Push it aside.

You shove that something into the back of your mind. Think later. Fuck now.

A root catches your foot and you trip and crawl the last few feet to the prone dryad, licking your lips. She doesn't seem to see you even when you look her in the eyes, lips still moving confusedly, "I... I serve master... no... don't serve... am nature... nature serves... no-one..." You catch the poor girls lips with your own before they run off, sliding your tongue inside to quiet hers. She trembles against you but slowly calms and begins to return the kiss. She tastes sweet, fruity even. Her body is exquisitely soft beneath you, the demon barbs rasping between you only serving to highlight her perfection.

You deepen the kiss, pressing down on her and wrapping your arms to embrace her. She still seems paralyzed by the venom but her tongue is eager and she moans into your mouth.

Your hand slips down her back to cup her supernaturally firm ass, pulling a semi-responsive leg up around your back. The other hand finds her petite breast, delighting in its perfect curve- "Ah!" The dryad gasps in pain, arching into you, as you graze a hefty barb lodged in her flesh. You glance down and coo in sympathy, "poor baby, nothing should hurt something so lovely." You slide down, gently taking the barb in your teeth and drawing it out as painlessly as you can manage. The dryad groans, not entirely in pain, and you find yourself seeking out the rest and pulling them free just as deftly.

You take your time, taking many excursions to the more interesting places of her body. Twirling her nipple in your mouth, kissing across her belly, grazing your teeth over her well-muscled thigh...

Eventually you find yourself tongue-deep in her honeypot, arms wrapped around her amazing legs as they squeezed around your head. "Ooh... Oh! OHHH!" Her thighs clamped around your head and you put every ounce of your lust fueled urges into prolonging her orgasm.

The dryad collapses, breathing heavily, and you come up for air with a pleased smirk, "ready to return the favor?" The svelte woman didn't respond at first, her featureless eyes glowing a doleful yellow as she stared up at the canopy. The leaves were dark against a brightening sky.

Suddenly she sat bolt upright, crawling back from you fearfully. It almost makes you laugh, considering how imperious and confident she had been last night, but you were more concerned with how she wasn't returning the favor. "I think I've made it pretty clear I'm not going to hurt you, how about you-"

"I'm not some lustful animal I don't... fornicate with demons! Or anyone! I don't... I... Oh no, the trees!" You were about to point out to the dryad that obviously she did 'fornicate' with humans, probably with demons too considering how you'd found her, when you noticed the condition of the trees surrounding you. They were covered in the same demonic barbs the dryad had suffered, deeply embedded in the bark. Probably how the demon overwhelmed her, you think. Dryads supposedly couldn't be killed until their grove had been burned or something. If it got enough venom into the trees... whatever. You still weren't all that interested in anything but the dryad repaying your kindness.

She leapt to her feet (staggered, more like) and ran into the nearest trunk, vanishing from sight into the wood. "Hey!" You pursued her, pounding a fist into the bark, "Get back out here!" Barbs began popping out of the nearby trees, tainted sap oozing out after them.

"Go away!" came the muffled reply. You growled in frustration, feeling like a suitor who'd just been evicted after bringing gifts. You kicked various trees as you stomped out of the glen in search of your horse, muttering curses and profane scenarios you wished would befall the selfish dryad.

You find Aegis lying down in a meadow not far away, apparently snoozing in the sunlight but turning to face you as soon as you stepped within thirty feet. Indra is still splayed over his back, blissfully dead to the world. You would love to join her, or wake her up so she could join with you, but your motherly instincts impelled you to mount Aegis and set off once more for Gerlangen.Your focus had returned but your body still ached for stimulation. Gods damn it. You spent your entire life trying to preserve your precious virginity and when you finally threw off the shackles of morality imposed by the Burning Rose there wasn't a cock in sight. You do your best to follow the route Indra had described to you yesterday, sporadically trying to figure out the logistics for masturbating on horseback before reigning yourself in.

It was going to be a long day...