Fortunately for Alex, his body wasn't developed enough to react to what his mind was thinking.
"Alex, I know your body is a little different, but you don't have to be ashamed of it, okay?"
Katherine tried to pep talk as she could feel Alex was still a little embarrassed being naked in front of them.
"Yeah, Alex, we really don't mind you being here. You don't need to hide anything."
Sophia added as she moved closer, intertwining her arms with his and holding them close.
"Me too! I love bathing with Big Brother!"
Mary suddenly swam directly over to be on top of his lap, making Alex even more nervous.
But after a while, his mind was becoming numb to it, almost as if it had gotten used to being around their naked body.
"Thank you..."
---
After the bath, Katherine stayed behind to pour the water out as the three of them headed inside the wagon.
With the fresh pair of clothes on, the three felt much better as they walked back out into the cold night.
"The horses sleep so early... They must be really tired running all day."
Mary murmured as she walked up closer and closer until Sophia pulled her back away from the horses.
"Don't wake them up. We're about to sleep, too."
As they walked inside the tent, Katherine was already waiting for the three inside as she lay inside one of the two blankets.
"Wow... this is a lot more spacious than it looks from the outside..."
Alex murmured as he bent down to touch the tent's mysterious wool-like carpet.
"Obviously, I spend a lot of money just on this tent... Come on, go lay down."
With Katherine standing back up to close the tent, the three quickly picked their spot on the soft mattress.
"Dang it, there's no pillow here," Sophia complained as her head directly fell onto the mattress.
"Here, you and Mary share a pillow, okay?"
Katherine pulled out two pillows from the thin air, handing one to Sophia before putting it on below herself.
"Come on, Alex, we can share a pillow. There's no need to be shy."
Without giving Alex any choice, Katherine forcefully dragged him next to her before letting him rest on the same pillow.
"Mom, I'm not a baby anymore," Alex complained as Katherine surrounded him with her body.
"You'll always be a baby to me. Okay, it's time to sleep."
The light in the room disappeared, falling into pitch black with only a faint moonlight piercing through the tent ceiling.
At first, Alex couldn't sleep, his heart racing as he could feel the same softness on his shoulder earlier in the horse wagon.
Katherine's warm body was making him start having a wild imagination running all over his mind.
Especially as everyone else had fallen asleep already because of their energy being exhausted from the trip.
Both fortunate and unfortunate, his body had no way of releasing that anger besides just having more imagination in his head.
"No! Katherine is my mom! I need to stop thinking about this." Alex thought to himself as he shook his head, emptying his mind.
After a while, Alex finally started to feel a hint of drowsiness and eventually fell asleep.
---
The next two days were a repeat of the same thing, except the scenery had changed from plain and forest into mountains.
All three of the kids were in awe, as the mountain was so tall that they couldn't even see the peak.
When Katherine explained to the three that dragons once used the mountain as a nesting place, they were even more awe by the view.
After a while, the mountain scenery soon became boring and even hated as the road became much more bumpier with rocks and hills.
Unfortunately for Alex, he was soon hit with a nasty surprise on the fourth day of the trip.
---
When Alex woke up, the sun was still on the horizon.
Everyone was still sleeping peacefully on the bed, but the leg cramps and wet underwear made it extremely uncomfortable.
"Mom..." Alex whispered as he gently shook her shoulder.
"Hm?"
As Katherine opened her eyes, she was shocked to see Alex's face, which looked pale and in pain.
"Oh my... Alex, what's wrong?" Katherine urgently asked as she immediately got up from the bed, pulling the blanket aside to check.
"I-I think I'm having my period." Alex shyly whispered, not wanting to wake up the other two.
Katherine quickly carried him out of the tent and into the wagon without before putting him down on the bench.
"Look like you're going to be a fully grown girl now." Katherine joked as she began pulling his pants down.
"I-I don't want to be a girl."
Alex instantly pushed back, as he had already witnessed Sophia enduring a few days of pain every month for almost a year now.
"Too bad your body doesn't give you the choice. Ahem, I had been wondering about this, Alex. Why do you want to be a boy so badly?"
Katherine curiously asked, trying to distract Alex a little as she pulled his bloody underwear to the side.
"I just want to be a man... I want to protect you guys like Dad."
Alex quickly made up an excuse, not wanting to admit that the fragmented memories of his previous life had been chosen for him.
"Aww, but you being a girl doesn't stop you from protecting us... You don't have to be a boy to protect somebody."
As Katherine began wiping the blood off of her labia and thigh, her eyes just couldn't move away from the cute little cock with two balls attached.
"Mom... Are you done yet?" Alex asked, feeling a little embarrassed after noticing her staring at his crotch.
"Sorry. Ahem, you remember how to use this, right?"
Katherine quickly pulled out the similar-looking pad that she had once given to Sophia when she had her first period.
Alex nodded in agreement as Katherine turned back around to grab a new pair of underwear before attaching it.
But unfortunately, his underwear was too big, leaving a clear gap that could cause issues.
"Alex, you don't mind wearing Sophia's panties for a few days, right?"
Alex wanted to say no, but he nodded in agreement as there was no other choice besides risking it leaking.
After putting on Sophia's panties with the pad on, Alex immediately felt it was a little too tight around the crotch.
But he didn't say anything as Katherine put on a new pair of pants for him before throwing his dirty clothes into the dirty basket on the back.
As the two headed back inside the tent, Katherine muttered something as the blood on the blanket and mattress disappeared.
"Okay, let's sleep until the other two wake up..."
Katherine laid Alex back down onto the mattress before covering themselves with the blanket.
A few hours later...
As everyone woke up from the mattress, everyone immediately headed outside in silence to do their business.
But this time, Katherine went along with Alex, as she was still a little worried about his health despite his protest.
After everyone met back up in the middle, Katherine started creating a bucket of water to freshen up.
With everything taken care of, Katherine packed everything back with a snap of her finger before getting back into the wagon.
"Alex is going to sit in front of me today. You two sit back inside for now, okay?"
Sophia didn't question it, but Mary was clearly upset by the decision as she proceeded to question why.
"Because your brother had his first period. He's in a little bit of pain right now."
Katherine explains it out loud, not noticing Alex's face pleading with her to hide it.
"Huh?"
Both of the girls fell into silence for a second as the horse wagon began to move forward.
But loud laughter could be heard right afterward, as they couldn't believe it had finally happened to Alex.
"Wait, you serious? My brother, out of all people, got his first period?" Sophia asked, not hiding her smile a single bit.
"Shut up! I don't want to hear you guys laugh," Alex angrily yelled, but the demand was fruitless until Katherine stepped in.
"Okay, enough laughing. Your brother is really hurt by it."
"Yeah, I bet his hurt real good." Mary joked, hiding her laugh a little.
"Mary, I hope you know that one day you'll experience the same thing. And I'm going to be the first one to laugh at you——"
"Ahem, Alex, don't take your sister's word seriously. They are just joking with you."
"Hmph!"
---
When the next day arrived, the pain was mostly gone. However, sitting on the hard wooden bench was still a little uncomfortable.
So Alex used the excuse to sit on Katherine's lap for another day, making the two girls jealous as they sat through the entire bumpy ride.
Soon, as the fifth day of their trip came to an end, they finally rode past the mountain and arrived at the first town outside of their home.