Stick with Kynan

This is so weird. I have walked through the village many times, but never completely nude. Now I am doing that with so many other guys. I try not to stare, but there are so many dicks flopping around. Fortunately, I have my friend Fionn around. Seeing him feeling awkward as well makes me feel a little comforted that at least I am not alone. Though it comforts me more once our group of guys has gotten into the forest. After all, that’s the part where we are going to separate and I will no longer be feeling any group pressure.

Kinkade is the first to head off, to the left, in the direction of the path. This is only his second Samhain, he probably has the same difficulty at orienting himself in this forest and me and Fionn do.

He is the smith’s second son and works at the cattle farm. He is a pretty buff guy and can be a bit grouchy, but at least he is not a jerk like Logan. Too bad he is not a bit more friendly. If he was, I feel I could have been friends with him.

Shortly after, Fionn heads to the left as well. Probably a smart choice for him to try and find the path and follow it. I am honestly considering doing that myself, but my brother said it would be better for my confidence to find my own way.

After Fionn was out of sight, our baker, Trahern, decides to sit down and tells the rest of us to go on.

“What’s wrong, old man? Old age keeping you down?” Logan asked.

“Yeah, both of my daughters will be there.” Trahern answers. “It would be awkward to see them in the nude. Maybe you’ll understand when you have daughters of your own. I will just stay here like a spider and wait for its target to come to him.”

Trahern is the oldest guy among us. He used to be happily married, but early last year his wife passed away from a disease. That makes him single again and can thus again participate in Samhain if he wants to. Though last year he was still mourning his wife too much to bother with it. This year however, it seems like he is past the mourning phase and can move on. Honestly, out of all the guys, I feel he would match with Aislinn the best.

After a while, we arrive at the river. Logan outright doesn’t care and simply wades through the water. Logan has always been an arrogant person, but he has the physique that permits him to be. He is easily the strongest man in the village. Probably from all the work on his dad’s farm.

Glenton feels like following the river to the left, towards the path the girls take. He is probably starting to feel uncertain about his chances to get to the path. I am actually a bit surprised Glenton didn’t stick around with Trahern. It is his dad, after all. Then again, when doing an event where you can catch girls and fuck them, maybe being close to your father is not the most comfortable place to be.

I guess that’s me, the twins, Owen and Kenric heading to the right to cross over the bridge there. Wait, where is Kenric even? Huh, looks like he must have made his own way while all our backs were towards him.

Kenric is Rowen’s uncle. His mother’s brother. I don’t know Kenric very well. In fact, I’d say nobody knows him well. He is the silent type. He rarely if ever starts a conversation with someone, and if someone talks to him, they only get short answers. And if you are bad at starting conversations, you are not only bad at making friends, but even worse at getting a lover. I think that is his biggest problem. Not his physique. He works at the Maclain farm. That’s the farm owned by Fionn’s dad. And it shows.

So, the four of us follow the river while walking between the trees and the bushes, until suddenly I feel something wrap around my ankle and pull at my leg. It pulls up and I lose my balance and suddenly I feel myself hanging upside down. The other three guys turn to look at me and the twins start laughing.

“Hey bro. The new kid stepped into a trap.” Duncan says.

“Hey Kynan.” Dunley says to me. “How’s the weather up there?”

Duncan and Dunley are having a good time laughing at me. Owen fortunately doesn’t laugh at all.

“Guys, it’s his first time. No need to mock him over that.”

“What’s wrong, Owen? Did you get caught in one of these traps yourself last year?” Dunley says.

“Must be, bro. Dude is getting flashbacks of when he was hanging upside down.” Duncan adds. Duncan then turns to his brother and says, “Let’s leave these losers. I want to see the girls wave their tits at us during their dance.”

“Ooh, yeah. Less competition for us when he is hanging there like that.” Dunley says. “Or wait, wax face can catch him. Hey, Kynan! Good luck having sex with the ugliest girl in the village! Ha haha.”

And so, Duncan and Dunley disappear into the forest. Can’t say I’m sad about seeing them go. Same for their brother, Logan. In fact, all guys from the Gavin farm are assholes.

These kinds of traps are made by attaching a rope to a flexible tree branch. Then you pull on the rope and bend the branch down. When the trap gets triggered, the branch jumps back up and the rope pulls at you. These traps don’t even have to pull you pretty high. Just high enough so your hands can no longer touch the ground. Then you are pretty much helpless.

Thankfully, Owen is there to help me. He grabs me and pulls me down, forcing the branch to bend. Once I am far enough down, I can grab hold of the roots of a bush while Owen loosens the rope from around my ankle.

Owen is the son of one of our two lumberjacks and is apprenticing under his dad to become a lumberjack himself. He is actually pretty good at his job and could easily finish his apprenticeship. But people usually only accept a person’s apprenticeship to be over after they have been married. That just might be a social pressure to motivate people into marriage. Maybe Owen is just waiting with marrying until he can get a girl to have his Samhain child. It’s not as if I heard of him having a girlfriend or anything.

After I get loose, Owen does tell me that it is getting pretty late and the girls are likely already nearing the end of their dancing. So, we need to hurry. With him being 23 and having done multiple Samhains, I feel he probably knows his way around. Also, the part of him being a lumberjack makes it necessary for him to head into the forest nearly daily.

So, I follow Owen to the bridge, except he moves so fast that I actually lose track of him. When the river makes a bend, I notice the bridge a bit further and see Owen already crossing it. Crap, I’m going to be late. Instead of moving further to the bridge, I turn to the river and just cross it. The riverbed is pretty slippery though and halfway across, I lose my footing and fall in the water. Gods be damned, this water is cold.

When I make it to the other side, I am all wet and cold. I keep moving forward, knowing it isn’t that far any more. Or is it perhaps further than I think it is? Is now the right time for me to head to the left?