The next two weeks things were getting easier to manage. The other females each were learning quickly. Their time at Blackmist left a deep impression on them and they were highly determined to overcome it by all means.
This left Lyria with more time to do what she needed and she would often run off by herself to find any village that she could that would take the females in.
On their second night of freedom, Lyria got Silver to change back into his man form so he could claim her the right way. Being forced hurt like hell so she was a little scared.
Silver is very handsome. He had a large build and stood over six feet tall. Black hair with natural silver tips that almost touched his shoulders and bright green eyes. His face was square with a sharp jawline and a slightly wide nose, and yet it looks good. Thick lashes and eyebrows and stubble around his chin. His body was full of muscle. Silver was a very good-looking male.
Silver started by kissing around the king's mark. My mind was fogged by a blissful haze. Then a slight pinch almost completely brought me to reality. It didn't hurt much. Silver let me go after that and kept his distance after that.
On the day she was hunting, she ran into a fox beastman that was out hunting as well.
She watched him from the trees as he skillfully hunted a Pillafox. A beautiful blue, silver, and white wild fox.
Odd how a fox beastman was hunting a wild fox.
But foxes were sneaky and fast so it was interesting to watch the wild fox outsmart the fox beastman.
The Pillafox ran into a burro in the ground. The fox beastman was running too fast and ran its head went right into the hole.
Lyria laughed out loud at the fox beastman. His tail went stiff as he was aware there was someone around and he didn't realize it before now.
"Do you want some help?"
The fox beastman changed back into his man form. He was now able to get his head out of the hole and sat down looking around for the person to the voice.
"No, it's fine. Where are you?"
"Not yet. I'd like to ask you a couple of questions."
"Okay. I'm a pretty laid-back guy so ask me anything." He lay down on the ground in a relaxed position.
"What's your name?"
"Noah."
"Is there a village close by?"
"Yes. But I doubt you'll like it there. It's got a couple of different species but it's run mostly by the Fox Tail clan. The female chief is rude and greedy and doesn't like to be challenged with a new female's presence."
"I'm sure she's your family. I don't think it's nice to talk about family like that."
"She's my oldest brother's spouse. I hate her. She keeps the females away from me because I won't be her mate so now, I'm sure I'll die without ever being able to have a mate. I'm the youngest and the best looking out of my brothers. She got with Nate because he's the chief but she wants me because I'm the best looking out of the males in our tribe."
"Can you set up a meeting so I can speak with them about joining the village?"
"What? Why?"
"We lost our home and our people. I saved some of the young ones from our village but we still need somewhere to stay and this is the first village we have come across in weeks. I've been taking care of them this whole time and I'm exhausted. I need some help. Please help us." My voice starts to break at the end but I quickly straighten myself up.
"I'll see what I can do."
"Thank you also, where's your water source."
"First what's your name and how many are there?"
"Sorry, my name is Lyria it's a pleasure to meet you and there are fourteen of us in total." I jump down from the tree I'm in and walk over to him.
He sat up when he heard me land.
"Lyria that's a really nice name. I like it." He smiled at me. I squatted down in front of him. He really was good-looking with his silver hair and golden eyes. His cheeks were getting redder and redder the longer she stared at him.
"Can I touch your hair?"
"Um, sure."
Lyria slowly ran her hand through Noah's hair.
"It's really soft. My brother's hair was soft like this too." The thought of her brother made her sad. After waking up in Blackmist she hasn't thought of her family the whole time till now.
"You alright?"
"No, but I will be." She smiled a little at him. He couldn't see her smile due to the veil but he could see her eyes and knew she had smiled.
"Do you want to meet them now?"
"Yes, if it's possible."
"Can you stay here for a little bit?"
"Yeah but please try to be quick."
Noah got up, morphed into his silver fox form, and raced off.
I climbed back into a tree and waited for the fox and their female chief.