Trick the dryad.

You begin stepping forwards. Vines around you still hover in the air, as if waiting to strike at a moment's notice.

"I said stay back!" the dryad repeats. "Or I'll grab you too, and tear you both apart!"

As you continue forwards, you put your plan into effect. First, you pretend to trip. You stumble forwards, and before you can try anything else, she takes advantage of it like you hoped. Two vines grab you and your sword tumbles to the grass, and before you know it, you're being reeled in at a rapid pace. The only thing you need to enact your strategy is one free hand. Thankfully, you're pulled against the side of the tree by just your left shoulder and your ankles. It hurts, and you worry that your arm will pop right out of its socket, but you're confident in this idea. It was either this or setting the poor dryad ablaze.

Up close, you can see that while she does look upset, she also seems afraid. It's like a cornered animal.

Alice is nearby, and she ignores her embarrassing pleasure for a moment to shift her gaze in your direction. She tries to speak, but is still gagged by one of the vines.

"Having fun?" you ask.

She frantically shakes her head and tries to say no.

She hasn't actually tried tearing Alice apart yet, which means she doesn't want to kill us either.

"Hey," you whisper quietly. "I have something important to say."

You're moved closer to the dryad and she looks you dead in the eyes. "What is it?!"

You then throw your free hand forwards to press against her navel. Her skin is soft, like touching the petal of a flower. You expected her to maybe feel scratchy or rigid, but it isn't like that at all. Your hand squishes against her stomach, and the muscles twitch inwards like you've tickled her. Before she can pull you away, you say the magic word, "Pleasure!" and use a major amount of mana for the spell.

The dryad's white gaze widens. The vines tremble, and she wraps her arms around her body as the wave of pleasure surges through her entire physique. She falls completely out of the trunk of the tree and to the grass. She grips herself between her legs, rolls to her back, and arches her body as she cums, which apparently even plant people can do. Her sensual moan booms out into the sky, and your entire party turns to watch in confusion and surprise. At the same time, both you and Alice are dropped back to the ground.

"We're not here to hurt you!" you quickly say.

She looks up to you with a flustered, exhausted expression. "What did... you do to me?"

"What did you do to her?" Delphi asks from afar.

"Why are you attacking people?" you ask. "That's the only reason we're here. People were being attacked."

The dryad sits on her knees and looks to you with pleading eyes. "I... I'm scared."

"Hey. It's all right. Why are you scared?"

She looks around herself. "Because I'm trapped here all alone."

Snow and Delphi make their way over, but the pixie arrives first. She raises a finger up into the air. "Ah-hah! That makes sense. Dryads are able to control plant life, and even move between trees like gateways, though can only exist within a short range of one. If there are no other trees around, she's basically shackled here like a prisoner, and if the tree is destroyed, she's dead."

"Then how did you get here?" you ask.

The dryad puts her face into her heads. "I ventured really far from the forest through some trees, but then I fell asleep inside this one, and when I woke up, people had deforested all the trees around me!"

"How did you sleep through that?!"

A strange rumbling sound comes from afar. You look up to search for thunder, but the sky is almost entirely clear.

You sigh. "We'll get you back to a forest somehow. How does it work? Do you need a whole tree, or just a piece of wood?" you ask.

The sound seems to be getting louder.

Snow's ears twitch. "Do you guys hear something weird?"

You all look around to spot a dust cloud not far away between the emerald hills. It's hard to tell what it is, but the sound seems to be coming from that direction. But then, it emerges. A gigantic rhinoceros like you've never seen in your life is stampeding this direction. It has a gnarled front horn, deathly red eyes, flesh that's dark and almost demonic, and it stands at at least three times the size of a normal rhino. The sound of its feet crashing against the ground is enough to rumble the earth beneath your feet, and at the rate its moving, it'll reach your party any moment.

Snow, Alice, Delphi, you--everyone screams in terror. Even the dryad does as she turns to see what everybody is gawking at. She wraps her arms around your leg in panic, making it even more unlikely to escape.