Chapter Eight

I couldn't get to sleep that night. I was worried for Vuela. For someone who's name meant 'fly' she was caged.

I managed a few hours and I had a lot of trouble getting up. Vuela wanted me to stay behind so I didn't get sick or in case I was getting sick, she blamed my time in wet clothes yesterday, but I had to pull my wieght here. Her settled for giving me her share of water to wash my face with.

We didn't get lucky like last time, we didn't find a wild boar so close to 'home' and we were too far to go back; so we stayed the night in the forest and went back on the hunt in the morning.


Vuela/Bella's POV

I waded in the pool while Yeka and Lorin, Lorent's daughter, brushed my hair with their fingers.

"You are so lucky to have Erik and Aideheart as your brothers." Lorin said.

"Now that you have two brothers to take care of you, you don't need Mika so much."

"I don't ask him to take care of me-"

"If you ate with us around the bondfire he wouldn't have to go all the way to your hut!" Suddenly my hair was pulled.

"Sorry!"

"Sorry, my hand slipped." Yeka apologized.

"But you aren't related to any of your brothers so…" Lorin started.

"They're going to leave Vuela alone again in three weeks; she'll always be an orphan." Yeka said.

She was right.

"Just get married already but not to Mika!" She urged.

After the mass bath, I went back to the hut to start the fire so I could warm up and not get sick. I shook out Aidheart's clothing and folded them the best I could so he would have clothes after the men's mass bath. It was really big, it would cover me completely if I wore it I thought when I held it up. To know how it felt to dress like them I put on Aidheart's clothes.

Aidheat's 'shorts' fell down but his shirt covered my backside and front.

"Uh…Vuela?"


Edward's POV

Lorent took Eric, James and I under his wing and taught us how to use their bows and arrows to kill an animal while Mika and Tilar were in charge of actually getting an animal.

"It's different isnt it? It's one thing to buy meat at the supermarket, it's another to kill the animal yourself!" Eric exclaimed.

"I'm so not looking forward to this but I'll be honest I'm sick of those two making fun of me." I grumbled.

"Well…there's two and a half weeks left. Has it at least been okay since?"

"Um…" I honestly forgot I was supposed to figure out what to do when I got back home but all that appeared in my head as the 'okay' parts of this trip was Vuela.

"Yeah." I finally said.

While Mika and Tilar hunted, Lorent took us to a different pat of he forest to test our new skills. We hid behind a bush and aimed at a boar at the same time.

"Alright this is everyone's dinner so try not to…mess up."

"Dude, worst motivational speech ever,"

"Whatever, aim, ready…fire!"

We actually killed the animal, the fact we 'murdered' something rang in our hearts; it certainly ran in mine. Lorent slit his throat, saying it would kill him fast, putting it out of his misery.

"…It's just meat now, I think it's okay." Erci said but honestly I think he was thinking of becoming vegetrian like I was.

It gave me great pleasure to see our kill was slightly yet noticibly bigger than Mika and Tilar's.

"The men are saying we are officially one of the men and the women think we should be married soon." James translated.

"Oh!" We laughed.

I waited in line for our share while the other ran to get vegetables, and as soon as I got my meat I ran it to our hut so Mika just simply had to stay away. I met a scene that made me think of home. A woman in my shirt, in my 'home'.

"Uh…Vuela?"

"Oh Aidheart! I-I was curious and…" I chuckled. It was like child had just learned how to dress themself.

"No it's okay. It looks good." I said for her sake. It was baggy around her.

"Do I look like the women in your world?"

"Em-you are more beautiful than girls in my world. With or without clothes." I complimented with a blush.

"Today is the day of the week the men bathe. The women have bathed while you were hunting." She said taking my meat wrapped in leaves.

"I will lead you and our brothers to the lake."

"So you're there when the men bathe?"

"Yes."

"To do what?"

"In case I see a swan flying over head but I am mostly going for you and our brother's sake. I should make sure you don't drown or anything like that so you can return home as you've come."

"yeah, I'm leaving soon…"