Chapter 13:
I Found my Pathetic Self Transported to Another World after Having my First Love Confession Rejected. Will I be Able to Find the Life I Want to Have here??
Thirty minutes later they met at the village gate. Caleb pulled Alex to the side.
“Okay… the plan is simple… There should be plenty of opportunities to get to know Elyra better today, tonight and tomorrow… Maybe we even get lucky and a bear or something attacks us, and you can play the hero and safe her… Violet and I will hold back then when that happens, so you get all the glory. Well then, let’s see how far you can go!... You don’t have to do something you don’t want to, or are not ready yet, though… The more you get used to women, the easier it gets to make acquaintances, which then increases your chances to find the one you’re looking for…”, he explained.
Alex nodded.
“Good… Then have fun and relax a bit, could have mistaken you for your axe, as stiff as you are.”
They went back to the others.
“Okay, my friends! Let’s get going!”, exclaimed Caleb.
He jumped up on the coachbox, held his hand out for Violet and gestured to Alex to do the same for Elyra. Alex jumped up on the back of the cart and extended his arm for her. Elyra took it with a smile and climbed on.
“Thank you”, whispered she, as she brushed by him.
Caleb nodded satisfied and turned his face back to Violet, still extending his arm.
Bonk
“Ouch!”, groaned Caleb and held his head, where Violet’s staff had hit him.
“Move!”, ordered Violet
“Not even your hand, huh?”, said Caleb pouting a little, while scootching over.
“You can have my foot in your arse…”, said Violet, while climbing up.
“I’m sure there are a lot of gentlemen and the occasional Women, who would be nothing more than delighted by this prospect… But alas… My preferences lie in different parts of the womanly physique!”, said Caleb.
Violet took the reigns and gave Rudy the signal to move. Alex quickly sat himself down opposite of Elyra. Her blonde hair was tucked under a hat. Only two small strands had escaped and fluttered in the gently breeze.
“Thank you again for agreeing to come with me. Normally my father and I go together, but he unfortunately broke his leg and can’t travel for a while. I would have been way too afraid to go alone, so good thing you came around. I feel so much safer now.” She said and smiled at Alex.
“Pleasure to be of service.”, he said and smiled back.
The first few hours of the journey went by without any incident. Around noon they stopped at a small creak for some rest.
“The plan seems to be going fine… they talked the whole way here… she seemed interested. What do you think?”, said Caleb to Violet and pointed at Alex and Elyra sitting together a bit further down along the water.
“Yeah… but it’s mostly her talking…”
“Isn’t that good? He got her opening up and talking about herself.”
“Yeah, but what happens, when she’s done talking about herself?”
“That can happen?”
“What do you mean? Of course! Nobody can talk about themselves indefinitely…”
"Is that so? Well, I would not know… I usually reach a different stage of… talking… by that point.”
“Idiot…”
“Don’t worry… I doubt she will run out of things to talk about until tomorrow.”
“Well, you are the expert… It’s just strange…”
“What?”
“I mean yeah, he is kinda shy and is not much of a talker… but he usually get’s more talkative the longer the conversation goes on… he can even talk a lot when you ask the right questions…”
“Is he like that with you?”
“Yeah.”
“Hm… interesting.”
“What?”
“Nothing… must be your lack of womanly charm that lets him talk easier with you.”
“Say that again!?”
“Mind if I ask you a question?”
“I do… but that won’t stop you, right?”
“I’ve never seen you in a dress or any sort of feminine clothes… I always wondered about that… It’s not like you have something to hide. Look at that dress Elyra is wearing. I bet you would look stunning in that.”
“It reminds me of something I would like to forget… Also, I don’t need to flash my womanly charm around to get what I want… My charming personality is enough… It was enough for you at least.”
“Oh? So, I was something you wanted?”
“Back then yeah…”
“Then, why did you leave without saying anything?”
“But I came back… and then you left without saying anything… was that out of revenge?”
“No… I just realized something back then.”
“What did you realize?”
“That I can’t give you what you seek.”
“Huh? But you did that…”
“Oh?”
“Shut up… I didn’t say that!”
“Well thank you for the compliment you didn’t say… But let me tell you something… sometimes you seek something without realizing it, or even denying it… Trust me… I speak from experience…”
“Wha do yo-“
Violet was cut off by the screeching of Elyra. The Baker’s daughter stumbled out of a bush, where the call of nature seemed to have led her. Four legged shapes emerged after her out of the shrubbery. It was two wolves, rather skinny and seemingly very hungry. Growling and their teeth bared, they followed the crawling Elyra. One of them pounced his mouth wide open. Alex jumped in front of Elyra in that moment, his axe already half swung. The blunt side of the weapon hit the jumping wolf in the shoulder mid air and flung him through the air. The second one attacked. Alex didn’t have time to follow through with a full body rotation to block or attack with his axe, so he tried to grab the biting end of the animal with his right hand. Alex succeeded in stopping the wolf, but one of his fangs got him in the forearm. He felt a sudden heavy wind burst from the side and the Animal got flung out of his arm. He glanced over to Violet and saw her pointing her Staff at him. Alex readied his axe again and stood in front of Elyra, waiting for the next attack. But the wolves seemed to have lost interest in their meal, after it proofed to be rather protected. Growling they fled back into the woods.
“Thank you! You saved me! You are a Hero! I thought I was going to get eaten! Thank you!”, shouted Elyra and flung herself over Alex.
“You are wounded?!”, she exclaimed panicked after seeing the blood running from his forearm.
“Ah… just a scratch, nothing serious.”, said Alex shrugging.
“That won’t do! Come here, we have to clean the wound!”
Elyra grabbed him by his other arm and pulled him to the water stream. She then began to wash the wound, ripped a piece of her dress off and bandaged his arm. Caleb and Violet watched the whole thing from a few paces away.
“Well would you look at that… Now he can stay silent for the rest of the trip, and she would not care… nice! I love it when a plan comes together!”, he said a bit proud of himself.
“True… but don’t you think she is touching his arm a bit much, just to bandage it…”, said Violet furrowing her brows.
“Oh, somebody getting jealous?”
“What? Jealous? Nah uh! No way… I just don’t want her to make the wound bigger than it is… I have to stitch him back up with magic later…”
“Ah yes, right…”
After Alex’s arm was dressed and everybody well rested, they went back on the road. This time Elyra sat herself to the side of Alex, practically on top of him. She regularly asked him if his arm was alright and if he needed something, between talking about herself. As it got dark, they found a small indent in a ledge, perfect for a night camp.
“I’ll put some magic sensory spells up, so that nothing can surprise us while we sleep.”, said Violet while they were sitting at a small campfire.
Wolves were howling in the distant and made Elyra jump every time. As they got ready for sleep, she came over to Alex.
“Ehm… can I sleep here next to you? The wolves you know… I would feel safer here… next to you…”, she said smiling.
“Sure, no problem… I don’t mind.”, said Alex and smiled back.
“Yay… Thank you.”
Elyra put down her sleeping roll beside him. Alex closed his eyes and made himself comfortable.
“Hey… uhm…”, said Elyra quetly after a few moments.
“What’s up?”, asked Alex.
“It’s kind of cold… would it be okay if… uhm… can I snuggle up to you a bit… you look so warm and cozy… could you share a bit of that with me?”
“Hm? Yeah sure. If I’m warm enough for you.”
Slowly she crawled up to his side and put her head on his chest.
“Perfectly warm…”, she said with a smile on her face.
They both fell asleep like that few moments later.
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