Childlike

"ROMULUS!" Zeev shouted to call him. He ran back into the room confused. "What's wrong?!" Zeev held Patty's hands and showed them to Romulus. Baffled, he looked at everyone in the room. Her hands got badly burned just yesterday and now they are completely healed. That's not natural. She is a human, isn't she? Or were we wrong?

"What are you?!" Asset-751 got snarky. "I knew, something is wrong with her?! She is a female after all." A slap followed the end of his sentence. Romulus loomed over him with a menacing look in his dark red eyes. "I had warned you!" Patty jumped in. "Stop it!"

Romulus couldn't stand it. "Why are you defending him?! He was told to not be rude to you and he just didn't listen!" Zeev was on Romuluse's side too. Asset was in the wrong saying things like that but she didn't budge.

"You both don't understand. Yes, his words sound harsh but empathize with his situation. Just yesterday, he was still held captive in that hell. Do you really expect him to turn a 180 just in a few hours? Romulus, how long did it take for you to come to terms with it? I am pretty sure you still didn't..."

Romulus shut his mouth. She was right, despite improving, he never got over his past nor trauma. He turned his focus from Asset back to her "miracle" healing. He put both his hands on her shoulders and looked her up and down and then sniffed the air around her.

Zeev followed and they couldn't find anything different or strange on her. She smelled like any ordinary human. Then Romulus got an idea. "Hey, Zeev... could something happen to her that night when you took advantage of her?!"

Zeev was furious. "I never did..." Well, he did lose his control that night, but he didn't turn her into a werewolf. It was a mystery. Zeev was planning to ask in the village or directly Roman later. For now, they will just keep an eye on Patty.

Asset-751 with a hurt pride laid back down with his back to them and covered in the blanket. Patty looked at him and then went to the kitchen. The apartment became calm again. She was ready to make breakfast for all of them. She opted for pancakes, easy to use as bait for the grumpy white werewolf.

The smell soon spread all over the space. Romulus was pacing behind her back and Zeev sat in the chair with arms folded waiting for his ratio. It took a while, but even Asset got tempted, and with the pillow clutching on his side and the blanket dragging behind, he appeared in the kitchen.

They all turned to him. Patty thought he looked like a little child waking up from a nap hungry searching for food. She found it kind of adorable. She understood that he never owned anything soft or warm so he held to it.

"What is that?" Asset interrupted her thoughts. "I am just making some tasty food." He frowned and was about to growl at her but he stopped before he tried to. Romulus together with Zeev was already glaring at him. "You humans are all the same!" He turned to go back to the living room.

Patty was confused. Romulus explained it to her right away. "We were only eating old scrabs or rotting food. Sometimes, they would taunt us by eating all the tasty, good-smelling food right in front of our cages."

Patty right away called out for the white-haired werewolf. "But, I am making this food for all of us, even you." Asset stopped right in his tracks. What did she just say?! Even for him? He slightly turned his head to the kitchen but half ways he stopped himself and shook it off as a lie.

He was proven wrong, as soon as Patty brought the pancakes dipped in some weird sticky liquid on a wooden plate and put it in front of him with a fork and knife inside a paper napkin. He glared at her. "What are those things? Are you trying to attack me with that?!"

Patty was surprised by his remark. "That's just cutlery, you use them to eat. Look like this." She demonstrated them in the air. He suspiciously inspected the food if there was any catch with it. Do you try to poison me with the food? It was a ridiculous statement.

From the kitchen, he could hear the clang of the forks and knives against the plates and Romulus shouting. "If you don't want it I and Zeev will eat it instead." Quick thinking and the werewolf decided to give it a try. He looked at the cutlery and Asset still didn't use them. He preferred his hands and after just "inhaled" the food.

He never had the chance to taste anything like that. His eyes sparked like of a child's. Patty was watching him from the distance. Leaning on her hand, sitting on the chair pondering about him. It will be difficult to make him trust her.

She was sure to discuss this with Romulus since he went through the same experience but had to figure out everything by himself. In that aspect, Asset got it easier. She wanted to make the transition to the human world more smoother.

Asset made some mess and dirtied the blanket with the sauce. "You should go and wash up your hands and mouth. Romulus will show you everything. I will also wash that." She pointed to the blanket. "NEVER!" Asset clutched it at his chest. Zeev came inside with Romulus after hearing him growling again.

Patty waved her hand to keep them calm. "I will return it to you after it dries." She was patient with him. The white-haired one intensively looked at her and then at those two. "You are not lying?" Patty smiled and assured him about it. "Of course, I will. You will be uncomfortable if it stays sticky."

She reached out her hands to him. He didn't want to get any closer to her and just placed it on the coffee table near her and retreated. She loaded the washing machine and Asset washed himself. Everything was in order. Patty caught him sitting in front of the washing machine watching it and waiting for his blanket.