Akrem.
To my surprise, Arianell moved her left hand to the lowest part of my stomach. But she stopped there. When I peeked at her face, she wasn't awake at all. She was still dreaming, and my eyes were too heavy as well, so I had drowned in my sleep again.
Suddenly, it was morning and I couldn't find Arianell next to me. But she left a note and a set of breakfast on the bed,
[Wake up sleeping charming! I'm off to campus for my first test of the week. Wish me luck! Eat a lot! You don't need clothes right? You'll run to your apartment.]
That looked like an order rather than a confirmation. She didn't want me to get out of her front door, as I could see I didn't know where she put her front door key anyway. The balcony was the easiest way out. Why did I feel like we were having an affair and I had to sneak out?
If I were a human, I'd be hurt. Thank Moon Goddess I was a werewolf.
I put my right arm behind my head, laid back, and enjoy the set of breakfast prepared by Arianell. She knew how to cook a big breakfast for a werewolf as tall as six-two.
I took my last big bite and inhaled deeply so I could smell the blueberry shampoo Arianell used this morning, or the scent was always there in her room. I sat lazily with my back on her bedhead and took my time sipping the big glass of water served by her.
She knew I was thirsty. It seemed like she read my mind in my sleep. Could she do that? Or she just had a great hunch, or even she could predict the future? She might be always one step ahead because she knew her surroundings faster than a normal human or even supernatural creature like I was.
After almost thirty minutes I laid back on her bed, I had the urge to go back to the apartment. Suddenly I missed my dark room and I remembered I needed to develop some rolls of film and chose some for the take-home test to be submitted by the end of the week.
I sighed. I'd run a bit as a wolf and get back to doing the human activity. Would I be tired? How could I? A werewolf is meant that to be a half human and a half wolf. It was just inevitable to live two lives as a human and a werewolf. Maybe I'd consider what Iron ever mentioned to leave the shifting to wolf and staying as a human one day when there was no more rogue vampire and peace for the human was restored.
And I went back to running and daydreaming again. It seemed like everywhere I went I'd always be the absurd alpha, with a decent skill on the battlefield.
I got up from her bed after I made it first. Inspected the room one more time making sure nothing dangerous would happen such as water boiled on the stove or clothes iron still plugged into the electricity socket, or else. After I was sure everything was fine, I stepped outside to the balcony and closed the window door outside while making sure that anyone from other buildings with a lower balcony than Arianell's wouldn't see and realize what I was about to do.
Thinking of that, I lowered my head to hide and after that, I felt like it was futile. So I shifted to wolf and suddenly faced downward on the balcony floor. I let my wolf chest sweep the cold balcony floor. Well, it was never a problem because a werewolf was always hot.
We radiated heat. It didn't mean that we were hot to make women crazy about us. Though it was just futile to deny that our firm muscle, lean body, and chiseled six or eight packs were a work of art just like the perfect David by Michaelangelo came in a package if you were a werewolf.
I tip-pawed making sure no one saw me by looking to the open view behind Arianell's balcony's safety fence. When there was no one around to watch, I jumped so high and fast that the magic of lightweight could suddenly work. It took only three long and strong jumps in the air, I landed on my balcony.
I changed my mind from developing films in a dark room to falling on my bed. I felt like I was home. Last night was too intense and I just realized that I didn't get enough sleep as I woke up for few times with Arianell beside me.
So now I fell into my deepest slumber and I believed I'd wake up so energized even better than my usual state.
----------------------------------------------------
It had been a week, we hunted the rogue vampires. Now Arianell could communicate with the whole pack. I was pretty sure that she had the wolf blood from her mom. Iron also handed me Arianell's mom diary. So the night before she went to the Imperial Colony, I started to read it.
One burden would be enough for her in a week. Let her honed her ability as the mind reader and the rogue vampires tracker first. Let her be good with it, later when we came back to the Main Land, then I'd tell her that she had werewolf blood. Or just like Iron said, let her shift first then I'll tell her.
That last night before Arianell took a flight to the Imperial Colony, I called Claire,
"Claire?"
"Oh hello, big brother, I've seen that you're doing pretty well with the Triad Curse's 1st Phase... "
Talking about blood was thicker than water or she was just a great witch who could see everything from her crystal ball. Still, I asked for confirmation, though it was obvious she stated that I was doing well with the Triad Curse's first phase,
"You think so? So this three of us, Iron, Arianell, and I are the strong bond of a pack? But Arianell is a human Empath…"
I wasn't sure, but I knew that Claire must be picking up my hunch or she could read what inside my lizard brain was...
-to be continued-