Chapter 5: She's totally insane!
To be exact, both of them thought she couldn't.
Previously, they've tried talking to her and she would just stare at them with obvious tension in her muscles like a cornered prey trembling in fear.
If she could, shouldn't this lass be screaming at them the moment she opened her eyes? But she's strangely docile, unlike those conceited women in the tribe.
Since that was the case, they didn't bother trying to hide their conversation and decided to chat about her openly.
But who would have thought…
"Could it be that she really understood us and was only pretending all this time?" Claw couldn't dismiss the thought in his mind.
"Tch," Fang sneered rather impatiently. "You know that's just too absurd. How can that be when we confirmed it earlier on?" Fang replied yet his face undeniably mirrored his brother's confusion.
Glancing at each other before shifting to the highly strung female, the siblings shook their heads in mutual understanding. Both were rather uneasy with their gut feelings.
Meanwhile, Aella could hardly fathom what she just heard.
Apparently she was so shocked that her stupid mouth ran off the mill and gave her out, "When...When did I ever become your woman?!" she exclaimed but soon regretted doing so.
Her palms automatically went to her mouth but it was already too late to pause. The words already left her mouth and were caught by the two giants' ears.
But how can you expect her not to react?
Regardless of how crudely he worded it, wasn't that the same as claiming her as his wife?!
"W-What do you mean by that? We m-mey...mated?!"
The utterly bewildered little witch, stammered while reeling in disbelief and unwantedness to process what she just heard.
Although she didn't know how it exactly happened, she knew what mating meant.
Such a vulgar word for animals!
She felt like her world was turned upside down with just a few sentences.
It was a word she accidentally stumbled upon that had the same meaning as intercourse, right?
In her world, only male witches were allowed access to those forbidden tales. It was to ensure that maidens like her wouldn't get any clue or worse nurture the idea of being intimate with men in their youth.
Despite having a low population, witches are very strict and do not condone such lascivious acts before their adulthood.
Engaging with a man...
She could tell that they weren't witches but they also knew that?
Does this mean that her dream wasn't a dream at all but a dreadful reality?
This black fellow in front of her… Aella glanced at the black python and instinctively shivered.
He entered her!
A beast… planted its seed inside her body.
"Bleurgh!" she couldn't help but retch.
"Female, are you alright?" Fang was whittled with worry and wanted to come up to her but the minute he was moved closer she started trembling even more.
"Don't. Please… stay back, stay further away from me!"
His looming figure halted in front of her at her behest. Aella was in no state to even think of what's what.
She was totally blown away by the fact that something happened between them. How in the world is that even possible?
Disgusting! Totally irreconcilable! Her insides were churning from displeasure and fret.
There must be something wrong with this. Will she also become infected?
No, she's already at the right age. The elder witches said that the Goddess Witch herself would punish those who surrender themselves to such dubious acts without preserving their chastity for half a decade.
It's just that, Aella didn't know that the same old story was just passed down by mouth to scare young witches from succumbing to debauchery given the witches' allure to the opposite sex, especially humans.
"Hiiccc!"
Her mouth fell open just as how her heart dropped, with both eyes almost popping out, unable to process such news.
"You... to me..." trembling, she pointed at him and herself like a gaping goldfish.
Aella swallowed hard, but the revulsion in her stomach had inevitably caused her again to gag.
"You!" she was lost for words.
And unconsciously, she blurted out words, "You're full of shit!" mimicking that of a rogue mercenary's sordid mouth, brimming with denial.
Jaw drop.
Fang and Claw's mouths gaped in big spheres, gawking dumbfoundedly after being drenched in the murky waters of her unholy words.
What docile and meek?!
Her swearing mouth is far worse than their Mother singing late in bed!
'Wow. She's totally insane.' Claw's baffled eyes were torn between curiosity and shock.
'Fuck! Shouldn't a mateless girl be shy at least? She wasn't like this when we reproduced. What kind of mate did I even snag?!' Fang seemed to have it worse.
Once he split his beast core with her, to share his own essence just to save her life, there was no going back.
For some reason, though, why does he feel swindled off his lifeline?!
'Should... I make a run for it?' he felt rueful, damn!
"N-No! No way, this is real!" Exclaimed the girl with tears in her eyes while hugging her body defensively in the corner, trying to get as far as she could from them.
As if the mere gesture would shield her from the two beasts who wanted to devour her.
"How… how could you do that to someone so defenseless and unconscious? Even an animal wouldn't act like a rogue, argh!" she shook her head after a quick recollection.
"Fine. I-I know you're an animal too but... but how can you do that to me? I can't! I won't accept it. Never call me your female! I abhor it—hic!" Aella sobbed in despair, no words were enough to describe what she felt.
Fang and Claw's faces turned grim upon hearing her statement.
"Woman, watch your word, that's if you still want your tongue intact," the bear threatened, "Never pit us with those lowly vermins with no sentience. We are mighty beastkin—"
"I don't care!" she snapped without letting the man finish. "What's supposed to be mighty with what that snake did to me? And you also want me to be your mate? There's no way I will yield!"
Oh her first time...
Her precious first time that should be given to someone she will love for all eternity had been seized by a strange beast!
All she could do at this moment was to cry wrongfully and look at them filled with hate and accusation, "This is just so... boohoo! It's so unfair, you guys are so mean, cowardly, and terrible!" turning to the snake her anger flared, "You! Why did you do that? Why me? If you want a wife you should find an anaconda who matches your size!"
If words could literally kill, Fang would've died in extreme embarrassment and intentional shade after coughing out a mouthful of blood in anger.
"An-Anaconda?!" this time it was his turn to feel utterly exasperated.
What the hell! Isn't that wild beast a part of their food chain in Asteria?
Seriously, what does this woman take him for?!