Back into the water

Everything about the woman in front of you screams danger. In the sexual sense at least. You're still in the net, and she's already checking out your dick. Ending up in her clutches isn't going to help you save your remaining 8 orgasms.

Before she can reach, you thrash violently, yanking the net out of her grip and slipping free of it as you roll back into the fast-flowing water. You hear a rather frustrated sounding bellow as you disappear from her sight.

You may have underestimated how worn out you were though, because the turbulent water tosses you about mercilessly, slamming you into the subterranean walls of the underground river... after a few minutes and you find yourself blacking out...

When you awaken, you feel sunlight beaming down on you from above, and solid, grass-covered Earth underneath your body. You feel incredibly sore all over, but the sensation confirms that you've survived at least.

You try to move without much success; your body is just too exhausted and sore. You do realize by the sensation of the grass against your front when you move that you're devoid of clothing.

That's odd...your ride down the river was certainly rough, but you don't see how it could have stripped you like this. Unless...

"Ah, are you awake?" A pleasant, friendly-sounding female voice greets you, and as you laboriously turn your head to look to the side, you see a rather attractive woman. She has a slender body with a surprising amount of bust for her build.

The fact that she is just as naked as you seem to be certainly draws your attention - especially to certain parts of her anatomy - but the most important detail you notice is that she appears to be completely green.

Her skin tone is a light green, with her long hair a much darker color. She looks down shyly as you stare at her, then nods to a spot behind her. "It's lucky you washed up so close to my tree."

You see the shoreline of a small pond behind her, which you were evidently ejected into after your underground 'trip'. It's pure luck that you didn't drown...

You can see the tree she mentioned as well. It's a youngish oak a short distance away from the pond. There are a number of nearby trees in all directions as well; you've ended up in a forest somehow. You'll have to check how much closer to Maebh's castle you've gotten...

As for the green woman with a tree, you're familiar enough to guess...

"You're a...dryad?" Then, realizing that you probably sounded a bit rude, you add. "Ah, thanks for pulling me out of the water. I don't think I would have made it otherwise."

Not refuting your guess, the dryad seems to blush slightly at your thanks, waving her hands hastily as if it was nothing.

After a short silence between the two of you, the dryad adds.

"Um, you seem to have been roughed up pretty badly though... you might not be able to move for a day or two..."

You groan in a mix of pain and the knowledge that you'll be stuck lying on the ground for so long. And you know even after you can move, you'll probably be too slow and stiff to get very far.

The dryad hasn't finished talking though. "I...have a way to help...if-if you like...?"