With a sleeping woman in the bed, Nimrod had his attention to the window inside Luna's room. He looked up the sky and found the Orion lighting its darkness. Turning one last time to the little human in bed, he jumped off the window in cat form. He traced the roof top and sat in there, mumbling something in low voice before a small light materialized in front of him. The light resided down the rooftop before its light spread widely to the wholeness of the outside the house. The cat only let it covered the house slowly until it reached the ground, covering until the gate of the house. It lighted once again before it disappeared, letting darkness filled the surrounding.
It will serve as barrier and anyone with ill intentions cannot get inside and because it was a barrier, he can freely use his own powers without being detected by those humans who were searching him.
Getting back inside Luna's room, Nimrod had transformed into his true form once again, tracing his way towards the sleeping human in the bed.
That strange human girl who was fond of picking up stray cats including him. He never knew he would be able to live with one earthling without the desire to kill her instantly. She was strange woman who kept on insisting all those hugs and petting on him even when he didn't like it. But he just let her for her sake of satisfaction. She always grinned at him even when he would snarled at her.
He had no idea why he stayed.
He can leave while looking for some place to hide until he can find all the archaic stones. But he didn't.
Maybe it was her cooking.
She was good at it, honestly.
Nimrod's head tilted slightly to his side when Luna mumbled to her sleep again. She always do this every night. He wondered if it was her grandparents again. He had no idea why he can't read her minds while she sleeps or sometimes in a waking hours. There were many times he can read her easily but there was sometimes her mind was clouded very much.
"Grandma...mm" Luna mumbled while Nimrod smirked for guessing it right."...it's cold."
Then he noticed her reaching for something to her side while he immediately fixed the blanket to her body but her hand was blindly tracing something to her bed.
"Nimrod..."Luna called out which made him frozen on his spot. He looked at her sleeping face. Right, she was looking for her cat.
Heaving a sigh, Nimrod turned into a cat and went to Luna's side in which he was instantly enclosed to her warm hug.
"Hmm...better..."Luna mumbled once again while he just let her.
The night ended well despite the bad incident a while ago.
***
Luna was happily chatting with her grandma while they ate her delicious rice cakes. She was looking around for a moment.
"What is it dear?" Her grandma asked.
Standing up to look for her cat, she smiled when she saw it walking lazily towards her.
"Nimrod...come here. I'm gonna introduce you to grandma. When she turned towards her grandma again, she fell back countless times. Instead of her grandma, she was greeted with two men wearing black masks. They barged in the house, knocking off the plate with the rice cake. She tried running away and screaming but nothing came out. Just before she reached the stairs, she was tackled down the ground by those two bad guys and she can't do anything about it as she cried hard instead.
***
Nimrod was suddenly woken up with how tight Luna was holding him as if she was meant to kill him. He winced while snapping his head to her face only to find her crying heavily in closed eyes. Trying to get out of her steel grip hold, he hid his claws on his paws to prevent from getting her hurt.
When he was freed, he transformed into his true form before he hovered his hand to Luna's head this time.
"Wake up." he said while Luna instantly gasped for an air, opening her eyes at the same time.
First thing that her eyes saw was her peaceful room and the presence of man on her bed. Scared and still shaking, she literally pushed away herself away from him that she fell down the bed.
"What is wrong with you?" Nimrod hissed while he rounded the bed and picked her up but Luna was screaming in hysterics while she refused to be touched by him. "It's me! Damn it!" he literally shook her shoulders which made her pause but her tears was still running fresh to her cheeks.
Nimrod couldn't anymore say any profanities inside his mind when he can't read her this time.
"Hey, I'm sorry for shouting. It's me. It's just me. They're gone okay?No one's gonna hurt you now." Nimrod tried his best to calm her down but she only sobbed in response instead while having her head down to her palms. This only made him even more frustrated while he crouched down to better see her face.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." he had no idea why he was apologizing to her while Luna still sobbed and curled up to her own body in the edge of the bedside. Helpless now, he turned his head to his right side and raked his hair. Maybe she was scared of him? That thought pushed him away from her as he stood up and made a step back while looking at her warily. Turning to the door this time, he quickly exited the room and out the house.
Hearing the slamming of the door to her room followed by the other door in the entrance of the house, Luna looked up and found herself alone in the house again. She felt very alarm that she stood up in wriggling frame. No, she wasn't scared of him. She just mistaken him as those men.
"N-Nimrod..." she tried calling him but her throat was too dry to voice out something now. She traced her way outside her room, didn't really want to be alone, scared and traumatized after what happened to her.