The next day, when Keroli woke up, he saw Helek sleeping in his arms. "Helek, wake up, it's morning." Saying this, Keroli started patting Helek's back to wake him up, and then he saw that there were marks of scratching with long nails on his back, and blood was also flowing from them.
Keroli got up quickly, and Helek also woke up. "What happened, Keroli?" Helek asked. He looked completely calm. Like he was not feeling pain,
Keroli cupped Helek's face with both his hands. "What happened to your back? Did those skinwalkers do that?" Helek wrapped his hands around Keroli's waist and brought his face closer to him.
"Yes, you understood correctly, Keroli," he whispered in Keroli's ear in a deep voice. "What are you doing? Don't come so close." Saying this, Keroli pushed him away, but perhaps Helek got hurt by his pushing him away because his face turned pale; it seemed as if he could cry any time now, which made Keroli feel bad.
On one hand, poor Helek was injured, and on top of that, Keroli was treating him like this, so Keroli made him lie down on his stomach on the bed and started searching all around the house for some ointment, and finally he found it.
He started applying it to Helek's back, "Hiss~." As soon as Helek did this, Keroli understood that Helek was in pain, so he tried to apply it more gently, and after applying it,
Keroli helped him wear his shirt and asked him, "By the way, what happened last night? How did you disappear suddenly?" Then Helek told him,
"I was sleeping, but some strange sounds were echoing in my ear, and when I opened my eyes, I was lying on the road in a dark alley.
"Helek was trying to find Keroli, but then those skinwalkers started following him. "But I am glad to see you safe and sound," said Helek. After listening to all his words, Keroli started thinking, 'Those skinwalkers, or whatever aliens they are, are very clever, but when did they bring Helek out of the room? I was sitting outside the room with Vruk's team, so how did I not know? Or those aliens also know magic.'
When Keroli was lost in his thoughts, he felt Helek's warm hand on his hand.
"What are you thinking, Keroli?" Helek asked,
"About those aliens," Keroli replied to him.