Yolfrin's eyes opened at once, after a relaxing nap over Haily's bed.
The lights coming from outside were still bright, and he got confused for a second, before remembering everything in steps. First he remembered he had felt into an unexpected nap, a quick one apparently since it was still bright outside. Then he remembered he wasn't at home, but at the sisters' cave.
That was when he looked to his side and saw the two sisters struggling to share Ivy's bed. The sheepskin wasn't large enough for both lie down comfortably.
"I'm on the edge of it, Ivy, I told you already!" Haily argued.
The male just sleepily raised slightly his head to understand what was happening, but that was enough to Haily to notice and glance at him, and Ivy followed her sight.
"See? You woke up the poor boy." Haily said to her sister, behind her.
"Me?" She questioned. "You was nearly shouting!"
"Because you kept asking me for more room!" Haily defended herself.
The male only watched quietly.
"We're sorry boy, we were trying to share this bed, but it's clearly too small for both of us." At least in this both females agreed.
"No problem, I couldn't sleep too much anyway." He replied with a sleepy half-smile, already starting to get up to his four paws.
As the girls stayed quiet, he released a small laughter, before continuing. "And sorry for taking your bed, Haily." He said, keeping his smile.
Haily raised an eyebrow momentarily and started to question "How do you know…", but simply stopped in the middle of the sentence.
The male had started to stretch himself, yawning. While he stretched, he unknowingly showed his body as its best, stretching his muscles to the limit under his crimson red scales and showing the characteristic bulky body form that almost every male had.
Since he was yawning too, he shut his eyes closed while stretched, allowing the girls to stare mouth agape at him without him noticing. It happened for only a few seconds, but for the girls, it seemed to happen in slow motion.
Not that he had an exceptional body shape, but the girls had nothing to compare with, so what he had was more that enough for them to stare.
Before opening his eyes, he remembered the wound on his paw. It was hurting much less than when he fell asleep. He also felt something wrapped around it.
Immediately after re-opening his eyes, he looked down to it. It was the same rawhide wrap he used before. This time, however, there was something between the wrap and his scaly skin. A red leaf, it seemed to be.
While he thought, the sisters had enough time to stop staring and marvel at him without him noticing anything.
"So, is this the herb you said?" He curiously questioned, glancing at Haily.
But the dragoness was too deep in thoughts even to notice he was talking to her. Ivy had to nudge her side with her own.
"Hm? What?" She confusedly asked, completely lost.
Ivy pointed to Yolfrin, who just watched her confusion in silence, but smirking, finding that funny but not knowing what she was thinking about.
"Sorry, just thinking too much…" She replied, with a somewhat ashamed smile in her lips.
He left out a small laugh to lighten the mood before asking again.
"I asked if this is the herb you said." He gave a short glance at his own paw.
"Oh sure, it is! How do you feel?" She curiously asked, and shrugged the shame away.
"I feel good! I can barely feel the pain." He replied, surprised.
She left a small laugh before commenting it. "This herb a relatively common one, and we use to treat every kind of wounds. It eases the pain by a bit while helps to close the wound."
"That's awesome, thanks, Haily."
"You're welcome, boy." She replied with a short, amused laugh.
"Now, did you have a good nap?" Ivy playfully asked.
"I did, thanks." He gave both a sincere smile. "Your beds are definitely better than the stone ground. I could use one back home."
"Do you sleep on the floor?" Haily asked, surprised.
He answered her with a nod.
"Take mine then when you go back home, then." She kindly said.
"You mean it?" He tilted his head.
"Sure! So maybe that way you don't forget about us." She finished with a teasing tone and a small laugh. Ivy joined her laughter.
"I wouldn't forget anyway, but I'll be happy to have your smell back home."
Ivy reacted with a big smile to Haily while she laughed somewhat shyly by such an unexpected compliment from him.
"I'm glad you liked!" She amusedly said.
"How couldn't I?" He smirked.
Haily's gaze changed to a more mischievous one for once while both dragonesses stayed quiet.
"I need to go out, but I'll be back soon." He spoke and turned his way to outside.
"Take care!" Haily said.
"I will." He said back.
"And don't be bitten!" Ivy joked, and both dragonesses laughed.
He laughed to himself and left.
"We're going somewhere." Ivy teased her sister.
"Maybe…" She admitted, smiling.
"Good! I need to talk this to you!"
The nap Yolfrin took was enough to take away his tiredness, and make him more awake than he has for the entire day. He also didn't limp any longer, even if he still could feel the wound.
For now, he was walking away from the cave, trying to find a good place to answer the nature's call.
He was cautious, though. After being let in a delicate situation by a single wyvern attack, the dragon walked through the tundra with wary eyes. If a wyvern had to cross his way with him, he hoped to be the one who left him like that, so he could retribute the favor.
Luckily or not, he didn't find that wyvern, nor any other on his way. Still, every time a bush or a tree rustled, he would quickly look at it, just to see a wild animal.
So then, after a small while, he was back at the sisters' home.
They were outside, preparing the deer he brought to be dinned while talked.
"Good, you made it back." Ivy cheerfully said, nothing him coming from the middle of the trees towards them. "We still need fire to finish our dinner." She finished with a teasing tone.
He just cracked a small smile.
"Need help?" He asked.
"Don't worry, you can just sit and watch." She said with a small grin. Haily gave a small laugh.
He followed that suit.
After the girls finishing harvesting the meat from the carcass, Yolfrin would start his job cooking it. He pulled a nearby flat rock, cleaned and split fire briefly over it to sterilize, before laying the pieces to be cooked.
Ivy took the carcass away, letting it to be eaten by anything else. Meanwhile, Haily froze what lasted of venison.
When Yolfrin started cooking Ivy was still disposing the carcass, and Haily kept her eyes open and readied herself for anything coming from the wild tundra attracted by the scent of cooking meat.
Happily for them, nothing came trying to steal their meal.
Ivy and Haily feasted on the cooked venison, literally eating like dragons. That was just the second time they were eating with Yolfrin, and they were still to get used to it. And it was just cooked meat, without any spices or even salt.
Every piece of cooked venison was eaten by them.
"I've to say again: That was really good." Ivy admitted.
"Indeed!" Haily agreed with her.
"Thanks." He discretely smiled.
After the "gourmet" dinner, the three young dragons went to drink from the river's cold water for the last time before going to sleep.
Everything went quiet and peaceful, until when already at the river, Ivy splashed a bit of cold water purposely at the male's face while he was drinking.
She laughed at him, as Haily did, before he grinned and splashed back at her.
"Oh you're dead now." She laughed, teasing.
Ivy splashed another pawful of water at him, but the dragon quickly ducked and evaded most of the splash.
As he laughed triumphantly at her, she ran to tackle him, but the dragon also ran away from her. Haily followed both, laughing as she started to friendly chase him.
The male didn't go much further though. He tried to do a sharp turn to fool her, but she had enough time to see this and leap to where he was going, successfully tackling and pinning him down.
"I told ya." She grinned cheekily.
"I made a bad move." He came up with an excuse.
"I would get you anyway." She replied, just as cheekily, and pinning him harder against the grass with her paws.
He smiled and laughed. Enough to her to notice he was actually liking the situation.
"Enjoying?" She mischievously asked.
"Maybe." He replied, keeping the same grin on his lips.
"Good!" She stepped out of him.
Haily had made it to them at this time, and was watching the scene.
Ivy gave her a wink, causing her to laugh.
"You better drink now, we won't come back here today. Don't drink too much though, so you don't pee on our cave." Ivy told him, keeping her cheeky and amused tone.
"Don't worry about that." He assured, getting up already.
Before night time, the dragons were back home already. With full bellies and with the thirst quenched, they were ready for a good night of sleep.
Ivy insisted to him to sleep on her bed, even after he said he was used to sleep over the dirt.
But the night was cold, and Yolfrin curled tightly around himself to keep his warmth.
The sisters looked at him like that, and silently got up to drag Haily's bed aside him.
When he confusedly looked to them, Ivy only replied "Go to the middle, we will keep you warm".
Yolfrin didn't argue and did what he was told. With one bed put aside the other, there was room for three if very close to each other, and that was the plan. Haily was face to face with him, while Ivy had her chest against his back.
The females hugged him, and laid their wings over them. Haily used his neck as a pillow, while Ivy used his ribs.
"Thanks a lot, girls." He gladly said.
"You're welcome." Both said, smiling to themselves.
After that he quickly stopped shivering, and eventually the warmth was enough to make him comfortable. He felt very lucky in such a situation. Being hugged and warmed in a cold night by two beautiful girls like them, while enjoyed the scent of both in each breath.
But he would be wrong saying that only him was enjoying the situation. They were enjoying as much as he was, also enjoying his scent and the unusual warm touch of his body. Plus the fact of using him as a warm, scented pillow.
It was a warm night of sleep for everyone, and one of the best they had recently, at least.
On the following day Ivy was the first wake up, as usual. They were almost in the same position they fell asleep.
Ivy had to use a wing to shield her eyes from the light coming strong from outside the cave.
Then, once her eyes adapted to it, she got up and nudged her sister awake.
"Come on, get up." Ivy nudged her.
"Hmm..?" She mumbled, half asleep.
"It's morning already." Ivy continued.
Haily didn't reply, but hugged the male tighter and got her head more comfy over his neck. She was so comfortable sleeping there that getting up was what she least wanted.
Ivy grinned to herself seeing that, but had to insist in getting her awake.
"Is it good, isn't it?" Ivy laughed, teasing.
Haily just nodded, rubbing her head against his neck.
Even with all the movement of Ivy getting up and then then Haily, the male didn't wake up. And instead of waking him up, the sisters decided to go talk outside, watch and let him sleep.
He did so about half an hour later.
"Oh, he woke up." Ivy said, noting his movement on bed. Both sisters then approached the male again.
He opened his mouth wide for a yawn, and stretched his limbs on the bed. From their point of view, they could see completely his beige underside while he stretched.
"Had a good night?" Haily cheerfully asked.
The dragon only smiled, his eyes barely open.
"Come on now." Ivy called him. "We need to have breakfast, and what left of yesterday is not enough."
"Were you two waiting for me?" He sleepily questioned.
"For half an hour or more, lazy dragon." Ivy teased.
He opened his eyes a little more to gaze her.
"I'm not lazy, but you two who wake up too early." He replied.
Ivy laughed, before saying. "I was joking, no need to explain yourself."
He gave her a short laugh back, and started to get up.
Soon when he got up, Ivy took his left paw and took the bandage away to verify the wound.
"Looks like you are going to be fine." She said. The wound had just started to heal, and seemed clean of infections.
"Thanks to you two." He added.
Both girls smiled briefly to themselves.
"You're a nice dragon, Yolfrin." Ivy said, gazing at his deep red eyes. Just after that, she turned her gaze to the wound, and continued, while putting the bandage back. "We're happy to help."
He couldn't help but smile.
"And I hope you are as hungry as us, and that you'll breakfast with us." Haily cheerfully said.
"I'm and I'll." He beamed.
"Actually, you may stay. We would hate to get back here and find out that something stole the rest of raw venison. And we don't need three to hunt a sheep, after all."
"Okay then." He sat over the sheepskin again. "Good luck."
