wake up to reality

she wake up a while later but something feels really off

Pippa wakes up feeling no that rested, she looks around

she notice the whole house looks way less cozy then you remember. the walls are deteriorating, there's cobwebs all over the place, the chair is missing a leg and there is dirt all over the place. what's probably more concerning is the fact pippa is tied up tightly

"what the..."

pippa pulls the ties , trying to escape

pippa wiggles against her restrainted but she is bound too tightly to escape them. then the door creaks open and the lovely room you went into earlier reveals its horrors to her. instead of nina she sees a hag before her, a shapeshifter and illusionist. she cackles, seeing Pippa struggle

"heheehehe. little stupid halfling. you really thought a lonley girl would survive this unforgiving forest? stupid stupid. but good for me. you are going to fill my belly nicely.... you and that offspring of yours. too bad i have to way for a while until you're ready to pop the tasty snacks out, but they'll be sooo delicious...."

she cackles further before she nears pippa and grabs the ropes

"first, im a gnome... second, what offspring? you mean I'm pregnant? ho no...."

Pippa deviates the fact that the hag want to eat her... she tries to remember all the sex she had, to wonder who could be the father...

the hag grabs her and unceremoniously drags her outside of her house. Pippa gets a glance at the kitchen, a place of unholy butchery where bloodstains can be seen everywhere. The hag gets Pippa outside and in the garden there is a crude cage made of many bones of species Pippa does not want to think about

"Now this is gonna be your home until your litter is out.... and when i had them, you are going to be next....."

she pats your belly

"or i'll keep you and have someone put another batch in you.... that might be even smarter."

she cackles again, pushing you into the cave before she leaves and you hear the door slam

Pippa tries to process all that situation, it might take time to analyse her surroundings...

once she's a little more calm, she looks at the cage, searching a way to escape...

the cage is a conglomerate of bones of all kinds, ribcages, arm and leg bones, spines, all tied together to form an incomprehensible mosaic of insanity. at least there's no rotten flesh on them, they are all picked clean.... and the bindings seem to be mostly plant fibers...

too bad all her gear and clothing is in the chest in the "guest room"

Pippa tries to weaken the bindings with her nails.

pippa struggles against the ties and gets them to loosen a bit, but her hands are still tied behind her back and the rope around her wrists won't budge enough to get a hand free. at least it's a bit more comfortable now

Pippa decode to wait a while, to not waste energy, so she could save some strengh, for when needed

it takes a few hours waiting outside in the cage before the hag appears again, a bowl with some food in hand. it looks like the vegetable stew as before and smells the same, a bland gruel. she puts the bowl in the cage and gives Pippa a hungry look

"you better eat. i wouldn't want you to die from starvation and exhaustion..... and we will have a guest this evening you will have to entertain!"

she cackles once more before plucking a few of the herbs in her garden and retreats into the house

While she wants to rebel Pippa knows she also had to eat. But while she have engage in prostitution before, now it's more like slavery, so she won't make effort into it.

She fears that the old hag will bred her to transform her into a food distributor....

She has to escape, and soon...

having to eat the food from the bowl without hands like an animal is humiliating but pippa eats the stew nevertheless. luckily is isn't poisoned and she regains some strength ... which she will need much sooner than anticipated.