It was morning now, the wolf pack had woken up and were chatting by the fire, a few had ventured out to grab some food. Meanwhile inside the tent, Athena shifted, opening her eyes, she saw that she was in Tyler's tent. Feeling someone push against her chest, Athena glanced down and saw the still sleeping human burying his face into her warm fur. She smiled at the cute sit, she felt like a big sister almost, it reminded her of the times she dealt with the younger cubs of the pack. She still had her arms wrapped around him tightly, keeping him lock in. She didn't want to wake him up, so she decided that she would wait until he woke up. She could hear the other's talking outside, the smell of cooking meat was thick in the air.
Soon, the smell proved to be enough to wake the human, he blinked his eyes open only too see the white ocean of fur in his face. He gazed up and saw the wolfess smiling down at him.
"Good morning Tyler" She said.
"morning Athena, how are you feeling?" He said.
"I'm feeling way better now, who put these on me?" She said, examining her fresh bandages.
Sakara did, she's a great medic, glad she's on our side" Tyler said.
"Yeah, Sakara is great in the field, but she is at her greatest strength when she has access to all her tools and medicines" Athena pulled back her arms and sat herself up, stretching as she did. Tyler sat up as well, wincing as a sharp pain made itself known in his leg. He pulled his trouser leg up, revealing the wrapped gash, whilst it would heal after a while, Tyler was definitely not planning on walking around anytime soon. When Athena saw it, she gasped and held him.
"Oh my gosh, what happened, are you okay?" She said almost crying, she reminded him of his mother when he would come home late. Laughing, he stroked her arms that had wrapped around him once again.
"It was when I was running from that thing that attacked you, I was trying to get away across a log and cut my leg on a branch when I slipped, Sakara patched me up real good" Tyler said as Athena leaned over to look at his leg where the gash was.
"Yeah, your not going to be running very fast aren't you, would you like me to help you get outside" Athena asked.
"Yeah sure, that smell is making me hungry" Tyler said, crawling to the tent door, he flipped it open letting Athena crawl pass and stand up outside. She stretched her muscles before reaching back inside and pulling Tyler out, who took his rifle and slung it on his back.
"Morning you two, come, we saved some food for you" Denahi said, turning round from the fire. Both he and the rest of the wolves had killed a deer and were cooking pieces of it on the fire, they would've eaten it raw, but considering how cold it was, they wanted something to warm their bellies. Tyler and Athena sat themselves down on the ground near the fire, sitting close to each other to warm up quicker. The boy pulled out a pack of nuts and munched on them, only for a big paw to hold put a nice smelling piece of cooked meat in front of his face. He looked and saw that it was Denahi holding it.
"Come on, you got to eat something better than those little things" Denahi said, Tyler reached and took the cooked venicine and began eating it, while it wasn't much, it was a lot better than some cold flavourless walnuts from his rations. Denahi grabbed another piece of cooked meat and gave it to Athena, who took it eagerly and began eating it. The other wolves were busy eating their own chunks of cooked deer.
Tyler remembered something from one of his packs, he reached into his trouser pocket and pulled out a small ketchup packet. he teared it open with his teeth and squirted it onto the big chunk of meat in his hands. Athena looked at him quiz idly, Tyler just grinned at her, taking a bite of the meat.
He realised that his rifle was probably in need of some cleaning, he got up and walked back into the tent and walked back out with his rifle and a cleaning kit he was issued for his SA80, it would make do for now, after all, it was better than nothing at all to keep his gun firing, the last thing he needed was it jamming when he was in a tight spot.
He check it was on safe and cleared the chamber before beginning to disassemble it, taking the pin out and flipping the top over, revealing the inside of the gun. He pulled the bolt carrier out and the gas tube, grabbing a small cloth and a bottle of oil. he covered one end of the cloth with oil and started wiping over the bolt, cleaning and removing any dirt, ice or carbon.
"Tyler, what are you doing, you've broken your weapon" Athena said, watching what the human was doing quiz idly, the other wolves watched as well.
"It's not broken, I took it apart, and now I'm cleaning it" Tyler said, grabbing a small brush and brushed the bolt and extractor.
"Hm, for such a powerful and deadly weapon, it's so....complex" Another wolfess said, walking over and sitting next to Tyler, putting down her bow, she eyed the rifle in it's field stripped state, folded in half exposing the chamber and the trigger mechanism:
"What do you mean by cleaning it, is it something you have to do with one of these things?" The wolfess edged over, watching Tyler brushing the extractor key before grabbing a bore brush to do the inside of the key. Both Athena and the other female wolf were sitting next to the human as he did his thing, Denahi chuckled as he watched the three.
"Looks like Meika's already getting along, don't you think?" Denahi said, turning to Sakara who was grabbed another piece of meat and chewed on it.
"Yeah, and I must say, I'm liking him too"