When my conscious returned I felt 2 things; cold everywhere except to my right which was exceedingly warm, soft, and comfy. Still in a sleepy stupor, I decide to cuddle into it hoping for more warmth before shortly falling back to sleep.
As I feel the soft warmth of morning I begin to stir. Still holding onto the warmth I had found earlier that night I try to pull myself into it as my body begins to register the cold at my back. Sleepily I open my eyes and am greeted with what seems to be a piece of cloth I had buried my head into. As the rest of my body begins to wake and feeling returns I notice that whatever I'm holding onto is roughly my length. Turning my head to the left I notice that under my head is a soft pure white arm of the wolf girl. Now more aware I notice that her arm goes under my head and around to the center of my back as her other arm is positioned the opposite, under my arm and towards the center of my back. In my sleep I seemed to have grabbed onto her for warmth, despite being shorter than me I am somehow position with my head in her breast. Our legs currently entwined with one another. No matter how I try to think of it, this position is far too intimate for me, as my anxiety begins to act up.
As I try to pry myself carefully from her, the wolf girl seems to sense her source of warmth leaving and pulls me back in. I cant say I don't like how it feels but it still feels weird and foreign to me, being hugged.
Eventually I manage to pry myself free, or rather by coincidence, she decides to roll over onto her back leaving me to her left.
Getting up, I examine the surroundings. A near pristine river is but only a few meters away clear enough one should be safe to drink from it straight. The air is fairly cold despite the warm sunlight, the dew on the grass glistening from refracted light.
'I still need to thank this girl for helping me. I wouldn't have won that last fight without her help.' thinking back to the previous night's event I begin to go over in my head what had transpired. 'No... was that even a victory? What would have happened if she didn't show up? I got lucky with the bite and the knife as well as that snake falling for my taunts but in the end it was this girl's interference that made the most difference... I owe her more than just a simple thanks. Not to mention an apology for assuming she was unhurt and leaving her with the injury I put on her.'
I take another look at the wolf girl sleeping on the grass. Surrounded by a surreal amount of glistening light from the morning dew, and what appears to be dew on her herself looking like a solitary patch of pure snow in the middle of green field. Having rolled back over she seems to be trying to find me in her sleep. Smiling to myself I go over and sit next to her and softly poke her cheek to wake her.
Her ears twitch and she raises slightly with a couple blades of grass sticking to her cheek, seeing me sitting there she crawls lazily and lays her head in my lap before falling back to sleep her tail now wagging softly.
'Well I can tolerate this over being hugged...' I think with a soft smile as I decide to pet her head, her tail responds as one might expect of a happy dog.