"You need to leave", the alpha spoke in a hushed voice, barely above a whisper and removed his hand off the lips of the girl. At some distance, he could hear the faint sound of footsteps on the ground. He missed on the transition from werewolf to human part while pulling the girl inside.
"Where would I go?", feeling relieved to have the grey eyes gazing straight into hers, the professor asked as if the alpha was obliged for the arrangement of a brief stay for her.
"Anywhere. You just cannot linger around my cabin", the soft sounded steps were now getting near to the cabin, walking past the several lodges.
"Why?", if Scarlett would watch a female in a movie engaged in the type of dialogue she was having with the man, she would straight-out call the Female Lead trying to get into the pants of the Male Lead. However, in the present state, she wasn't certain if she could identify her actions as of a flirtatious person.
The pair of eyes she was staring at was blank. Nothing about them could excite somebody, especially someone as exhilarated and high-spirited as the girl. What appeared cold on the surface had an odd serenity behind the layer. She felt herself looking at a calm night ocean, the tranquillized waves talking to the moon. For the tiniest fraction of the second, she wished to be the moon that would caress the ocean surface with its light every night.
"Would you like a wandering cat around your home?", the alpha asked, expressionless.
"Well, if it was homeless and injured, I might take it inside and tre---hey, wait! Did you call me a cat?!", not a while ago she was named 'kitten' by Edric, and now being a cat. How did on the earth the boys view her? She didn't remember herself belonging to the Felis Catus species neither did she ever drink a potion with a cat's hair added to it like Miss Granger.
"Does it matter this moment?", the alpha wasn't worried about being caught with a hunter.
Well, he was. He would rather not indulge in a tall, silly talk. Like humans, the pack of the werewolves also had an established social society and rules of conduct which were followed by every pack member, alpha or not. To not have any type of connection with the hunters was one of those strictly defined codes. Violation of certain restrictions would summon all the higher officials of the pack to decide on a penalty for the accused wolf. If the alpha was seen with a hunter at his cabin, he had an idea of how the members would react to it. He could shut all of them, the girl wasn't worth all the commotion.
"And what's wrong with the moment?", a wave of shiver surged through the body of the alpha when Scarlett's warm breath touched his face. Did his wolf instincts just react to the close proximity of the girl? It was impossible.
"You are separated from your family, far among werewolves who could slice you into two pieces anytime", dismissing the reaction, he conversed with the girl. His arm was stretched, slightly bent from the elbow as he was leaned over her face, one hand placed against the door, the other lying freely in the air.
"Should I worry myself over this?", the professor wasn't surprised at all for travelling to the fifteenth century. Although she had hoped skyscrapers of the New York City, now she thought about it what fun would it be? What could she possibly learn new from it? That the people in 2021 had grown a bit more greedy compared to 2020?
People of the twenty-first century would be fascinated to know that there were such creatures that existed in the past. She could write a book on the lives of werewolves and vampires after spending some days with them. Well, only if she returned to her time safe and sound.
"Should not you be afraid of us, hunter?", up until now all the hunters that were brought to his cabin either walked out on their feet to a few miles where they would be torn down by the men of the alpha or never get to walk again. The purpose of taking the intruders somewhere distant in the woods was to keep the newborns from the screams of the caught hunter. Sometimes, the alpha would be too frantic to consider anything except stabbing the hearts out. The feared look in the eyes of those hunters had been imprinted on his mind. The girl was from the same tribe. She would've heard how mercilessly the hunters would be treated if found by the alpha or his men on their land. Yet she was standing eye-to-eye with the alpha without an ounce of fear in her eyes.
"Why? Does it make you feel stronger?", the professor's eyebrows raised high, getting anticipated to register the new piece of information.
"We do not live on your fears", the steps the man was hearing had been stopped in the track, engaged in a conversation with somebody on the way.
"I see. What vampires live on?", Scarlett hadn't watched much TV when she was a kid. However, when the kids from her neighbourhood would come to their house, the little professor would've to sit with them, forced to accompany them in whatever they would do and that mostly was plopping on the sofas and watching the TV. She never understood what was entertainment at watching somebody else trying different things when one could do his own? Anyhow, she was instructed to give the other kids some time.
According to her mom, they would come on weekends to spend some enjoyable time with the girl but to her, it looked like they were more there to eat the chocolate chip cookies and muffins her mom would bake for them. From the spent time she had spent with them, she vaguely remembered a cartoon character trapping the laughter of people, and feeding himself on them. She thought perhaps the werewolves also had that type of system considering how they were attempting her to be fearful by mentioning blood and the possibility of vampires or them ripping her apart. The character from the cartoon lived on the laughs. It wouldn't be amusing to find out that werewolves were living on the fears of humans.
"Blood. Human blood", the alpha thought the girl was playing the fool with him which was reallystoppish of her in case there was a pure-blooded alpha opposite to her. However, the more he talked to her the more she appeared transparent to her as if she wasn't lying. No hunter had lasted that long, acting oblivious. Well, no hunter had acted oblivious in the first place.
"Sounds appalling. But they can't help I guess. They're vampires for a reason", the girl was glad she had heard about the myths about vampires drinking blood from humans' bodies. That wasn't new information to her so she proceeded further on her exploration.
"What about werewolves?", the werewolves were the least of the mythical creatures the professor had read about in the articles or watched in the TV programmes by any chance. She was more excited to know about them.
"What do they live on?", locking her gaze with the alpha's, she asked.
"Meat. Raw or cooked meat", the man didn't even want to entertain the thought that the girl really didn't know about everything that she had been brought up listening about, but if she wasn't pulling an act, the alpha would want to see the best-expected reaction out of her, the fear.
"Of humans."