“Lady Claire, we took care of them while you were tending to the fenrir.”
“While we couldn’t move the one that was frozen, we dug a whole and buried the ones that were cut up by Leo.”
So that’s what they had been doing.
Well, no one would want to see the mutilated corpses of monsters lying around the forest.
Though, the one that was now an ice statue was still standing there…
I…wonder how long it will take to melt…
“It is sleeping very peacefully.”
Said Ms. Claire as she watched the healed fenrir.
“Indeed.”
As Leo lay on the ground as if to envelope the fenrir with her fur, she brought her face close to it.
A short while ago, it had been breathing weakly as if in pain, but now that the bleeding had stopped and the wounds closed, its breathing had become calm.
“It will take a while for its expended energy to return.”
“We should let it rest then.”
While I had used a herb that healed wounds, it didn’t have the effect of recovering energy.
…But perhaps this was enough. I didn’t want to have to force-feed it grass while it was trying to go to sleep.
“Wou…Wou-wou.”
“Hmm? What is it, Leo?”
Now that we were relieved that the fenrir was healed, we were just about to leave.
We had to return to camp soon, as it was getting quite late.
Ms. Claire and Sebastian were looking up at the sky to see the position of the sun.
However Leo barked at us to stop.
“Wou-wou…wuff.”
After barking in our direction, she looked down at the fenrir she was enveloping, and moved her head as if to pick up the fenrir with her jaw.
“…You want to take it with you?”
“Wuff-wuff.”
Leo nodded.
Take it… But could fenrirs be around humans?
“…Ms. Claire. Sebastian.”
“What is it?”
“What is wrong?”
They turned away from the sky and looked towards me.
And so I told them that Leo wanted to bring the fenrir back with us.
“Good Leo…the fenrir…”
“…I approve of it.”
“Lady Claire. We are able to get close to this fenrir now, because it is asleep. But surely you understand that they are vicious monsters? Who knows what will happen when it wakes up…”
“But… If we leave it here, it may be attacked by monsters again.”
“That is…true, but…”
“Wuff-wuff. Wuff-wou-wou!”
Leo barked as if in support of Ms. Claire’s decision.
And then she would gesture, raising her paws and moving her head. She was saying that it was safe to take the fenrir. And while she argued her case, she was careful to not wake the fenrir that slept in front of her.
While it was nothing new, a dog using gestures was so very… Well, she was a Silver Fenrir.
But sometimes, Leo’s gestures were very comical… It was with such thoughts in my head that I told Sebastian that I too agreed that we should take the fenrir with us.