Luca returns to the forest searching Ves's bag that she called 'backpack.' It looked weird and he had never seen anything like it but it belonged to the little female and he was determined to get it back.
He finds it where she fell and injured herself. Traces of her blood still marred the thorny plant and made him growl.
He returned to where the dead wolves laid and only two remained. I was satisfied knowing that the panther beast had indeed listened to him and brought the remaining wolves to the village.
He changed into his beast form and ate up the remaining two wolves hurriedly, so he does not have to leave the little female alone for long.
He then charged towards the river, Ves's backpack in his mouth, and stopped at the edge.
He placed the backpack to the side and jumped in, cleaning his fur of the blood so Ves is not disgusted by him.
He returns ashore and shakes his panther body, his fur drying up instantly. He again grabs her backpack and returns to his cave. He could smell the little female inside and was happy knowing she stayed and waited for him.
He slowly pushed the door open, careful not to scare her by any sudden movement and noise. His panther head peeks inside and he sees the little female all curled up, asleep on his bed.
He cautiously walks in, his paws padding the floor silently and lays the bag down before walking around her sleeping form. He sniffs her and purrs. He lays on the ground in front of her, resting his head on his paws as he stares at her sleeping form.
When the sun was at the horizon, Ves finally stirred in her sleep. Luca's ears perked up when he heard her groan in pain from the little movements she made.
She opened her eyes groggily and groaned feeling pain not only in her injuries but also in her muscles.
She slowly but carefully sat up and saw the panther laying a few feet away from her, watching her every move. She gasped and slowly everything that happened before surfaced her mind before she relaxed a bit.
Gulping, she called out, "Luca? Is that… you?"
Luca purrs hearing her sweet voice and stretches before walking to her and licking her cheek.
Ves giggles and slowly reaches forward to stroke his fur hesitantly. Seeing him not attacking or resisting, she strokes his soft fur slowly making him purr.
He then shifts into his beastman form and smiles, "Do you feel better now, little female?"
She returns his smile with one of her own, "A little sore, but nothing a warm bath cannot fix."
He stands up and tells her he will get her warm water bathe. Ves nods and watches him leave.
She recalls their conversation from earlier and wonders if she really is in another world. She sighs not knowing how to feel about this.
She decides to ask him everything more clearly once he returns.
She glances around and finds her backpack beside the bed. She reaches out and opens up checking her things. She takes out everything on the haystack bed, emptying her bed.
She looks through her things and finds her tablets missing. She reaches inside to find her tablets and just then she sees her tablets hidden underneath her scarf. As she is about to pull her hand out, she finds her hand grabbing onto something so she pulls it too.
She stares at the item in her hand in wonder. She knew she only took one pack of tablets with her for her trip so how can there be… two?
I look into my bag incuriously and find it empty. I frown. I put my hand into the small pockets seeing if I have a lip gloss in there and fetch one out.
I twist open the cap and the exact same lip gloss catches my eye lying with all the stuff I poured out of my bag.
"What the hell?" I mumble.
I get an idea after a few minutes of staring at my things. I put my hand inside my bag, searching for the small first aid kit I always kept in my car. I feel my hand hold onto something, and I pull out to see the exact same first aid kit as the one in my car.
"What in the world?! What magic or science is this!" I gulp.
Just then Luca comes in, pushing a huge stone structure inside. I put my bag aside and look at him, amazed by his strength.
I watch him easily push the stone structure into some room in the cave that I had not noticed until now. I hear some noise showing he is doing something there.
I try to slowly get up and walk towards the room. I ma halfway there when Luca suddenly comes out of the room and looks at me stunned before rushing and picking me up.
He looks down at me with a frown, "You should not be moving around, much less walking on your own."
"I am sorry… I was curious about what you were doing and how you easily pushed such a huge stone…" I mumble.
He smiles and shakes his head upon hearing her excuse, "I got your bath ready."
He carries her into the other room, which is considerably darker, the only source of light being a small orb placed beside the huge stone structure.
Luca carrier her to the stone structure and when she looks into it, she finds the stone hollow, filled with water which she assumed was hot due to the little steam still coming.
Luca had found a huge stone boulder which he carved with his sharp nails to make the inside hollow enough to fit his little female in and also hold a good amount of water. He filled it with water he had heated above a fire and pushed it into the second room in his cave to give her more privacy.