Galia was the first one to wake up. She was still dirty, but didn't want to wake anyone up so she held Rosch in her embrace and just relaxed.
Rosch woke up next and was eye to eye with Galia. They both looked into their eyes.
"I didn't know she would do that, I..", Galia tried to explain, but Rosch cut her of.
"It's okay. I remember tears in your eyes. You must have thought she wanted to push you out at the start. But she really can act. I even woke up from my deep trance like state. It's hard when I am in one let alone after 2 weeks of celibate.", Rosch said silently, trying to let Thulpina sleep.
Galia just nodded and smiled right now, she wanted to ask so many things, but was scared.
" I will try anything to make up for what I did. You just have to ask, so maybe you can forgive me? ", Galia asked with a shaking voice.
There was a long silence. Too long for Galia, as she already closed her eyes trying not to cry.
"I can't. I want to, but I don't know how I will react if something happens outside.", Rosch said emotionless, but got softer with his next words, " But I can't deny that I feel something for you. So I will try to live normally accepting you as my female for now till we get out of here. ", he embraced Galia kissed her and cleaned her face with his hands a bit. She was crying a bit again.
"You know it is weird. Suz and I feel in love after surviving the Nightwalker attack. Schajana was made my sow, because Suz wanted to save Schajana from the family head that impregnated her. We feel slowly in love over the span of a month and now just like Suz, if something would hurt them I would go crazy. Now you and Thulpina came into the picture. While I can't say I love you like them right now, I know that I have the same feelings for you, as I had with them at the beginning. Now, I can't even think about living without you guys. ", Rosch said as if not knowing what to do.
" The same goes for me. I always wanted to get out of the prison my father held me in. And after I saw hope in a way that I couldn't believe would ever come, namely your father, I just grabbed it. I thought that in this world every male was the same. I was outside the tribe sometimes and what I saw there was always the same. I believed that freedom can only be achieved by being alone, when you were born as a female your future looks bleak. But then you showed up, letting me live. At first I was scared to leave your side, but with time I saw something unbelievable. You just didn't care what I would do. You gave me my own free time, and at the end of the day you made food for me not even knowing if I would be back. I just melted when I realized that I just wanted to be liked, not as a tool for more power, but as the being I am. And that, I could only achieve with you. You didn't care who I was, you didn't care how beautiful I am, you just looked at me and judged me for what I did. Even though it was a bad start. After that I tried to show you what I can do and here we are now. I trying to make you love me and you trying to forgive me. It really is weird, but I won't give up, because I think that this is my only chance of a life that I dreamed of since I was young. ", Galia said pouring her heart out.
Rosch just embraced her and they were lying there for some time. The last week went by fast too. They lived like a small pack, but for Galia and Thulpina it was a dream. Only Galia got more nervous the closer the last day of the Ritual came. They started to put everything into leather bags. The last days they hunted so much that it would be more than enough for even 3 or 4 winters.
They finished packing and started there small tour to the ruins. Galia was last and as she left the cave under the waterfalls looking back inside, she thought, "So that was it. The best month of my life. I wished so often that those days would never stop, but I have to look forward.", being a bit scared.
She took a deep breath and walked after Rosch. The walk to the ruins was silent. Rosch was probably as nervous as Galia, his feelings for her became stronger with every day and he feared how he would react.
Some time went by on their silent and short journey, when Thulpina saw the ruins. Rosch warned his females. He could smell and feel some beings up ahead. But they didn't fight, they all just took some space for their own and waited for something. Rosch didn't wait. He stood up and walked to the ruins as he gave his females a sign to wait first.
Everybody in the ruins were shocked, only Rastar was expecting him. He smelled the three already a long time ago. The eyes of everyone was on Rosch and as he approached the human mixes some got excited, because they thought a fight was going to start.
"Gerhard what's going on here? How is everyone so relaxed and chill around each other?", Rosch said while being sincerely confused right now.
"You are a little late. Most of them came already yesterday and when enough people showed themselves, right before a huge brawl broke out, a voice sounded saying that our transportation out of this dimension will be tomorrow and we should bring everything and everyone here. ", Gerhard said. He didn't try to get something out of him for the information. He knew that Rosch is a family head and thats why Gerhard was willing to trade sometimes, getting a better relationship with him would only bring benefits in the future.
Rosch gave a sign into the woods and Galia as well as Thulpina came out of the shrubbery. They took some place near the human mixes, who occupied most of the ruins. Having a roof over your head is the best. They learned how fast the weather changes in this weird forest. Everyone was stunned again. Seeing two beautiful females carrying so much. Rosch could only carry 6 huge bags, not because he was weaker than the females he was just to small. It was to much volume for him to grab all the bags. It bugged him a bit that Galia carried 8 bags and Thulpina even 13.
As they dropped everything on the ground, Galia approached saying, "Don't be mad. It is better, if we carried all at once. We couldn't trust leaving our bags here and then get the rest in a second tour."
Rosch sulked a bit, because he wanted to carry most of it and not let his female do the most. At first the two were shocked hearing him say something like that, while they were together, but the two females liked how he treated them and accepted his chivalrous side fast. When they asked why he is so weird to his females, he answered his mother teached him that way. In the Elven community the heavy stuff was work for men.
After taking some time to make the last night here as comfortable as possible, Rosch looked around to see, who made it here already.
The three human mixes, Rastar, Rosch, the two orc mixes and Sleif Ogar occupied an area for themselves. The last place was a bit weird, because they looked all different. One was a dwarf mix, another one a beast-tribe mix and the other two Rosch couldn't associate with a family. Or better said Rosch didn't even know, how many families were inside the tribe.
"Gundar is dead and the male, who Gerhard's group got the female from is dead, too. I see Rastar with a second female and with his personality I can't imagine the other male still being alive, which makes 3. Everyone else has there females that means one male and female are still missing. I hope that we won't get held back, because someone is missing. ", Rosch thought still looking around, making the others he looks at nervous.