It has been 2 days since I woke up and I am getting better. Could be faster but what can one do for sleeping for 5 years. I have a lot of catching up to do. What things have I missed?
Okay okay, I just lost 5 years of my life. not a big deal compared to half my life. Could be worse. But I am still weak. I can barely even walk or hold myself up without a wall.
I have needed some assistance in order to get my motor function working again such as cutting food or Grip strength improving. can barely hold the knife right.
I started first off with being able to put my own clothes on but even that took a while.
I had to embarrassingly ask Lara to help get my shirt on.
I thought about Ariel as well for the past few days and thought it would be an amazing surprise if I visit her one day without her knowing I am recovering. But I think it would be better if I got back into better shape than my tiny malnourished body.
-4 days later-
I am beginning to regain some of my strength back from eating well and the ability to put my clothes on. still feels awkward putting my tail through a special hole for it to go through. But what can you do?
I also began doing small exercises like running in the woods a bit and small crunches. Hurts but gotta go through pain in order to gain. Or whatever the phrase was.
Lara and I have managed to catch up by talking a lot. Mainly about current events and such but since they have been living in the countryside for a good 5 years with me they seem to know little of the ongoing in the city as well.
Makes me wonder what would've happened if I didn't knock myself out...
But regardless we chatted.
"So Lara how did you pass up the time being out in the countryside?" I ask
"Well, I would visit a local village and play with some of the locals. They are friendly to us and we are to them."
"hmm, can we visit this village?"
"Uhh, sure we can go there. Let me just get changed." she proceeds to alk out of the room.
I might as well well dress. Since I have been recovering surprisingly well I have managed to get my clothes and walk on my own. Though still rusty. Could be because I am a beastman resilience perhaps? I am not sure.
Being a thin scale, I am prone to easily scaring but it seems my natural recovery time is not off by far from a normal beastmen I would think.
I stay in my room and change my clothing. Putting my head through the shirt. Apparently, my horns have grown since I last was conscious 5 years ago so they are about 6 inches. A little difficult putting my shirt on without poking a hole in it.
As I put my hands through the head opening I look upwards, snout first and their horns. My shirt gets around my neck and then I put my hands through the arm openings. Perfect. I walk over to a small mirror on the wall sort of wobbly and realize, the neck is to high. This means it is backwards...Shit...
I undo my hard work and then I poke a hole in the shirt. A perfectly good white shirt now ruined. I try pulling of but it gets stuck on my horn and I start struggling.
"Really?!" I cry out in frustration out loud.
By the time I pull the shirt off without ripping it more, Lara walks in mid-sentence. I was distracted.
"Hey are you...ready..." she cuts herself off noticing me in my precarious situation.
"I uhm" I start to say muffle in my shirt" need some help please. Horns you know?
*sighs* "Alright let me help you."
I can hear her walking over to me closer and closer with gently steps with the creaking of the wood floors. Then suddenly stops.
"hehehe"
"La-Lara? Is that you? What are you doing? I will rip this shirt off my head if you don't help me out."
-Lara POV-
That doofus doesn't know how to take his shirt off with horns, does he. I guess we have been doing it for him since he went out cold and since he had woke up.
Even when he is struggling with something such as a shirt he is so cute. Hmm, gives me an idea.
-Coda POV-
I here the footsteps begin again but instead of hands touching my head to help me pull the shirt up carefully. I feel cold hands touch my stomach region and I start straining my muscles.
*gasp* "What are you doing!?" I cry out
"Oh, nothing just checking on your scales. Seems there is a weird red mark"
"Part of my body has red scales you mean? I have black and red scales seeing red shouldn't be surprising"
I move my hands towards hers and grab them. I hold them close and feel them are cold. Why are they cold?
"Hey"
"Y-yeah? Coda?"
"Can you help me get this shirt off I feel dizzy now?" I start tilting a bit to my left
"Oh shi-" as she says that I pull her down with me to the ground with a loud thud with her on top of me.
Her body though clothed I could feel her warmth. I actually, wouldn't mind this a bit longer.
"Why you little" Lara says with some mocking tone
"Take this" she takes both of her cold hands and puts them right on my armpits and I feel the coldest frosts of the north go right into my pits.
"Agh! Why!?"
My feather sticks up but I am not done yet. This was a simple mistake of me falling with a shirt over my head but now this is war between her and me.
I let her go for now for a later time for me to make my attack plan later.
"Geez, I only fell, you didn't need to shove your small cold-ass hands into me"
"Well, it was payback for pulling me "*hmph*
I finally get some help taking the shirt off without leaving more holes in it already. I look into her eyes and smile warmly. She blushes in response. I suppose she is an entirely different person when I can't see her maybe. Maybe she still has some of the shyness I loved then and maybe now.
I get help putting on my shirt with some awkward silence and then we walk out of the house.
The wall was a bit long passing by a lake and some animals. I guess that is what one should expect living outside the big city into the countryside.
"Nice lake we passed by huh?" I say trying to make small talk.
"Yeah, I would visit it a lot skipping stones or throwing objects into the water in anger or to calm myself. Sort of like a place I could be alone. But now with you here, I don't think I will be doing it anymore."
Well she doesn't need to stop coming to a place like this just for me. I think she should still be able to come here with to without me regardless.