"Ahh, my apologies my bonded but My fairy senses are tingling like crazy!"
"Is it the exit?!" I ask her, my voice turning soft as we start up a winding path.
"Yep! One dungeon exit coming riiiiiiight Uh-p..." Khaleesi expresses while popping the P of her exaggeratedly spoken up, and not even a moment passes and Khaleesi takes off like a shot from a gun…and flies back to me red in the face gasping for breath and trembling in fear…or excitement…I can't tell which.
"Hey…are you alright Khaleesi…Is there not an exit there?!" I ask the once ecstatic fairy as she lands on my shoulder.
"Uhm... Well, about that..." Khaleesi sounds embarrassed as she starts to answer my question, and I look out of the corner of my eye and catch her scratching her cheek, looking a little embarrassed…and shy, "We...we should go search for a different exit!"
"Huh? How come…Khaleesi…what did you see?" I express my question while feeling shocked.
"W-well uhm…you see this isn't a good exit to take…you know what I mean my bonded?"
'No, I don't know what you mean…' I internally reply to Khaleesi's question.
"...What the heck…do you mean…by this isn't a good exit?" I ask Khaleesi seriously…who kinda blows by my question like she's done with almost every single one I've asked prior to this one.
"I-it's okay…my bonded…I know it took me four years to find this exit, but with you here four more short years of wandering will be much better than the last four years, I know together we'll find another exit much faster than we found this one!" Khaleesi continues to jibber jabber on, while I reach up my right hand and massage the bridge of my nose.
"Look Khaleesi, I can't wander around down here…think about my situation won't you. I'm a farmer and a human…I don't have any food and…unless I'm about to die from starvation I'm not going to eat the goblins that I killed." I say to Khaleesi while beginning to walk around the slight bend in the cave…but Khaleese grabs me by my ear and hair and yanks on then to try and stop me.
"Whoa, stop my bonded, remember my vow to you, I'm really telling you I don't think you should even look further down this tunnel as it's dangerous for your health and safety!" Khaleesi says to me in a panicked sounding voice but my desire to get the fuck out of her was making me selectively blind to her concerns.
"Huh, Why?!" I ask absent mindedly.
"Just trust me it's better for your health to leave your hope of escape intact!" Khaleesi continues to raise a protest that my ears start to tune out…selective hearing my folks call it.
"Come on, you really think that the prospect of continuing to walk aimlessly down here forever long hasn't already detrimentally affected my health?" I countered Khaleesi honestly
"I'm already hungry and I only have 26 shots for my shotgun…I can't stay here…and neither should you I don't know how you survived down here for four years but I'm pretty fucking sure your luck has run out already…or else you wouldn't have almost been eaten by goblins."
"Ahh, please my bonded I know you're an inferior human and that your mind is feeble, but my luck hasn't run out after all I only just found you, and I can't let my Bonded partner…die or experience a mental breakdown so soon!!!" The naked little fairy screams at me, but given her size she is too weak to stop me and I barely feel any irritation or resistance as I shake her off of me.
Poking my head around the corner...I see a huge cavernous space that has sporadically grown clusters of softly glowing crystals decorating and lighting up the room.
The temperature was coolish in the rest of the cave system…at around 60 degrees fahrenheit ramps up to about 70 here and it's probably hotter in the cavern.
The stone ground and the walls are covered in trees of silver and gold, there are slants upwards to the left and right of the crystal clusters, through which what looks like sunlight seems to be shining in through.
"All right, this place seems like it's close to an exit!" I cheer softly in joy…but my joy is very short lived as I look through the trees I see what is located In the center of the cavern, that which has it's back pressed right up against the wall, it is a huge creature, coiled up in sleeping...this creature is something very familiar to me and most people as they are very popular…in fantasy media.
'A dragon…a golden eastern style dragon, fuck my life.' I express in my mind, 'I should have been like those MC's in isekai stories where they run around grinding levels before actually reaching a boss monster unless you're like that white haired red eyed kid with an eye patch and a fetish for anal play with a vampire oneesan.
At this point, I feel a sense of despair smack into me… 'Fuck me, I'm not one of those mc guys that gain levels and golden fingers like a fat kid eats candy…I'm not prepared to fight a dragon…my shotgun ain't gonna do shit to it.' I continue to talk to myself in my head.
As I silently and quickly…turn around walk a ways down the tunnel before leaning my back against the said wall and slide to the floor holding my head in my hands.
"...I should have just listened to you Khaleesi…" I mumble as I feel the fairy land on my shoulder and try to hug my neck.
"Of course you should listen to me, my Dummy Bonded I'm the superior partner in this arrangement!" Khaleesi replies back to me but there is a gentleness and understanding in her voice that she hasn't used before when acting haughty.