At noon, the healer had returned from his several rounds of visits of pregnant females. He felt unusually exhausted today.
Mating season had just ended and many females were pregnant with cubs. He had to check up on several females throughout the day and night that he barely even got time to hunt, much less to rest. That too, only on the days he was lucky.
He heaved a sigh and laid on his hay bed. Just as Healer Mathew had fallen asleep, he was awoken by a series of loud knocks on the door to his cave.
Having no choice as the only healer of the village, he tiredly got up to check who was so impatiently continuously banging his cave's door.
As soon as he opens the door, before he can even clearly understand what the matter is, Mathew hears, "She's bleeding."
Mathew glances at the male before him; his face as exquisite as always. Even with his forehead wrinkled in worry, Luca still look as attractive as always.
Mathew looks at the small but beautiful beside Luca and is stunned by her delicate beauty. Her small face shows nothing but fear. He notices her tiny hands holding Luca's as she tries to 'not so obviously' back into him.
"Come in..." Mathew moves to the side to still keeping the wooden door open to let them enter his cave.
The wooden door was easily breakable by any beastman but it served as a shield from others prying eyes and to give these beasts some privacy.
He notices the delicate female had dark brown hair cascading her back beautifully even when it was tied up. He could not help but wonder if it does not hurt to have it all tied up so tightly and his brows knitted without him knowing.
Once Luca sets Ves on the haystack, which is supposed to be Mathew's bed, Mathew walks over and brings his hands forward to inspect the little female's hands.
Ves leans away and scoots towards Luca, "L- Luca…" her broken voice calls out.
Luca instantly hugs her waist, being gentle even now in case he ends up hurts her more by pressing on one of her wounds.
He looks into her brown eyes with his gentle gaze, trying to reassure her. "He is my village's healer, Mathew. He will treat your wounds…" He adds after a short pause, "Please?"
Ves stares at him and her hands clutch him tighter for a short second before she hesitantly nods her head and look over at Mathew.
Mathew noticed her bleeding leg when she scooted towards Luca and focused his attention on it first since it was bleeding more, and the wound seemed rather deep. He feared she would die before he could tend to her with how badly it was bleeding.
After seeing Ves nod, he slowly reaches out for her leg, being careful not to startle or scare her and inspects the cut with narrow eyes before getting up and bringing a bowl of water and some antiseptics of their world, of the beast world.
He cleaned Ves's wound and she could not help but hiss every time he touched her leg. His movements became gentler and lighter with each hiss from Ves and he kept peeking at her face to ensure she wasn't in too much pain.
It seemed to have taken forever to get her wound cleaned and Ves could not help but complain in her heart as some tears rolled down her cheeks.
Luca felt sorry for the little female when he saw her hiss and squeeze her eyes shut from the pain. His heart hurt more when he saw her brown eyes moisten till, they could not no longer hold her tears.
His tongue peaked out and he licked her tears away. Ves got startled and stared at him in a daze.
This temporarily distracted her for a bit and Mathew managed to successfully clean the wound on her leg.
He then moved to make a ginger and garlic paste and added many different kinds of soothing green leaves which are supposed to help in her recovery. After he finished making the paste, he applied it on the Ves's wound.
"Ahhh" Ves could not control the scream that escaped her throat from the extremely painful sting caused by that paste. She instinctively pulled her leg away but Mathew held it in a firm but gentle grip.
He paused his movements and let her calm down as Luca hugged the little female and rubbed her head in an attempt to calm her down.
Luca whispered in her ears in a soothing voice, "Shh... It's okay. It will be fine"
Mathew applied the paste on her wound slowly and she began struggling again but not as harshly as before.
With Luca hugging her, she could not even see her leg or Mathew and Luca's voice managed to keep her a little calm.
"There, it's done!" Mathew said in a kind voice.
Luca let go of Ves even though he did not want to and lowly growled at the emptiness in he felt in his arms.
Ves grabbed Luca's arm with her hands and looked at her leg covered in the paste before looking at Mathew again.
"Thank you" she uttered hesitantly. Her eyes held an unsaid grudge, but Mathew felt warm.
Most females would cuss at him because of the unbearable sting caused by the medicine. Once finished they would not even look at him, much less thank him.
He gave her one his most real smile before putting his hand out so he could check hers. Ves got the hint and slowly put her shaky hands on his huge palms. Mathew cleaned her palms but did not apply the paste since it was not needed.
He asked if there were any other injuries and then cleaned them too and applied the paste if required after learning about her injuries on her knees, elbows, and hip.
That was when he noticed her odd clothing. It was well tailored but too thin, "Female, you shouldn't wear such thin furs or you will easily fall sick and also get injured fast."