Gaming addiction.

Bugak's eyes fixated on her slender fingers as they combed through her hair in an attempt to clean them from the duckweed that dried on them yesterday.

Eventually, he decided to offer his assistance and approached her.

"Come closer, Anna. I'll help you with that," He promised with an innocent smile as he stood there fully dressed, with the water reaching his knees.

Initially cautious of his intentions, she soon draws nearer to allow him to help with her tangled locks. He kept his promise. Almost.

"You need to clench your muscles. Here, so I can dig it all out," His instructions were clear as day, and yet, she seemed to be unable to follow them. With bent back and labored breaths, his fingers worked their way up towards her core.

"You are – fucking unbelievable!" Anna moaned, clinging to his forearm as she knelt partially submerged in the water. She could see the milky fluid that gushed out of her pussy mixing with the clear water in these shallows.

"See? It wasn't that hard," He praised her and carefully let go, making sure she regained her stability.

It took every last bit of her self-control to keep herself from throwing her whole body at him. He was well aware that her time with him was limited, and it forced him to restrain his desires too.

Bugak even helped her to take her dress on after she dried herself a bit.

Anna weaved her wet hair into a single braid before she decided to grind the dried herbs and preserved this mixture in carefully wrapped packages from leaves since she had a limited amount of small leather bags.

Bugak knew he should train, or watch the surroundings. That he should be useful in a way where he feels assured in his abilities.

Yet, he obediently held the cones she made from leaves, so she could fill them, to help her with whatever she was doing.

They spent the whole weekend together once again, her pauses in between their meetups got shorter as she couldn't resist the attraction pulling her back to him every time. 

And he got spoiled. Bugak got used to her bright smile and the way she watched him during everything he did, with her eyes filled with genuine interest and admiration. 

"How much time do we have left?" An anxious question left his lips when she returned from her harvesting trip once again, wet to the bone. It was about time for her to rest once again. She said she needed to work the next day and had to get ready.

"About an hour," Anna hesitantly admitted as she changed into dry clothes, trying to warm herself a bit. Bugak was scared it would be less, but secretly hoped for more time, "Alright. Come to me, then. I want to hold you," He said as he sat by the willow and reached up to pull her in his embrace.

They were entwined together, finding comfort in each other's arms as the precious time continued to slip away. Anna rested her head against Bugak's chest, listening to the rhythm of his heartbeat, finding comfort in its loud, steady pace. 

She already told him about Vudgrag's help, but it didn't make him jealous, all he felt was gratitude that someone was keeping an eye on her in case she needed help. 

Bugak whispered sweet little things into Anna's ear, while he played with her braid and enjoyed her gentle fingers tracing across his whole chest.

"Can't you stay longer?" a quiet whisper fought its way out of his lips when he reached his limit "Just this one time."

Anna closed her eyes in a desperate effort to resist his pleas. She wished with all her heart that she could grant his request, to stay for a few more hours. But the reality of her situation weighed heavily on her.

She knew they had to say their goodbyes soon. Taking a deep breath, she gathered the strength to gently shake her head.

"I wish I could, but I'm here for over five hours and it's night already in my world, my second body is probably hungry and exhausted. I need to take care of it too. But I can stop by in the morning before I can leave for work. That would be sometime in the afternoon I guess," A compromise, nothing more than that. But it was still desperately not enough.

Bugak nodded, his embrace tightening around her delicate frame.

"For how long?" Another useless question, that can only deepen his misery.

"Few minutes, eight maybe ten," Well it was technically true. If she sets her alarm eight to ten minutes early.

"Fuck -" pain in his voice was noticeable, even when he tried to hide it.

"I'm sorry," She raised her eyes to his face, crumpled in frustration.

"No, I just have to get used to it," He sighed as he traced her collarbone with his thumb. A bold idea grew in his head. It worked once, it might work again –

"Goodbye, handsome," She smiled, ready to log out.

"I want a kiss, before you go," As he lifted her chin and leaned closer, he suddenly pulled her under his body and nuzzled her neck. She yelped and laughed aloud, trying to resist his advances, before her breath got erratic as his tongue slipped through her teeth and caressed her own.