Accept the Offer

Mechanical Summary

[Round Tangle - lash - 7 (miss) | Nora - takes off and gives panties to fairy | Fairy gives Nora the Virgin's Glass Wand.
[Lash 11 +3 =14 hit D4 - 2 DMG | Nora uses knife 18 +2 = 20 (hit) - Dmg 6 - Nora wins]

"Sure." Nora would agree to anything if it could help. Though, this request was strange, untimely, and perverted.

The fight with the strange tangle had her somersaulting and rolling about, the clearing. The request had come at the right moment though, as Nora was on her butt, and could easily step out of the stupid underwear while she got to her feet.

The little woman was flying about in circles around her and the creature. The little woman was small, barely taller than a pen. Nora worried that if she tossed the underwear, she might smoother her. She slid it onto the limestone, when she knew the woman was watching.

"Here, they're yours. Now, help me!"

The little woman flew over, hovering by her shoulder, she was smiling.

"Here, take this." she said in her shrill little voice.

She dropped something into Nora's hand. Nora didn't register it, but it didn't matter. The distraction had given the creature and opening, and the sudden punch to her gut from a forceful swing knocked the air out of her. Rather than figure this strange, new object out, Nora lashed out with knife again. She stabbed hard into the center of the mass of the writhing tentacles and, feeling the strength start to drain from the appanages still trying to wrap around her, leaned into the knife. It sunk inward, deeper into the meat of this strange creature. With some effort, she with drew the knife. The creature was still twitching slightly, but not moving. It reminder her of the way a spider might twitch after it has been killed.

Standing up, she finally looked at what she was holding.

It was a glass rod, at least three times as thick as her thumb. It widened at one end in a sphere, but the other gently tapered to a smooth curve. It felt comfortable in her hand.

She wondered how the little fairy could even come to hold such a thing, but that was the least of the events in the night that defied explanation. What was that thing? Why had it attacked her?

Nora looked at the little woman with the dragonfly wings.

"Ummm.. Thanks."

The fairy had returned to Nora's panties which had landed on the limestone. She was crawling through them, lifting the cloth and scurrying from one hole to another. Her wings hung across her back like a cape, and watching her crawl about the cloth she looked more like a wasp than a woman. She poked her head out from a leg, looking at Nora.

"Don't mention it. It was a good trade, and I'm always happy to show to see one less tangle about." Her voice was tiny and shrill. She stepped out from the panties and pulled out a small wand her own. A flicker of light and the panties had shrunk, looking like they might fit the fairy. The little woman picked up the tiny things and put them away somewhere, but after the light and in the quickness of the motion Nora couldn't quite say where they had gone.

"Umm..." Nora's mind raced. She wasn't usually at a loss for words, but, now, there were too many questions tumbling around in her head.

"Oh!" the little woman said, "I'm Flutterbell, happy to have helped." And she smiled up at her.

"Well, hi Flutterbell, I'm Nora. Nice to meet you." She waited for a bit, but the little woman just smiled up a her blithely. "I hate to be rude, but what are you?"

The little woman grinned with a look of both pride and mischief. "I'm a panty fairy, and you?"

"I'm a human, and I guess."

"Well, that's good. I was afraid you might have been a fox." There was no hint of a joke in the woman's voice.

"What?" The statement was given so non-clamantly that all the other questions were pushed aside.

"You know, foxes. Red fur, bushy tail, ticksome."

"I know of foxes..."

"And you're not one, right?"

"No."

"Well, good, then happy to have helped."

"Yeah, thanks for the help." Nora was frustrated. The conversation had gone in a circle, she her skin was scraped up and she felt terrible, and cold. With thing settling down the chill of the night was starting to make her shiver. She guessed the trouble might be worth it.

"Look, I have so many questions. But, I have to go or I'll get in trouble. Can I find you again?"

"What kind of trouble? Not more tangles?"

"What? No, I go to school, I need to get back to the dorms."

"Oh" Flutterbell looked relieved. and Nora understood. She didn't want to think about those tangle things.

"Actually," Nora paused gathering up her clothes. "you like panties right?"

"Panties?" The fairy had a hungry look in its face.

"that's what I thought." Nora said. "come with me. I've got more panties in the room. I can give you a pair."

"Panties!!" Flutterbell said again.

"Yes, panties." She thought for a second, "is there any chance you can hide? I don't think anyone will understand a 'panty fairy' and I don't want to explain or get in trouble."

"I don't want trouble either. I'm good at staying out of sight. It won't be a problem" And the little voice had so much confidence that Nora didn't want to protest her worries further.

Together they returned to the dorm.

[XP Award a 400 + familiar option 'panty fairy' available upon reaching magic level]