-hours later-
I start waking up to the light of the sun in my face. And the feeling of soreness and stickiness on my body.
"Ugh" I groan.
Five more minutes I think to myself turning my body over to my left. As I turn over I suddenly find Lilith sleeping right next to me like a cat curled up.
What the? Wait I remember! I get flashbacks to last night and the even that had occurred with Ugmand and Lilith. Oh Lilith. Ahem anyways.
"Uh Lilith? Hey, are you awake? I start shaking her.
She is still naked under the sheets and is hunched so comfortably. As am I. I guess we both fell asleep after our moment and forgot to wash up and put clothes on. A bit gross but I just did it so.
Her eyes start to open up and as she sees me her eyes widen with surprise to see me. Did she forget?
"W-what? Coda what are you... Oh right I ahem...remember." she looks up to the ceiling.
"I hum, just wondered if you were awake and remembered. I guess you do."
We both lay there silently for a moment but smile at each other.
"I think I will get a shower. I will try on my own this time. I might need to take off these bandages though so.
"Okay. Good luck. I'm going to change the sheets for better less uhm, stained ones."
I get myself up and I feel everything starts aching. But I push through the soreness. I walk over to the door and brace myself against the wall for support as I make my way to the bathroom. Looking the same way as yesterday. I don't know what I expected. I remove my bandages and start the water to be warm.
I wash up cleaning my body except for my back due to it still being hard to reach and my tail. I think they will be fine. The water starts running down my body and I feel a brief calmness and relaxation in my body. Only for it to be ruined by cold water!
"Ahhh! What the fuck!" I scream out. My feathers start standing up and I run out of the shower causing me to spasm and shiver.
I for a moment try to recover my sanity from such a moment and suddenly start hearing footsteps running. Emediantly the door gets kicked open and to my surprise Mr. Hazen standing there in confusion.
"What the?! What are you doing at my house?" he starts yelling. I would to if someone was in my house for no reason and using my stuff. "How did you get in here and why are you he-" he gets interrupted by Lilith.
"Dad? Coda what's wrong?" she says pushing her father out of the way.
"I uh, the water got cold...Also hi Mr Hazen...please stop looking at my genital..."
"I-I wasn't! Also why are you here? And Lilith why do you know he is here?"
"Father oh my god this si so embarrassing. *Sigh* come with me we will talk downstairs while Coda washes up"
"B-but!" he gets pulled by the wrist and moved away from the bathroom. Give me some privacy. Man...another awkward and embarrassing moment. Seems like that is a part of my life now.
-8 minutes later-
I had finished my shower and started re-bandaging myself up with the gauze she had left in the bathroom. I struggle to reach my tail but manage to even though my bandages are restricting me from reaching it. Luckily they are stretching enough for me to do it. But I hope this heals soon.
After bandaging I start walking out of the bathroom in brown shorts and a white shirt bigger than me. At least it doesn't feel like I am flexing every movement I do.
As I make my way downstairs I hear George and Lilith talking about me. I stop for a moment and listen in.
"So you allowed him into our house at night with injuries for an unknown reason?! Do you know how dangerous this is? Who knows what he got himself involved in. He could've had a fight with those thugs and now is a target!" he start raising his voice gradually.
I guess I caused him some stress for just appearing in the shower once. Sort of regret coming here suddenly but in all honesty, I also don't regret that moment with Lilith. Anyways.
I move myself using the wall as support and appear in the view of Lilith. She looks down at the table. George notices her glance behind him and turns to me and frowns. He gets up from his seat and walks over to me with crossed arms.
I stand my ground and stand firm and straight up. Bracing myself for yelling as well. Even though I am still a stranger to him likely I doubt he will hesitate to yell at me for potentially endangering his family. He opens his mouth and all that comes out is a sigh.
*Sighs* "So...How did you end up with these injuries. Looks pretty uhm, serious to a degree. I would suggest going to the church there is a woman there who knows magic."
"I will, but first do you want an explanation to why I have these injuries?"
"Hmm, fine. But the moment I hear something that is a lie or even dangerous to a degree I will kick you out of this place."
-10 minutes later-
"So you got into a brawl with Ugmand the shitter...Ha...whish I did it myself. I guess that explains why you got these injuries. To be honest I have a personal question. How did it feel, biting into him. Did it-did it seem like adrenaline pumped into you? Did you enjoy it?"
Wellt hats an odd question to ask someone. I guess the taste was sort of addicting and I felt like I wanted more from what I got from the taste. I just assumed it was my carnivore side of me. But I guess I better give it to him straight as I can without seeming like a weirdo psycho.
"I, did sort of enjoy his taste of blood. Tasted almost sour but sweet with an aftertaste. But why are you asking me?"
"because I want to know if you are one of those savages. The savages are beastmen who carelessly use there jaws, fangs, and canines as a weapon and often get into fights to use as an excuse to get someones blood. Which is illegal. Savaging. Can I trust you are not one?"
To be honest I didn't know savaging was a thing. Among beastmen specifically. I guess that is what happens if carnivores could eat other intelligent life. Becomes a no-go.
As we talk, we start hearing footsteps walking towards the tavern. Which is strange since it is not open yet today. It gets louder and I can make out the clanking and jittering of metal. Is it the guards?
George walks up to the door and before he gets to it a few knocks are heard and a familiar voice. Sounds like it could be a few people outside since the clanking sounded out of sync.
"Hello Mr. Hazen? We would like to speak with you for a moment!" a voice calls out. Sounds like that guard from last night. Jose maybe it was?
George opens the door and there are 3 guards with two of them holding polearms and armored in metal. Jose I assume is the one at the center who is holding a piece of paper.
"Hello sir, we are here to ask some questions regarding a suspect of a crime."
"Alright then," he says crossing his arms, "lets hear it guardman"
"Have you seen a Lizardman with black and red scales? Red feathers, horns one that is broken and height of around 5'8 or something like that? Scar on the right arm like bite marks and cheek?"
It is like they got an image of me and just described everything they saw! What do they want with me? Did I do something wrong? They said suspect so I am assuming they think I committed a crime.
The guard who was saying the Discription notices me next to Lilith and gestures the other two to move in on me with just his two fingers.
They push George out of the way and make their way to me. Without a second thought Liluth gets in front of me and starts bad mouthing them.
"What are you here for huh? What did he do to you? Nothing leave him alone and explain!" she says with her voices raised higher than ever before. George however gestures her to stop and not resisting them.
They place there hands on Lilith and move her gently away without being to rough and grab both my arms aggressively. Causing my body to go sore and feel ache like.
"Agh! Hey careful!" I say.
"Shut up kid, your under arrest for going Savage on another civilian."
"WHAT!" I say in shock. So that's why I am being arrested?
They start dragging me and I try to resist and explain myself but all they do is push me forward and the third one still standing at the door has rope.
They bring me over to him and start tieing my hands up in a bind and push me forward like a scumbag.
How did I get reported for this? Is savaging really a crime? Wait who reported me? Someone must've seen our fight but maybe only the part where I bit into him and that's what they reported. How did I get into this mess...