Chapter 2

Cerulia giggled, holding her hand to her mouth. “You should see the look on your face.”

Rick grunted, pulling up his pants over his still-quite-hard member. His cock was slick wet with her ... wetness? Was it the same as from a woman? A bit of his cum dripped down the side, sliding through her juices like a boat over the ocean.

Still, he wanted to cover himself up, so he did.

“Watch!” Cerulia said as she turned into a blue slime silhouette. Then, like a window becoming translucent, he saw in the middle of her. Ribbons of his cum were floating in suspension like some kind of art project.

She gave a little grunt, and then the cum disappeared into nothingness.

“Boobs or butt?” she asked.

“Huh?” Rick blinked.

“I gotta put it somewhere,” she said. “Boobs, or butt?”

“Oh, butt, I guess.”

The blue silhouette turned to show her side profile to rick, where he thought he saw the minuscule bit of extra junk added to her trunk. It was already pretty fat as it was.

“If I’m not gonna let it impregnate me, then I gotta put it to better use!” Cerulia explained.

“So it would have if you hadn’t done anything about it?”

She nodded. “We may have a special bond, a connection, an understanding unlike any other two people on this mortal and immortal earth, but I’m not sure I want to have a kid with you quite yet!”

“Right,” Rick said, coughing. He wasn’t sure if they had that kind of connection. “Listen,” he said.

“Yes?” Cerulia became a human again, with a corset and white blouse covering her tits, but below was a long flowing skirt of slime, ever so translucent. Her slit showed through it plain as day.

“Hey, could you ... make it a bit less see-through? It’s very distracting.”

“Hmm? You don’t like it?” She put her hands on her hips. “You’re not going off me already, are you?”

Rick felt the terror of what a crazy slime woman could do to him if he pissed her off. “No, no, no! I’m just trying to talk, and it’s right in front of me. Very distracting, you understand?”

“Oh, yes, of course. My beauty overwhelms you. Hehe. You can’t wait for a second go!”

“An arrogant slime.” l Rick shook his head.

“I’m not arrogant; I was just playing! Please, I haven’t spoken to another soul in centuries! My social talents are rusty. Don’t judge me!”

Rick nodded, standing up and stretching.

“What were you going to say?” Cerulia asked.

“Oh, right, yes. Well, the thing is, before today. I thought humans were the only sentient race on earth. I’ve never met a slime before.”

“That explains your shock,” she said, leaning other to stroke Rick’s chin, then she submerged into the floorboards and blossomed behind the bar. “What can I get you? Lager? Wine?”

After the sex he’d just had, Rick could think of nothing better than a lager.

As she poured, she explained, “One day, people just stopped coming to the BnB. You’re the first in centuries.”

“Does that have something to do with my never having heard of...” Rick hesitated.

In an anime, they’d suggest the BnB got transported to this world. He couldn’t even begin to utter words like that aloud, even though it was no stranger than the very being in front of him.

Cerulia shook her head as she slid the lager over.

Rick walked over to the bar and took a sip.

“Nope!” Cerulia said. “Most humans are like you. It’s only special ones with the sight.”

“Special?”

“Yeah, like, if they get infected with werewolfism or something. Otherwise, elves, orcs, cat girls, etc. We all live in this separate world from you. Some of us have spells to hide it. Some of us don’t need to hide, and some of us ... wear hats.”

“What? But there’d be recordings!”

“Who would believe a bit of text in a book? They’d think they’d gone crazy, would send ‘em to the stake of something.”

“Oh, recordings. Man, you’ve missed a lot. I was talking about—” Rick pulled his phone out and saw the lack of signal, feeling guilty again. “I was talking about this thing. It records video; you don’t know what video is. Damn, I’ve got a lot to explain to you.”

“And you thought you were the clueless one.” Cerulia rested her elbow on the bar and her chin on her hand, beaming at Rick. “We can teach each other!”

“Mmm,” Rick said, still looking at his phone. “Listen, Cerulia, can we continue this later?” He took a big sip of lager.

“What?” Hurt traveled over Cerulia’s beautiful face. “What do you mean?”

“There’s no signal here, and I’ve got to talk to someone who’s probably worried about me.”

“Signal? I gave you plenty of signals. Rick. We fucked!”

“No, I didn’t mean like that. I’ll be right back.”

Rick made for the door, but a flat wall of slime emerged to cover it completely, then she became human again.

“You can’t leave me!”

Rick’s fight or flight went haywire. Hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and this beautiful slime woman suddenly seemed a real threat. What if she slimed down his throat and expanded, making him explode? What if she...

The possibilities were endlessly terrifying.

“So you’re going to keep me here hostage?” he asked.

“What? No! I wouldn’t do that!” Panic shook over Cerulia as she paced back and forth, then came to Rick and took his hands. “You just can’t leave me alone! I’ve been alone for so long!”

“I understand the feeling, kinda.”

“Then you can’t go!”

Rick stroked her arm. “Who said I wasn’t coming back?”

“But what if you don’t!”

It was all getting a little too close to home, in a way Rick didn’t want to reveal to this stranger.

Sure, they had known each other intimately, but she was still a stranger.

Barely anyone knew about his secret. These days, it was only Georgia, and he was letting her wonder what had happened to him while he fooled around with this buoyant babe.

“Cerulia,” Rick said. “I’m gonna be honest with you. Before I came here, I was lost. I walked out of my job, and I just kept walking, probably would’ve walked forever until I found a sea and stepped right in, and unlike—I assume—slimes, humans can’t live in water.”

Cerulia nodded, grinning. “You found us cause you needed to!”

Rick frowned and walked away a bit. “It’s not a humorous situation.”

“No, what? No, I don’t mean that!” Cerulia ran in front of Rick—not slime transported, actually ran, which made rick feel she really wanted to stress the importance. “This BnB,” she cried, “it’s got this odd magical properly where, if you need it, you find it. Nobody’s been able to find it for centuries. I thought nobody needed me anymore, but you needed it, so you found it, us, me! I belong to this house too! So don’t you see, as much as I needed you, you needed me.”

Rick was flabbergasted. He blinked and said, “Well, to be honest, yeah, I guess so. I don’t feel half as bad as I did before. In fact, I don’t feel all that bad at all.”

“Great! That makes me so happy!” Cerulia did a little dance, feet leaving slime prints that adsorbed right back into her as her feet touched the floor again. She clapped her hands, and her slime hair—as well as her boobs—jiggled wonderfully.

“So then you understand I will come back,” Rick said. “I want to hear more about you and this place and ... well, I won’t lie to say it what we did was pretty fun too.”

Cerulia nodded, took a deep breath, and walked to the door, holding the knob. “Okay ... I believe you. I have to trust that if you love something, let it go, and if he comes back, then I’ll give him the best blowjob of his life!”

“That’s not really how the saying goes, but I like that one better.” Rick laughed and headed to the door. “I would invite you with me, but I guess you can’t leave. That sucks.”

“Sucks, like what I will do later?”

“Oh, it’s a double-meaning word. It also means something bad. I dunno why.”Rick shrugged and made to hold his hand out; then, he thought a hug was more appropriate.

She felt so warm and soft and human as she gripped him tight.

He kissed her on the cheek. “I’ll be back as soon as I’ve spoken to my friend.”

“Why not invite them here? They are more than welcome!”

“Oh, I mean on my phone. Do you know what a phone is?”

“Sure, I’m not a total ingrate!”

“They’re portable now. I carry it in my pocket. Takes pictures too.”

“Fascinating!”

“I’ll explain to you all about it when I get back—if we get to that. I bet we’ll have so much to talk about.”

“After,” she said, kissing him on the cheek. “I’ll be waiting patiently. What would you like me to wear?”

He blinked. “Wear? Oh, right.” His heart raced. “Anything?”

“Anything!”

Rick searched through his memory for all his fantasies. He was trying to think of something that she would know.

“Hmm,” Rick said. It was hard to imagine any fantasies he might’ve had from her time. “Surprise me,” he said.

He would have to get pictures of the kind of thing he liked on his phone. His mind was swimming with possibilities. He couldn’t even settle on one.

“See you soon.” Cerulia’s eyes were full of hope. It was a great way to be looked at, though it reminded him of Georgia, which caused him a lot of guilt.

At least this time, he could reciprocate the feelings.

“I don’t break my promises,” Rick said, kissing her on the cheek. She seemed to bloom with happiness, looking away nervously with a grin.

Then he was out into the forest. It was dark and a bit chilly, but still, the world felt a little brighter.

He walked out to the fields, checking his phone for signal, but there wasn’t any. So he still walked a bit longer, shivering in the cold. He couldn’t wait to get back to the BnB.

Finally, his phone blew up with texts and missed calls. He rang the offending sender.

“Hello! How dare you!” Her mild cute Norwegian accent especially came out in her anger. It was hard to be frightened of because of how cute it was.

“Georgia, sorry. Sorry, I can explain.”

“Do you have any idea how worried I’ve been?”

“Listen, I’m okay, honestly.”

“Are you? You’ve been acting weird all week, and you won’t tell me why!”

Rick took a breath and said, “Okay, can we stop yelling at each other.”

“I wasn’t yelling!” she yelled.

Rick laughed, staring out at the multicolored field of flowers before him. He ran his hand through the tall grass.

“It’s not funny. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost you.”

A hint there as to what she specified was going on—Clever Georgia, so aware of everything around her.

“Well, It’s totally fine. I just quit my job and decided to walk into the fields until I met the sea, and then I’d walk right in.”

“That’s not funny.”

“I wasn’t joking.”

Georgia gave a cute grunt, showing how infuriated she was but trying to hold it in for Rick’s sake.

“I take it you never found the sea,” she said.

“No, I found something else.”

Rick told her about the BnB. he left out the part about the slime girl. He left out the part about any girl at all.

“So I’ve just been hanging here talking to the owner. And yeah, I feel great now. It’s been just what I needed.

“You could talk to me,” Georgia said. “Oh, that was so selfish. I’m sorry.”