible images of a large hippopotamus in a powdered wig slamming his gavel down as a jury of mixed mammals, birds, and reptiles chanted "Smash her with a shoebox! Smash her with a shoebox!" flashed through my mind, and I shuddered.

"Is something wrong with the storage room?" he asked, bewildered by my reaction.

"I... uhm..." I stammered.

"Did you run into Sam the Spider while you were up there?" he asked.

The cold feeling on my skin turned to dancing hot needles. "Uhm..." I squeaked meekly.

"I know he can be rather gruff, but honestly, he's almost never in. I let him rent out a web-space in my closet because he says the moths around here are the most delicious in the whole Forest, but usually he's out solving cases for months at a time. Honestly, he's the best detective in the whole Forest." rambled Hunny-Bear obliviously.

"Oh." I said, still feeling like I was going to pass out from anxiety.

"Come on, come on, let's get you dressed! If Sam startles you that much, I can evict him... for heaven's sake, you're much more important to me, dear Bussie!" said Hunny-Bear, tugging on my arm.

His warmth and sincerity was so touching, I almost cried again, in a different way. "Oh, OK, Hunny." I smiled, following after him, rolling my eyes. I figured that whatever ended up happening with that spider-thing's corpse, Hunny-Bear would be kind to me. And I did sort of deserve to be punished, didn't I? That turned me on a little. Why? An image of Hunny-Bear bending me over a stool and smacking my padded backside with a ping-pong paddle flashed into my mind, and I flushed a little. Wow, when did I become so submissive? The word "submissive" made a happy heat flash out from my groin to my brain, and my knees felt an intense desire to be in contact with the ground.

Hunny-Bear turned around. "Are you alright, Bussie?"

He shouldn't have turned around. Not with that thing swinging between his fuzzy, stubby little legs. My knees kissed the ground and I kissed something else before he could protest, or react at all.

- XXI -

ONE blowjob later, a beet-red and grinning Hunny-Bear was leading me into the closet of the storage-room. I knew I should feel nervous about the imminent discovery of Sam the Spider's mutilated corpse, but honestly, I was floating on cloud-nine, my crotch pleasantly soaked with my own arousal after giving such exciting head to my companion there.

The door creaked open, and he tugged the light on. "Oh, it seems Sam cleaned the mirror for us." he replied immediately, noticing the lack of dust on the reflective rectangle. I said nothing, glancing anxietally at the clothing I had piled over the sticky remains of Sam's ichor.

"S-so, uhm," I stammered, my voice warbling uncontrollably, "uhm, w- what's am I gonna wear, Bu... Hugunny-Bare?" As much as I tried to keep my tongue under control, my nerves were betraying me.

He giggled. "Are you so scared of spiders, my dear Bussie? Rest assured Sam would never hurt you, except possibly with second-hand smoke." He kept flitting through the rows of hangers on either side of us, making a little 'tch' sound every time, as if he wasn't finding what he wanted. "Ah!" he exclaimed, and pulled out a blue, long-sleeved blouse that would hang down to my knees. I frowned at it, but he ignored me and kept looking on the other side.

Soon he finished, and seemed disappointed. "I know it's in here." Then he looked to the pile of clothes on the floor. "Oh! It must be mixed in down there." My heart sank.

"Can't I just wear something else?" I asked nervously.

"No," he replied, barely listening.

"Please? I... I really want to get going before the whole morning is up." I said, trying not to make myself too obvious. If he went deep enough in that pile, he'd find the pile of spider-goo and moustache hairs that would give my crime away -

He laughed. "We've got plenty of time. Oh, but it's good to see you so enthusiastic, Bussie! You must feel so much better. Rotten bussie-boppers..." he muttered, trailing off and continuing to pluck one item at a time out of the pile of clothes, examine it, and then toss it aside.

Another item. A pale pink halter-top. He was about halfway through the pile.

Another item. A crisp white blouse.

Another item. A black, satiny bra.

Another item. A simple, pale green T-shirt.

Another item. A tight-fitting denim jacket. He was about 3/4 through the pile now.

Another item. A black-and-red lace-up corset. A few more scraps of clothing and he'd hit paydirt. My heart leapt into my throat.

Another item. A rich brown spaghetti-strap with a low-cut chest and back. Any moment now, he'd find the remains of Sam the Spider. I closed my eyes.

And he exclaimed happily. I cracked one eye open - exactly one piece of fabric remained draped over the spot where I had smashed Sam the Spider to bits. One thin garment - a crisp, fashionable white-and- yellow sundress - was all that stood between the floor and Hunny- Bear's eyes.

But he didn't bother with it, because he already had what he wanted: a big, pale-blue skirt that looked like it would cover me from hip to toe. As with the blouse, I frowned involuntarily. It was ugly.

That was outweighed, though, by my happiness that he hadn't found the remains, and I casually piled the clothes back up over the site of the murderous deed while he busied himself looking for something else. A deep breath of relief was released from me, and my heart started to calm down.

Until I saw him get out a step-stool and begin rummaging around on the shelf full of shoeboxes. The shoeboxes, one of which had the entire mangled corpse of Sam the Spider deposited in it. Ice floes drifted through my blood all over again.

"Do I really need shoes?" I barked out, "I love the feel of the cool forest floor between my toes! It's very fine!"

Hunny-Bear gave me an odd look, then smiled and shook his head. "You do need to get out and about, I'm afraid, my friend. Too much time all cooped-up in bed has made you quite stir-crazy!" Then he kept rummaging through the boxes.

One box opened - no, not what he wanted.

Another box - no, not what he wanted.

Another, and another, and another - no, no, no.

And then he was three boxes away from ... from the one I had stuffed Sam's body into.

The first box opened. A pair of 3-inch pumps in a deep turquoise, with a rich brown layered heel. Not what he wanted.

The second box opened. My heart hammered. A pair of black flats, with a gradient of gray lines extending back from the toes to give them a vertigo-inducing look. Very cool. Not what he wanted. No!

"Can we please go?" I whined frantically, tugging on him. He shooed me away with a chuckle, as if he assumed I was being silly on purpose.

The last, fateful box was picked up. And opened. He stared for a few moments, then held it up for me to see. Oh, god. He wanted me to look at what I had done. He wanted me to see -

To see -

To see a pair of ankle-high black clogs with a golden-clasped black strap over the middle, and a thick wooden base and heel.

And no corpse. Anywhere. Not a trace to be seen.

"Go ahead, take them out so I can put all this back," he said, smiling.

"Uhm." I said. I didn't want to touch them! They had dead spider parts all over them! At least... I remembered them having dead spider parts...

He laughed. "Go on, they won't bite!"

I couldn't stall any more, so I gingerly picked up each shoe, clasping them between thumb and forefinger, and set them on the ground as fast as possible. He laughed again: "I take it you don't like the outfit I'm preparing."

I could answer this honestly: "No, not really."

He grinned. "It's OK, I don't blame you. But you'll get it when we're done." Then he went back to rummaging: "Now where is that bonnet..."

- XXII -

TWENTY minutes later I was stepping through the forest, dressed as a milkmaid. Blue dress, white apron, long-sleeved darker-blue overcoat with white cuffs, and a crisp white bonnet tied around my chin to complete the look. I held a metal pail in one hand, as my black clogs chuffed through the dirt and leaf litter, and Hunny-Bear held the other pail.

He seemed terribly amused. "I do hope you won't hold this against me," he began, "It just seemed like an appropriate way to be introduced to mugril."

His use of the word "mugril" kept confusing me. "Is it one mugril, or several?" I asked, my complaints about the outfit having worn themselves out while we got ready to leave the Oak-House.

"Mugril." he corrected me.

I stared at him. "That's what I said, mugril."

"You keep saying 'mugril', it's mugril." he replied.

I stared blankly. The two versions sounded exactly the same to me. "Whatever." I finally replied, shifting my attention to my shoes. Despite having no visible traces of spider-guts anywhere on them, I thoroughly remembered tossing Sam the Spider's mangled body in with this pair. Certain objects, even if they appear spotless on a visual inspection, just seem filthy at the molecular level. Like a pillowcase that's had cat poop on it, no matter how times you wash it. So I didn't feel comfortable walking in them.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have felt comfortable walking in them even if they seemed totally clean to me. It had been so long since I'd worn any footwear that it felt downright uncomfortable to cover up my feet. In fact, all my clothing felt uncomfortable. I had a very strong desire to be naked. Maybe it was the wilderness setting. Maybe it was Hunny-Bear. Maybe it was strange, upside-down brain chemistry. I dunno.

"I just really want these clothes off," I commented as we approached the Crest.

Hunny-Bear giggled. "I know, I know. Just please, humour me. You'll understand why we should be clothed, really, you will."

"Fine," I said, "But do I have to be clothed like this?"

He grinned. "It makes you look frumpy and proper."

I grimaced. "And that's a good thing?"

He nodded. "Usually not. But this time, yes, it is."

Soon we were standing atop the Crest, the big hill near the Oak- House where I had first encountered Hunny-Bear. I'd never actually been at its apex before; the pine trees grew thick all over it, but between their trunks you could look below and see over many of the trees at the ground level. In the distance, poking through a few of the shorter tree-tips, I thought I spied the unnaturally bright green of the Meadow's grass.

Hunny-Bear directed my attention down the hill, opposite the way we had arrived, to a quaint little home that looked to be about the size of a small barn. It had a white picket-fence and a small flower garden full of bright yellow blossoms around its perimeter. Bluebirds and bees flitted among the leaves. "That's your barn?" I asked.

"Sort of," he replied. "I do call it the Barn, but it's more of a home."

I furrowed my eyebrows, then shrugged and descended down the Crest with him, my milk pail swinging and ka-tanking noisily. As we got closer, it became apparent that the front door had no handle. It apparently swung open and closed like a barn gate. "Not much privacy, is there?" I asked.

Hunny-Bear shrugged. "She's not too concerned about it, I expect."

"That's true, huh? She is an animal, after all." I replied. Then I looked at Hunny-Bear. "Well, not like you are." I added.

He smiled. "Inside the wilderness, we're all animals. Some are a little sharper than others." he said wryly, tapping his head.

We stopped a few feet from the barn-house-thing-place's front door- gate-object. "Should I wait for you here?" I asked.

He shook his head. "No, no, we don't just barge in. That would be rude, even to mugril."

I rolled my eyes. Right. We musn't upset the cattle by violating their privacy, even though we'd shortly be groping their tits for milk. That, of course, gave me an idea, and I had to firmly keep my hands at my side to resist rubbing a nipple. Then I startled, as I heard Hunny-Bear call out:

"Moo!" He was mooing? "Moo-ooooo!" No, it didn't sound like an imitation of a cow noise, it just sounded like the word "moo" being called out. He waited a few moments. I heard a rustling noise from inside the house, and the tinkling of a bell. And a snort. Then Hunny-Bear repeated: "Moo, come out friend Moo! Milk time, Moo!" The rustling and shuffling noises continued, then the bell sounded rapidly, as if shaking. And then I heard a bump against the front door-gate, and it swung open with a very soft creak.

And out shambled...

A girl. A girl on her hands and... feet, walking with her butt thrust up into the air. Not your average girl, though.

Her hair was jet-black, and would have hung to her waist if she was standing, but was tied into two thick braids which hung on either side of her head and instead dangled below her, brushing against the ground as she moved forward. Her entire body was chalk-white, save for black splotches here and there, just like a cow-pattern. It didn't seem to be fur; her skin seemed to be genuinely milk-white with black patterning.

Her hips were very, very wide, and round, and her ass was enormous. It didn't look bovine, it just looked like a big, big girly ass; but it didn't wobble, it was quite firm. A ropy tail extended from where her tailbone should have stopped, and was crowned with a silky, shiny puff of black hair that had the shape of a cartoon paintbrush- tip. It swung back and forth of its own accord.

Her legs and arms, in addition to her hands and feet, seemed perfectly human in shape, musculature, and proportion. Actually, her thighs were perhaps a bit thicker than you'd expect. Other than that she was very "normal" in appearance, which was odd considering she walked on her hands and feet. You'd think that her palms and soles would look tougher than they did, but they seemed quite soft and fleshy. I noticed her fingernails and toenails looked manicure- healthy and shiny, and had little black and white cow patterns painted - or naturally occurring - on them.

Her face, too, was human. It looked like a caricature of a beautiful woman, the kind you'd see in cartoonish pin-up art, with round high cheekbones, a petit upturned nose, big plump lips, thin and well- plucked eyebrows, and big, long, dark lashes. Her eyes were very big and wide, though heavy-lidded, and bright blue, a stark contrast to her otherwise monochrome body. The only inhuman part of her head was a pair of small, equally stark-white horns which poked through her hair near the front. A little golden bell, attached to a black collar, hung around her neck, tinkling lightly as she moved.

There was, as you might expect, one more feature to discuss. That would be her boobs. Maybe "udders" would be more appropriate, even though they had the shape and appearance of human breasts. They were... enormous. Unbelievable, really. The way she stood on her hands and feet, legs and arms fully extended, propped her torso, depending on the part of the angle you checked, about 3 to 4 feet off the ground. Her tits brushed it while she walked.

Yeah. They were... wow. Very firm, with a youthful bounce to them instead of a mature sway, and very round. They elongated pendulously under gravity, since she was bent over, but they still had a smooth, luxurious, healthy curve to them. They had the same chalk-white skin with black patterning as the rest of her body, save for the big, pale pink nipples and areola which capped them off. And I mean big. Each one was about 10 centimeters long and thick as a carrot, but shaped like a human female nipple; that is, softly cylindrical and flattened at the tip.

She had four of them, two over her pectoral muscles where you'd expect a girl's boobs, and two more dangling in front of her thighs where you'd expect a cow's udder. They were all the same enormous size, and I wasn't quite sure how she moved so quickly and effortlessly, between being on her hands-and-feet and having two- pair bloated mammaries wobbling beneath her and dragging across the ground. She certainly jiggled ... a lot ... as she moved, and her big hips and butt swayed hypnotically, but she just kept her pert nose upturned and her big eyes forward and barely seemed to notice.

She blinked a few times, saw Hunny-Bear, and her face lit up. She strolled straight to him, the same smug, confident expression on her face, and he ruffled her hair as she reached him. "Hello, hello mugril! Ah, yes, that's a good mugril, yes it is."

Mugril. Mugril? Mu-gril... mu-girl... MOO-GIRL! It finally clicked in my head, and I felt immensely stupid. Hunny-Bear pronounced it so fast, and I had just assumed it was some unfamiliar species of milkable mammal. "Oh!" I exclaimed, "Moo-Girl! Duh! I get it now!" Hunny-Bear smiled, apparently realizing why I had been mispronouncing it also.

And then... Moo-Girl turned her head toward me, as if noticing me for the first time. Her eyebrows turned angry and she snorted.

- XXIII -

"EASY, friend Moo! Easy!" reassured Hunny-Bear, stroking along her neck and down her back. She closed her eyes and lowed lightly, smiling. Hunny-Bear turned to me: "Now you see why I told you to come clothed. Moo-Girl is... she's very possessive of me, and if we came looking like we were too..." he coughed, "friendly, she might have gotten very upset."

I backed up a little. Moo-Girl was very feminine, but also very Amazonian in size. She'd probably be almost 7 feet tall if she ever stood up. I didn't want her charging into me and breaking my internal organs open like ripe tomatoes. "Can't you just explain the situation to her?" I asked warily.

"Well, no, not really," replied Hunny-Bear. I glanced over and my mouth dropped open in shock at the sight of Moo-Girl hungrily wrapping her pale white lips around my Hunny-Bear's cock! He saw my expression and quickly made a 'calm down' motion. "She's not entirely sentient, the way you and I are. She's a little more primal than that." He gestured at his head, "The bussie-boppers did a real number on her head, I'm afraid."

"The bussie-boppers?" I exclaimed, shuddering involuntarily. "That could happen to me?"

"No," he assured me, "a very complicated set of circumstances befell poor Moo here. You're getting regular, proper treatment. But she... she got away from me a bit..." He was choking up. Realization dawned on me.

"Is that Cri - " I began, horrified, but he quickly held up a stubby paw:

"Don't say it." I stopped. "Don't say her... old name around her. It upsets her. Somewhere deep inside I think a tiny part of her remembers who - what - she used to be, and she can get wild if you wake it up. Best to just let her live in as much peace as we can."

"By using her for milk?" I asked, bewildered.

"It's doing her a favor," he replied, a bit chagrined, "See how swollen they are?" He gestured at her giant breasts, "That's because she hasn't been milked since last night. I milk her twice a day. Once in the morning, once before bed. Otherwise, she gets so swollen she starts crying out in pain and you can hear her from the House. The milk never stops coming for her, ever, and I'm afraid to think what might happen if I ever fell behind on my milking duties."

"And the milk is safe?" I asked warily.

"I've not noticed any side-effects. Bussie-boppers aren't transmitted through bodily fluids." he stated matter-of-factly.

"Oh. OK, then." I replied, trying to take it all in. I noticed that Moo-Girl had turned her perpetually-lifted backside to Hunny-Bear, and I saw for the first time her enormous, bright pink, swollen, oozing vulva. It looked human, but Super Sized, even for her proportions. The lips pulsed with her heartbeat and the skin around her labia and down her thighs was coated in multiple layers of dried vaginal fluids. Silky, short, jet-black pubic hair fuzzed up the area. She was lowing - basically moaning - insistently, in a way that conveyed sexual need very clearly, and rubbing her genitals up and down Hunny-Bear's erection, thrusting her ass against him, begging bodily to be fucked. "And this?" I asked, gesturing to her behavior.

"This," he replied, thrusting into her almost absent-mindedly as he turned to speak to me, "Is another effect of bussie-boppers allowed to rage out of control. She's constantly horny, and no amount of sex satisfies her. You should see the dildos and other toys I've got stockpiled in there," he gestured to the Barn, "just to keep her from breaking loose and wandering the forest looking for a partner. I go through this every time I milk her because it seems to be calming to her to receive my medicine, or maybe just contact another creature. It's also why she's so scarily possessive, I think... she doesn't want anyone taking her sex-friend away..." He looked down sadly at Moo-Girl.

Moo-Girl. Who used to be Cristina, Hunny-Bear's friend, also infected with bussie-boppers. Who had escaped back to civilization and been off Hunny-Bear's medicine long enough for the bussie- boppers to take over her body. To turn her into... into that, a crazily-proportioned, perpetually-lactating, sex-crazed cow-slut who spent the whole day walking around with her cunt thrust into the air, waiting for anyone willing, and helpless without someone to relieve her tits of their milk all the time.

And this could have been me. This could still be me, I thought, if it weren't for Hunny-Bear and his stubborn administration of my medicine.

I rushed forward and hugged Hunny-Bear tightly, blinking back tears of whole-hearted gratitude and love for the strange, compassionate little creature. Moo-Girl was too busy humping back and forth, lowing at the top of her lungs, little bell tinkling crazily, to notice or care; Hunny-Bear smiled at me affectionately.

Twenty minutes later, Moo-Girl was in much better spirits after being thoroughly fucked, and lay lazily on her side, tail swatting at the occasional bug, quietly fingering herself while Hunny-Bear milked her first two breasts into his big metal pail.

Then it was my turn, and at first I was terrified she'd kick me or something. But he guided my hand to one of her lower pair of boobs: "Milking is an excellent way to break the ice," he insisted. So I gently and cautiously placed my hand on the great big tit in front of me; Moo-Girl opened one eye, glanced at me, and let out a short, happy little 'moo', then closed her eye again and went back to basking in the sun with her masturbation.

I took the gargantuan boob between both hands and began squeezing down gently along its length in several smooth, slow passes; when Hunny-Bear told me to, I switched to tugging rythmically on the fat nipple at the end. Soon Moo-Girl let out a slow, happy sigh, and a squirt of milk splashed into the bucket. Then another, and another, and then a fairly steady stream began flowing out as one hand squeezed down the boob and the other tugged the nipple. "Yes! Very good! You're a natural, by George!" exclaimed Hunny-Bear happily.

And within another 20 minutes, my milk-bucket was also filled to the inside rim, and Moo-Girl's two lower boobs were emptied. As if aware of this, she grunted, then swung herself up onto to her hands and feet with surprising grace. She grinned naughtily and kissed me full on the lips, to my surprise, and then gave Hunny-Bear an affectionate lick up and down the length of his penis. Then she turned and trotted back into her Barn house. As she moved away, I could see her boobs no longer brushed the ground, but merely hung down to her wrists or kneecaps, respectively.

Hunny-Bear followed her into the Barn, and returned a few minutes later after a gentle hum had started up. "I put her favorite vibrator in her," he explained casually, "it'll keep her distracted, and when it falls out sooner or later, she'll be in a good enough mood to find something else to keep her occupied." I nodded blankly.

As we walked away, I contemplated asking him further about how he'd set up this relationship with Cristina, who it sounded like he had been very close to before she was taken away and then degenerated. But I decided to stop opening Hunny-Bear's old wounds, and let it lie.

- XXIV -

THE rest of the day continued in a similar vein, as Hunny-Bear had a remarkable number of chores that needed doing, and I was eager to help him out in exchange for his kindess and hospitality. Thankfully, he gave me permission to immediately strip out of the milkmaid outfit as soon as got home and put the milk-pails in the refrigerator, and I was able to spend the remainder of the day strolling around happily naked.

By the late afternoon, we were finally done with the day's business, including Moo-Girl's evening milking, and I felt dirty and sweaty - but also good and energetic. We arrived at the Oak-House with several bundles of grocery from Bargain Beaver's General Dam, and after busying myself putting everything away in the pantry and fridge, I came out to find Hunny-Bear naked (that is, his red T- shirt was gone), which immediately sent a thrill through me. We had been so busy with me learning the ropes of the household all day long that I hadn't gotten any cock since early morning!

But instead of erect, his penis was flaccid. He had two towels under his arm, and a bundle of wash supplies: "I expect you'd like to clean up again, before settling in for the evening?"

"Certainly!" I replied, bracing myself for the cold shower, but also bracing myself more against the smell of my sweaty armpits. Well, it wasn't that bad... it had a nice, girly musk to it... but still, I smelled like a hard day's work instead of a blooming flower. Or whatever.

So back we went, through Hunny-Bear's room (I got a thrill seeing his bed and imagining myself sprawled over it...), out the slider, past the patio, down the slope, to the tub. I started to telescope the shower up, but he stopped me: "I suppose you'd like something warmer than that brisk shower?" he asked.

I nodded. The afternoon had been warm due to the activity and sunny spots along the way, but the dusk air was chilly. He opened the bundle he had been carrying, and it wasn't wash supplies: it was firewood we had chopped together earlier in the day. Then he motioned under the tub, where I saw a little metal pit ... the tub could be heated! A warm bath! I shivered happily at the thought.

So we used the shower to fill the big white tub with chilly lake- water, and then waited while the fire below warmed the water to boiling. Hunny-Bear then placed a metal lid firmly over the little fire-pit, smothering out the flames, and we both gingerly lowered our naked bodies into the sauna-like water.

"Oooh," I hissed, "this feels very nice."

"Doesn't it?" he said, smiling wide. "I should explain my prank this morning was partially to make this experience that much more satisfying the first time."

I grinned at him. Every time I got mad or thought I hated Hunny-Bear for doing something irritating, I'd realize later that he had done it with a bigger, wiser plan in mind. I felt so humbled in his brilliant little presence. I leaned over and pecked him on the nose. He shocked me by splashing water into my face in response, soaking my hair. "How dare you?" I shrieked playfully, and splashed him back.

Soon the tub was half-empty after a vigorous water-battle, but half- empty was still quite deep enough for washing in the giant white basin, and we set about soaping ourselves up. Then we switched to soaping each other up. And then... well, then Hunny-Bear had to stop me and remind me that I probably didn't want to swallow a mouthful of soap suds, as I was leaning toward his erect cock. I had sort of caused that, since I gave it ... a lot... of extra attention while I lathered his body.

So I smiled, flicked on the shower valves, and watched him jump as the cold water pelted him. Fair's fair, right? But I turned the shower off soon enough, once all the soap was off his big delicious cock.

If you were watching from a distance, you would've seen my lithe silhouette bending down towards a gloriously large, erect penis, backlit by a beautiful red-and-orange sunset over the sparkling twilight lake water.

- XXV -

WE wandered back up the slope toward the house, dreamy and clean, playfully shoving each other as we wrapped our towels tighter around our forms to keep out the chill night air. The warm, familiar glow of the Oak-House's yellow lighting beckoned from above, and I was glad to slip through the slider and into Hunny-Bear's bedroom again. His bed looked so much bigger than the guest bed, so cozy and inviting.

"Sorry about the ceiling," he said, noticing my stooping posture. "I've been meaning to get it heightened for ages, ever since I started getting so many people guests, but somehow it always escapes me by the end of the day."

"Aw, it's OK," I replied, kissing the top of his head and ruffling his ears, causing him to paw at them irritably. "I get by reasonably, as long as I'm sitting."

And soon I was sitting at the table, in the one human-sized chair, while Hunny-Bear bustled around preparing dinner. He insisted I let him do all the work, after all the effort I'd put into helping him during the day. Across the room, I watched a fuzzy news report on his little TV. I could barely make out the words, but there was a picture of a Forest, which I liked.

Before I knew it, he announced "Dinner is served!" and placed a silver serving platter, with matching silver cover, on the table.

"Smells delicious," I replied.

Then he lifted the cover, and I screamed. A little dead pig was arranged on a bed of kale, with a miniature apple wedged in its mouth. It was pale pink, with a banded, darker-pink torso, and reminded me an awful lot of Hoglet from that Vinnie the Fooh series. "Is something the matter?" asked Hunny-Bear innocently.

"You murdered your friend!" I cried.

He looked down at the platter. "Oh. Pain-Pig?" Then he laughed. "Oh, I see. No, no," he said casually, "Pain-Pig is a masowchist. They live to be killed and eaten."

"What?" I shrieked. "How does an animal live to die?"

He looked at me blankly. "Haven't you ever seen those commercials where some animal or food is trying desperately to get humans to eat it?"

I nodded uncertainly.

"That's based on reality. Certain species can only reproduce by being killed, and many of them need the specific spiritual conditions that occur inside the human stomach to catalyze their transmigrations." he replied, as if discussing how forks work.

"Oh." I said, blankly.

Then I screamed, much louder, as the dead cartoon-pig-thing on the platter before me took the apple out of its mouth, turned, and looked at me: "No, really, he's right, honey. In fact, I'm getting a little turned on just imagining you stabbing that knife into my big juicy butt. Mmmm." It closed its eyes and smiled for a moment, then turned back to me: "No, really, honestly, please, eat me. Oh, wait, I'm probably not helping. Just ignore me. I'm dead, OK?" And with that it flopped over dramatically, tongue lolling out.

I was about to pass out. And then Hunny-Bear smiled approvingly and gestured to the pig in a "see?" manner... and then stabbed his fork right into the poor thing's thigh, picked up his knife, and carved a big chunk out!

"Oh... oh yeah... god I love it when you're rough with me, baby..." shouted the little pig-thing without a trace of pain in its voice, its well-baked features looking gleeful.

Hunny-Bear forced a fork-full toward my face. "Try it," he insisted, "You will like it!" I battened my lips shut and shook my head "no" furiously, standing to leave the table and accidentally slamming my head against the low ceiling.

"Ow!" I shouted.

Hunny-Bear took the brief moment my mouth was open to pop the meat in, screaming "Nya ha ha!" I gagged, and tried to spit it out... but... it tasted too good. It was well-cooked, flavorful, juicy, not a trace of gristle or fat... excellent! Seeing my look of approval, he added: "It's kosher, too!"

"How the hell do you figure that?" I asked, looking at the little pig-thing.

"Do I look like any pig you've ever met?" it asked me, propping itself up on its elbow on the platter.

"Erm," I replied.

"You want me to chew my cud? Huh? Watch this!" And it made several undulating motions with its throat, then began chewing something happily. "Mmmm, that's some good cud. OK, see, I'm a kosher friggin' pig, now eat me!"

"I really don't care if you're kosher or not!" I replied, completely bewildered and a little grossed out.

The little pig-thing looked shocked. "Then why are you wasting my time, you dumb broad?" And with that it swallowed, crossed its stubby little arms, and laid back down on the platter, pouting.

Hunny-Bear leaned forward between me and Pain-Pig. "Perhaps this dinner is getting a little out of hand - " he began.

But, something funny got into me then. "No," I replied, "if this pig... thing... wants us to eat it, then who am I to question it? I mean heck, I wasn't a girl last week - "

"Too much information!" shouted the little pig-thing.

I glared at it. "Anyway, the point is, this place you live in is very different from my everyday life before I came here. So I'm willing to keep trying new things, since so far, they haven't been all that bad!" Minus the bussie-boppers, I thought. But then again... I wouldn't be Hunny-Bear's girl without them, and... and that was pretty great, wasn't it?

And soon we were chowing into a much-pleased Pain-Pig, enjoying some freshly-steamed green beans and carrots, and a delicious cornbread. It was a lovely dinner.

After we finished, I leaned back in my chair, feeling full and content, while Hunny-Bear pushed himself away from the table. I opened one eye, and he noticed: "Dessert, of course!" he replied.

"Ooh, but I'm soooo full!" I whined playfully, rubbing my stomach.

"Too full for a mint-chocolate cheesecake?" he asked temptingly.

"Not a chance in hell," I replied firmly. He smiled enthusiastically and bustled off toward the fridge.

While I waited for Hunny-Bear to return, I was struck by a strange rumbling in my stomach. I opened my eyes. Was I getting indigestion? I felt acutely embarassed. I didn't want to turn off Hunny-Bear, or, god, accidentally fart or something in an intimate moment...

But then I saw the little scraps of Pain-Pig left on the platter (he apparently had no skeleton or internal organs, just thick juicy meat) vaporize into thin air. And shortly thereafter, there was a 'poof' sensation in my stomach, and a cold feeling like something rising through my abdomen. But I didn't see anything when I looked down.

"Thanks, Bear! See you around!" came a familiar voice from near the door. I turned to see Pain-Pig - two of it! They saw my expression, and said in unison: "Your boyfriend wasn't lying when he told you this is how we reproduce, toots. See you around!" And with that they strolled out the front door, leaving Hunny-Bear waving good-bye with his stubby little arm, a warm smile on his face. As usual, Hunny- Bear was right. And this time, I had trusted him properly! I felt good.

Then a plate containing a big, thick slab of mint-chocolate cheesecake was laid before me, and I felt way beyond good. We devoured our dessert, making light chatter, flirty comments, and playfully touching each other every so often. Then we did the dishes, continuing the playful flirting. Then we reclined on the couch in each other's arms, watching some staticky Cartoon Network feed, stroking each other lovingly and, yes, continuing the playful flirting. And then it was quite late, and we were both clearly ready for sleep. I stooped toward the stairwell, and Hunny-Bear followed me. I paused. "So," I began, "I guess this is goodnight, then."

He nodded. "I suppose so. Thank you for all your help."

"Oh," I replied, "Of course. It was a lovely day. I was glad to assist a great guy like you. I mean, you know, the way you... took care of me all this time, and have opened your doors for me, and, you know." I stumbled.

He blushed a bit. "Think nothing of it. Just helping a pretty stranger in need, of course."

Pretty? He called me pretty. I was pretty, Hunny-Bear said so. I'd never been called "pretty" before, not that I could think of. It made me feel good. It made my heart bubble. "Yeah, well, it's nice to be helped when you're in need by a handsome stranger!" I blurted out.

We stared at each other. I looked up the stairwell. "I guess, you know, ... 'cause I'm sleepy..." I trailed off.

"Oh, heavens, yes, me too..." he trailed off.

We stared some more. I wanted him to do it. I wanted him to say it. I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to be the forward one. I didn't want to risk falling flat on my emotional face. I wanted him to do it, to be the big strong m -

"Of course," he drawled, twisting a foot against the hardwood floor, "if you'd perhaps feel more comfortable," he coughed nervously, "you know, if you'd... I mean stairs can be an exhausting climb when you're tired, and... you know... it can get lonely all the way up on the top floor, I'm sure..."

"You want me to sleep with you?" I blurted, then shot a hand to my mouth, embarassed.

He perked up happily. "You'd like to?"

I melted, draping my arms around him: "Oh, I'd love to."

Before that weird experience, I'd never slept with a man before. I'd never given a blowjob, either, or found myself obsessively attracted to penises and their wonderful behavior, flaccid or firm. But I sure enjoyed it that night, cuddled up against Hunny-Bear and his big cock, feeling safe and secure under the covers with his arm around my torso, pulling me tight into him, feeling my sensitive little boobs squash up against his firm, fuzzy chest. Oh, we both slept wonderfully.

After the wild, animalistic sex, of course.

- XXVI -

THE next day we, as he had suggested the previous day, took breakfast together. This is pretty easy to do when you sleep wrapped up in each other's arms, since the timing works out. Waffles with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, sizzling bacon (I tried not to think about what its source might be), and fluffy scrambled eggs. Plus the requisite tall glass of Moo-Girl's milk; if we didn't drink it every day, the Oak-House would quickly run out of shelf space in the little refrigerator.

Then I washed the dishes (since Hunny-Bear made breakfast), we both took crisp, cold showers down by the lake (it wasn't as bad the second time), and I dressed - in clothes of my choice - so we could go milk Moo-Girl. The closet still creeped me out, as I wondered paranoiacally where Sam the Spider's body had gotten off to, and I casually dropped the suggestion to Hunny-Bear that we move the clothing into the guest-room's wardrobe.

Anyway, off we strolled, me in a comfy pair of size 6 light blue denim jeans and a simple, tight-fitting, soft-pink T-shirt. I wasn't wearing shoes - which seemed to fly with Hunny-Bear, if he even noticed - but I did find, among the clutter in the storage room, a box full of nail polishes, and was now strolling around with bright red toenails. Hey, it sounded fun at the time, so I went with my impulse. I forwent a bra, because honestly, my boobs weren't big enough to need it and I had come to like their gentle bouncing as I moved about during the day.

Things played out basically the same at the Barn, with Hunny-Bear giving Moo-Girl a thorough humping to calm her down and then a quick and efficient milking session. Hunny-Bear suction-cupped a particularly enormous dildo against one of the inside walls of the Barn, and we left to the sound of Moo-Girl enthusiastically thrusting herself back and forth upon it. We were strolling back up the Crest, each of us holding our metal pail full of milk -

When something different happened. A very familiar, steadily repetitive sound drifted over my ears. Hunny-Bear heard it too, stopping. I glanced skyward, seeing the crisp, cloudless blue above through a particularly large gap in the tree growth directly above us. The familiar sound was a 'whup-whup-whup-whup' ... helicopter blades.

Far above, a chopper - I couldn't tell quite who it belonged to, it was too tiny, but some instinct told me Search and Rescue - was coming into view. In a few minutes, it would pass out of sight again. This was my chance. This was my narrow window to get out of here. I hadn't thought about escaping in days, but now the opportunity had fallen into my lap through an exquisite burst of fortune putting me in the right place at the right time.

If I could just catch their attention... but how? The bucket. I glanced down at the milk bucket in my hand. Hunny-Bear kept them very clean. Scoured them regularly to make sure they didn't trap dirt. They shined. All I had to do was dump the milk out and begin swinging it around my head - all it would take is the sun glinting off it a few times, and they'd come investigate, no matter who they were. Now was my chance. The seconds were ticking away. It was almost directly above now.

I turned to Hunny-Bear, to apologize for dumping his milk out, and then turned the bucket -

Slightly. But I didn't pour it out. Because turning around allowed my eyes to lock onto the erection he had sprung up. The bucket dropped from my hand, but remained upright, hitting the pine litter a couple centimeters below with a harmless 'paff'. I tore my eyes away and glanced at the helicopter above us. I could escape. I could go home...

I looked back at his cock. Shifting my gaze that way didn't require nearly as much willpower. I knew I should be getting the chopper's attention. I knew. But I... I couldn't. I wanted Hunny-Bear's cock, and the stuff inside. No, I needed it. I didn't know what I'd do without it. I... I think I realized I was addicted to it. My skin itched psychosomatically just at the thought of never getting to suck him off again.

Eyes never leaving his cockhead, I felt myself drop to my knees and crawl across the dirt to look up at him. Overhead, the sound of helicopter blades intensified, and then began fading, and then was gone into the distance. I never noticed. I didn't care. I had Hunny- Bear's cock crammed into my mouth, and I was happy. I could feel him ejaculating down my throat, and I was content. No, I was... wonderful. I had what I needed. I made my choice.

No, it wasn't a choice. It was the only option. I knew what I needed. I had it here. There was no point in leaving. I was his woman, his sexual servant, and he was my caretaker and guardian. I loved it. This would be my life.

- XXVII -

TIME passed in such a way that I lost count. We fell into this routine, he and I, passing each day the same way: getting up, eating breakfast, washing, doing the chores, washing up again, eating dinner, cuddling or playing or whatever till bedtime, and then putting ourselves to sleep with sexuality. Oh my, how often during the day I would stop us to suck him down. How I reveled in the soothing feeling his cum gave me the second it hit my tongue, the way it slid down my throat thickly and warmly.

Of course, some days we'd spend more time playing than working, running about outside or playing board games or even the old 8-bit Nintendo system he had somehow obtained, which I found among the seemingly limitless collection of the storage room.

It didn't matter, we had no schedule to run on. I was wild, and free, and I loved it. If we spent a day playing and relaxing, sleeping in and neglecting chores, we made up for it the next day. No one was around to tell us when or how to act, no one dictated our lives through the threat of a paycheck or the nagging of a visit. It was utter, primal freedom blended with all the comforts that made being at home feel safe and soothing. It was glorious.

I wore clothes some days, when I felt like it, because I enjoyed picking through the feminine wardrobe and trying on different outfits. If one struck my fancy I left it on for a while. Almost always, though, I was naked. I loved being nude, being basic and free, running about outside as far and wide as I wished without feeling a blink of shame or fear. The wind caressed every inch of me, my feet were impervious to the debris I ran over, my breasts bounced enthusiastically to go along with my mood, my hair - eternally chin-length - fluttered behind me.

We were never sick, and I don't recall ever being injured. Hunny- Bear's medicine was potent and intoxicating, and sometimes, when he was genuinely busy, I would remember the cabinet I had discovered the first day full of "Hunny" jars - his stockpile in case of medical emergencies - and sample the goods. Ostensibly making sure it was still safe to consume; really, just enjoying the sweet, biological flavor and fantasizing about milking his penis for the real thing as soon as possible.

I had become a total creature of the woods, as civilized as Hunny- Bear, and equally, as free: free of pressure, free of burden, and most gloriously, free of self-consciousness. I simply was. My nude form was me, as good as any outfit. My actions were my own, unimpeded by the fearful, anxietal restrictions imposed by those around me, all equally locked up by their own chains. It was good. Oh, I don't think I can ever express how good it was.

Hunny-Bear had no clock, nor calendar. He said he had no use for such things, because the only schedule he needed to follow was the one the sun marked out for him each day. So I don't know how much time passed. I tried to keep track at first, but once that helicopter passed and I accepted my new place in life, my new role, I realized I'd never need to know the exact date again. Days passed, but with no real significance marking one from another. Some days were good, other days were even better. It was sunrise, and then, it was sunset again, a satisfying day behind me.

Was it just days? Or did days melt into weeks? Did weeks melt into months? Did months... melt into years? I had no idea, and I didn't care. I had Hunny-Bear. And Hunny-Bear had his cock and his cum, and that meant I had it too. And that was all I wanted. All I needed.

- XVIII -

AND so it continued, time indeterminable, one blissful little day after another. I got to know the many other inhabitants of the Forest, but... perhaps that's another detail for another day. Well, anyhow, one particular day, we were to go to Bargain Beaver's General Dam for some thick, fluffy bread, so we could make French toast the next day (but Hunny-Bear called it "fluffy toast," and I humoured him). We needed eggs, too, but those were supplied by good Mother Clucker, who was always generous with her daily egg supply, ever since the bussie-boppers cursed her, too, a very long time ago. Even Hunny-Bear hadn't known Mother Clucker before she was transformed, and Hunny-Bear seemed to know everyone.

Ah, well. Anyway, we were just setting out along the way to Bargain Beaver's, which was itself some distance from the Oak-House, when a spontaneous urge came over me. Really, I was just looking for an excuse to get my lips around Hunny-Bear's wonderful penis again, but I was also feeling silly and playful.

So I shoved him. Hard. And without warning. Hunny-Bear toppled over, his little trucker's hat flying off, and bounced into a nearby pile of leaves - the path to Bargain Beaver's at one point gave way to a broadleaf portion of the forest, intermixed with the pine - and his shopping basket went bouncing away.

He leapt up, a look of mock rage on his face. "Bussie!" he exclaimed. He still called me Bussie-Bopper, even after all this time; everyone in the Forest did. It was partially because I enjoyed it, as an affectionate title my Hunny-Bear had given me; it made me feel warm, and possessed by someone, in a good way. But it was also because even after all this time, I still had a mental block about my real name. At first I just hadn't wanted to give it to Hunny- Bear, but even when I was more than ready to... it just wouldn't come. For some reason, this embarassed me, and so I never brought it up, and Hunny-Bear never asked.

"Bussie, Bussie, Bussie!" he shouted, trying to sound angry with his cute, raspy little voice. "I'll have you know that where I come from - "

"Which is where I come from!" I squealed, giggling, happy to realize it was true now.

He held back a laugh. " - that kind of behavior is considered a ..." He coiled back on his haunches - oh no! he was going to leap! - "...an offical challenge to a game of tag!"

"Oh no!" I shrieked, rushing off, giggling over my shoulder: "I didn't know! I didn't know! Have mercy!"

He bounded after me: "Ignorance of the law does not put you above the law!" he declared, nipping at my heels.

I zig-zagged in and out of the trees, dragging us off-course considerably, and into an unfamiliar portion of the Forest. It was starting to look weird, but I couldn't place why. I was too distracted to care, anyway. Soon, he overtook me, and with a great flying leap that had the excellent side-effect of pressing his warm, thick penis up against the small of my back, he slammed into me. I tumbled forward and landed face first in a big pile of leaves, with Hunny-Bear lying on top of me, panting. His flaccid cock lay dangling tantalizingly over the curve of my butt and down between my thighs.

I began uncontrollably salivating, in several locations. I felt him stiffen a little. "Mmmm," I mumbled, "Care to stroke some itchy spots while you're down there?" I asked coquettishly.

His response made me squeal with childish indignance: "Not yet!" he declared, leaping up, though obviously bursting with arousal himself. "Because I do believe you've been tagged, and nobody ends a game of 'tag' after one tag!" And with that, he scurried off.

"You... you rotten cunt-tease!" I shouted with playful indignance. "I'll get you yet!"

I soon had him cornered, despite his feeble attempt to scurry up a tree trunk (I yanked the cretin right off), and we tumbled down into the leaf litter together once more. This time, I was propped up on my hands, looking down at him, and he was below me, looking up. I felt something tickle my belly button that made me very happy. "Perhaps two 'tags' is a fair game?" he inquired, looking quite horny.

Uh-uh. He wasn't getting away that easily, after he turned me on like that and then dared to run off. "Sorry, buddy," I said with a smooth grin, "Not where I come from!" And I dashed off, shouting "You better count to 10 this time!"

The game continued like this, as we obliviously played and dragged ourselves farther and farther off our intended path. I would be hopelessly lost if this happened, but I wasn't worried because past experience had proven Hunny-Bear to be a great navigator. So on and on we darted through this unfamiliar section of the Forest, our game of tag escalating further and further into an endurance test of our libidos to see who would crack from the sexual need first. My thighs were getting kind of slippery as I ran, for pete's sake, and it was pretty funny to watch a little 3'5" golden bear-thing running around with a wobbling erection stretching up his belly.

Eventually I came to a small edge of the forest floor, where it dropped down abruptly, forming about a meter-deep 'cliff' with a little ledge of dirt and plant matter curving over it. This little ridge extended on maybe 50 meters in either direction. I've no idea what a proper geomorphologist would call it, but, that's what it looked like. The trees were much thinner in this region, also - still a wooded area, for sure, but not nearly as dense as the Forest I was used to. Hearing Hunny-Bear shout "Ready or not..." in the distance, I quickly leapt down and crouched under the dirt overhang.

While I waited, I stared at a clump of plants near me and finally figured out why the flowers here looked so weird. They were tiny, and white, and simple. They were... normal. It had been so long since I'd seen a flower that wasn't big, colorful, and perfect that it actually seemed odd to see weedy, modest little blossoms. I shook off the disorientation.

About 30 seconds later, I heard the leaves crunch-crunch-crunching as his footsteps made a bee-line straight to where I was located. Then his face popped down, upside-down, to look at me: "Tag?" he suggested.

I rolled out from under the overhang and, kneeling, looked up at him standing on the ground 3 or so feet above my level. "No fair!" I whined, "How did you find me?"

He gestured behind himself: "Oh, it was a lovely hiding spot, really truly, but... you also left a fairly blatant trail in the leaf litter." Well, drat. I had been running kind of frantically at that point, looking for a good hiding spot in the sparser section of forest. I guess my previous attempts to keep my footfalls consciously light had fallen off in my hurry.

"Well, darn," I pouted cutely, "couldn't you have at least pretended not to know where I was? I mean, sheesh, you came right to me."

He grinned down at me. "Yes, I know, that would have been polite, wouldn't it? But..." My eyes locked on his throbbing erection. "I suppose I was getting a bit..." It pulsed again, in time with his heartbeat. My already slick thighs felt renewed heat flush through them. It was time. The game was over, now grown-up stuff needed to happen. "...well, pardon the incivility, but impatient is a good word." He smiled naughtily.

I only nodded my head in silent, highly relieved agreement. The sexual burning in my body had been piqued to glorious heights by our teasing little game, and it was going to feel... indescribably great to let the floodgates open. On my knees like I was, my height was perfect, my face just peeking over the edge, as he sat down with his legs dangling at either side of my head.

I went to work immediately. Just the smell of his genitals as I leaned forward set my pulse racing; the sensation of his firm, soft, velvety cockhead touching my tongue and lips made me lightheaded; his happy gasp of relief as my warm mouth engulfed his hard cock made me let out my own moan of pleasure, and I began bobbing up and down in slow, sensual motions, savoring the moment. I glanced at the bland, normal little white flowers disdainfully.

Then I looked up at my Hunny-Bear, and he looked down at me, his little beady black eyes twinkling, his cute little nose wiggling slightly, his thin little mouth smiling wide. I stared up at him and he stared down at me while his genitals slid through my eager lips. He caressed my hair. I purred. Our eyes met, locked together in glorious recognition of our sexual bond.

Then his head exploded.

No, I'm not making a cute sexual euphemism. His head exploded. One moment I was staring into his eyes, the next moment there was a pinata of red stuff bursting like a balloon, pieces of flesh spraying out all around. I screamed around his still-erect penis, frantically pulling my mouth off it, and screamed some more.

My body began quivering and shaking uncontrollably. I waited for my eyes to open, for this to be a nightmare. This wasn't real. It wasn't happening. His body wavered for a moment without my mouth's support, then toppled forward, rolling off the ledge to land on the ground nearby, leaking copious amounts of blood into the leaf litter and soil. I screamed, again, hard. I scurried back. I crawled forward. I cried uncontrollably, trying to comprehend what was going on. I couldn't even look into his face one last time, because his face no longer existed.

Then I heard something I hadn't heard in a long time. Voices.

People voices.

- XXIX -

"JESUS fucking Christ, Rich! What the hell did you just shoot?" came one of the voices. A man.

"I have no idea. I didn't... I mean I wasn't trying to make it explode, I thought it was a rabbit, I thought I'd bag us dinner!" came another man's voice.

"No kidding," replied a third, "That gun sure as Hell shouldn't have done that."

They were getting closer. I felt cold, and suddenly my nakedness brought fear and embarrassment again. I huddled closer under the edge, praying they wouldn't find me. I cried silently, uncontrollably. This wasn't happening.

Flies were beginning to gather around Hunny-Bear's bloodied corpse. Flies with big, cartoonish, Japanimated eyes. One of them buzzed toward me. I tried to shrink into myself even more, to make it go away. I didn't want to hear blithe woodland-creature chatter right then. It flitted in lazy circles around my ear: "Murderer!" it cried.

I peeked at it in shock. Me? I hadn't done this!

"Murderer!" it hissed again. "We know what you did to Sam the Spider!" My heart sank. "We know! We fixed your mess because we all loved Hunny-Bear too much to break his heart! But we knew! We knew you were trouble!"

I tried to reply, but a bubble of terror and sorrow caught in my throat and a strangled little gurgle followed by more tears is all that came out.

"Murderer!" it cried again, spitting a tiny little drop of spit on my cheek, "And now you've brought your plague of death into our Forest again! We fixed your first mess! But we won't fix this one! No, not this time! You pay for your crimes now, you pay!"

I tried to reply again, but could only watch in shock as the swarm of flies buzzed like a whirlwind around my Hunny-Bear's mutilated body. The sound of crunching leaves, just like a few minutes ago, heralded impending footsteps. But these footsteps brought terror, not excitement. I stared at the corpse as I listened to the voices and footsteps approaching.

The flies circled it, faster and faster, and then it lifted into the air ever-so-slightly, and then - evaporated. Gone. Like magic, it wafted into the breeze like fine golden dust before dissipating completely. Then the swarm turned and flew away as rapidly as it had come. "Murderer!" I heard flung at me, one more time, before they were gone.

Then men were in front of me. "Jesus - holy Hell, Richard! There's a girl down here!"

"A girl? Like a hiker?" called another of the men. I heard his footsteps approach, and there were two men before me.

"Maybe, but she's buck naked... not the kind of gear I'd go hiking in!" replied Richard.

"Hey! Ted! Richard! I can't find any trace of what you shot, not even a trail of blood, are you sure - holy shit, is that a naked girl?" called the third man, finishing as he too stood before me.

Silence. I quivered and cried. Hunny-Bear was gone. It was my fault. I led him out here. How could I?

"Hey... hey, honey, we're sorry for the coarse language, but we're harmless, honest... just three friends out for some sport hunting... are you... are you OK?" asked Richard, sounding concerned. I never looked up at him. I just kept staring ahead, feeling cold.

"What happened to you?" asked Ted. "Do either of you recognize her from any of those missing-persons fliers at the Lodge? I don't..."

"No clue," said the third man. "But come on, even if she's in shock we can't leave her here. I'll go to the truck and call the authorities, maybe she's a rape victim..." And his footsteps began to trail off.

"Good idea, Mark," called Richard. "We'll stay here and try to keep her calm and safe."

"Maybe we should help her up, take her back with us? She could be hurt..." added Ted, leaning forward with his hand extended.

I shot up like lightning, my breasts slapping against me sharply. They jumped back, scared shitless by the sudden movement. "NOOOOOOOOOO!" I shrieked, "You killed him! You killed him!" I cried, then took off running.

"Killed what? Killed who? Did we accidentally shoot your dog or something? Oh, god, we're really sorry if - " trailed Ted's voice.

I was faster than them. I was used to the woods. I was used to running, free and happy. Ted stayed behind, shocked. Richard took off after me. I could hear his heavy footsteps. His boot-covered, clumsy footsteps, crashing into the leaves and snapping the plants and branches.

I ducked in and out of the trees. But I was lost. Where was I going? How was I going to get out of here? I had nowhere to go. The Oak- House was now a ghost-house. And even if I could bring myself to go back there, I didn't know how. Hunny-Bear was the navigator. Not me. I began crying. My head began swimming with panic. I was lost. I had nowhere to turn. I slowed, stumbled, fell over in the leaves, quivering.

I felt a big hand on my shoulder. I didn't have the energy to fight it off. "Hey," said Richard softly, "Hey, we're not here to hurt you, honest. We just... we just don't want to leave you out here. We can't. Not in, you know, not in good faith... it's dangerous, and you're... you don't sound well."

I just sat there, numb and limp, a rushing sound like the seashore swelling up inside my ears. I didn't black out, but I did sort of... stop living. Everything was just a gray blur for a while. Stuff happened. I was picked up, carried places. Truck doors... a dog? Stuff moving... the Forest getting farther and farther away, dwindling like a dream... a pleasant little dream, shot dead and withered.

- XXX -

AND then I was in a police station, with a drab gray blanket wrapped around my otherwise-naked form. That's the next clear memory I have. Someone was asking for my name. I think it was the third, maybe fourth time they asked when I finally came back into focus for the first time in many, many hours and realized someone was talking to me. I looked up.

"Bu - " I began, then stopped. No. That wasn't my name, was it? Not around people. Was it ever my name? What was my name?

"Bah..." replied the officer across the desk from me, gently. "Bah- what?"

I shook my head. "Ba-ai don't know." I mumbled weakly.

"You don't have a name?" she asked, looking sympathetic. "Did you forget? Or do you not want to give it to us? We're not here to punish you, honey, we just want..."

She blathered on. I felt numb, and kind of confused. My brain was starting to warp around, like when you have double-vision and keep trying to focus your eyes, but can only make it worse. I wasn't sure of anything all of a sudden. Why was I a girl? Why did they have a female cop interview me? Because I was a girl. But why was I a girl? That had felt right before, but now...

I heard her chair scrape against the tile. "I'll be right back, OK, sweety? I'll be right back. I just need to ask someone some questions." Her heavy, thick footsteps trailed off.

I looked around. I was unsupervised. No one else was in the room I was seated in. I wrapped the blanket closer around myself, and stood up firmly. I exited the room through the same door she had, glancing around. I remembered the way they had brought me in. My skill with navigating by landmarks and instinct had gotten a lot better in the woods. The woods... the Forest... did that happen? I wondered, shaking my heads.

Was I a delusional, druggie prostitute, who had some fantastic batch of Dutch drugs and hallucinated a story about being a male hiker who got humped by a pornographic version of a children's cartoon? I pondered this as my brain went increasingly further out-of-focus; thinking felt like viewing a 3-D film without the right glasses. Two brains were superimposed over each other, and both felt like my real one.

I slipped effortlessly through the police station. Apparently they thought I was a rape victim left in the hills or something, because I wasn't placed in a very secure location. Looking like a weak girl can do wonders to remove suspicions, I guess. I peeked around the corner. The reception area was the only thing blocking me from the big double doors that led to the street. I took a deep breath, then strolled forward confidently, smiling and nodding at a few desk clerks. They looked a little uncertain, but my wave and smile seemed to make them assume whatever had been wrong was worked out. "Going home?" one called.

"Yes, thank god," I replied with a false gush of relief. They smiled sympathetically. I scowled as soon as I turned around. And then I was on the street, as free as you got in an urban environment.

Home. Was I going home? I remember the way. I knew the neighborhood I was in. It would be a long walk, but I didn't exactly have loose change crammed up my vagina - my vagina? What the hell? - so I wasn't taking any taxis. Too psyched up to slow down now, I just steeled myself and began strolling home. It was about 11 AM, based on the sunlight. That gave me plenty of time to get home before it became dangerous to walk around with only a blanket between your boobs and crotch, and the rest of the world.

As I walked, my brain kept cycling. My thoughts felt like a car whose accelerator was being floored, but whose tires weren't in contact with the ground. Just spinning, spinning, spinning like crazy, but getting nowhere as I plummeted uncontrollably. I felt like I was tearing away cobwebs made of fog, one after another, alien feelings imposed on me like manacles -

And then, bam, it snapped. I had been walking for hours - it was late now, maybe 5:30 or 6 PM based on the failing sunlight - I was only a few blocks from my condo - and my brain finally snapped loose. Like a breaking tape. A tearing fan-belt. A busting rubber- band. It came sailing out of the murk and grime it had been submerged in, and splashed into a sea of concrete, urban clarity.

I swooned, collapsing against a nearby wall, then slid into a remarkably clean alleyway to avoid stares and unwanted concern. I was not a girl. I did not love a stupid rapist bear-thing named, putridly enough, "Hunny-Bear". I did not want to run around the forest, nude, like a moron, playing tag all day. I did not like doing chores all day instead of working on interesting design problems. I did NOT desire to spend my nights sucking some freakish captor's cock, instead of clubbing and hunting for willing pussy. I didn't want to wear girl's clothes or paint my toenails. I didn't want to milk some fucked-up animal called a Moo-Girl.

I didn't want these! I wailed internally, clutching my B-cup boobs. The blanket dropped and I stared, bewildered, at my body. This was real? I didn't imagine it? I was... a girl? How? How did I let this happen? Why did I do this to myself, ignoring the rescue helicopter, serving that horrific creature and his demented Forest Pals?

My brain popped, fizzed, exploded with disbelief. I slumped down against the ground, tugged the blanket around myself and over my head, hoping passerby would mistake me for a garbage pile or a sleeping bum. Make it stop. Make it go away. Make all the wrongness go away, please. Please, please, please. I piled my hands over my face -

And felt stubble. Stubble? Stubble?! That was new. Hadn't felt that in a long time. I looked at my chest - still boobs. But boobs with chest hairs on them? Was I... was I turning back?

Suddenly rage consumed me. That bear! That god-damn, motherfucking, ass-eating, bastard-cunt-shit-faced motherfucking fuckfaced fucking fuck-fucker bear! He had done this! He had made me think he was "saving" me when in reality, his sick "medicine" - gah! I wretched violently - was warping my brain, polluting my body!

I felt betrayed. Violently, hurtfully betrayed. And full of rage. I was a man again, now I got angry. No need for tears when you could kill things. Except the bastard was dead. Thank god. Good riddance. At least he wouldn't do this to another soul, whatever the fuck he was. I was angry at the hunters for taking my vengeance away, but also indebted to them forever. Tomorrow I'd go to the police station again, as a man, thank god, and find out their names, buy them the priciest strippers in town, and send them over as an anonymous thank-you.

Well... maybe I should verify they're not married, first. But I'd do something for them, that's for sure. I owed them my life, I realized, trembling. God, how long had I been gone like this? How many months - years, I thought, terrified - had been torn from me running around that stupid forest with that stupid bear? How much more of my life would I have lost, if I hadn't been lucky enough, in my stupid, braindead state, to lead that bear into the sights of their rifles?

At some point, the overwhelming stress, hurt, rage, and other emotions forming a seething cauldron of swirling black and red inside my skull burned itself out, and I mercifully passed out.

I woke up as a man. I mean, in body. I was always a man mentally, I reminded myself. I was naked save for a blanket (which seemed much smaller, suddenly), and lying in an alleyway like a homeless person, but my body was back. Just like I remembered it. God, it felt ... good. I gave my penis - oh penis, I love you!, I thought - a welcome-home squeeze, and resolved to do much more to celebrate with it later.

Then I cautiously dragged myself up off the ground - good, it was nighttime, not much time had passed - and slunk out of the alleyway, covering the last couple blocks to my condo at breakneck pace.

My condo. Was it still mine? I had no idea how long I'd been gone. I didn't even have my key. Good lord, how things had gotten fucked-up. I gritted my teeth as I approached the gates of my complex, and hoped the old key-code still worked. Boop. Boop. Boop. Boop. ... Ba- deep! Oh, yes! It did! I smiled.

This was good. This was good because they changed the key-code every six months. I didn't remember when the new one had last been added, but it meant that, in a worst-case scenario, I had been gone 6 months. Probably fewer. That little piece of shit hadn't robbed me of too much of my life.

Trying to get into my condo was pointless without the key, so instead I headed a few addresses down, to the houses. The guy who owned the land this complex was built on also lived in it. This fortuitous fact ensured that the general state of the place was kept very, very nice for the rest of us, since he acted as a sort of "uber-landlord", even though we all owned (or made payments on...) our own place. He liked seeing his investment keep people happy. That, and the contract for the homeowners association here gave him a cut of all re-sales. It was convoluted, but the point is, he had a key to most of our houses, and in exchange we-who-participated could trust him to take care of any basic repairs we needed.

Alright, I know, this kind of discussion is boring. It just felt so good, at the time, to be back to my own self, my own mind, my own life, that I was enjoying thinking about this mundane stuff. So, I arrived at his place around, eh, 8 PM? Maybe 9? And, taking a deep breath and mustering all the cordiality I could, rang the doorbell.

"Hel - good Lord, really?" That's exactly what he said. I know, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but he was shocked, you could tell.

"Yep, really," I replied, smiling dopily and trying to keep the blanket covering me properly.

"Have you - I ... come in!" he exclaimed. My eyes darted to his crotch. Well, that's a nasty habit we'll be breaking soon, I told myself, and relished my memory of the bear's bloody corpse.

"I can't believe it's you," he continued, as he led me to his kitchen, where his wife was equally startled, "You're such a good neighbor, when your mailbox started filling up we all got worried and I checked your house... you had a lot of messages wondering where you were. Thats when we contacted local agencies, our best guess was you had an accident while hiking, because we knew you liked to disappear out there all day long, and... well, we've all been worried sick the last month."

Month?

Month!

I had been gone... a month?

That felt unreal. In my memories, it felt like an eternity I had spent out there, trapped with that psychopath and his allies. It couldn't have been a month. That felt acutely inaccurate, even though I hadn't kept track of the days in any way.

But, who cares? Someone, who knew for sure, said I had been gone for about a month. My life could recover from that. My condo probably still had all my stuff in it! I could pick up where I left off unaffected by that ordeal, sans psychological scars.

We made more small talk, I made up a semi-truthful story about taking an unfamiliar trail, falling down a long slope, and then being totally disoriented. Manly tales of catching rabbits with makeshift weapons and collecting water overnight on crudely- constructed plant-stem nets to survive. I think I fought off a wolf at one point. It didn't matter; all I had to do was make the authorities - like my bank and credit card agencies - happy enough to excuse any irresponsibility on my part, and make my family and friends feel better. I figured this half-truth was a better story to tell people than "I was the prisoner of a cartoon bear who raped me repeatedly with his giant penis".

Was it rape? I seemed awfully happy about it at the time. Didn't I usually initiate it?

Fuck off, I scolded the corners of my brain that tried to turn this around on me. I was violated, I knew it, and I wasn't about to settle for any gray-area explanations.

Around 11 PM, after we ate and called various local authorities together to clear up my status, I thanked my neighbor thoroughly, spare key in hand, and strolled back to my apartment. I saw the impatient red of my answering machine blinking like a cyclopic epileptic, but had no energy to deal with it. I saw my couch, with a blanket piled on it in the same position it had been in when I left for that fateful hike a month ago. It looked so tempting. I was so tired.

But first, there was one more thing to do before I could sleep. I had to know. I had to know for sure that I had been freed from whatever mind-fuck that sick little creature had done to me. My computer rose to life out of stand-by mode, and I went directly to my Internet browser. Then Google Image Search.

I hesitated. Even though no one was in the condo, I glanced over each shoulder. Then I typed in "penis" and let the results come up. Hmmm. Alright. Nope, no reaction. I got excited. I was free! I didn't have permanent brain damage! I decided to keep going. I tried "gay porn". Wow. Well, alright. Those were some... images I could have gone my life without seeing. Then I realized I had probably enacted many of these positions, and my hatred of that bear flared up again.

Except, wait. I didn't enact these positions, did I? Because I had been female at the time. Did that really happen? I looked down at my very male body and clearly flaccid penis (which made me quite happy, given the circumstances). It seemed a bit ludicrous to believe, now. Well, whatever. Tired of my mind flopping in spirals trying to figure out what was real and what was imagined, I closed my broswer, annihilated every trace of my Internet history for the day, and then returned my computer to stand-by.

The important thing was that I was back to my normal, everyday, safe, happy, unthreatened, straight, male, self. That felt... really good, after a month of that ordeal. Within minutes of shedding the blanket and hitting my kind-of dusty couch, I was asleep.

- XXXI -

THE next morning consisted of a good deal of tying-up loose ends that had come unraveled during my month of captivity. I played back message after message - some from clients, wondering where their project was; some from people who wanted my money very much and wanted to know why they didn't have it yet; some from very concerned friends and family. It was noon by the time I finished calling everyone, and I started at 7 AM. My story was getting really, really boring to me - my fake story - by the time I related it for the umpteenth time.

Shortly thereafter some news vans stopped by to interview me for a softball story they could shove into their scheduling when they ran out of important news. I trudged through my boring-ass story AGAIN, putting gusto I didn't feel into it to please the cameras. Then it was off to my parents' home (mansion, practically) for a giant "Welcome Back" party that managed to garner an astonishing number of people for such unbelievably short notice. It was strange to know so many people were worried enough about me to find out and attend.

My parents were rich, and threw good (read: very wet) parties, so maybe that was a factor too. Well, anyway, it was a nice night. I actually appreciated it a lot, being thrust so thoroughly back into my old life, immersed by familiar and safe things that took me very far away from the scary, insane thoughts, desires, and experiences that the bear had thrust upon me. Or was it the bussie-boppers? I shook my head angrily. There's no fucking bussie-boppers! I told myself, shuddering at the nickname it reminded me of. It was all a lie! Lies to keep you trapped as his slutty little sex slave!

I turned back to the party. My sister had wandered over, a spitting image of me if I had ... been a girl. My stomach flipped a little. She hugged me, for the nine-hundreth time, telling me again how worried she was, how glad she was to see me. At least she didn't try to stop me from taking my hikes, like my mom did. I told her it was great to see her, she was so pretty... her hairstyle was new, she was wearing it a lot longer since the last time I saw her (well beyond a month ago - I was a busy person!), and it looked awesome on her. And her dress was... well, it was great. She blushed at all my compliments, especially the dress, which was also one of her favorites.

I wasn't usually this interested in her girly stuff. We had been friendly siblings - not the stereotypical childhood enemies you might expect from twins - but never that close. She did her stuff, I did mine. When we grew into teenagers, and our interests diverged even more, our childhood tendency to ride as partners-in-crime split apart more decisively. She had boyfriends, formal dresses, make-up. I had... I dunno. I never did anything, really. I didn't like tuxes, dances made me feel awkward, sports irritated me - I ran cross country and track, because running didn't involve balls - I mostly just focused on academics, really. It wasn't until college, when being pointlessly smart was enough to get you laid, that I started having a lot of girlfriends and blending into the social world. I guess I was always artistic. Maybe that was my "high school thing". And that's probably why I worked as a graphic designer after college.

We kept talking. We were getting along better than we had in a long, long time. We were just... connecting. I assumed it was because of the scare I had given everyone. You know, it reinvigorated old emotions, reminded us what we could lose. The grand entryway and mezzanine of my parents' house glowed grandly in the twinkling lights of endless chandeliers, filled with a moving mass of people in fancy evening outfits, milling and socializing, sampling the many last-minute catered goods and alcohols. I took it all in. It felt so pointless. Growing up in luxury makes you not really care; you realize what shit people are actually aspiring to when they dream of being wealthy.

I was happy with my condo and my graphic design work and my tidy income, even if my name didn't turn anyone's head anywhere in the design world. Oh well. At least Pat's Amazing Cheesesteaks had a logo that didn't make me wretch at its typographic incompetence. I liked being on my own. I had taken out a student loan to get through college, refusing to let my parents help me, because I wanted incentive to succeed afterwards. I didn't want to feel like a loser who burned through college just to go get a bland job they could have done with any degree. You know? Like, "Oh awesome, I majored in Mesopotamian Architectural History, time to go take customer-service calls for Merrill Lynch." That's following your passion. Sure, real life happens. But fuck real life, right?

That's why I had been so determined to make my Visual Design degree mean something for me. To pay off my student loan with work I cared about. And it worked. I had done it, all on my own, without my rich parents bailing me out. And then I was... happy eluded me. I felt, uhm, triumphant. And... yeah. Not good enough to keep my periodic frustration and sensation of pointlessness from driving my ex- girlfriend away, but good enough to make me feel like I took on the world's expectations and beat them.

All this sifted through my mind like sand, working in the background while I talked to my sister about the way her earrings matched her nail polish. It was cool. It was a cute way of adding coordination, using a mutable accessory and a more permanent decoration. I was having so much fun.

Fun.

There.

That was what was bugging me the last five or six paragraphs. All that rolling-over of my life story, the word "fun" was missing. Skill, triumph, stubbornness, intelligence, but not "fun". I had never, ever thought about it that way before. Why? Did I think fun was unimportant? Probably. Fun was weak. Fun was what girls used an excuse for their behaviors that I derided. "Why do you let him make you give him head?" "It's fun." I didn't get it. Fun was what other people seemed to have.

And now I was having fun, talking to my sister about her shoes. "They are, it's true. Even with the heel." she replied. I looked down.

"Yeah, what is it, seven inches?" I asked innocently.

"I'm not a hooker!" she exclaimed, laughing. "They're three inch heels. Way too long already," she smiled.

"Oh," I chuckled, "well, close enough, right?" She nodded uh-uh. "Is it that big a difference?"

She nodded. "Yeah, it really is. There's getting used to 3-inchers, and then there's getting used to 5-inchers. I mean, sort of, heels are heels, but also kind of not. Different heights take different balance... and it gets easier to, you know, fall over when you're drunk as they get longer." She laughed.

"I bet," I laughed back. "Do you have trouble moving in these ones?"

"No, no, I'm used to this kind of stuff... I do 2-inchers at work usually. Not too big a step up."

"Plus, they look awesome enough to make up for any stumbling," I added sincerely.

She grinned at the compliment. I hadn't seen her look so happy around me in ages. She punched my shoulder. "I can't believe how much fun I'm having with you! It's like all this stuff we never talked about... I didn't realize you cared. You seemed so boyish when we were kids, I didn't want to embarrass you or anything. Now I wish I had actually asked you whenever I thought about going down the hall for advice about my outfit!"

That comment made me feel... really good. Like I fit in, in a way I'd never quite felt. "Yeah," I chuckled, "me too."

We paused, rattling our drinks around quietly.

"Hey," I began, shakily, "can I ask you something... well... weird?"

"Weird?" she began, arching her eyebrows mischievously.

"For a brother to ask a sister." She only looked more interested.

"Oh, yes! Like what? Do you want sex tips?" Her enthusiasm made me have second thoughts. My sister was opening up to me like she never had before.

"No ... not really."

She kept smiling, warmly. "Well go on, geez."

"When you were - I mean, if you don't want to answer this, feel free to not reply, because - " I stammered.

"Go on! I don't care!" she urged, laughing.

"Well. Alright. When you were first, you know, becoming... sexual..." Her eyes lit up, and she nodded happily. "Did you, I mean, did you ever feel slutty? Like, you know, like in embracing your sexuality you were going overboard, demeaning yourself?" I finished shakily.

She didn't laugh at me, or act disgusted. "Yeah, kind of. It's different for girls, you know? Like, the more we embrace our sexuality, the closer we get to abandoning ourselves completely to someone else's desire. With guys, it's like, the more sexual they get, the more they turn into a conqueror, that's independent, you know? But girls feel guilty, like we're, I dunno, becoming sluts just for feeling submissive. Not, like, BDSM submissive, but... right, you get it. Yeah. Yeah, it was kind of a scary time, I felt like a slut sometimes. But girls get over it. Well, I did. You realize it's not an inferior... I dunno, role? It's not an inferior role, just different. And sooooo good." she smirked.

"Yeah." I replied, avoiding eye contact.

She laughed. "Sorry. Did I creep you out? Is that not what you want to hear from your sister? You did ask."

"No! No, it's fine, totally, thank you." I replied. What had compelled me to ask that? It was a burning curiousity that had surged into me the more we had chattered that night. It felt like a comfortable thing to discuss with... a girl. I wanted to say another girl, but battered it down. What had that ... bear? Was it real? ... had it done to me?

"So why?" she asked innocently, "Do you have a new girlfriend? Oh, I know, I get it, don't tell me - she's a virgin, one of those pretty girls who never got their skirt down in high school, and you want to know how to deal with her?"

"Erm," I stammered, searching for a lie that would let me drop this as fast as possible, feeling confused, "Sort of. My... uhm... I broke up with a girl recently because, yeah, she was still a virgin and... I was going too fast, she said I made her feel, uhm, dirty."

"Oh," frowned my sister, "she was probably not ready for a real relationship, then. You know, a sexual one. Just let her go. You're way too good a guy for that kind of head-bending crap." She smiled at me with warm sincerity.

Was I?

- XXXII -

WAKING the next day was relatively painless. I had been so distracted socializing with my sister that I drank considerably less alcohol than I would've expected of myself at a party held in my honor. My back-from-the-dead honor, no less. I groaned habitually at my alarm, slapped it off, and then rolled out of bed.

My morning proceeded in a perfectly average way. This was a great thing, considering the insanity my life had recently been subjected to. I got up, I showered, I ate breakfast. Delicious flake-based cereal. Not a hint of good country cooking. No eggs, no pancakes, no waffles, and for the love of god, no milk. Well, that was my original mantra. But my cereal was rather unpleasant without it, so I relented and poured milk over it, thankful that it at least tasted different than Moo-Girl's.

Moo-Girl.

The thought struck my mind out of nowhere. What was she going to do, if Hunny-Bear was dead? She needed to be milked twice a day, and her sexual hunger relieved, or she'd both go mad and be in agony. That was, what, two? Three? days ago, already? Her boobs must be ready to explode, and she'd probably broken down the walls of the Barn in a lusty madness. Maybe she was out trying to rape any male inhabitant of the Forest she came across. Maybe they had already put her down.

I shook my head.

Was I honestly thinking these things? First of all, who cared if that godawful freakish cow-pet-thing that awful bear had turned a perfectly healthy woman into died? It would put her out of her misery. Second of all, why was I contemplating the fate of delusional hallucinations induced while wandering in the hills? I began to wonder if my "fake story" I had been telling everyone was the real one, seeping back into my memory after a psychotic break in the wilderness convinced me I was the prisoner of an evil bear... thing.

I finished my cereal and sat down at my computer to get started on one of the design projects I had fallen horrifically behind on thanks to my month-long "vacation". My clients had been surprisingly understanding, but I was now under severe time pressure to finish several jobs ASAP. All of this felt terribly, wonderfully, utterly, totally, average and normal. I rejoiced.

This particular client needed a Flash introduction and menu system for their website. Some sort of industrial-chemical supplier with locations all over the state. It didn't sound thrilling when I first took the job, but chemistry gives you a lot of little design elements to play with. I had a basic outline of my design ready, which would have the menus of the website emulating the periodic table. Different elements would lead you to sections of the website that started with that letter. "Cobalt" led to "Contact Information", and so on.

It took me a few hours, but I had the rough graphics in place, enough to test if it would work. Then I'd go back and detail them out once I knew how to structure everything. Next came coding it, which is the part I always loathed. The design process ground to a halt and bottlenecked into the annoyingly linear world of programming language, where everything had to logically follow everything else. Sure, it sounds simple and direct, but I'm just not a whiz when it comes to coding.

Still, it was cheaper for me to grind through it than to contract outside help, and after doing this for several years it was getting a lot faster and easier. Sometimes I tried something new - like this menu design - and then everything would slow down to a learning pace again. This occurred after I'd been working on the coding for about 30 minutes. I found myself staring at the screen blankly, with no idea why everything I did created the wrong set of reactions.

I stared some more. I got up, went to the kitchen, and came back with a bag of yogurt-coated pretzels, munching away under the excuse of replenishing all the blood sugar I'd burned away thinking about the design problems. I set the pretzels aside and tried a few more lines of code. One thing worked properly, another still didn't. I was stumped again. I stared some more. I drummed my fingers. I scratched my arm. I sighed, got up, stretched my arms and legs, sat back down again. I scratched my nose. I checked my e-mail. I tried a few more things I knew wouldn't solve it, and they didn't. I scratched my ear as I checked the daily news.

Then my phone rang.

Usually I hated when the phone rang, because it interrupted my concentration, which annoyed me furiously, and then added another distraction to my day. Either a client wanted something changed, someone had a new project I had to drop everything to discuss rates over, a solicitor was wasting my time, a family member was not respecting my designated contact hours, et cetera, et cetera.

Sometimes, though, it was like sound waves wrapped in candy, because it gave me an excuse to quit working on something I hated without chastising myself for being lazy. This was one of those times. I leapt forward and picked up the receiver, rattled off my rehearsed business greeting, and then got my reply. It was one of my local friends, one of the few I hadn't seen at the party. He sounded apologetic, and concerned.

"Listen, I'm so glad you're safe," he continued, "and I'm so sorry, again, that I couldn't make the party. I just had so many stops that night - "

"It's OK, really." I assured him.

"So, listen, can I take you to lunch today? It's not a big party, but I'd like to celebrate your survival too." he asked.

I thought for the few moments I could before sounding rude. I had a lot of work to catch up on. A lot. But I also didn't want to face this menu coding problem for as long as I could put it off. And hey, I had just gotten back... a slow start was excusable, right? "Sure," I replied, "that's very nice of you."

And the conversation wrapped up. I looked at my computer's clock: 10:25 AM. That gave me about an hour-and-a-half, give or take, before I had to meet him for lunch. Not enough time to feel comfortable working. If I got into the middle of something, figured out the coding problem, I'd be impatient and irritable all through lunch, itching to get back to work on it. So, I had 90 minutes to kill, basically.

Then I remembered I wanted to go down to the police station and find out the names of the men who saved me, so I could send them a big thank-you. I spent a few seconds thinking up a suitable cover story, considering I was a female when they brought me in (wasn't I?), and then...

And then still had about 15 minutes to kill, for sure, because there was no way heading to the police station and getting the information would take 90 minutes. Even if it did, that'd work out well, since the restaurant we were meeting at was on the same side of the city. It would take no time at all to switch between the two locations.

I lazily popped open my web browser, deciding I could do some research for another portion of this design project before I got ready to leave. All I had to do was fuss with my hair for a few seconds and brush my teeth, since I had shaved already. Shaving - previously a mild annoyance, now a glorious celebration of everything I had briefly lost. Maybe. Was it all a hallucination? Whatever. Anyway.

So I went to the image search again and typed in "Erlenmeier flask". It asked me if I meant "Erlenmeyer flask". Well, I guessed so? It brought me pictures of what I wanted. I found a few good shots, saved them to the project's directory, and then started to type in a search for "phosphorus", to see what the stuff looked like exactly so I could design a background for one of the site's sections. I hit the "P" key, and a little suggestion box popped down under the search box: pan pizza, pebble, penis, pig, pizza, pop rocks, Protestant. Didn't I clear my Internet history? Argh... there was always some corner of data that didn't get eradicated.

I keyed down a few entries so I could manually delete the "penis" suggestion. Then I hovered over the Delete key a few moments, and instead hit Return. And then Return again. I wasn't sure why, really, I just... felt like seeing the results again. Soon a gallery of thumbnail-sized penises (go ahead, giggle) was in front of me. I clicked a particularly clear and healthy specimen, of the flaccid variety, which was linked to a medical-health web site. It came up on my screen in full-resolution glory, occupying the entire monitor.

And I... stared. Just sort of... hypnotized. It was so... fascinating. It was... it was... was it pretty? It was pretty. I liked it. I wanted to reach out and kiss it, feel its soft, rubbery firmness plump up in my hand... or my mouth... or...

I startled in my chair. I had zoned out completely, daydreaming. Was I looking at a penis the whole time? Why not just look at my own? What was... what had gotten into me? I startled again when I looked at the clock: 10:45 AM. I had wasted almost 20 minutes, fogged-out in front of a 1280x1024-scale penis! I scratched my knee without noticing, and then jumped out of my chair. How did I go from having so much time to kill, to running perilously close to late? And what had gotten into me?

I flew through getting ready, waiting impatiently as my electric toothbrush whirred away inside my mouth. It felt kind of naughty to have this big, round object pulsating away between my lips... I shook my head again, knocking a tooth against the vibrating head. What the hell was getting into me? I kept trying to ignore the cold feeling in my spine. Was this... was that bear's curse coming back? No. No way. I was free, and it hadn't happened anyway.

Then I rushed down from my condo and - stopped. It then, finally, occurred to me that my truck still hadn't been recovered from its spot outside the dirt parking area that led to the forest hiking trails. How had I not thought about my truck in almost 3 days since being found myself? Had my lack of transportation never entered my mind? I had walked home from the police station... then a friend, who was invited and lived a few blocks away, had given me a ride to my parents' party. Then... I got dropped off and... Amazing. I'd had no need for my own transportation, and hadn't even thought about it. How could anyone be that absent-minded to forget their own vehicle existed? I had been through a lot recently, but...

So, lacking time to really think about this, I jogged out the front gate and down a short block to the main thoroughfare that was near my condo. Flagging down a taxi took no time at all, and soon enough I was in the back seat being driven toward the police station. Fare was going to kill me, but, eh, that's what I got for being too numb- skulled to remember to pick up my pick-up.

The taxi driver was cute - very young, surprisingly handsome, with a subtle Middle Eastern flare to his looks. I stopped myself from trying to glance at his crotch as I climbed in to the back. "You can sit in the front, you know," he replied, in perfect, accent-free English.

I nodded politely and shrugged. "Oh, duh... well, I'm here now." He smiled and shrugged. I didn't want to admit that the back seat afforded a smaller chance of me being able to stare at him... or his crotch... and a much, much smaller chance of being noticed if I did. With no clue what was coming over me, I assumed that I was creating my own problem: I was so afraid of my experience in the Forest having a permanent effect on me, that I was riling my brain into acting that way. You know? Like when someone tells you, "Don't look at me!" the first thing you do is stare as hard as you can. You can't help it.

So I figured, once I put enough time between me and my ordeal, I'd probably calm down and everything would go back to normal. OK. Cool. I could live with that. In the mean time, I just had to be careful to not give the poor guys I was around the impression I was gay. Especially not the gay ones.

And then we were in front of the police station. I thanked the cab driver and started to get out, and he coughed loudly, then smiled. "Oh, uhm... you have a very nice cab." I replied, lost.

"You gonna pay me?" he asked, good-natured but a bit perplexed.

"Oh!" I exclaimed, feeling like an idiot. I was so distracted I was forgetting simple things. "Yes. Of course. What's the fare?"

"That'd be $65." he replied, glancing at his meter.

Good god. Oh well, so it goes. I fished out my wallet and paid him. He coughed again. "It's for the tip," I replied, confused. I had left an extra five dollars in with my payment.

He laughed. "That's a hell of a tip. You sure, buddy?" He fanned the bills out for me. There were three 20s, and a 10. I blinked.

"What's the problem?" I asked, feeling confused and embarrassed at my cluelessness.

"You really mean to give me a 95 dollar tip?" he asked, flapping the 10-dollar bill.

I stared, and stared, as he handed it to me. Slowly it dawned on me that it was "100", not "10". The two numbers looked so similar to me, it was confusing. I knew I should not be confused by this - I did my own taxes, I was good at math, I ran my own business - but right now, I was. I went back to my wallet and picked up another bill with 1 and 0 on it. I held it up to him, trying to hold back the helplessness in my voice: "Is this more reasonable?" I replied.

He laughed again. "Yeah, buddy. 5 bucks makes a little more sense. Not that I'm complaining if you wanna leave the other one, but... you know... I figured I wouldn't try to fuck you over, you know?" He smiled, and took the 10. We said friendly good-byes and he drove off.

Why the hell had I been so stupid? I stared at the 100-dollar bill. It was just... hard... to tell the two apart. At least the 20-dollar ones had a different shape to the number. Didn't the 100 have different pictures than the 10? I didn't have any more 10s, or if I did, they had the same picture as the 100 I was holding... I was getting confused... I gave up, and started walking in to the police station, rehearsing my story in my head.

I thought about it. I was kind of disappointed he didn't want to fuck me over. I giggled a little at that thought. Not really, of course, but you know... if we're taking things in a naughty way... I was smiling big as I walked through the double-doors of the police station.

"Hi," I said as I reached the counter. "A few days ago my sister was brought in here by three men who were out hunting in the forest..." I began.

"Oh!" exclaimed the desk clerk, "Yes, I remember her! Pretty, pretty little thing." That made me smile, because I knew it had been me. And she thought I was pretty. Mwa, ha, ha.

"Yes, she's lovely," I gushed, "Anyway, she can't get down here very easily during the day due to her working arrangements, but do you happen to know who the three men were? We really, really want to thank them, send them a little something nice..."

She smiled brightly. "How nice! Just tell me your sister's name and I'll pull up the file..."

"Oh," I said, "she was very embarassed by the whole ordeal. She said she thought everyone thought she was raped, when she had just been the victim of a sorority prank, and, uhm, so she ran away before you could take her name. Will that be a problem?"

The clerk frowned. "Ah, I see... let me get the officer who was working with her. You're lucky, she's caught up filing some paperwork here, otherwise she'd be out all day."

A few minutes later the officer showed up, and I remembered her quite clearly, sitting across a table from me and trying to get a name out of me. But she didn't show any recognition of me at all. Wait. Did that mean I really was a different person when she saw me? Or that I had a different face? Then again, people in this line of work saw so many faces each day, why would she remember mine? "Can I help you?" she asked.

The clerk and I explained the made-up situation I had presented. A look of understanding came over the officer's face: "Oh, yes, I remember her! Cute little thing, I felt terrible for her. I'm glad it was nothing serious, but you need to let her know she can't cut and run like that. We were going to open an investigation on those men, and we've all been on the look-out for her whenever we're on the streets. We thought she was a runaway, or a prostitute, or god knows what."

I expressed sympathy at the officer's position, and then continued: "I'm very sorry. She's very headstrong, and tends to be very impulsive. I assure you no harm was meant..."

This continued back and forth for about 10 minutes, with the officer insisting I bring my sister in for positive identification if I wanted case details, and me trying to charm and swerve my way through the red tape to just get what I wanted. It was very important to me that those three men who saved me get what they deserved. To my delight, the officer eventually relented, after I agreed to let her call the three men herself and get their permission to give their information to me.

They were very excited to meet the girl they had saved, and her family, and find out what had happened to her. I left the police station with a flurry of thank-yous and smiles, the men's names, and their phone number. Yes, just one. They were, apparently, all roommates, attending one of the local universities as graduate students. Well, good. That made their reward simpler. I took out my cell phone -

Well, no, I didn't. I was going to call them on my cell phone, but that was another thing that hadn't crossed my mind to replace since I got back from the woods. Since that evil bear broke it. Or did I break it, in a hallucinatory haze? Either way, I currently had no cell phone. That would not please my clients, I was certain. I made a point to remind myself to stop by the cell store later that day and purchase a replacement. Maybe even get it for free if I told my story properly.

So I stopped by a pay phone. Wow, it had been a long time since I used one of these. Maybe that was why I had so much trouble getting it to work. First I picked it up and tried talking into it. Then I remembered I had to dial. Duh. So I did, but a voice told me to deposit money in it. Oops! Duh! So I tried shoving a dollar-bill into the little coin slot. It was more than it asked for, but I figured the extra could be the tip. That didn't work. I stared. Finally, I got a passing man to help me with it; he looked at me like I was stupid and I felt sheepish. "Oh," he said, "some idiot shoved a paper bill into the slot." I avoided eye contact. He pulled my dollar out, put it in his pocket, then placed the coins in that the machine asked for. "There you go," he said, smiling at me like I was a mental patient. Maybe he thought I was? Oh well, it was working now, and I dialed.

Why had that confused me so much? I shook my head, as if coming out of a fog. Of course I knew how to use a fucking pay phone! God. I'd heard that stress could mess your brain up for a while until you recovered, but this was pushing it. Oh well, again: it was working now, and this wouldn't take long, so I just wanted to get it over with and move on. It rang, I heard a familiar voice pick up, and a bolt of fear shot through me that I had to quickly calm down; then I explained I was the brother of the girl they had rescued, and we had a brief, friendly chatter.

"OK," I said, "now let me ask you something honestly."

"Go for it, man," replied Richard, to whom I was speaking.

"Are any of you three married?" I asked slyly.

He laughed. I heard him call into the background: "Her brother wants to know if either of you two are married!"

Someone said, "Is he gonna marry her off as a reward?" More laughter. Then Richard returned to me:

"Naw, bro, none of us are married. Why?"

"Well, I was thinking that you three really deserve a hell of a reward for saving me...ai... my sister like that. How does me sending a first-class stripper to your door and a keg of your favorite drink sound?" I asked, grinning.

I heard him laugh really hard. "Holy shit, dude, you're awesome. That sounds pretty damn good, man. Honestly, though, you don't need to do anything - we just wanted to help her. She seemed really scared and lost."

Because you killed her friend, I thought bitterly for a moment. Then it evaporated. "No, I really want to though. Unless there's another reward you'd prefer...?"

He convened with the other two for about 10 seconds before they unanimously assured me they would like that reward very much, just as it was offered. I took down their address, we had friendly goodbyes, and then I glanced at my watch: 11:45 AM. Just enough time to get to the restaurant. I took off jogging from the pay phone, over a few crosswalks and down a few blocks, and still arrived with 5 minutes to spare. Great! I loved it when everything worked out.

- XXXIII -

MY friend greeted me after I had been sitting in the lobby of the restaurant about three minutes. "Hi," I replied, "good timing. I just got here." I smiled. I noticed a subtle, but definite, bulge in his trousers and licked my lips without realizing it. Did he always wear pants this tight? Or maybe the pants weren't tight, his bulge was just... big, I thought with a tinge of excitement. I frowned inwardly. What the fuck? Get over it, brain. Stop trying to do everything I tell you not to, I grumbled at my own mind.

He didn't seem to notice any of this. He just smiled and said, "Shall we be seated?"

The hostess - a cute little thing with awesome red hair done in an intricate updo and held in place with two long pins - led us to a table, and my friend frowned. "Oh, this isn't the place I reserved."

She looked at her chart, and shook her head: "This is the table you reserved - 34B." 34B? I thought. Sounds like what my bra size would've been when I was living with Hunny-Bear. I giggled to myself.

"No," frowned my friend, not noticing my noise, "I wanted that one over there - can I see your chart? - yeah, see, this one's marked 34E. That's definitely the one I asked for."

"Oh," said the hostess, thinking. "OK. Maybe they wrote the E too much like a B and you got entered into the computer wrong. I'll... just seat you there, and work it out with my manager, OK?" She smiled sweetly. I admired what a sweet smile she could get on her face. If I smiled like that, I'd look like a dopey gorilla, not cute. I scratched the back of my neck as we were led to the table.

We settled in and she left us with the menus. "Sorry about that," said my friend, "I just wanted a more private location."

I nodded absently, not really paying attention to him. "No problem," I said. Then I laughed: "Market price? They're admitting they buy this one from the market?" I was imagining frozen dinners.

He looked at me weirdly. "You have such a strange sense of humor sometimes."

I looked back at the menu. Market price wasn't funny? Wait... wait... that meant... it meant the price of the ingredients changed the cost each day, right? OK. Duh. I knew that. I think. It just... I had a blank spot. Again. Bread was brought to the table, and our waitress smiled and took our drink orders. I found myself asking for a glass of milk before I even realized what I was saying. She just nodded and wrote it down, and my friend ordered some kind of soda. I scratched my cheek.

I noticed the bread was soft, but long and thin. Kind of... penile in shape. I picked up a piece and placed it in my mouth to bite a bit off, but hesitated, rolling my tongue over the tip. I wanted to suck on it, but something in me told me not to do that in public. I wasn't sure why. Then I came out of my fog, and quickly bit a piece off, feeling horribly self-conscious. STOP IT! I shouted at myself internally.

My friend didn't notice at all. He made light chatter about being glad I was OK, and asking how I was adapting to getting back into the grind of things, but seemed guarded and fidgety. We ordered our meals, and once the waitress took our menus and left, he leaned in close over the table:

"Listen. I want to... I want to talk to you about something. It might make you feel a little awkward." I was fantasizing about opening up the bulge in his pants, and barely paying attention. I nodded politely. "OK. Thank you. I... you going missing like this, it made me realize how fragile our lives are. How one minute you can think everything's great, and the next minute you're lost in the woods... or worse. You could have died! When I heard you were back I was so relieved. Everyone was assuming the worst after a month."

He took my hand in his. That sent a little thrill through me, but I tried to ignore it and keep a flat, unemotional face, looking him in the eye politely as I nodded. "Listen. You're probably the closest friend I have in this city. I know we're mostly just business friends, but we've had some great drinks together and some fun times out fishing and, anyway..." He looked down, as if this was difficult for him. "OK. I'm gay. There. No one else in the city knows. Only my friends back home."

"In the state you used to live?" I asked, not very interested in what he was saying but trying to pretend. Images of his penis in my mouth were making me feel intoxicated. Wait. He was gay? God damn it. That ruined that idea.

"Yes," he said, smiling. "I'm so glad you're... thank you for being so good about this. Like I said, when you... when you disappeared, I realized I could be dead at any moment. Why live my life in fear, lurking from one shadow to the next to avoid someone's disapproval? You know? Jobs, comforts... they're not really worth anything if it's all fake..."

He kept rambling. I wanted him to shut up, so I could think. Thinking was really hard for me suddenly. Everything felt cloudy. But there was a thought in my brain, an important thought. What was it? Wait... it was coming... I tuned him out completely. Then my eyes lit up. Oh! Oh, of course! I looked like a guy right now! Duh! So if he was gay, then that awesome bulge -

I grabbed his wrist like a striking snake. He looked up, startled. "Come here." I said, dragging him up from the table. He looked bewildered, but followed. I rushed us out of the restaurant. I heard him ask something about the bill, the meal, but I just kept dragging him.

Then we were outside on the street. "Where do you live?" I asked him.

He looked perplexed, again. "You've been to my apartment before... I'm over on..." I tuned him out again. The location he gave was way, way closer than my condo. That meant faster. I flagged a cab down, and told the driver to take us to my friend's apartment.

When we got to his front door, he tried to stop me and ask what was going on. I silenced him: "Open the door. Please." He did, but his patience was running out, I could tell. I think he knew something was up, though, and was going along for another reason.

I proved his hopes correct. As soon as the door closed I tugged his pants down in one smooth, graceful motion. My eyes bulged. "Even better!" I gasped, now that I was facing the bulge through a thin layer of fabric. My breath trembled. It was so close. I looked up at him. He seemed overjoyed.

"You - you too? I didn't know! Oh my... I mean... yes, go ahead..." he said, utterly shocked and overwhelmed.

I wasn't really asking for permission, but whatever. I tugged his manties down enough to let his semi-flaccid cock spring loose. Then I got to work, and it was erect very quickly. Everything I had learned while serving Hunny-Bear came flooding back instantly, and I crawled my lips up and down his cock with expert skill. It was annoying that they were so much thinner, since it made cushioning his penis from my teeth a little harder, but I managed. A stellar blowjob was delivered. I felt his balls, currently dancing atop my fingertips, tense a bit. He started to pull back.

I grabbed his thighs firmly with one arm. "Uh-uh." I awkwardly spoke, without looking up. You could almost hear him grin. Then the flood of cum came, and -

And -

And it tasted like shit! What the fuck? I almost gagged, but stubbornly persevered, the perfectionist in me insisting I go through with what I started. But it tasted horrible. Acrid. Nasty. Like spittle with battery acid and locker-room sweat mixed into it. A foul musk coated my tongue, my teeth, the roof of my mouth, and crawled down my throat like a rotting slug. It tasted familiar, but twisted, and wrong. What the fuck was wrong with his cum? What was in this stuff?

Finally, after what felt like years, he stopped pumping. I pulled away and saw him smiling down at me, excited. I lurched away, feeling nauseous, and made my way to the nearby kitchen table of his apartment, sitting down shakily. He pulled his pants up and sat across from me.

"Are you OK?" he asked.

I didn't reply.

"Was that... I mean have you had a same-sex encounter before?" he pressed, trying to be diplomatic.

I didn't reply.

He gave up, confused. We sat in silence for a while.

I felt terrified. Because, despite how gross that was, the second he had stopped pumping... I wanted to do it again. I looked at his cock as I was pulling away and felt an overpowering need to get it right back in my mouth. But I resisted, and focused on my nausea instead, which is how I made it to the table.

I still wanted to drop to my hands and knees, crawl under the table, and suck him off again. I stopped myself by thinking about the foul taste, over and over again. What had gone wrong? Why had it been so good with... with...

With Hunny-Bear? It was real, wasn't it? It had actually happened? I gave up on resisting. The blank spots in my mind were occurring with increasing frequency, the periods of time where I'd find myself losing concentration, feeling stupid, losing control. I had been resisting them all day long, but now I gave up. I needed... something... too badly. I had thought it was a cock, a cock in my mouth, when I raced us out of the restaurant... but now I just felt aimless and confused.

As we continued to sit in stilted silence, I began absent-mindedly picking through the things on his kitchen table. A memo pad, with a shopping list scrawled on it. A pen. A salt shaker. A pepper shaker. One of those cloying little plastic bear-shaped bottles of honey that you always see in supermarkets. A coffee cup -

Wait.

Wait!

I grabbed the honey bear again, rolling it around in my hands. Honey bear. Hunny-Bear. That was it! That was the sweet, delicious flavor Hunny-Bear had! He tasted like my friend's semen, if it were mixed with delicious honey! I knew it. I knew that's what I needed. I needed Hunny-Bear's cum again. But Hunny-Bear was dead. Did that upset me? Before I had been happy, now I felt kind of... sad. But still, he was dead, so he couldn't help me right now.

I slid off my chair.

"Are you OK?" asked my friend, totally bewildered once more.

"Yes," I replied cheerily, "I'm fine, now."

I crawled on my hands and knees under the table. He didn't argue as I undid his fly again and peeled his trousers away. My blowjob was even better this time. I was a little rusty a few minutes ago, but now I felt myself getting back to proper cocksucking form. Despite having come recently, my skillful licks, sucks, swallows, and pecks were enough to get him ready to go all over again in a few short minutes.

"Wait." I commanded, pinching the base of his penis with stern authority. He chuckled playfully. "Give me that honey bear." I ordered. He seemed about to question me, but I gave his cockhead a few expert flicks of my tongue and a plastic honey bear was shortly handed to me under the table.

I twisted the top open and poured a huge stream of honey into my mouth, letting it coat all over everything and then sit there in a big pool of sweetness. Then I let go of his penis and dove back down, careful to keep most of the honey inside my mouth. A few seconds later his bronco was bucking like wild, and this time -

This time it was delicious! The semen hit the honey in my mouth and the two flavors mixed exquisitely. Gloriously. It was... oh, that feeling, that euphoric rush! It was like being a junkie. I giggled. I liked that. I was getting my honey-cum hit. It wasn't the same as Hunny-Bear's gooey, delicious cum - his hunny, I giggled - but it was close. It was almost as good. It made me feel satisfied in that way I needed, a way that boring normal semen couldn't cut it.

Well, that did it. My friend and I spent the next several hours fooling around, until he was so tired that he collapsed and I simply couldn't rouse him or his cock to any more activity. It was for the best, anyway, since he was out of honey. And I wasn't gonna swallow any cum without honey to wash it down. "Thanks, baby," I whispered sweetly in my nasty man-voice, kissing him on the head. Both of them. Then I swaggered out of his bedroom and into his bathroom to clean up a little before heading down to the street.

As soon as I looked in the mirror, the reality of it all came flooding into me. Oh my fucking god! What had I just done? As if fleeing from my rage, the fog in my mind cleared away. Again, I had lapsed today. Had that really happened? I looked at the honey bear in my hand and screamed, throwing it away from me. It clattered around inside the shower. I put my face in my hands, and then tried splashing cold water on myself. This was not happening. I did not just suck my friend off. Over and over again. While guzzling honey.

But why not? It felt so good, it tasted so good... it was just so good! I shrugged. And I needed it, anyway. I wasn't itching any more. I had been trying to ignore it all day long, but I was itching and I knew it. And I knew what itching meant. Being itchy meant you need cum. That's how I scratched my itches, I giggled. By sucking cock.

I snapped back. No! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO! I made a concerted effort to concentrate. Think about work, I told myself. You still haven't eaten lunch - I grimaced at the reason - and you have tons of work to do -

Fuck work! Fuck lunch! In fact, I giggled uproariously, I did fuck lunch! The guy I fucked was my lunch! I patted my tummy, thinking of all the cum and honey stored inside. I giggled again.

NO! With immense concentration, I managed to keep my mind on-topic. OK. I wasn't imagining this. This was really happening. I needed help. But what I had encountered - no one would believe me. No doctor would help me, even if they could. I didn't have time to convince anyone, I needed this cured now. Now!

OK. This seemed... this seemed almost magical. Magic was an illusion, though. Right? Who cares, it was real enough to me right now. I tore through the apartment until I found his phone book. O...O...O... Occult. Good. It worked. Here was a listing of those ridiculous shops you always pass and never go in to. And one was right down the block from his apartment complex. Yes. Good. Excellent. My mind was racing wildly, desperate to keep myself together long enough to get help. Maybe I was possessed. Maybe they could help me.

As I turned to leave, I noticed that the itching was gone, but my chest had still felt sore, especially when my shirt shifted. No. No way. With dread, I walked back to the bathroom and lifted my shirt up.

Yes. Yes, there they were, big puffy girl nipples. They erected and plumped out in the cool air of the bathroom. No breast around them that I could tell. Just big nipples with big areola. I was mortified. I dropped my shirt. No time to think about this right now. I ignored my slightly longer hair and its faded color. I ignored that my face looked a little different; I didn't stop to observe the details, I didn't want to. I just wanted this fixed. It was taking all my energy just to keep focused and not fog out again. My walk felt slightly different, like my butt was moving a little more and my hips were more noticeable.

No. No, no, no. It's not there. Ignore it. It'll get better, if you can just make it to the specialist...

- XXXIV -

AS I opened the door to leave my friend's apartment, the door of the apartment across from me opened. My heart sank. It was a guy. He looked at me and smiled. I knew that smile: that's the smile I gave dykes when I passed them. The, "oh, you're a girl, so I'm obligated to be nice, but you're not a very pretty one, so here's a smile that's kind of sympathetic and distant", smile.

So I looked enough like a girl, suddenly, to pass for a really butch lesbian. How? How did that happen? I had been itching, I had sucked -

Cock. Cum. Swallowing cum must trigger the transformation, I realized with dread. I turned back to myself in the absence of Hunny-Bear's hunny. Of course, I'd turn the other way once I got cum again. I should avoid swallowing it at all costs, then. Which normally wouldn't have been any problem at all for me. Except... except I needed it. It was overpowering. It had been crawling back into my mind ever since my blowjob on Hunny-Bear got interrupted by a rifle shot. Slowly. Insidiously. Unnoticeably. But as I thought back, it had been there. Growing. Like my brain was melting, giving way to urges and needs I'd never had before. Or never thought I'd had before - I felt like I didn't know anything any more. It was all too blurry, too foggy, too confusing. I thought I knew who I was - I was pretty sure - yes, when I concentrated, I knew - and I just needed to survive long enough to preserve that.

"Hello," said the 30-something male neighbor politely.

"Hi," I breathed. Resist. Resist. Resist. "Are you single?" I blurted out. Oh, god.

He grinned big. The, "oh, you're ugly but you're not a lesbian - this could be useful since you must have low self-esteem", smile.

Resist. NO! Resist. NO! Resist. I battered my mind with desperate commands.

"Do you have any honey?" I smiled with a wicked grin.

Fifteen minutes later I was rushing down the stairs of the apartment complex. Fewer people took the stairs. Fewer people meant less chance I'd lose control and suck more cock.

My boobs bounced. Yes, now they bounced again. They had swollen to B-cups after I sucked my last target off three times in a row, before he apologetically told me he was too tired to keep going. I still had his plastic bee-hive, halfway full of honey, tucked inside my jacket. He had gladly given it to me as a parting gift in exchange for the delights I had bestowed upon him. I think he was too tired to notice I suddenly had chin-length blonde hair, a pretty little face, a smaller body... you know the drill.

I didn't want the honey, not right then. Just like I didn't just want cum. I only wanted them together. Honey-cum. Almost hunny. Almost like what Hunny-Bear gave me. His medicine. His glorious medicine.

I reached the bottom of the stairs. There was blue tape along the banister rail and the bottom of the wall. And... no! No, no, no, no, no!

And two men re-painting the walls of the stairwell entry alcove. Resistance was futile. I strolled up to them and made blatantly pointless small talk as I wedged one of the longer paint-rollers into the handles of the doors that lead in from the street, blocking them from being opened from the outside. The two men almost began to protest, until I dropped my man-jacket and pulled my oversized shirt off. Then they fell silent.

"Hi boys," I said crisply, holding up my new bottle of honey. "I'm going to suck both of your cocks off as hard and as much as you can handle - for free - if you'll just pour some honey in my mouth before you cum each time."

They couldn't even blink.

"Oh, and of course, I swallow." I grinned. They still weren't moving. "I'm clean, boys. It's a hormonal disorder. Makes me constantly horny. Doctor hasn't worked out the right doses yet, so I kind of need to feel fucked pretty often right now. So do I need to show you my medical file, or are you going to help me out?"

They looked at each other, probably decided they didn't care if this crazy slut was lying or not, and removed their cocks. My eyes bulged like a kid with presents, and I leaped forward and dropped to my knees.

I sucked one off expertly while rubbing up the other cock so it would be ready for me. Each time, they would, to their credit, do exactly as I asked - tip my head back and pour honey into my mouth - and then shove - which I loved - my face back onto their cock before coming into me. And I would swallow joyously. Then I'd switch to the other cock merrily.

What was odd was that I couldn't get enough. With Hunny-Bear, a feeling of satisfied euphoria would wash over me whenever I was done swallowing his hunny. And then I'd be sated for hours, and free of my obsessive need, and could cuddle or do chores or whatever.

But every time these men came, I would swallow, feel satisfied for a few seconds... and then instantly need more, just as bad as last time. In fact, it almost felt like it was getting worse each time. When I had dragged my friend to his apartment, the urge had been profound but managable. Now it was beginning to overtake me, to become my overriding goal instead of a background need. And every burst of honey-cum I sucked down seemed to make the flames of that need flare up even hotter and higher. The urge was overwhelming. Every time their erect cock would pop back up in the corner of my eye, I was on it like a hungry wolf pouncing on a cylindrical, fleshy rabbit.

Then they were spent, and my honey was gone anyway. I pouted. "Sorry, bitch," one of them said boldly, testing the waters. I only giggled, which seemed to encourage him, "but I'm spent. My cock's good, and boy do you seem to know that now, but it ain't the Hercules of dicks. It's gotta rest sometime."

Still on my knees, I looked up eagerly to the other painter. He shook his head sadly. "No can do, babe. Sorry your cunt's all outta whack, but I'm about to pass out."

I stood up, causing a stunning amount of wobbling. More wobbling than I'd ever felt on my chest. I looked down. The men looked down. My tits were... not B cups any more. If they were C cups now, it was only just barely. As in, just barely missing the D cup designation. I stared at them, bewildered. "They're so big!" I gasped, bouncing them up and down a little with my hands. I giggled at their wobbling.

"Holy fuck," one of them muttered, "I didn't realize her tits were that huge." He was frustratedly trying to get it up enough to masturbate over my big, bare chest. The other stared blankly.

I wanted to know what else had changed. I stripped naked, completely uncaring - aware, but uncaring - that two horny men were three feet away. I gasped. It was hard to see around my tits, but my proportions were even girlier than they had been during my time in the Forest with Hunny-Bear. My hips seemed huge, extending a centimeter or two beyond my shoulder width - a total inversion of my usual male body. Male? Ugh. What a lousy form that was. Wait, was it? Whatever. Anyway. My thighs felt curvy and thick, but - I plopped down onto the ground and laid on my back so I could see past my tits - the rest of my legs were long and sensuous. My feet were even daintier than before, my hands were much softer, thinner, tinier. I noticed how big and thick my butt felt and giggled happily. I sat up, feeling my boobs bounce heavily. Everything about me seemed so soft, and curvy, and delicate. My hair tickled my shoulders. My neck felt so thin, and my cunt...

Wait. My pussy? When did that come back? I hadn't even noticed. How long had I been feeling hot and wet down there? I think since I was blowing that guy in the other apartment. I sighed at the thought. Of his cock. Of the two cocks next to me, which were still flaccid from exhaustion despite a buxom, voluptuous, sopping-horny, naked girl sitting right in front of them with her legs spread. The two painters looked agonized that their cocks wouldn't salute. I giggled, and began gathering up my clothes. Stupid clothes. I hated clothes. I wanted to run naked again. But clothes were good right now, 'cause otherwise I might get in trouble and then not have as much cock available. A fine cock selection was a very good thing.

Soon I was dressed in comically-oversized clothes. I was shorter too? Wow! "Sorry boys," I sang in a high, smooth, breathy voice that emitted sex waves in all directions. They looked agonizedly aroused, and hilariously limp. I glanced down pointedly: "But I need someone who can take care of me..." I scrunched up my shoulders, closed my eyes, and purred: "...the way a big girl needs." Then I winked slowly and enticingly, spent several seconds figuring out how to dislodge the paint-roller I had blocked the doors with, and walked away, sashaying my ass for them. I don't know if their brains ever rebooted from that experience.

- XXXV -

THE cold air of the street snapped me back into reality. Oh, god. Oh god oh god oh god. I wasn't even trying to deny it was happening any more. I just tried my best to ignore all the foreign wiggling, and jiggling, and sashaying, and butt-bouncing. Tried to ignore the curious looks from passerby about the girl dressed in oversized male clothes who seemed like she might be really curvy underneath. Forced my eyes to stay at my feet so I wouldn't notice any cocks and... and... You know.

After walking a bit I passed a small convenience market on my way down the street. I stopped, thought about it briefly, then swooped in, jiggling all the way. I knew what I wanted, but couldn't find it. The signs on the aisles had words. I knew that. But I was in such a hurry that reading them was difficult, 'cause all the symbols clustered together. Gosh, I felt dumb. I giggled. Oh well! I had wandered to the back of the store, and -

And saw a man. Oh, a sexy man. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, with a laid-back, college style to his clothing. He had a strong jaw and pretty eyes, a little 5-o'clock shadow - I liked it on him, but I was glad my face was smooth again - and a big strong-looking body that I knew could wrap me all up in its arms and lift me wherever he wanted to put me... I thought about the little bit of honey I had accidentally left behind with the painters, and felt a pang of regret.

"Hi," I chirped in my new, deliciously cute voice.

"Hi," he replied, obviously happy to help.

"Can you show me where the honey is? I can't find it." I pouted.

Twenty minutes later I strolled out of the store's bathroom, leaving a bewildered, exhausted, and very happy man behind me. My tits were firmly entrenched in the D cup designation now. Everything else had expanded proportionately. My hair was down to my shoulder blades, prevented from tickling me by the big jacket I was wearing. I strolled and bounced over to the counter, already needing more cock, glad my thighs were hidden by the oversized pants because my pussy was drooling like crazy. The pants only stayed on because of my giant hips, and I was afraid they might get too big soon. I tried to think of that as a "possibility", but I knew it was really an "inevitability". Actually, I didn't. Those words were beyond my foggy brain. I knew what I was trying to say, I just couldn't put it that smart.

The cashier rang up my 6 bottles of honey and asked me if I wanted paper or plastic. I almost blurted out "latex", but caught myself. Plastic. Easier to carry. Then he asked for the total. It was really hard to keep from climbing over the counter and blowing him, especially with all that honey right next to me, but I somehow kept myself under control as I rifled through my wallet. God, I wanted a purse! I hated this thing.

I was getting confused. The numbers were all blurring together and the math in my head was overwhelming me. I tried switching to my hands but that was still too confusing. I gave up and handed him the wallet: "Just take the right number." I said, feeling really dumb. But he smiled at me, and that made me feel better. I wanted to blow him sooooo bad then. But some tiny part of me managed to keep drilling into my brain how much I had to get down the street and visit the occult shop. He handed me the wallet back, looking kind of sympathetic, and I leaned over and kissed him on the mouth.

"Wow, thanks," he grinned. "Enjoy your, uhm, honey."

"Oh, I will!" I giggled happily, and winked at him. His imagination went to work and he looked a little aroused as I sashayed out, butt swinging even more than when I had come in.

I was really good. I was really, really good as I walked down the street. I kept my eyes straight down my shirt, mesmerized by the bouncing of my cleavage. They were so big! How could anyone have boobs this big? I thought I had big tits when I had B cups for a month, but those were bon-bons compared to these coconuts! I loved them! I gave my tits a big hug, making my huge fat nipples harden up and poke through my shirt. Good thing for the jacket.

Why? If men saw my hard nipples they'd know I was aroused. That was a good thing 'cause then they'd fuck me. No! No, this wasn't me! It was my... my curse, or whatever! A part of my rational brain had rebelled back into control long enough to keep my eyes directed to my undulating boobies, so I would avoid seeing any men's crotches. My shopping bag full of honey bottles swung ominously by my side.

I started casting sidelong glances at the shops I was passing. No... no... ooh. A really shiny window. I stopped to stare. Even through the clothing, I was obviously a vixen. I had to be down to 5'4" tall, my clothes draping over me absurdly. My ultra-wide hips outspanned my shoulders like a fertility goddess and my face had gone from the gentle, average femininity I remembered from my time in the Oak-House to absolutely gorgeous structure and grace. My huge, almost-past-DD boobs bulged the shirt and jacket out blatantly, especially on my tinier frame. My long hair was blonde and pretty and framed my face cutely. Even with the oversized clothes, I looked so hot. I'd look even better without them. No. Don't, I tried to tell myself, but felt my hands reaching for the jacket...

"Excuse me, but may I ask what you're looking at?" came a deep, male voice, startling me and flooding me with excitement.

"Oh," I said, in a high but utterly seductive voice, "Just... what's, you know, in the window." I didn't want to sound vain!

"Mattresses?" he asked, bewildered.

Indeed. Behind my reflection were two mattresses. I looked up. It was, indeed, a mattress store. The reflection of me and the man next to me made it look like we were bothing lying on one of the mattresses. That thrilled me. His hair was graying, but he was still really hot... one of those men who stays rock-solid gorgeous as they age. Maybe late 40s? He was hot.

"May I ask what a beautiful young woman like you is doing staring at mattresses through a store window?" he inquired, smiling.

I couldn't resist. I lost control. "Maybe she's hoping a hunk like you will pin her to one of them."

His face lit up like Times Square on December 31st, and he replied, to my delight: "Well, that's convenient, since this hunk owns this store. Want to pick one out?"

I certainly did! Soon he had locked up the store and brought metal curtains down over the windows and door. That seemed odd, considering this was a pretty low-crime area of the city and few stores had bars or curtains down, even when they were closed. Then he "helped" me out of my jacket. I shivered sexually. He was being so aggressive, and I loved it. I loved that a few words were all I needed to speak, and he'd do all the rest.

Soon we were naked - it was fun undressing a man for the first time - and he looked down (yay!) at me: "Like I said," he gestured to the rest of the store, "pick a mattress, babe." He grinned.

It was a cute gesture, but honestly, at that point I didn't give a flying crap what mattress we were on as long as I got to suck him off. To humour him, I did one quick circuit around the store and then stopped in front of a fluffy, pinkish one. I liked pink. Didn't I? I thought so. "This one." I said. He smiled and strolled over, cock swinging like a heavenly pendulum. I stared at it and sighed.

"That was quick. I love a decisive lady." he smiled.

"One more thing." I placed my tiny hand against his chest. "Before you come, pour this honey into my mouth."

His face lit up again. "Wow, you're really fucking kinky. I love it." I grinned and sat down on the mattress, beginning to massage his penis. He let out a happy, rattling sigh, began rubbing the top of my head, and ... well, either I bent down to suck up his cock, or he pushed me down. We were both going for the same idea at the same time, and I'm not sure who controlled it more.

After several minutes of my fantasy blowjob, he gripped my head, pulled back - easily, since I always kept my big fat lips wrapped over my teeth - and picked up one of the honey bottles. "Open wide, baby," he enthused, really getting into it. I squealed happily and, well, opened very wide. He poured honey into me, grunting, like he was fantasizing that the bottle was his cock. Was it like he got to cum in me twice? How hot.

Then he laughed, saying: "Open wide, baby... again."

"I'm already open wide!" I exclaimed around all the honey in my mouth, then doved back onto his cock to prove it.

He chortled again, gripping the back of my head tightly: "Man, you are one awesome bitch." I smirked as best I could with his cock jammed into my mouth, and then felt the release begin. The heavenly euphoria zapped through me as I got my hit. Then, as always, it died away immediately and I was disappointed and hungry for more.

I looked at his cock. It was so small compared to Hunny-Bear's. I felt spoiled. I mean, it was a fair 7 inches erect and pretty thick, but it just couldn't compare to how full and gorgeous Hunny-Bear's shaft made me feel. It didn't matter, though. I already needed it again, and looked up at him eagerly: "Again?" I asked.

He laughed loudly. "Holy christ, I love you. Not yet, sweety. Mr. Johnson isn't in quite the same shape he used to be."

"When you were 20?" I asked randomly.

He laughed more. "Yeah, that's for sure. Gimme a few minutes at least. In the mean time, lemme return the favor." Then I startled as he bent down and started tonguing my naked vulva. That was weird. I hadn't... it had never occurred to me to have anything sexual done to my female body strictly for the sake of pleasure. What was the point? Without a hit of honey-cum it felt like a waste of time. I started thinking about the occult store that had to be very close now. He looked up at me: "You don't like being eaten out?"

I looked down. I shrugged, feeling honest: "I like blowjobs."

He laughed. "Wow. All give and no take, huh? Wanna get married?"

I shook my head. "I don't think so. You'd probably get jealous pretty fast. I don't control myself very well."

He laughed, as usual. I seemed to amuse him quite a bit. "God, you're awesome. You ever done movies?"

I stared blankly at him. "I'm not an actress." I said.

He laughed. Of course. "I meant pornos."

My eyes opened wide. Oh! Wow. So that's he was asking. I guess I should have known. I felt kind of dumb right then. And... for a while before that. Anyway. "Like, get fucked on camera?" I asked meekly.

He smiled. "Sure, if you're willing. But you could just lay back and rub those tits and you'd have a load of cash handed to you. I mean, obviously, you know how hot you are, right?"

I flushed. He thought I was that hot, huh? That turned me on. "I guess," I said honestly, "I didn't really think about it that way."

He took my hand and tugged me to my feet, then slid it onto my butt. I liked that. It made me feel... girly, and owned, in a good way. I snuggled into his naked body. "Get dressed, and follow me." I nodded, and tugged my loose-fitting clothes on. He stared at me. "You know, never mind." I shrugged and dropped them back to the floor. "I gotta ask - why is a hot babe like you wearing cheap-ass, oversized men's clothes?"

I blinked. How to explain? I didn't feel like figuring out a good story, so I just shrugged. He laughed as he finished dressing. I pouted, staring at his reenclosed cock as if I had been betrayed. He laughed again. "Oh geez, you're unstoppable. I need to mention again that I love you. Anwyay, don't worry, you'll get more of it." I smiled. "And we're gonna get you some better clothing." My face lit up.

He led me to the back of the store, behind the business counter, and opened a door. And suddenly I was in ... a big studio, currently done up to look like a classy living room. I blinked. "You film back here?" He grinned at me, and the connection was finally made. "Oh!" I said excitedly, half at just being able to figure this out on my own, "You make porn here!" The fact I seemed so peppy made him visibly relax a bit.

"Yes we do. The mattress store is just a front so we can operate with some tax advantages on the rent and so forth. Don't tell anyone, OK?" he asked me.

I held my finger up to my lips and made a 'shhhh' sound. Then I couldn't resist and began tonguing the finger before sticking it into my mouth and sucking sensually. I grinned as I was rewarded with an obvious tent in his trousers.

"Hey guys! Lunch break's over, and look what I found!" Three more men strolled out, along with a girl who could be considered red-hot if I wasn't in the room, naked, to ruin it.

"Hey," said one of the men before noticing me, "Katherine just showed up a few minutes ago, and - " he stopped. "Holy fucking god, who the hell are you?" It was all said very admiringly. I blushed. Katherine frowned at me cattily.

"Yeah, who's she? I thought I was filming today." she asked the man who had brought me here.

"Change of plans. Rick, take Katherine to studio B and do a photoshoot instead. Jim, film it too so we can post it as some lameass 'behind the scenes' footage. The idiots seem to eat that up for some reason." Rick and Jim nodded smartly, taking lingering glances of me as they dragged themselves out of the room. Katherine strutted after them, shooting daggers at me over her shoulder. I stuck my tongue out at her.

"OK, Scott, this girl - " he stopped. "What the hell's your name anyway, babe?" He laughed. "I can't believe you never even told me your name before sucking my cock."

Scott's eyes bugged out. Something told me I should feel embarrassed, but instead I felt... I dunno... proud. "Yep," I confirmed. Scott's pants tented, to my delight.

Then I realized the two men were staring at me. "Well?" said the older guy I had just blown. "We gotta call you something, honey!" He chuckled, and turned to Scott. "She made me pour honey into her mouth before I came. She's fucking crazy in the best way."

Scott looked like he was going to cry from pent-up sexual longing. He smiled crookedly, shifted his expensive-looking camera awkwardly, and whispered "That's pretty damn hot."

"How about Honey-Bunny? Huh? You can do that trick of yours on- camera and it'll give us a unique spin for you. Maybe we can even make a whole website, hey? Honeybunny.com - she's sweet enough on her own, but adds honey to make it sweeter! Well, something better than that. Jim's the idea man when it comes to the marketing shit. But, yeah. What do you say?" He stared at me eagerly, as did Scott.

A fogginess floated around my mind, tempting me with something. A name. I had a name, once. Now I was just... me. Sometimes I got called bitch, or babe. Wasn't that enough? Uhm. The two men kept staring at me. I was starting to feel dumb, and embarrassed. Then it came to me. It slowly drifted off my lips as the words wafted through the fog in my mind: "Bussie... Bopper?"

"Bussie Bopper? The fuck kind of name is that?" asked the man.

"Dude, it's obviously a stage name." supplied Scott. "Why can't I remember seeing you before?" he asked me.

"Yeah, yeah," said the man, "Yeah, OK. Bussie Bopper. Kind of has this... way-retro, like, 50s soc-hop charm to it, you know? Where's Alyssa, can we style her hair like the 50s? Like, you know... a beehive maybe." He laughed. "Yeah, a beehive and she likes to suck honey with her cocks! Or maybe something easier to do on short notice. I dunno. Whatever. Babe, I love you, whatever you wanna do."

I smiled. I shrugged. I think I was too dumb to know how to lie anymore. "I wanna suck both your cocks at once."

They looked at each other. "OK." they said in unison.

"Go get Alyssa," he told Scott, "tell her she's on film duty today. If Bussie wants to get double-teamed, I sure as hell ain't gonna tell her otherwise." I smiled at the name "Bussie". It brought back warm memories. I thought about how Hunny-Bear was dead, and felt sad. But then the two men were naked in front of me, and my mind kind of blanked out.

Alyssa strolled in, a strangely plain-looking mid-30s woman who looked like she could be filing your mortgage. Instead she was putting make-up on a porn star and doing my hair. Make-up? Wow. Aside from painting my nails at the Oak-House, I'd never worn make- up before. When she held up a mirror, I looked so fucking hot I squealed.

Then came wardrobe. Oh my. It was so fun. She let me try on tons of slutty little outfits until I settled on one I loved: a tight, sexy, neon pink halter top and a black pleated miniskirt that didn't even hit mid-thigh. By big butt peeked out the bottom of it. I didn't have a bra, which was good 'cause I loved the way my big fat nipples tented out my top when I got horny, which was always. And why would a slut like me want panties? They'd just get in the way if I ever felt like masturbating, and I was getting so horny all the time that I almost needed to. Sucking cocks alone wasn't getting me off often enough anymore. 6-inch shiny black heels with crazy straps going up to my knee completed the look. "How do you like it?" asked Alyssa, as I stood in front of a full-length mirror.

"I love it!" I shrieked, hugging her. "You made me look awesome!"

She smiled. "You're very, very pretty already." She seemed kind of forlorn, like she wanted to finish with, "too bad you're wasting your time being a whore". Maybe not, though. Maybe she was just sad she couldn't be in my position. I wanted to make her feel better, since she made me so pretty:

"You're pretty too though. Want to join in?" I asked innocently.

She laughed. The men laughed. "I'm afraid I don't get involved in the on-camera action, honey," she smiled, seemingly flattered.

"Any time you want, Ally!" called the man who had brought me here. Everyone was in such a good mood. All 'cause of me! "Oh Ally, you know to keep my face out of the frame, right?" he added, motioning around his neck. Allysa nodded.

Then Allysa took control of the expensive-looking camera and ... and then things get kind of blurry. I know I sucked a lot of cock. From both men. And of course, washed each load down with honey. Over and over again 'till they couldn't move any more.

The older man groaned weakly, "Good lord. Did you get all that, Allysa?"

"Oh yes indeed. Good stuff." she replied, with a thumbs-up. Then she started reviewing the footage, and looked back and forth at my panting, naked, sweaty body several times. "Did her... breasts get bigger?" The men propped themselves up with effort, then looked at each other and Alyssa with disbelief.

"How'd you do that, Bussie?" asked the man.

I wasn't listening. I had been sitting there for several minutes since we finished, thinking about one thing. About how I couldn't believe it: every time I got a hit of honey-cum, I just wanted it even worse! It was getting crazy now, after I sucked so much cum on- camera just then. "More!" I yelled uncontrollably, "I saw two more boys in here, get me their cocks, please!"

The man laughed despite his exhaustion. "Holy shit, this girl... you heard her... get Rick and Jim in here, and forget about how she does her boobs...just keep her doing it..." He flopped over.

Things get blurry again right around there. I kind of went into a frenzy. Mid-way through exhausting the new boys, Scott recovered enough to start in on me again. Then things got really out of hand, and for a while I was being fucked in all three holes, honey dripping off me everywhere. I really didn't care about being fucked anywhere but my mouth, 'cause my ass and my pussy didn't give me a hit. But whatever, it made the boys happy and I liked that. Alyssa was astonishingly placid the whole time, merrily filming away as she rushed around to get different angles and shots.

Then all four men were drained and lying in various spots around the living-room set, all too delirious to move. I looked around like a conqueror who had just razed a village and had nothing left to burn down. Then I shrugged, smiled at Alyssa, and got dressed in my new sexy outfit. Or tried.

"It doesn't fit," I said, dumb and confused, as I tried to get my pink halter past my boobies. They were big now. Like, really big. They hung down past the bottom of my ribs. Being accurate, they were up to F cups now. As proportionally crazy as that was on my now 5 foot frame, my hips, ass, thighs ... everything... had followed along. I felt hair brushing the small of my back. I felt stupid. I felt horny. I needed more honey-cum.

Alyssa blinked at me. "You're leaving?" she asked.

I nodded.

She smiled. "We need to get your information taken down first, honey. So we can pay you?" she added, when I looked blank.

"Oh," I replied, then shrugged: "Whatever. You paid me enough already." I picked up my shopping bag full of honey as her bewildered expression followed me out of the room. I called over my shoulder: "Sorry boys, but I've gotta get going. You're all really fun, but I just can't work with sleepy cocks!" And I strolled back out of the studio, through the closed store, lifted the metal curtain over the door, undid the internal lock, and prepared to walk outside.

Totally naked.

Alyssa ran after me: "Wait! Your clothes! I'll get you bigger ones - "

I giggled loudly. "Clothes suck." I said, then felt warmth flow over me at the mention of the word "suck". I started sucking my finger. Alyssa stared at me, shocked into inaction as I disappeared out the front door of the mattress store.

- XXXVI -

BEING naked felt awesome. I had wanted to be naked again so bad ever since I got back into sucking cock, but I had been afraid of getting in trouble. Now I was too dumb - or maybe just honey-cum obsessed - to care. Everything was bouncy, too. My boobs were really firm and healthy, but bouncy. My butt was bouncy. And my hips wiggled a lot and I couldn't help it, and it made my butt even bouncier. And my boobs, too, 'cause I walked all different, all sexy and girly. I loved it. I loved being a naked, bouncy... slut? Did I like being a slut? I thought I was just addicted to honey-cum. I was. But the boys in the studio had shown me that getting all my holes filled was fun too, and that felt slutty just for the sake of slut. Which made me feel hot. I liked the word slut. I kept saying it in my mind over and over again, and started masturbating.

But I knew I still needed to go to the occult store. I wasn't sure why. I just... I just did, 'cause I had said so a lot of times. And I should trust myself when I say anything a lot, I thought, 'cause I'm so dumb that I almost never remember anything long enough to repeat it. I giggled. Even if that wasn't true, it sounded hot. People on the street were gasping at me, and whispering. Someone said something about this being an "advertising stunt". Other people were calling the police, they announced loudly in my direction. Whatever. Policemen had cocks and that sounded tasty.

And then... and then I was there. The occult shop. I knew 'cause I had somehow memorized the address. And then I saw the word. It was hard to read but I recognized it: OCCULT. There were other words, but they weren't familiar to me. At least, not anymore. I stood in front of the reflection of the glass door, masturbating with one hand and tugging vigorously on a huge fat nipple with the other, getting off on how I looked like a giant fucked-up fertility goddess given form. Actually I think my exact thought was more, "I look like a big... baby-making... magic... slut... thing... I'm a baby-making magic slut?"

Anyway, somehow I broke my trance enough to pick up my bag of honey bottles, walk up to the door, spend several seconds figuring out which side to push on, and walk in, triggering a jingling of bells. "Just like Moo-Girl!" I said, listening to the tinkling. I missed Moo-Girl and her sexy tits. I had sexy tits too. I rubbed them in celebration.

"May I help you?" asked a middle-aged woman behind the counter, with frizzy gray hair done up with lots of ribbons and long, pointy glasses. She didn't even blink at my oversexed, masturbating form.

"Uh," I replied, trying very hard to clear the fog and do this one thing I was supposed to. It worked surprisingly well, for a few minutes anyway. "I, uhm... OK. Can you tell me about magical creatures?" Wow! I was using such big words! I didn't think I had them in me! "Not... made-up ones, but like... real ones. I ran into one. And now I need help."

The woman just nodded, as if I was asking her where the creamed corn was located. "I can't, but she can." She pointed to another part of the store, where a teenaged girl with jet black hair and big, dark eyes was stocking scrolls or something. She had her hair tied up with clips, pins, and bands in a crazy variety of loops, swirls, tails, and swoops. It must have taken her hours to style it like that. I felt so jealous of how awesome it looked. "Crystal!" called the woman.

The girl turned, and saw me. She had dark eyeliner and shadow on that was surprisingly tasteful for a teenager, and a plethora of silver earrings looping in and out of each ear, in addition to a nose ring and a labret stud. Her thin eyebrows furrowed and her big, dark eyes opened wide against her pale skin in surprise. Though almost entirely black, her irises had a thin ring of extremely crisp, icy blue encircling each pupil. This all contrasted amusingly with her dull black apron over a white T-shirt and black jeans. "Uhm." she began, then called, "Yeah, Frannie?"

"This young woman needs help with a magical creature she claims is real." said Frannie without flinching.

"Oh!" said Crystal, excited, who strolled over to me. "So you're cursed or something?"

I nodded. That sounded like something I had said about myself, I thought, maybe.

"OK, let me guess... uhm... succubus. Right? You got on the wrong side of a succubus?" she said, squinting and looking me up and down. I couldn't stop masturbating, which she took note of but kept going.

"Uhm... uh... what's a suck..." I shivered. "You..." again. "Bus?" Not that time. "Look like?"

"Uh," replied Crystal, "I've never really seen one, to be honest. Reports vary, some - "

"Does it look like a cartoon bear?" I blurted.

She burst out laughing. "No, I don't think so, unless you like to dress up your stuffed animals."

"Oh, no," I replied, "this bear wasn't stuffed and he made me suck his cock."

She stared at me. She looked at Frannie. Frannie's face told her I wasn't a random druggie. She turned back to me. "OK. I have never heard of crazy cartoon bears that fuck people, and occult creatures is like, my ultimate specialty. But there's a lot of forms of certain demons and imps, so I'd start there."

"C'you help me?" I asked, pumping away at my pussy furiously.

"I, uhm... I have to work." Frannie frowned at her, but Crystal didn't relent. I was creeping her out, I think. I giggled. She ignored it. "Listen. There's a big library a few blocks from here - the city library, you know?"

I shrugged.

"I'll give you directions. Do you have a piece of paper?" She didn't wait for me to reply, answering her own question with another glance at my nude form. "Sorry. I figured you could hide a sheet or two under those," she sneered, looking at my gargantuan boobs. I felt bad for her. Her chest looked really flat.

Frannie frowned again. "Help the poor woman, Crystal. Her aura's totally fucked over." And then Frannie sent a paper airplane flying over to us, which Crystal caught and opened, then began scrawling an address on.

"OK. Go here. And look for this book. Can you read this?" she asked, apparently a legitimate question given the way I looked.

"The Complete Magical Bestiary of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn," I read off slowly, sounding out several words incorrectly.

"Yes. That book is the only one of its kind left in the world. It knows things that other texts have forgotten, because it was compiled from a great number of books which have since either fallen into unknown private hands," she glanced at my crotch unavoidably as she said "private hands", "or were burned or otherwise lost and destroyed. If your creature exists, and any knowledge of it is written anywhere in the world that you or I would have any access to, or be able to read, it's this book. Find it, and you can find your creature. If you can't, it probably is so rare and unheard of that you could write your own addendum to the book."

I nodded blankly. Most of her words were going in one ear, and out the other. "May I place this in your bag?" she asked, gesturing to my honey-bottle bag. I nodded sweetly. She crouched down, opened the bag, and - paused, for a moment. "Honey." she said.

"Yes?" I said, then realized she wasn't calling me that, "Oh. Yes." I said, smiling.

She stared for a few more minutes, licked her lips, then startled, as if realizing she had fogged out. "Interesting thing to carry around without anything else."

"Yeah. I like to mix it with..." I stopped myself. Oops! Better not be too honest. They might get mad at me or something.

"OK," she said, standing up. "You'll never reach the library nude. You'll get arrested in no time. We've got some oversized shirts designed for male employees and some tiny pants, will you wear those?

I frowned. "I hate wearing clothes."

"Do you want to reach the library?" asked Crystal.

"Yes." I moped. Frannie smiled, disappeared into the back, and came back with an XXL men's shirt. It managed to fit over my tits, even though it looked comical everywhere else. It even hung over my butt and crotch. "Can I just wear this?" I asked hopefully.

"Better safe than sorry," insisted Frannie, and slid my tiny legs into the size 0 women's black pants. They didn't like my hips. "Oh dear," said Frannie. "Too big at the hips, too small everywhere else!"

So I was wearing baggy size 2 pants and a big goofy shirt that said "OCCULT" and a bunch of other stuff I couldn't read anymore. I think it was the store name and a slogan. Or something. That would make sense, right? Well, anyway. I felt disappointed being clothed, but glad I'd be allowed to go to the library now. I clutched my honey- bottle bag tightly, not wanting to lose the address that was so important. 'Cause I had to reach the library. I just had to.

I had walked three stores down when I heard someone call out: "Hey! Hey, stop." I turned, setting my tits swinging. It was Crystal! She walked up to me, looked over her shoulder, then pulled me to the side, between two stores. "I had to sneak out the back... Frannie can't know about this. It's... a long story, but she'd know I lied to her about something very important."

I stared blankly, wishing Crystal had a cock. "Oh." I said.

"You've had hunny, haven't you?" she asked. She said "hunny", not "honey", I could tell. There was just... a difference between the two, even in pronunciation. One sounded lustier.

I stared, open-eyed and open-mouthed. She knew? But she said...

"I know I lied," she explained over my thoughts, "Like I said, Frannie can't know. It's a long story. Look, I can tell from your face..." she looked down, "and those tits... that you've had hunny."

"Hunny-Bear gave it to me from his cock." I giggled dreamily, remembering the good times.

She stared at me. "You've had hunny from the source?" She seemed shocked, and stumbled. "Th... That's unbelievable, man. That's... uhm, a dream among us."

"Us?" I asked.

"Occult users." I stared. She tried again, talking with unnatural, nervous rapidity: "Magic junkies. We're occultists who know how to use magical substances like drugs to get higher, and in weirder ways, than any man-made shit can ever get you. But it's dangerous. You have to know exactly what you're doing. And hunny is some of the scariest shit you can drip. You don't do that unless you know what you're doing. Everyone knows that. I know it. I've done it. God, it's worth it." She grasped her flat chest warmly, as if remembering.

I stared. "Oh."

"But listen - if you've taken it straight from the source... no one knows what the source is, not anyone I've ever met... it's some cartoon bear? That's got to be an illusion. This stuff is nasty, pure magical garbage that exists to fuck you up until you don't know your own name. It's awesome. But if you got it straight from the source... you OD'd, I can tell. That's all I'm saying." she replied, looking genuinely scared.

I searched my memory with honest effort, then lit up and replied: "It was 'cause of bussie-boppers."

She blinked. "What the fuck are bussie-boppers?"

"Umm, they were dandelions. I thought. They - " She cut me off.

"Oh fuck. You got blown?" she asked, shocked.

"No, I gave blow - " I tried to say, confused.

"No, no, no. You did blowers. Like 'blow flowers', get it? OK, forget it. If they looked like dandelions and gave you the worst allergic reaction of your life - " I nodded enthusiastically. "Oh my god. Listen - you need help. I can't leave work right now or Frannie will get suspicious, but you need help. Bad. Trust me."

I was confused. I felt like crying 'cause she was scaring me. Was I going to die? "Oh." I said.

She started to back away, reluctantly. "I have to get back... or she'll figure out where I am, and ... it'll be bad. But... come back to the store, with the library book, OK? Please? This is important. I ... yeah. I need that book. It's - well - I can cure you if... you have to bring it back to me. OK? This is really important!"

"OK," I said, honestly, but afraid this might be too much for my fogged brain to keep track of.

"What will you do?" she called as she walked backwards, fidgeting anxietally, moving farther and farther away.

"Bring you the library book once I have it." I said.

She nodded brightly. "Good girl!" Then she added, her voice shaking a little bit, "You promised, remember? You promised!"

I nodded. I promised. OK. I'd remember. Crystal disappeared into a back alley.

I'd remember to bring her the book. I'd remember to bring her the book. I'd remember to bring her the book. I flagged down a cab, more with my boobs than anything. "I need the library." I said.

The cab driver, a boring old man, shrugged. "OK, little lady." he said, looking away from me as if he's seen everything and I wasn't anything crazy.

I snuck a hand down my pants and masturbated the whole drive, which wasn't very long. It helped to take the edge off. The library was close to the occult store, especially by car, which was good, because I was squirming like crazy in the back seat and the driver was getting uncomfortable. We stopped.

"Thank you," I said, smiling.

He held out his hand and locked the doors. "You pay the fare." he said curtly and impatiently.

"Can I give you a blowjob?" I asked. It wasn't really in response to his statement, it was just an honest question. I only realized afterwards he had taken it in exchange for payment, and quite happily. Well, I was a good cocksucker.

- XXXVII - I walked out of the side street he had pulled down during our business, and found myself in front of the majestic and gigantic City library. Wow. It was really big. I walked up the steps - bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce - and walked inside - bounce, bounce. It was even bigger inside! Ahhh! How was I ever going to find what I needed?

I stood, staring, bewildered, at the vast space and multiple floors full of rows upon rows of books. I couldn't even read my own T- shirt, what the heck was I doing in a castle full of whole books? I felt like crying, I felt so stupid. I was too dumb for this. I was good at fucking and sucking, not being smart stuff, like reading. I started crying - softly and quietly, but I couldn't stop myself. I wanted a cock. Comfort food, you know? I wanted one really bad.

Someone noticed me crying, and came over. It was a pretty, early-30s woman. Fuck that! I wanted a penis, damn it! "May I help you?" she asked. I sighed. I needed to be a good girl. I needed to get the book and bring it back to Crystal. I promised.

"I need a book." I said. "But I don't know where it is."

She laughed. "Well, you've come to the right place. Is that food?" she asked, pointing to my bag.

"It's honey. Is that food?" I questioned, unsure of definitions anymore.

She smirked. "No need to get cross. You'll need to store that in one of the lockers." She pointed to a row of metal boxes with keys sticking out of them.

"Uhm, can you just keep it for me? I'm really forgetful and I really need this bag." I pleaded.

She stared at me. I think a gear turned in her head and she realized this big, ludicrously-shaped girl was developmentally disabled psychologically as much as she was developmentally enabled physically, or something. "I'll tell you what. I'll help you find your book, and won't make you put your bag away if you let me supervise you while we find it."

I shrugged. That sounded fine. "OK." I said, feeling better. But I still wanted a cock. Really bad. I needed a hit. I needed a hit, bad.

"Now, do you know the name of the book?" she asked, in a tone that made me think she assumed whatever I sent her after was going to have pop-ups.

I nodded. "Yeah, but I'm too dumb to remember it now." My bluntness made her laugh nervously. "It's in my bag." I pointed.

She fished around inside, pulling out a piece of paper. She looked at it, then put it back and pulled out another one. "OK. Wow, what does someone like you - " she caught herself. "Uhm, let's go to the computers and find this, OK?"

She helped me enter the information in - irritatingly insisting I do it so I'd "learn" - screw you, you cockless bat, I thought - and then made me write down the information on an index card. I scanned around the room anxiously. The library was empty at this hour on a weekday, apparently. Some junior high / high school / college-age girls, obviously doing research, were milling around. Where were the guys?! I couldn't move five inches without slapping into a cock earlier - that concept made me feel warm and happy - and now there were no men anywhere! Argh!!!!!

By now she was leading me by the hand up several floors, each time involving a lot of steps. Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. I thought my tits were going to fly off. I liked it. Finally, we reached the fifth floor and went to a section of dusty shelves and ornate-looking texts. "Here we are," she said, "Be very careful. Very careful, please. I will keep your bag for you so nothing sticky gets on this book, but if you come find me when you're done I will give it back, of course." She strolled off to go do work, I guess, taking my bag of honeys with her.

I sat at a reading table with a gargantuan tome in front of me, forced to sit some distance from the edge due to my tits. Wow, these things were awkward at this size. They even got in the way of my eyesight when I tried to look at the book 'cause I was so small. I gave up on sitting and stood up. That got my boobies out of the way a little bit and made it easier to see over them. But now my nipples were brushing the table edge through my shirt fabric, and making me feel all kinds of turned on.

I glanced around the room desperately. No men! Oh my god! Where the hell were all the boys in this library? I wanted to scream. I couldn't masturbate or that lady might yell at me for getting pages sticky. I sighed, and forced myself to be a good girl and start flipping through the book. I looked at the cover. The Complete Magickal Bestiary of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. There were lots of weird symbols and stuff I didn't recognize or understand. And lots of weird-looking animals and stuff, drawn in funky medieval style. They were etched into the cover. It was really thick! I sighed and hefted it open, then began carefully perusing each page.

After 20 seconds I was sick of that. It had tons of really, really tiny text, used huge words and complicated sentences, and generally annoyed the living cripes out of me. Where was the fricking information on Hunny-Bear?! Argh!

I saw the lady in the distance and yelled to her. "Hey! Could you help me?"

She looked shocked as my voice reverberated off the high ceiling of the library, cascading through the top floors. She quickly held her mouth up in a "shush" motion, and I clamped my hands over it. Oops. I knew I was doing something wrong, but it was hard to remember all the stupid rules different places had. "What is it?" she hissed, obviously trying to keep her cool and not yell at the retard.

I almost cried. She saw this, softened up, and smiled. I felt a little better. "Well," I said, "I need to look up a certain creature that did this to me, but it's taking too long."

She blinked at me. Now I was a crazy retard. But to her credit she plowed gamely on: "OK, well let's check the indices. Do you know what an index is?" I shrugged. She almost placed her head in her hand, but stopped. "OK. It's a place in the back of a book where they tell you where to find everything."

"Oh!" I perked up. I used to know that, didn't I? Oh well. I didn't any more. Well, now I did. Again. Never mind. "How useful." I marveled, as she flipped the book toward its heavy back pages. She smiled.

"OK, here we are. This index sorts things by shape. What kind of shape did your creature have?" She was playing along in a sweet, soothing tone. I wanted to punch her face off, especially for not having a cock, which I really needed right now. Still, she was doing a better job than I had on my own.

"Uhm, it was a bear." I said.

"A bear? OK." She started running her finger through the category "Shapes of Beasts".

"It was a cartoon bear!" I added, trying to be helpful.

"OK honey," she said distractedly. I sighed and let her do the work, glancing around the room. Still no men. What. The. Fuck! I leaned over the railing and tried to peer down at other floors. No men! None! "Don't fall down!" she murmured. I stuck my tongue out at her while she wasn't looking. "Don't stick your tongue at helpful librarians, either." she said, playfully. My eyes went wide and I behaved.

"Here," she said, pointing to a line, one blob of tiny words among a bunch of other ones. It said, "Bear-Like Creatures." and had numbers under it. "These pages have animals shaped like bears. Flip to all of them. If you don't find your animal, call me again, OK? Quietly!"

"Can't you - " I began.

"No." she said. "You learn to do this yourself, OK?"

It obviously wasn't a question she wanted an answer to. I sighed, pouting, as she walked off and I began checking boring page after boring page. I kept periodically scanning the surroundings for men, shifting anxiously, rubbing my thighs together. I was going crazy without a cock in me but I had to do this, I had promised Crystal.

At one point I accidentally moved my hand and the index flopped closed. I shrieked and panicked. How was I going to find it again? I was afraid of bugging the lady, though, so I sighed and peeled the book open where I thought I had left off. No, it was the wrong index. I cautiously moved a few pages ahead and back. No. Oh, no, I had ruined it! I tried one more page back, and... there! There was the list of bear numbers! I felt so cool. I had done that all by myself. I deserved a cock as a reward. To my chagrin, no men magically appeared. I sighed. My tits lifted and bounced back into place with my deep breath.

And back I went, trying another page. Bugbear, page 567. No, that wasn't Hunny-Bear either. Drop-Bear, page 1265. No! I was going crazy. I needed cock, I needed honey-cum, so bad. I needed to keep my promise. I needed to stop being bored. None of these needs could coexist at the moment. Especially since I still couldn't see any men in the library. With enormous effort, I forced myself back to the book. Hollows-Wight, page 5878. I flopped the book to its approximate quarter-point (it was enormous!) and -

And -

And it was Hunny-Bear! My heart leapt into my throat, and then an image of his bloody body flashed into my mind and I wanted to cry. I was looking at a printing of what looked like a very old engraving, done in a very flat style reminiscent of Middle Ages manuscript artwork. It was a little exaggerated - Hunny-Bear didn't have giant fangs or sharp teeth, and he wasn't hairy, just a little fuzzy - but the rotund little tummy, the stubby arms and legs, the beady little eyes and even the T-shirt without pants (here a tunic) instantly brought to mind the little creature I had been so intimate with. And the sizable genitals also lended quite a bit of recognition.

I was so excited that I actually started reading all the blobby tiny text next to the picture. Which was pretty surprising at the time, 'cause by that point I hated reading since it made me feel confused and headached. I just really wanted to know all about Hunny-Bear... like, even though I was a moron, I just... I dunno... thought maybe I could honor his memory a little by learning about him. I even stopped looking around for guys while I read! Anyway. Right. So, I leaned in close (still standing up 'cause of my boobies, and I had to use one arm to hold 'em down so they didn't cover half the page) and read, slowly but stubbornly:

" HOLLOWS-WIGHT. Demon. Bear-Shaped Creature. *(shapeshifts often) Golden Colour. Woodlands, Copses, and Forests.

Hollows-Wight: An imp from the Second Circle of Hell. The Hollows- Wight often has the appearance of a harmless, even comical, bear- like creature with enormous genitals. In Hell they are chiefly used as jesters and playthings by SUCCUBI, INCUBI, and other PROPER DEMONS, but the Hollows-Wights are not inherently malicious creatures. Many stories are passed down of merely mischievous or even benevolent Hollows-Wights who have caused little harm to the humans they have encountered.

The Hollows-Wight is peculiar in that, while confined to Hell in a servant role (as all imps), they are one of a small handful of imp varieties that may exit their Circle without their master accompanying, if they are summoned by a particular ritual, corresponding to their role; which in this case is, of course, Lust and its associated emotions.

A summoned Hollows-Wight is immediately and strongly drawn to the nearest suitable woodland, hence their name, and seem particularly attracted to locations which already have other magical influences (such as a LEAKING MEADOW); from here they take up residence and spread their influence throughout the surrounding forest. Only one Hollows-Wight seems to be bound to any given uninterrupted portion of forest, and may inhabit it for many hundreds of years before being drawn back to Hell.

As noted, Hollows-Wights often display remarkable lack of maliciousness for imps and have had a long role in Scandinavian mythological beliefs as the HULDREFOLK, with especially benevolent Hollows-Wights referred to as TOMTES. In all cases, all research and investigation has shown these entities to be either Hollows-Wights or UNDER-WIGHTS. It is believed that Hollows-Wights were spread abroad when Scandinavian immigrants with knowledge of the occult performed summoning rituals on new lands, but this is currently only conjecture.

The nectar of a Hollows-Wight's genitals is known to intoxicate mortals and, in large quantities, can have transformative and/or medicinal effects. The extent and severity of these changes is highly dependent on the disease present, as well as the disposition of the particular Hollows-Wight (malicious, mischievous, benevolent). It is considered unwise to ingest it under any circumstances due to a possible addictive nature somewhat akin to that purported of opium.

Little has been recorded of extensive human contact with Hollows- Wights since they tend to be somewhat enigmatic and reclusive, preferring to avoid humans or play with them only briefly before disappearing again. Should you find yourself confronted with the darker side of a particular Hollows-Wight, beware that they are nearly impervious to conventional harm (as are most DEMONFOLK), but are said to have an acute weakness to copper, which supposedly causes their flesh to burst from within if their skin is penetrated. (Take note that this is no small task, for the skin of a Hollows- Wight, while soft to the touch, is remarkably tough. One reported incident states that a chunk of copper forged into a knife and used to attempt to end the life of a particularly mean Hollows-Wight is said to have ended very poorly when the knife-point, driven full- force by a large and angry man, merely bounced off, and he was turned into the Hollows-Wight's servant for the rest of his days by the intoxicative nectar.)

Hollows-Wights are known to keep cattle (see UNDERJORDISKE for similar behavior from Under-Wights), from which they garner a remarkable amount of milk and "

"Did you find what you were looking for?"

I startled and found the lady looking at me while I tried to slow my heart down. I felt like a little kid caught looking at porn. She had no idea what this creature had done to me, though, so I tried to calm down. "Uhm," I replied, "Yes, this is just what I was looking for, thank you." She had broken my concentration, and I fidgeted as the craving for cock came flooding back.

She leaned in to look at the picture, and her eyes widened. "Well that's a lucky little bear, wouldn't you say?" she asked, winking at me.

I giggled. Oh, she didn't know the half of it! "Yeah, but his girlfriend's luckier," I replied, feeling dumb. But she laughed and elbowed my ribs, making me feel better. "Uhm," I started, feeling sheepish, "I need to read lots more of this, can I take it home with me?"

She frowned. I didn't like that. "I'm afraid this book is classified as reference-material only. It's very rare and we just can't risk it going outside, even if you promised to take good care of it." Again she was talking as if she had puppets on her hands to make the points clearer. I sighed.

"But I promised someone I'd bring her this book. She said you'd let me." I frowned.

"I'm sorry, but she was wrong. Perhaps she was thinking of a different book." the lady replied.

"No, she wrote the note I gave you." Gosh, I barely cared anymore. I needed a cock so bad and there were STILL NO GUYS ANYWHERE TO BE SEEN.

"Well, then, perhaps she just wasn't thinking. Is your friend, uhm, like you?" she said, admirably blunt.

"No," I replied sharply, "she is not. She's smart and her boobs are tiny." I figured one compliment and one insult would balance each other out.

"Would you like me to use our scanning system to take images of this page?" responded the lady, seeming to feel a little bad. "Then you can read it at home."

"Uhm," I said. Uh-oh. I was being presented with a choice that involved using preexisting information to come to a new conclusion which no one had supplied for me. That was asking a lot from me at that point. I stared at her. "All I know is, I'm supposed to bring this book back with me, and I promised, 'cause it was really important. Can you scan every page?"

She laughed, and smiled. "No, sweety, that would take... probably several years. And I have other things to do today."

"Oh." I frowned. I couldn't take it anymore. I had to find a cock. Then I'd deal with this problem. "Can I have my bag back?"

"You're leaving?" she asked.

"For now. I'll be back once I think about what to do."

She smiled. "That's a lovely idea. You can talk to your friend and maybe she can explain what she meant." I nodded. I held my hand out. She shook her head. "I will give you your bag full of sticky substances once we're in the lobby. We can't have sticky books in a library, the patrons would be very upset and they'd cut our funding again!"

I sighed. "OK. Let's go." Maybe a lower floor would actually have a man on it. She set my bag down and closed the cover of the book, so she could put it back.

"Erin!" shouted a voice in the distance. Her eyes widened. "I need you here, now!"

Why were they allowed to shout, but I got in trouble? I tried to figure out who was yelling. They sounded like a woman, though, so I was still disappointed.

"Wait here," said the lady, "I need to see what's going on." Then she yelled too! Hypocrite! "Coming!" And rushed off.

I stared for about 30 seconds off into the distance, scanning for men. Then I forgot about the lady coming back entirely, saw the book, remembered I promised Crystal, and put it in my shopping bag full of honey-bottles. Oof! I was glad the guy double-bagged...

Then I was wandering downstairs. Fourth floor. Any guys? Any guys at all? No.

Third floor. Any guys? I wandered a big circle. No guys. I just wanted to find a guy. If I did I'd drop everything I was doing to drop his pants. I heard commotion upstairs as I wandered down the steps toward the second floor. It sounded like the lady, looking for me.

Second floor. Oh, I realized. She's mad 'cause I took my bag without her handing it to me. Oops! Oh well. More importantly there were no guys on the second floor. What the hell? Did this library not stock Playboy or something?

First floor. Surprise, no men. I was running my thighs together desperately while I walked and tweaking one nipple anxiously, enjoying the dull buzz it gave me.

Lobby. I looked for men. Of course, there were none. I sighed and decided to leave this Library as fast as possible, forever scarred by the knowledge that libraries were No Sex Zones where men didn't exist. I heard yelling. I looked up to the third-floor balcony. It was the lady.

"Stop! Excuse me! You cannot take that book! It's not allowed, and for heaven's sake, you never even showed me a library card!" she shouted fretfully, then turned to rush downstairs as I shrugged my shoulders and kept walking. I wasn't quite sure what she was so upset about, but I needed cock way too bad to slow down and wait for her.

I bounced crazily down the library steps because I was moving so fast, my tits flopping everywhere and my butt wobbling and hair whipping around in the breeze and my big heavy bag (why did Crystal's book have to be so big?) hurting my arms and -

And where were the men? I stopped at the bottom of the big steps outside the library and looked up and down the sidewalk. There were NO men. I couldn't believe it. I screamed out loud in frustration and moved my free hand from my nipple to my pussy. Then I saw a cab. Cabs took you places in exchange for blowjobs. PERFECT. That's what I needed right now, honey-cum! Yes! I jumped up in excitement, and my boobs finished following me a while later.

I flagged the cab down, jumped inside, and -

And saw it was a woman driving. I wailed in irritation. Then I saw the lady from the library come running outside, looking all around. Uh-oh. She was really mad about the book thing. Mad people yelled at you, and that slowed you down, and right now I needed cock too bad to slow down. "Could you drive me somewhere? Fast?" I asked.

The cab woman laughed and pulled away from the curb. "Where's somewhere, honey?"

"Uh..." I replied.

"You going home?" she asked, trying to be helpful.

"Uhm..." Home sounded good. I knew I lived next to a man. I remembered getting a key from him a few days ago. He had a cock, I remembered checking it out when he opened the door. Good. "Yeah, take me home!"

She laughed. "What's the address, honey?"

I froze. I couldn't remember. My brain was all foggy and empty and I couldn't remember. "I... I can't remember."

She just laughed. "Late night, huh? Well, you got a friend's house you wanna go to? I just need an address or you're gonna have a hell of a fare, honey."

An address. I had an address, didn't I? The... the men! I had the address of three men! And a shopping bag full of honey! Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES! It was written down on a piece of paper, after I talked on the pay phone, and I put it -

I put it in my jacket.

My man-jacket.

Which I left at the porn studio.

"I... I had one but I lost it." I said.

The driver pulled over. "You lost it, honey? You OK?"

"It was on a piece of paper, but it was in my jacket and I lost my jacket." I said, fighting back tears. I just wanted to suck a cock!!!

"Well, what about your bag? Maybe you put it in there?" asked the woman, with a soft smile.

"I guess I can check," I replied, pouting and mad at myself, "but I know it was in my jacket." I rummaged around. I found the piece of paper Crystal had written on. I threw it on the floor. Then I found... another piece of paper. What was that? I picked it up, and unfolded it. "RICHARD, TED, MARK" it started. I squealed. "You were right!" I yelled. "You were right, it is in here!" I leapt forward and hugged her, my giant boobs squashing into her like deployed airbags.

She laughed. "You're a cutie, aren't you?" She glanced down, then back up. "And so big for your age."

My age? I looked in the rear-view mirror. Wow. My face looked like the world's most pornographic 16-year-old. That is, super-sexy in all the sluttiest ways, especially since I still had my make-up on from the porno shoot. Even though I was dressed like a nun crossed with Home Depot. Then I noticed we were pulling away from the curb again. "So you're gonna take me there?" I asked, excited.

"Sure thing, honey. Looks like an address to me." She smiled.

I was so happy! I was about to be delivered to the doorstep of not just a cock, but three cocks! The three cocks who found me in the forest -

And killed Hunny-Bear. I frowned. They shot my imp. That sucked. It made me mad. I needed their cocks, but... but... but I was going to yell at them when we were done!

Oh. What about Crystal? I kicked my toe against the heavy book in the bag. I had gone through so much trouble to try to keep my promise. I should have the cab lady drop me off at the occult place, I thought. On the other hand (which I was barely keeping out of my pants), I needed cock. Bad. I told myself it would be OK if I gave the book to Crystal later, as long as I kept my promise. That way I could get cock now, and I really needed it now.

So I let myself give in, for then, and just started dreaming about cocks the rest of the way there.

- XXXVIII -

"UHM, honey?" came the cab lady's voice. My eyes snapped open, and I realized my hand was thrusting around inside my pants. Oops!

Oh well. Shame isn't very effective when your attention span evaporates before you can say the term. "Yeah?" I asked, turning to look at her happily.

"We're at the address on your note." I looked out the window. A bland-looking apartment complex stood before me. Yeah, this looked like the kind of place three graduate students could afford by pooling their incomes. It looked kinda weirdly familiar, but I couldn't place why; I was too horny to spend any more time thinking about it. I started to get out of the vehicle. "Oh, honey - honey, I need your fare."

I paused. Uh-oh. I turned around slowly, panicking, then remembered how I had paid my last cab fare. But since the cab lady didn't have a cock (at least, I assumed not), I combined it with something the porn man had tried to do to me: "Uhm, can I eat you out instead?"

She frowned pointedly. "No, honey. That's gonna be $19." At least the library hadn't been far away.

We just stared at each other in silence for a while. I needed to give her something so she'd let me go. My eyes lit up, and I reached into my shopping bag: "How about some honey?"

She sighed, growing a little irritated. "No h - sweetie. I just want to be paid."

I wanted to just bolt and run, but honestly, I was pretty sure my crazy-big boobies and nutso proportions would make me pretty easy to outrun. After servicing that cab man, my shirt was bulging off me to the straining point, and my pants were constricting my butt. I had been so busy concentrating on my promise in the library that -

My promise! Thinking about how I hadn't thought about my butt feeling too squeezed inside the pants reminded me of how I had been concentrating on my promise and -

"Hey!" I said, causing her to blink in surprise. "Uhm, I need you to give this book to someone." With a grunt I managed to pull the enormous tome out of my bag and thud it on to the passenger seat.

"Oh really." she replied, nonplused by my nonpayment.

"Yeah. She's at the occult store that's... uhm... it's close to the library, and, uhm, and a mattress store!" The cab lady just stared at me, bewildered. "She needs this book, I promised I'd bring it to her." A candle lit up inside my head. "She'll pay for your fare to get there! And mine! She takes care of me!"

That seemed to make the cab lady a little happier. "Oh, really?"

"Yeah, honest!" I insisted. "Just tell her that... uhm... well, she doesn't know my name," the cab lady frowned, "but she knows me, honest, I swear, just tell her the hunny girl sent you and she'll pay for my fare and the fare to get you there, honest!"

"O...kay," replied the cab lady, glancing askance at me.

I was feeling nervous, and so, so, so, SO horny, so I kept babbling as I desperately shifted my thighs together. "Yeah, it's this really rare book, like there's only one in the whole world now, and, uhm, yeah, so she wants it because you can't get the stuff in it anywhere else so it's really important!"

The cab lady's eyes lit up. "Oh, well, hey, honey, no problem! I'll make sure your... uh... friend at the occult store near the mattress shop gets it."

"You will?" I squealed, feeling so relieved.

"Right, sure." she said nicely, avoiding eye contact. Well, whatever.

"Oh!" I said, putting my hand on the cover right before she could take it, "Hold on, I need one thing from it." And I flipped it open to page 5878, pondered a moment, shrugged, and tore the page out. The woman choked mildly:

"Oh, Jesus, no honey!" she shrieked.

"What?" I asked innocently, stuffing the torn page into my bag of honey-bottles. "I only need that one page, I know Crystal won't mind." At least, I hoped not.

"Aw, Jesus..." she grumbled.

"Can I go now?" I asked, fidgeting.

"Yeah, honey," she smiled weakly, "go on."

"And you'll bring this to Crystal?" I implored.

"Sure, honey, sure I will." she replied, again avoiding eye contact. Whatever. It meant I was free! Free to go find cock!

"OK! Thanks so much!" I chirped, then hurried away and up the flimsy wooden steps that led to the apartment number the cab lady had pointed me toward. I bounced like crazy the whole way.

Annnnnnd... OK. I admit. It was hard. Finding the right number, that is. All the doors looked exactly the same, and all the numbers and letters on them did too. Sometimes the fogginess in my brain would be manageable - like when I was looking through the library book - but only when it was something really, really important to me.

Getting cock was important, but picking the right door wasn't, 'cause I bet that lots of the doors had cocks behind them. But finding the right men was important, 'cause I had already decided to do that and it was the whole point of coming there. Or was finding a cock the whole point? See, I got confused so easily that I had to be stubborn about stuff I was told, or told myself before, or I'd just stand there masturbating forever trying to decide what to do.

Finally I just gave up, and knocked on a random door. Visible disappointment coated my face when it was answered by yet another GIRL. Woman? Whatever. "Do Richard, Mark, and Ted live here?" I asked.

She smiled sweetly, if a little suspiciously regarding why a fertility-idol-turned-porn-queen teenybopper was looking for 3 male graduate students. "No honey, you want number 42H." I giggled. That sounded like my tit size now. It reminded me of the restaurant and table 34B. I giggled louder. I remembered when 34B could have been my tit size. Those tiny little things! Gosh, I was glad I had grown up. Well, mostly I'd grown down, but my tits had inflated a lot, and that was cool. "Honey?" asked the woman again, apparently curious about my sudden fit of giggling.

"Oh, sorry," I smiled, "I was thinking about something funny." She smiled politely and started to say something. I cut her off: "Uhm, listen, I know it's 42H but I can't find it."

She flashed one of those "oh, she's one of those types" looks, then tried to smile kindly. "Oh, alright. Well this is 42D, so if you just count four doors down from here, you'll be at their apartment."

I stared at her.

"You can do that... can't you?" she inquired, becoming worried.

"I... think so." I replied with honest uncertainty.

"Well... uhm... come back here if you can't, OK?" she asked, and began closing the door.

"OK! Thanks!" I yelled as it closed and locked.

OK, I told myself, you can do this. One. Two. Three? Or was this two? Had I counted down two doors already? I looked back down the row of doors. They all looked the same. Everything in my head jumbled. Two, or three? I shrugged and went with three. Which meant the door I was in front of was four.

I knocked on it with my tiny little hand.

A sexy man - a MAN - a COCK-WIELDING MALE - opened the door. He was dressed in a boring T-shirt and sweatpants. I knew what those sweatpants must contain, and salivated, then licked my lips. I stared up into his eyes. "Hi there." I said sweetly, with a hint of something extra.

"Oh. Oh!" he exclaimed, then eyed me up and down. "Oh, I get it!" He turned back around. "Hey! Hey guys, that stripper he was gonna send us just got here!"

"Here? Now?" called another voice - another MAN - "Why? It's the middle of the day - "

"I dunno man," called the guy who opened the door, "but she's here."

Two more men - TWO MORE MEN!!! - appeared to either side of the first one, cramming their big, broad bodies into the doorway to get a look at me. All three's eyes were bulging. "You're the stripper?" one of them asked.

I stared. I wasn't a stripper, I was just an everyday girl who needed cock like girls do. But he seemed so excited, I didn't want to disappoint him: "I can take my clothes off if you want."

He laughed. "Awesome, babe. That sounds good to me."

The third guy peered out the doorway and up-and-down the balcony hallway. "Hey, where's the keg?"

Keg? I didn't have a keg. Something far in the back of my mind tingled that he was expecting a keg. But I didn't have one! I tried to save face: "I have honey!" I said happily, holding up my shopping bag.

He stared, then burst out laughing. "OK, forget it. Maybe it'll be delivered later."

The first man held his hand out. My knees quivered a little at the big, thick palm extended down toward me. "So you coming in, little lady?" he asked smoothly. I grinned happily and swayed (uncontrollably) into the apartment. I couldn't resist grabbing at his thick cock through the sweatpants even before the apartment door was closed.

"Whoa," he exclaimed, "don't you girls have a hands-off policy?"

I stared at him blankly. "What kind of fun would that be?"

The other two men whistled. One of them piped up: "Holy shit, Rich, I think that dude bought us way more than a stripper for saving his sister."

His sister? Oh! OH! It all came flooding back to me, piercing through the fog of stupidity sitting on my mind. Of course! They were expecting a stripper to be sent over and then I showed up with boobs hanging down to my navel. Duhhhh. But, wait, shouldn't they be confused? Weren't these the men who rescued me? Shouldn't they wonder why I sent that "sister" to fuck them?

"So, uhm," stumbled Richard, the guy who had opened the door. "Do you... I mean... are you going to do a show?"

"Uh," I replied, and gave up on coming up with anything clever, "I'm actually too horny to wait much longer, and my pants are squeezing my butt and my nipples keep rubbing against this shirt and, like, could you help me get my clothes off? Then I'll be a stripper for you, if you want."

They burst out laughing and exchanged "she's not too bright" looks. "No, babe, don't worry about it. You wanna shag right now, hey, I dunno about these two, but I'm cool with it." said one of the not- Richards.

"Definitely cool with it." said the other not-Richard.

"I'm cool with it, it's just... wow, not what I was expecting." said Richard, bewildered.

"OK!" I said happily, my craving for cock boiling crazily. I needed a hit so bad. Which reminded me... "Oh. But before you guys cum in my mouth, could you fill it with honey?" I pointed to my shopping bag.

They laughed excitedly. "Holy shit, whatever you want, babe." replied not-Richard #1.

"You seriously swallow?" asked not-Richard #2.

"Duh. Why else would I do it?" I asked. That seemed to make them even happier.

"Are you... I mean, shouldn't we be wearing condoms? She seems to... you know... get around," said Richard in a too-loud whisper.

"Oh no I don't have much sex," I said, "you can even look at my pussy if you want, it's brand new and shiny." That made them pause a moment, but a quick look up and down seemed to convince them that even if I was a trannie, they didn't care.

Anyway, my paltry assurance seemed good enough for the not-Richards, whose cocks were clearly straining at their pants. Upon noticing this I lost it completely, lunging forward to massage not-Richard #1's cock through his trousers until he held my hand back long enough to drop them. I tore through his boxers like a hungry bear at a campground picnic and was soon happily sucking away.

Meanwhile, not-Richard #2 helped me get my shirt off, exposing my truly gargantuan tits and instantly stiffening the whole room even further. "Holy fuck, are those real?" exclaimed not-Richard #2. I nodded happily as I bobbed up and down over not-Richard #1's cock. "Mark, this is goddamn incredible. This girl must cost a fortune."

Mark - previously not-Richard #1 - could only nod weakly as I sucked him down with furious skill. Soon I felt him tense, and I pulled off, pinching his cock brutally. "Honey!" I exclaimed with irritation. Mark stared at me, then came out of his preorgasmic fog long enough to take the honey-bottle that not-Richard-and-not-Mark had handed him. I felt the sweet taste drip onto my tongue and quivered with anticipation. Oh, god, it had been so long since I got honey-cum! Like, at least... maybe two hours! I dove back eagerly onto Mark's cock just in time to catch the first pulse. It mixed gloriously with the honey and the buzz of euphoria crawled through me.

This time, though, the cock hadn't even finished pulsing and the craving had already flooded back into me. Argh! It was getting harder and harder to get a hit! I turned to not-Richard-and-not-Mark like a hungry wolf. "Look out, Ted!" said Richard, laughing, as Mark slumped against the wall with a dreamy look on his face. Ted barely had time to react before I had his cock in my mouth; I had gotten warmed-up on Mark and was now moving in my fully skilled, ruthlessly efficient cock-mongering mode. Ted soon was squeezing honey into my mouth, and then delivering the lovely ejaculated goods.

They both looked tired now, which annoyed me, so I turned to Richard. He held up his hand: "Hey, listen, you're really hot - really hot - but I dunno if I can go for this kind of thing."

I shrugged and turned back to Mark, trying to rouse him. He groaned weakly. "Couple more minutes... come on you stupid cock..."

OK then. Fine. I had to take matters into my own little hands. I remembered what the porno studio boys had liked, and decided to try that. Swaying over to a thick glass table in their living room, I bent myself over it, my tits spreading across the glass gloriously, my ass propped way into the air. Oh, this felt good. Anticipating, waiting to receive... mmmm. "OK boys," I called out in my voice of utter, bimbo lust, "who wants to help me out of these pants and slip something more comfortable into me?"

That did it, and fast. Ted and Mark bolted across the room so quick they practically left dust clouds, and I felt my jeans sliding down. Yes! My big, thick, firm butt bobbled free. "Holy - look at that ass!" exclaimed Mark, slapping it. I thrilled. I squealed. I felt a hard cock brush up along my cheeks and hover in-between, tantalizingly. It hesitated.

"Don't wait, go for it you bastard!" I shrieked. He laughed happily and I felt it plunge in. It was nice, but it wasn't honey-cum. I turned over my shoulder to look at Ted: "Wanna fuck my mouth?"

Wow, did he ever! Soon I was being sawed into from both ends, bouncing back and forth between alternating thrusts. Then I felt Richard, who had hung back nervously until now, reach under me and begin fondling my tits. I moaned happily. I hoped Ted wouldn't forget the honey. He didn't. I shrieked in ecstasy as the drops hit my tongue, then needed more, even worse. Gosh! The craving just never ended, did it?

Soon Richard was in my mouth and Ted was on tits duty. I looked down at the glass, and was startled by my reflection. I was crazier- looking than Moo-Girl! I mean, like, I had thought she looked like a cartoonish, ludicrously-exaggerated female face. But she looked average compared to me! It was as if someone had gone through a checklist and ticked off every single feature that would be associated as "extremely female" on a girl, and then freakishly glued them all together to make my face.

I blinked my huge eyes. Moo-Girl. Is this how she had started? Hunny-Bear had said she got away from him. And then this happened. And then, he never really explained it, but then she ended up turning into Moo-Girl. Was I going to become a milky, horny cow-slut too? Was that the end result of this? Lactating with four huge boobs all the time, while being crazily horny all day long, living from one tit squeeze or fucking to another?

I felt Mark squeeze my tit as I was rolled off the table and onto my back, being fucked by Richard now. Ted lowered himself into my mouth from above and I eagerly sucked more cock into me. Cock was my new oxygen. Maybe Moo-Girl didn't have it so bad, you know? This was pretty fucking great, and I loved it every time my titties got bigger and made me even more sexier. All this honey-cum I was swallowing was inflating them to ludicrous sizes, but thankfully the boys were too involved in their orgy to pay close attention. And I think maybe I was getting dumber all the time, but I couldn't tell if that was from honey-cum or just me. I giggled.

Then I was on my stomach, being fucked from behind with by butt arched into the air and my huge boobies literally propping me off the ground, a cock in my mouth - I didn't know whose anymore, I didn't care - and someone cumming all over my back. That was new, but made me feel thrilled and used inside, which for some reason was a powerful turn-on. I salivated from all the relevant orifices even more, and was soon rolled over onto my side and fucked even more.

When the boys seemed to be tiring out, another candle lit up in my head and I offered them my asshole. That seemed to perk them up like the earlier table stunt had, and I got 5 or 6 more swallows of honey-cum out of it. Then I did something else to keep them going. It all gets really blurry. I can't remember much. It was just a crazy, endless, primal bout of cum-extraction and sexual exploitation from both directions. I had my legs up against the wall. I was leaned over the balcony. I was on the kitchen counter with a banana up my cunt. I was in their bedroom. I was under the computer sucking them off while they read forums. I was in the closet. I was in the shower. I think every square inch of their apartment got coated with my sweat and come, including the ceiling, thanks to creative use of two boys for support and a few step- ladders.

- XXXIX -

AND then I came back to my senses. We were back in the living room, apparently. Richard was sprawled out on the couch. Mark was face- down on the floor. Ted was hanging halfway-out the back slider onto the balcony. I tried to rouse each one in turn, but couldn't even get a mild groan. They were out cold. I tried sucking on their cocks, but couldn't even get an auto-pilot response from their bodies. My toys were out of batteries, plain and simple, and had to recharge. I pouted.

The buzzing all over my body that had been consuming me in the library was still there. The more I fucked and sucked, the worse I seemed to need it. It was an addiction that no hit could soothe, not even for a moment - not anymore. But there was no more cum around, for awhile. I briefly wondered if I could just rip off their balls and eat them, but immediately decided that was too gross, and wasn't sure if I even had enough brains to be correct about cum coming from balls.

I decided to try to pass the time until one of their cocks could feed me again. How, though? I was all-consumed by cocklust. I sat on the floor, nude and coated in layers of cum like a public statue in pigeon scat, masturbating hopelessly with one hand while bouncing my tits with the other. Oh boy. My tits. Wow. They swelled up - along with the rest of my feminine fertility-goddess exaggeration - with every dose of delicious honey-cum I sucked down. And I had just sucked down a very large amount of delicious honey-cum doses, after starting with H-cup knockers.

They filled my lap. I could barely move. I'm serious. They were ludicrous and gigantic. They started from these tiny little anchor points on my chest - I mean, they took up my whole torso, but my ribcage was so tiny now that that's not saying much - and then flooded outward in this big, graceful set of curves. Nothing at all like big silicone stripper tits that are blatantly artificial hemispheres or giant ellipses. These had a smooth, natural flow to them that made it blatantly clear they were real, but real in a way no human being has been documented as possessing.

I tried standing up. It was really, really hard. Not only were my tits huge beyond the alphabet-sizing system, my body was even tinier and weaker than before. I managed to sit up on my knees. My tits touched the carpet. Holy shit, I exclaimed in my head. I could just barely reach the big nipples on the end, and gave them a little tweak. oOoOoOoOoh, that felt good! I tried standing up again. It just wasn't happening. I gave up and crawled - backwards, so I could drag my giant boob-sacks - over to my shopping bag, then fished out the page I had torn from the book.

It was all nonsense to me now. I had been able to read it in the library, but now it was hopeless. Wait. I concentrated really, really hard. Concepts blurred into existence from inside the fog of the page. Little black blobs made meanings. I skimmed over it, it was all stuff I remembered. Nothing new about Hunny-Bear -

I froze. Hunny-Bear! I turned my attention to the overwhelming honey-cum cravings coursing through me. Hunny-Bear sated my cravings! I needed Hunny-Bear again! I leered at the three men lying comatose in the room. Them! They had taken Hunny-Bear from me! I almost walked over and started kicking them, until I realized I couldn't walk anymore. I skimmed further down the page, and something caught my attention:

" The Hollows-Wight is summoned through a ritual that opens a gateway between the waking mortal world and the Second Circle of Hell. Unlike many imps, the Hollows-Wights have over the millenia formed an organization for the purpose of serving their interests with respect to treatment and working conditions. This allows the Hollows-Wights to have more bargaining power in the unstable power structure of the upper circles of Hell. As such, it is not the permission of the imp's master that you must garner to summon them onto our plane, but the approval of the current Wight-Head who manages their "

BLAH blah blah blah is all I saw. But I got the general idea. I could summon a new Hunny-Bear! And then the unstoppable cravings might actually slow down for a second! As fun as it was to get fucked, I was becoming desperate for some kind of actual release after waiting forever and never reaching one. I looked all over the page for how to summon a new Hunny-Bear. Then I saw:

" ... and for details on their summoning see more general guidelines at SUMMONINGS, IMP on page 24824. "

NOOOOOO! I threw the page down in frustration and went back to masturbating, having to reach through a tunnel in my cleavage to get to my damp pussy. I needed the book back but I didn't have Crystal's number and I didn't know if the boys had a phone book and and and and and and

And hold on, I thought. When I was a man - yuck, really? - I used to do something to find stuff that wasn't in books. It had something to do with what the library lady showed me. Sur... Searching! And, uhm... I used a computer -

I looked across the room at the boys' computer and my eyes lit up. Soon I was dragging my giant tits back across the floor and arrived at the little computer desk. There was just one problem: I couldn't get my tits off the floor, and I was too short now to reach up and use the keyboard. Fuck. Hey, that sounded good - but no, the boys were still comatose, and I needed to concentrate! I sighed, and looked back at the computer with adorable determination in my ludicrous, feminine caricature of a face. I got onto my knees, feeling my huge tits supported by the floor. Still too short. If I could just get onto the chair...

An unbelievable flash of brilliance burst through my brain, and I crawled back toward a footstool that was laying tipped-over in the kitchen and had been used to get me into a creative sexual position. Dragging it back with me, I approached the computer and hefted one giant tit on to the footstool. That provided enough support that I could, with monumental effort, lift the other tit just using my muscles, and I managed to drag myself into the chair. One huge boobie dangled off the chair comically, forcing me about 40 centimeters away from the desk's edge. The other was still propped up on the footstool below, though it dangled somewhat also with my higher location.

Spreading my arms like a hugging crab, I reached around my spilling titflesh and used extreme effort to remember how to get an Internet browser open. Then I spent several minutes trying to remember what website to search with, and finally ended up at Google, feeling very proud of myself. I held up the page I had torn from the book, and very carefully hen-pecked the keyboard, imitating the letters on the page one by one: "summoned hollows-wight". I pressed random buttons until the page changed. I spent several more minutes figuring out how to use search results, and that I needed to click on them with the mouse cursor.

I'll spare you the endless failures I encountered along the way, but after about 25 minutes I brought up a webpage that hit all the right notes. It had a lot of pop-up ads and irritating flashing banner ads, and annoying MIDI music in the background, and too many stupid animated .GIFs cycling over and over, and the background wallpaper was really ugly and had no sense of design or even readability, and there were a lot of spelling errors... but it also said the following:

" SUMMONING IMPS (blah blah blah, I scanned past it) The Hollows-Wight The ritual of the Hollows-Wight involves using the tools of the Second Circle of Hell to invoke the creature to your location on Earth. That would be Lust and various dfemonic components that the hollows-Wights are fond of, and for there magical abilities to summon from the Otherworlds. You need three (3) sexually-exhosted individuals (this creates a void area where the imp will be drawn to) -- do not use 5!!! Penatagrams are not always what is needed in summoning rituals, this misconception can be very disappointing or somethimes even dangerous when the ritual is attempted!! Three is important to Hollows-WightS because it represents the carnal points: Mouth, Genitals, Anus, as well as Penis and 2 Testicles, and Two Lips and a Clitoris. Do not use more or less than 3 individuals!! Also beware because their souls will likely be collected in exchange for the Hollows-Wight being granted passage to our World, as the imp leaders in the 2nd circle have influence dur to their organization but are still thrals of the succubi and incubi and so cannot act without appeasing them and collecting souls is a good way to do that). You must draw a line bwteen each einvidual made of salt (JUST TABLE SALT, NO PEPPER), strip them naked, and make sure they are arranged in the shape of a triangle (E.G. not a line!).. Collect a sexually-charged object (example: used condom will do fine) and place it in the center of the triangle. then masturbate (male OR female is fine for this step) while standing over the object; you do not have to cum that is not necessary just make sure you keep masturbating until the salt-lines glow, then the ritual is complete and from there you must negotiate with the hollws-wight's leader. Be careful if doing so while under the influence of sexual magics like [blower dust] beca "

I tried really, really hard to make sure I followed it. It was even more confusing than normal words 'cause so many of them were weird or spelled wrong. But I managed to get it into my foggy little head, 'cause it was soooooo important to see Hunny-Bear, so, so, so important! But when I saw the link to "blower dust", it reminded me of what Crystal had called bussie-boppers, and I wanted to know if this website could tell me what the flower had done to me, and so I clicked the link and didn't read the rest of what it said 'cause I had already memorized the ritual.

The page was loading, and the pop-up blocker was going to town trying to keep everything off the screen. I got tired of waiting (after half a second) and turned around. My eyes lit up. Richard on the couch... Mark on the floor... and Ted over on the balcony. They were already in a triangle! It was perfect! I didn't really want to sell the boys' souls to Hell, since they had fucked me so nicely, but... then again... anger flashed in my eyes. These boys killed Hunny-Bear! Maybe they deserved some payback for blowing away my boyfriend, huh? Especially since I'm the one who was supposed to be "blowing away" Hunny-Bear. I giggled at my inane joke.

I noticed the new page had loaded.

" BLOWERS Properly called Fell Clocks, these resemble dandeliobns to the untrained eye and indeed most people will neveer see a blower in their life. They are considered one of the purest and riskiest drugs in the occult community and so have come to have a sort of mystique and symbolism to them as something hardcore; e.G. oif you've done blowers and you're talking about it then you're a really experienced user. Blowers cause an initial reaction that seems like really bad allergies or hay-fever, but it ios not a histamine reponse and cannot be tamed with any man-made allergie medication. It is a magical reaction.

The primary effect of a blower is to literally eat a hole into a person's mind. The blower spores slowly seep into a person's brain, consuming their thoughts from the inside out. Usually the reaction proceeds in a "top down" fashion i.e. the highest most advanced levels of knowledge are burned up first and then it moves down from there, so a common description of an imporperly-adminstered blower hit is thjat the person feels like/seems to be constantly getting dumber every minute. This reaction can take days to finish completely and at first they may just feel thjey're being more forgetyful than usual.

Blowers seem to leave the "reward pathways" of the brain for last so things that are simple and gratifying i.e. hedonistic behaviors like drug use or especially sex, will often remain intact quite strongly even as the rest of the brain falls apart; this can lead tyo cases of blower victims continuing to hunt for even more blower achenes to inhale, speeding up the reaction in a vcious cyucle. In those who do not have a preexisting addiction (i.e. alcohol, drugs) usually sex (which for most people is an addiction in its own way) will take the place as the obsessive behavior. This is why many end-result users of imporoperly-prepared blower achenes will end up as basically mindless sex-obsessed sluts or rapists, only smart enough to get themselves from "fuck to fuck" to so speak.

A small percentage of users in the mystical circles are known to have a severe physical reaction to the magic as well, swelling up quite visibly in human erogenous zones (both male or female e.g. a female will get very swollen clitoris and a man might get very large boobs, et cetera) but these swellings will dissipate either with proper magical treatment or time. This is in contrast to the mental deterioration of blowers which is very hard to reverse and will only worsen with time. A frwequent experience when using blowers is a powerful itching sensation, which is triggered by the magical destruction of thoughts echoing into the neurons and vibrating down through the nervous system; scratching and medications have no effect.

Treating blowers is nearly impossible, once disturbed their clocks release very powerful magical spores. This is why blowers are among the most epensive occult drugs on the market: they must be prepared in extremely specific conditions and under exacting processes so that just enough essence is extracted to create a brief, thrilling loss of intelligence and control, but the effect can be recovered from. Those who have had properly-prepared blower achenes and survived claim it is one of the most amazing drug-induced experiences a mortal can have. Most, however, end up as brain-dead, as described above, due to the volatility of the magic. Even experienced blower-cutters have been known to fall to the effects.

ONe treatment tyhat has been known to work is the impressive medicinal qualities of [Hollows-Wight] "nectar" (which is really a euphemism for their genital secretions), known for treating a great many conditions, but there are side effects: namely the nectar only counteracts the blower magic, it can not remove it, and so constant dosage is requried; also it tends to "stabilize" rather than reverse blower changes i.e. some mental deterioration remains, especially the obsessive focus on some satisfying experience, and also the blower's exaggeration of erogenous zones usually remains (as opposed to untreated where it fades quickly), but to a less exaggerated degree than the initial swellinsg. Reports of full-on sex changes caused by the blower-nectar interaction are not to be dismissed, as the body essentially becomes a petri dish wherein two extremely toxic, powerful magics are perpetually competing for control.

WARNING: Do NOT attempt to create "nouveau nectar" by mixing insect honey (i.e. bee's) into various substances, as an alternative to rare and epxensive nectar dosages. After ingesting hollows-wight nectar the body becomes highly sensitized, some theorize a magical residue remains permanently in the body afer ingesting nectar, much like a dormant virus can flare up in humans many years after the initial sickness; HONEY FOR SOME REASON HAS A VERY COMPLICATED MAGIC INTERACTION WHEN COMBINED WITH NECTAR RESIDUES AND CREATES A WIDE RANGE OF DISTURBING SIDE-EFFECTS, usually having to do with the conditions at hand: in the case of blowers this is relevant because the "erogenous effects" seem to spin wildly out of hand with each dose of honey administered. Repeat: IN THE CASE OF BLOWER-NECTAR TREATMENT, HONEY IS A POWERFUL MAGICAL CATALYST AND MUST BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS. It does not, however, seem to exaggerate the mental deterioration of the blowers; nor does it, though, slow it down. But the physical effects are (reportedly) reason enough NOT to do this!! You may temporarily "feel better" because it imitates the "magical rush" the body gets from nectar dosage but IT WILL NOT MAKE YOU BETTER, I GARANTEE IT. " I blinked, trying really hard with my vapid little mind to take all this in. It didn't work very well. I just understood that bussie- boppers were bad, and... uhm... they made me dumb, apparently. And Hunny-Bear made me better with his hunny from his big delicious cock. And... and he was dead now - I glared at the three exhausted men behind me - and I needed a new Hunny-Bear or I'd, like, lose all my brains. I wondered what was left to lose, and giggled loudly.

Richard roused mildly. "Uhmmm... guys, I totally figured out where I remember her from... you know how we said she looked familiar?" The others didn't respond, sleeping soundly. He continued anyway, completely out of it: "She's Busty Bop-Her, guys! That hot fucking... fucking chick from... from..." He passed out again. Had I really worn these poor boys out that much? Well, I was a needy girl! I giggled.

Busty Bop-Her, huh? Was that what the porn guys had thought my name was? I stopped and thought about it. Bussie-Bopper. Busty Bop-Her. Huh. They were kind of similar. I wonder if that's what Hunny-Bear named the blowers after, like when I heard "mugril" for "Moo-Girl". Moo-Girl... I needed to do the ritual before I turned into something like her... I thought. I rubbed my pussy happily, maneuvering awkwardly around my inhumanly large tits to do so. This was pretty fun, being a crazy little fuck-toy...

Oh. But nothing I did gave me a hit any more. I'd have to go my whole life never getting sexual release, at least not like Hunny- Bear gave me. That... even my dumb, slutty little brain could identify that as a Bad Thing. I removed my hand and slid off the chair, my tits making everything weird as I crashed to the carpet and was followed by huge boobies a few seconds later. They flopped on top of me and pinned me down, and I had to roll and wrestle for several sweaty minutes before I managed get on my hands and knees again. I dragged myself into a position to survey the room and went over a mental checklist I had proudly succeeded in memorizing.

I needed: - 3 sexually-exhausted humans. (check... perfect!) - Arranged in a triangle. (check... how convenient!) - With salt-lines drawn in-between. (hmmm) - And a sexually-charged object. (hmmm) - And to masturbate in the middle. (boy, I had that covered)

So I dragged myself into the kitchen and started looking for salt. I checked all the floor-level cabinets and was disappointed to know my life wasn't going to be that easy. Then I spied a big cylinder of table salt - it looked like they didn't even use salt shakers, just poured it out of the package - sitting up on the kitchen counter. I was so puny by then that I couldn't have reached it even if I stood up, were that possible. I sighed, dragged myself back to the computer, and grabbed the footstool. I placed it in position. Then I grabbed one of the step-ladders they had used to fuck me on the ceiling, and then the other one.

Soon I had constructed a terrifyingly unsafe set of "stairs" upon which I could place myself, then drag each tit up, then move to another level, then drag each tit up again, with enough support along the way that my weak arms would have a chance at managing it. It worked, and I soon had the salt container in my hand. It didn't feel full, but it was so big I couldn't imagine it running out. I began to carefully lower myself back onto my three-supports set-up, but it was harder with only one hand available, and -

Crash. I slipped, one stepladder tipped, I hit the stool with one giant tit and it flipped over, the other ladder fell, I got bruised and smashed and rolled around and giant wobbling tits and butts were everywhere and... Eventually it came to a stop. I was either tougher now, or oblivious, 'cause the fall didn't slow me down much. I had managed to keep the salt from spilling when I fell, which was my primary goal, and I giggled at my heroism, feeling proud. I heard two of the men stir at all the commotion, and froze. No no no no! They couldn't move now!

"What the fuck?" asked Mark groggily.

"I'm just, uh, making you guys dinner... don't get up?" I called. They mumbled happily and passed out again. I grinned. That was one promise I wasn't concerned about keeping, especially since I'd be trading them to Hell in exchange for Hunny-Bear soon. The rotten bastards. They deserved it, too.

I dragged my tits over to Mark, pulled open the metal spout on the salt container, and then dragged myself backwards toward the couch where Richard was. A centimeter-wide, bright white line poured out in front of me as I backed onwards, and then I reached the couch. Hmmm. The line had to go all the way to Richard, right? So I poured some salt on the couch cushions up to his arm. I tried pouring some vertically down the couch but it just fell to the floor, so I shrugged and figured it would be OK.

Then I was dragging my boobs backwards, past the computer, toward the patio where Ted was hanging halfway inside, halfway outside. Success. I scooted back, watching Ted recede and my white line follow me, just having to reach Mark again to complete the triangle, and -

And ran out of salt. About 10 centimeters away from Mark. I shook the container like crazy, but couldn't get any more salt out. Oh well! I had no more time left, and certainly couldn't go get salt from somewhere else. And if I asked the boys to get it for me, well, I'd have some explaining to do. So I shrugged. Hopefully this would work!

I just needed a sexually charged object at that point. I really didn't really have any ideas. My tits and my pussy didn't detach, and neither did the boys' cocks. I never used condoms 'cause then the yummy cum was wasted. Then I saw... a honey-bottle lying on the ground near the couch. Would that count? I always made the boys shove it into my mouth and squeeze right before I swallowed their cum. I hoped that would do, 'cause at that point I could almost feel myself gettin' dumber by the second, honestly, and cravin' cock crazier than ever. I would probably give up and just start rubbin' myself like wild against one of boys' cocks, even if it was limp as a shoelace, if I didn't get this ritual goin' like THEN.

So I dragged my titties over there, tryin' real hard not to mess up the salt-lines, but makin' sure the carpet scraped my nipples 'cuz that felt super-awesome. I picked up the honey-bottle and crawled back, set it... about where I guessed the middle of the freakin' triangle was, I wasn't about to measure the damn thing, and thought real hard about the last step. OK. OK. Uhm... uhm... oh yeah! Fuck yeah! All I hadda do was fuck myself! I squealed in delight, lurched to my knees with my huge tits draped over my thighs and onto the carpet, and started crammin' one finger in an outta my mouth and the other hand in an outta my gushin' pussy like crazy. I dunno how long that went on 'cuz it coulda gone on forever and I wouldna complained 'cuz it felt sooooooooooooooo fuckin' gooooooooooooood.

And then... a glow appeared. It started with Mark. His whole body glowed a big bright white color, then it turned ta this cool glowin' blue. And then the salt next ta him glowed blue, and the glow traveled down the salt line, turnin' it all blue glowin' lines-like, and then, it hit Richard and he turned blue, and then, it went down the other line and hit Ted and he turned blue, and then it went down the last line and...

Uh-oh. OK, then the blue glowin' tried to go past the end of the salt line where it broke 'cuz I had run outta salt. Annnnnnnnd... well. Well, it didn't work. It sparked like crazy and big scary arcs of like, fire behaving like electricity went sparkin' over the gap between Mark and where the salt-line stopped. And then, well, that sparkin' connection stayed, and with a big, "FWOOMP!" all the glows turned bright, fuckin' red-hot sexy red colored, and the glow rose up into these big glowin' walls, like, I could see through them but they looked solid too, and, uhm, yeah, so I was stuck inside this glowin' red triangle shaped walled energy fire thing. Yeah.

OK so anyway. Yeah. OK. I concentrated reeeeeeal hard 'cuz somewhere in my foggy brain I knew I needed Hunny-Bear reeeeeeal bad. And so, all of a sudden, the honey-bottle underneath me, it rattled and danced and went swoopin' into the air and then "FWOOMP!" again and this big Hunny-Bear appeared holdin' the honey-bottle! And he was kind-of see-thru, and kinda looked like TV static in spots, and he was glowin' red.

"I am Sunny-Nair, the current Wight-Head of the Second Circle of Hell. How may I *skrrrrrrr* sist you in your *skrrrrrr* mortal needs, summoner?" He was like Hunny-Bear, but bigger, an' meaner lookin', and he had a big bushy white beard and big bushy white eyebrows, an' he wore a big black robe instead'a a T-shirt, and his big huge cock stuck out his robes and made me sooooo horny. I didn't get a chance to reply yet 'cuz he looked around: "Your *skrrrrr* nection is terrible, mortal, what have you *skrrrrrr* with the salt *skrrrrrrr*?"

"Uhm," I said meekly, an' he looked down as if noticin' me fer the first time. I concentrated SOOOOOOOO hard so I wouldn't sound dumb when I asked him fer a Hunny-Bear, and my brain came back into focus, a little bit. "Uhm, I kind of ran outta salt." I said sheepishly.

"Ran out of *skrrrrr* lt? What kind of *skrrrr*-shit ritual is this, when you don't even bother checking your salt *skrrrr* plies before you start?" he ranted. Before I could respond, he took a deep breath: "Sorry, the *skrrrrr* is giving me Heaven today, what with all the *skrrrr* making lust in short supply this week due to *skrrrrr*. Stupid holiday. Anyway, what request have you, mortal?"

"I need a Hunny-Bear." I said, meekly.

"A Hunny-Bear? What the fu *skrrrrrr* is a *skrrrr*-Bear?" He paused. "Oh, my. You mean you want a Hollows-Wight servant, and you've met Hunny-Bear." He smiled.

"No, well yes," I babbled, "But, uhm, Hunny-Bear, uhm, he got, they killed him."

He looked shocked. "Is THAT why Hunny-Bear *skrrrr* in *skrrrrrr*? I thought *skrrrrr* but that news is *skrrr* ful indeed, he was one of our finest *skrrrr* currently in the mortal realm. Who dared to slay one of my Hollows-Wights?"

I pointed around me in a circle, indicating the three glowing boys. "Ummm, them, which is why I thought I'd offer them to you in exchange for a new Hunny-Bear."

He laughed. "What a lovely idea, young *skrrrrr* child with the *skrrr* normous tits." Then a series of agonized screams intertwined with deep, lusty moans echoed in the background. "Hold on," he said curtly, "I need to attend to this and select a Hollows-Wight for you." Then he walked "away", which for me just meant his image got smaller.

I played with myself absent-mindedly for a few minutes, feeling impatient and really nervous. Then he came back. "OK. I boosted the torment-aura going to the flux capacitor, so I should be able to get rid of that interference problem. Anyway, I'm sorry, but we simply don't have any Hollows-Wights to spare right now." My face dropped in shock. No! "Sorry, lady. It's lean times for the Second Circle right now. F'you had asked me for an imp in 1960, even 1970... I'd give you three, we were doing so good up here. Nowdays..." He shook his head. "The Seventh, Eigth, and Ninth circles have been doing great the last few decades though, you might want to try asking them for an imp."

"No!" I cried. "I need a Hunny-Bear real bad!"

He looked at me crossly. "Oh, you want Hollows-Wight nectar, then. You're one of those types, those occult drug farmers." He seemed really scary. I quivered.

"No," I said meekly, "I just need his help."

"Sure, sure. Listen, I don't have time to deal with your eyeblink lifespans and other mortal crap that you worry about. I will gladly take these souls - thanks a ton, we're behind on quota and the succubi are riding our asses (literally) - but you're not getting an imp, we got none to spare." I started crying. "Aw, there there," he continued, and I looked up hopefully.

His face turned into a casually disinterested expression as he looked at a clipboard. "But you know, Hunny-Bear was a key portion of our fell-management scheme in your sector of the mortal plane. His absence has caused our charts to go crazy and all sorts of fluctuations are showing up. Those damn leaking-meadows just can't function without proper supervision. So you know, even though I can't spare any, we really do need a Hollows-Wight out there."

I perked up further. He was going to give in! Yay! It must have been the tears, I smirked inwardly. Cute girls crying could even move demons and imps.

He smiled wryly. "So I'm going to take these nice souls here, and in exchange, provide your area with a Hollows-Wight." I nodded rapidly, happily, jiggling my boobies wildly. I waited for a Hunny-Bear to show up. Instead the Wight-Head just continued with casual indifference: "So thank you for your time, thank you for choosing to use Hell for all your occult needs, et cetera, and so on. I really need to get back to my duties. Enjoy these ones, you'll have 'em a long time!"

I frowned. He disappeared. The red glow faded out of the chalk lines, and a dull yellow glow emerged from the heads of Richard, Mark, and Ted, pulsing away from their bodies and down the salt lines. The yellow glows then swerved into the center of the triangle and swirled around before fading into thin air. The room went silent. I huddled in the eerie cold and quiet that had suddenly descended. The sound of the boys' breathing had stopped. A light wind drifted through the apartment and rattled the half-open slider. I started crying again. I didn't mean to do that to them, even though they had killed Hunny-Bear! And now I didn't even have a new Hunny-Bear! I looked at my huge titties. I was stuck with them forever and now I'd keep gettin' dumber and become some useless slut with no brain and I'd never get satisfied 'cuz I'd never have Hunny- Bear and... I sobbed, and sobbed.

- XXXX -

A few minutes later, the salt-lines suddenly flared up into a furious, incredibly bright red, scaring me. I looked around frantically. The Wight-Head suddenly popped into view in front of me in a swirl of sensuous flames; he wasn't transparent or reddish now, he looked like he was really next to me. His cock was erect. I looked up at him fearfully, he looked down at me with wild eyes and a casual smirk: "PEEK-A-BOO!" he shouted, and I screamed. He waved one stubby arm-paw in an elaborate swirl, causing iridescent, lilac- green flames to dance into existance in the air wherever his motion passed by. I realized the flames were flying toward me. I tried to back up, but my giant tits slowed me down way too much. The flames touched me, igniting my body, and I screamed.

The Wight-Head cackled, and then vaporized in another swirl of flames, his laughing continuing to echo as it faded. The glow of the salt-lines died down and the salt itself sizzled and evaporated. The flames roiling over my body didn't burn like heat. Instead they felt... they felt... they felt like every inch of my skin was an ejaculation wanting to happen, but stopped at the last second. That horrible, desperate, infuriating itching for release. It coated every inch of me. It was maddening. My mind exploded under the stress and I screamed. Suddenly I could stand up, somehow, and I fled from the apartment, bursting through the front door and leaping off the balcony, desperately looking for a way to end the maddening flames that were consuming my body, eating deeper and deeper into it. I kept screaming, "Help me!" over and over again.

I kept running, not knowing where, just trying to run somewhere, anywhere. As I ran across the street I realized why the apartments had looked so familiar: they were the ones right on the edge of town, right across from the forest. The Forest! The whole reason I was suffering now! I screamed louder as the itching frustration carved its way deeper and deeper into my body, rending my mind, splitting apart my soul. I fled into the forest blindly, I ran forever, running, running, with nowhere to go but a desperate need to keep moving, a desperate hope I'd find someone to put the flames out.

Suddenly, I was at the meadow. The Meadow! How? Had I run so long? Time had lost all meaning as I was consumed by the agonizing eldritch heat. I stumbled, rolled down a slope, past a broken, dirty cell phone, into the grasses and flowers, and found myself staring into the creepily-blue stream of the Leaking Meadow. I saw my face. No, actually, I didn't! That wasn't my face! Not any face I'd had any time recently, even with all transformations! I screamed, and screamed, and screamed some more.

My face was Hunny-Bear's. No, not quite. It was almost like Hunny- Bear's, but with big fat cartoonishly girly lips on my thin little mouth, and sexy eyelashes extending off my beady little eyes. I was smooth-headed like him, though. I stood up, fighting through the tormenting flames, to take a look at my body. It was tiny and just like Hunny-Bear's, except I had a gigantic pair of titties for my 3'5" body - not as bad as I had been right before the summoning ritual, I could actually move with these - but still big tits for such a little ... bear? They were casually covered by a blood-red camisole which allowed their fat sexy nipples to poke through. No giant cock emerged between my stubby little legs; instead huge, ludicrously puffy pussy lips hinted at what lay there. Other than these features, I was the spirit-and-image of Hunny-Bear. There were still a few lingering human features - like fingers, instead of stubs, at the end of my little arms - but the flames were rapidly lapping away at all of them.

I screamed, again, loud and bloodcurdling, terrified. Then the infuriating digging of the flames kept carving at me, carving at my mind, carving at my body, and I began running again, running blindly, looking for salvation anywhere. Time blurred again, and suddenly I found myself in familiar ground... I found myself looking at Oak-House. I had vowed never to come back here, never to face the guilt over Hunny-Bear, the Oak-House being like a gravestone...

I kept fleeing, blindly, as I felt the flames burn as deep as they could and start coming out the other side, of my body, of my mind, scouring me away, consuming me with that horrific itching frustration, impossible lack of satisfaction and release... I stumbled again, and tumbled down a slope. And then... the Barn! I screamed at the agony of the flames, and shuffling from within the Barn was heard. Desperate, I broke through the front door-gate, and saw Moo-Girl, chained to the floor with a plethora of locks, bolts, and other restraints. A simple dildo was lodged halfway into her gaping pussy, a huge puddle of vaginal fluids under her.

Was this how the other Forest inhabitants had solved her horny rampage? She looked up at me, confused, and lowed agonizingly, pleadingly. Her tits were insanely swollen and stretched, looking like they could simply burst from the pressure. Sad droplets rolled out of the four nipples constantly, but she couldn't move her arms or legs to try to increase the flow. She let out another agonized low; I kept screaming at my own torment. I was overcome by sympathy. I couldn't help myself, but perhaps I could save Moo-Girl...

I reached forward, to undo the complicated system of locks and chains, and the flames extended from me without any will of my own. They rapidly spread over the chains and melted them to nothingness. Moo-Girl leapt up stiffly, desperately, lowing in both agony and gutteral appreciation for freeing her. I reached out to touch her, caress her side, reassure her - and the flames flared up, erupted out of me, consumed Moo-Girl as well, and we both screamed in shock as our worlds became searing white flashes of pure flame as we were wholly consumed, and everything - sight, sound, thought - burned away, whited-out, ceased...

But then, some long time later, I awoke. I found myself lying on my back with my big tits sqooshed over my chest and draping down my torso. I rolled over, feeling them jiggle and lurch, and also felt my big damp pussy tingle at my rubbing thighs. Then I stood up, feeling remarkably strong compared to the frail body I last remembered trying to lug around crazily-oversized tits. I reflexively smoothed-out my camisole and tugged it down to remove any fabric wrinkles. My tits perked up in response and big fat nipples tented it out.

I gasped as I looked over at Moo-Girl. She was not a Moo-Girl anymore. She was a Moo-Man. A delightfully gigantic cock extended out from her firm, muscled form; still starkly black-and-white, but now as exaggeratedly hot and manly as she had once been exaggeratedly womanly. Except... for her balls. Which weren't quite balls. They were huge, to be sure, to go along with her giant cock. But they were also tits. Big, fat, jiggling titties. They had no nipples, though they were clearly titflesh.

I smiled. I understood. Moo-Man stirred, looked at me hungrily, and instantly set about satisfying the empty, yearning feeling inside my pussy with her new equipment. I realized that the relationship Hunny-Bear had with Moo-Girl had been preserved. I would provide her - him, I mean - sexual satisfaction, and in exchange, I'd benefit when I relieved him of his milky burden.

And that's how it worked out. I live in the Oak-House now, I do all the chores myself, I milk Moo-Man twice a day (often more if I'm feeling horny... oh, he's a wonderful milking experience, mmmm), and I'm friends with all the Forest inhabitants again. They've forgiven me for slaying Sam the Spider in my ignorance, and being involved in cluessly leading Hunny-Bear to his doom. I'm one of them now. I'm free. I frolick naked whenever I wish, I operate on my own time, not any calendar or clock other than the sunlight. I am with great, fearless pleasure a female, with all the needs and desires that entails. I am such a happy, happy little hunny-bear. Well, everyone calls me Cunny-Bear. Hee hee hee.

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AND that, my friend, is the story of how I came to be what I am now. It sounds crazy to think it all started with a simple little hike, on a beautiful day in May just like this one, that led to a peculiar Meadow and a mystical affliction, that led to a magical Forest and a charming Oak-House and a little friendly bear-creature that lived there. And of course, it sounds craziest of all to think that so much of that experience was motivated by that little bear's strangely delicious, powerfully addictive hunny, that leaked from his genitals so freely...

Well, actually, it doesn't sound very crazy to you, does it, my friend? Oh, I have waited so long for a dear friend and companion to share this lovely Oak-House with, the way I did with my Hunny-Bear so long ago. Yes, I know you love it now too, my dear friend. That's always how it ends up. No, no, don't stop licking... my pussy likes it very much, and you need your medicine. That's it, yes, get all that delicious medicine oozing out of my lovely pussy. Oh, my dear friend...

I promise I'll not make same the mistakes my dear Hunny-Bear did, never ever. I'll never let the people take you away from here, oh no, never ever. I'll always keep you so very close to me. I'll always make sure you have your hunny. Yes, that's right, you can smile, friend. You're never going away...

Never ever.

END.