Slave Of A Wolf

Chapter 12: Just Breaking An Arm

Kane's POV

I tried to protest but Gale was pretty insistent about it. I reluctantly drew the slave crest back onto Gale's arm. She reasoned,"It's now proof of our friendship."

I brushed my hair blushing a little, I've said some pretty embarrassing things I thought to myself. I recalled myself sobbing in front of her and I suddenly want to die. I glance over as we walked, Gale was also blushing hard, she was looking away, hiding her face behind her hair. I then suddenly remembered what she said to me,"I'll be your life long partner."

I looked away feeling even more hot, does she even know what that means? And it doesn't help that the mate bond seemed to grow stronger by the day, I can't touch her anymore without getting zapped with sparks. I cover my eyes with my fingers to hide myself from the embarrassment. Gah, someone kill me. I felt like a little kid.

Gale's POV

We ended up traveling again for a few long weeks, we encountered nothing but wilderness and bugs, we went through forest, lots and lots of forest. We saw a bunch of cool terrain though, we pasted by a canyon, a few geysers, and a super massive tree. We sometimes past rouges on occasion, but they didn't bother us, so we didn't bother them, everyone was super tired from traveling so we just ignored each other. After that we just kept walking, and walking, and walking... We saw a bear once, it jumped us when we were bathing which was pretty funny, but Kane scared it away with his chains. 

During this past week on his own, Kane had been working a lot on his magic, day in, day out, he kept chanting a few phrases like a mantra so much that it actually became annoying. But with all his efforts, he actually managed to cast a few spells with the spellbook he got, although it's nothing to crazy. There were spells to clean clothes, smell nice, heal small cuts, they weren't powerful but still useful nonetheless.

Kane also started teaching me how to fight, it began with a few sparring matches, then full on duels, he always immediately knocked me down with the first few matches.  He taught me how to hold up a basic defense, how to jab properly, kicking too. A lot of hand to hand combat because my powers would make it difficult to hold weapons.  In a few weeks I learned how to hold myself up pretty well in a fight, by that I mean survive a few seconds against him. I also noticed a bit of muscle was growing on me, I checked myself over on a river stream. My body was still skinny but is now more of an alethic skinny build, I felt a bit proud of myself.

"Gale!"I heard him call out.

I turned around, he setting up a campsite by the stony banks of the river. The fires almost reached the towering pine trees in the back. He had put a few fishes on branches and looked like they were finished grilling. I walked up to him and said quietly,"Yay! Fish!!"

I've grown to like fish a lot, especially salmon, they taste great. Given how often we've come across streams and rivers I've felt extremely lucky. At home fish were considered a delicacy given how water was frozen year round and only becomes slightly slushy during a few weeks of summer. Kane handed me a stick and I took a bite, it was mackerel which was also still great, soft and tangy. I sat down on the rocks and he sat down besides me while taking his own stick, he said which chewing,"You know today I found a huge berry bush."

I looked at him, I listened to him while I ate, he said,"I thought I'd found the jackpot, I gathered a few dozen before I realized there were bears right next to me!! They just stared at me in confusion."

I giggled a little, which he chuckled sheepishly, I said jokingly,"You should be more careful."

He smiled back at me,"Yeah, sorry about that."