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After I had finished explaining that everyone from the north basically had either charcoal black or snow white hair, and nothing in between, we all sat down in another form of hut - the snake clan's huts seemed to all be made out of greenery, just like the gate by the entrance.

"So, little one - how is it at the bear clan? What do you do up there?" Jungkook asked me, as he handed me a piece of grilled meat and I took it with a large bow, feeling the need to always be overly appreciative with anything I was given freely.

"What do you want to know?" I reversed the question and he shrugged playfully, leaning forward.

"You didn't know about our bounds, what do you have instead, if you have anything like it that is?" the chief formulated a more concrete question and I hummed, I rubbed my chin in thought as I for some reason came to think about wether the tiger clan might have something like that?

I shook it out of my head and gave a small nod.

"We do-did I mean, my parents took part in a ceremony were you call upon the goddess of love, and basically also eroticism, she can either bless the companionship or if she shuns it - it's a sign that the two shouldn't be together" I explained, thinking back to my mother's face when she told us the story of how she and father got together, she'd been so anxious before the actual event took place, but afterwards when they could breathe out in relief of their blessings - it had been the best day of her life, apart from having Hwasa and me, but that came many years later.

"Eroticism huh?" Jungkook mused and I looked up, only to meet his eyes and I yelped when I noticed him staring, looking away quickly.

Why did that have to be the one thing he took from the story?

"Princess, is it alright to stay here for one moon? We shouldn't be out in these forests at this time" Taehyung spoke to me softly and I nodded with an embarrassed smile, although I didn't really mind him using that nickname anymore.

"I'll show the little one to his hut" Jungkook offered and I felt my heartbeat quicken, snapping my head in Tae's direction, who seemed to notice my anxiousness... I'd been sleeping in the same hut as him for the entirety of my stay with them... and the thought of being alone scared me more than I'd ever wanna admit.

"Chief Jungkook, my princess sleeps with me" Taehyung stated, standing up and both Jimin and hoseok gasped at that being said.

"He does huh?" the young male hummed as his vision flickered over to me, scanning me over before looking back to Taehyung again.

"Okay then, go to your usual hut" the redhead commented in the end and we all parted ways, me leaving Hoseok with the same greeting we'd met with.

"Sleep well, princess" he whispered and I was about to correct him - when I saw his expression, which gave away the fact that he'd done it on purpose.

I followed my friend to a place which laid near the exit and for some reason that felt better than being too close to the middle, where I spotted Jungkook leaving towards...

"He's a little thief" Tae growled under his breath and I looked at him questioningly.

"What do you mean? Jungkook?" I asked quizzically and he sighed heavily, dismissing the topic - instead, he started taking of his clothes and I took that as a sign that we were going to bed.

"We should leave early tomorrow, my father - the head chief is coming back home, we should greet him properly" Tae said his plan for the coming day and I nodded in understanding, lying down on the new form of bedding.