-Break-

The next day

Location: Far east of the River Lúide, inside a nearby forest

Φ Holding me by the shoulders, Dónal says, “Charles has been what!?”

“You heard me, Charles has been taken. The girl has stolen him from us.”

Φ With my knees feeling weak, I fall to the ground whilst slamming my hands against the floor and scream, “NOOOOOOOO!”

Looking up at Nero, I say, “What happened!”

“He just started talking to her yesterday, and since then she won’t let him leave her side. Even now as we are in the forest, he is with her helping build the castle.”

“Why didn’t you stop him!”

“What was I supposed to do; tie him up and keep him still!?”

This is bad, really bad, I had planned for this waste of space to be the one to court the human woman, but now that she is beside Charles she is bound to fall for his adorableness. I need to fix this now, and this waste of mass humans is my only help.

Standing up, I put my hands on the boy's shoulder, and say, “Do you remember what I told you the first time, how to get woman?”

“Yes, if I am nice to them constantly it will eventually make them fall in love with me and do whatever I want.”

This is bad advice*

“Now I will teach you the second technique that the other beastkin taught me. Wear her down!”

“Wear her down?”

“Yes, women are like rocks, if you keep at it, and keep bothering them day and night you will eventually wear them down, and they will say yes to your every request to get peace back in their lives. So keep at it be a nice guy, be pushy, and if all else fails be FORCEFUL!”

This is really bad advice*

“I see, I will do that.”

“Remember, even though you are a piece of trash human, you’re also a man, TAKE WHAT YOU WANT!”

“YES!”

-Break-

Location: Campsite

Φ As Charles and the girl chat away, I get ready to fall asleep on my section of the room. Should I make my move now, No wait, if I do it now and it doesn’t work out wouldn’t that mean she will go to bed angry?

About once a month my mother used to go to bed angry and then for the rest of the week she would be in a bad mood. Dad used to say when she is in such a mood I should not do anything out of the ordinary. So I guess I have no other option but to sleep.

Suddenly I feel something touch my back, and I look back and say, “Charles?”

“Hello.”

“What are you doing over here.”

“I wanted to sleep with you.”

“Aren’t you too busy talking to your new best friend over there,” I mutter under my breath.

“But I want to stay here.”

“Why.”

“Because of your family.”

Feeling happy, I say, “Well do whatever you want then.”

From the corner of the room, Mariana looks at both of the boys with a face of confusion but then decides to go to bed herself.

-Break-

Location: Beastkin Dorms

Φ Laying in his bed with a head full of worry, Dónal struggles to sleep. Dammit, I can’t stop thinking about that woman and Charles, if she did anything to him, I will never forgive her.

I could lose my most precious source of life. Because the feeling he gives is something no one could ever hope to understand. But suddenly my thoughts are interrupted by a loud noise I hear outside my bed

Outside my room, I start to hear a ruckus, so I get up and leave to investigate. Opening my door, I walk out to see a group of the other beastkin in my dorms, around the brutally beaten body of an adult human woman.

Rory looking down at the body, says, “What the hell is this?”

Finn replies, “It seems one of the human males couldn’t help himself, and brutally took and beat this woman.”

Daniel putting his hand on his face, says, “What a pain in the ass, now we are going to be in trouble for this.”

Brain with a confused look on his face, asks, “Why do any of us even care? This is what the human women were brought here for, so let’s just bury her body and be done with it.”

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Cian smacks Brain on the back of the head, and says, “If you keep saying dumb shit like that, we are going to start calling you breast milk instead, you eejit.”

Daniel says, “They were brought here to make babies, how can they do that when they are fucking dead, you bogger.”

Ryan says, “Not to mention that these women excel in much more skilful work, and we can’t have them fucking dying now, can we!”

Rory says, “Now we need to figure out who did this.”

Finn says, “It was probably one of the new men brought in, Bricriu hasn’t yet put fear in their hearts so they probably think they can get away with wasting resources like this.”

Seeing that they are handling the situation, I begin to walk back to my room, but then I hear Cian say, “That narrows it down, so Breast milk, come and deal with this.”

Stopping in my tracks, I say a shaky, “Huh.”

“Are your ears full of dirt you heard, what I fucking said, now come clean up this mess and go look for who caused this.”

Nervously, I say, “But I am not sure I can do thi-.”

Walking over, he puts his right arm around the back of my neck and leans over to see my face, then Cian says, “Did you just fucking speak back to me, you human ass-licking rat.”

Shaking out of fear, I say, “N-No, I just thought an idiot like me wo-o-ould fail if given such a c-c-complex task.”

Cian stared at me with his same scary expression, and in my mind, I say again and again; Charles help me, Charles help me!

And after a few minutes, it turned to a smile, and he hit me on the back saying, “It was just a joke man, no need to get so tense. I already knew you were too dumb for this, so Daniel help him.”

“Why me!”

“Because you’re the next stupidest here, and if you have a problem with that then put your fists up.”

“That isn’t fair?”

“Ok, then I am a man of reason. Hands up if you want Daniel to handle this with Breast milk.”

I don’t turn around to see it, but I hear them all put their hands up. “See now it is unanimous, now get to work, I want to nap.”

As they all walk past me to get to their rooms, Finn stops me and says, “I am pretty tired now and since you're not busy go finish my shift at campsite seventeen.”

“But I already did my shift plus three others today.”

“Well four is a lucky number so it looks like I am helping you,” Finn says as he walks past me.

As everyone leaves, Daniel screams, “FUCK.” Then says, “Breast milk, while I start looking around, deal with this human body. Burn it, bury it, or fuck it, who knows what a human lover like you would do when alone with one of them.”

“I w-won’t!”

“I don’t fucking care if you will or not, just get started you eejit.”

As Daniel gets out of sight, I start to take rapid breaths as the fear of the situation just leaves me at that moment. “Charles give me strength.”

Walking over towards, the woman, I get a really good look at her body, and the wounds are directly against her arms, crotch and face, this only makes the blue flower on her head look incredibly off-putting.

“I guess for all the hatred you humans have for us, you must have more for each other. But not that it matter, I need to depose of this thing.”

Reaching my hand towards the body, it is suddenly lightly grabbed by the woman. Instantly, I get freaked out and break my hand away from her grip while crawling backwards.

Looking at her body with my ass on the ground, I say, “She is still alive. How the hell can that be with those wounds.”

Then faintly I hear something. “Did she just speak?”

Moving in closer to hear, the words that I hear from her mouth are, “Mariana.”

“Mariana.”

“Please someone, save my daughter. Mariana, Mariana.”

From a room, I hear Finn shout, “SHUT THAT THEY HELL UP, I AM TRYING TO SLEEP!”

He is a wolf beastkin, so even her faint cries are things he can hear. “I need to move her now.”

Picking her up, I say, “Just shut up already, because if you keep doing this I will get in trouble.” I can’t go causing Charles any more trouble.

While on my back, she says, “Please save Mariana, she is my most precious source of life.”

Hearing this, I turn my head around with a shocked expression, and mutter, “Didn’t you just say-.”

“GET RID OF THE FUCKING BODY BREAST MILK.”

Hearing Finns scream, I start to move away, and as I do she repeatedly says, “Mariana, Mariana, Marian-.”

As she speaks her voice gets quieter and quieter until eventually it stops altogether.

-Break-

Taking my potato in hand, and biting down into it, I say, “Now is the time to fully put my plan into action, I will show the girl that I am not one to be messed with. I will show her NICE!”

-Break-

Location: Íogair grassland

“GUY!”

-Break-

Location: Campsite

“POWER!”

-Break-

The next day

It seems it didn’t work, so let me try that again today. “NICE!”

-Break-

Location: Fíodóirí house

“GUY!”

-Break-

Location: Campsite

“POWER!”

IT DIDN’ T WORK. Staring at the corner of the room and seeing Charles and the girl happily talking, I can feel my jealousy rise, so I say, “Charles come let’s go to sleep.”

The girl, says, “Hey Charles wouldn’t you like to sleep in my bed tonight.”

“No.”

Suddenly she gives Charles, a hug and says, “Come on, I am feeling really sad and I would like a hug.”

Charles's eyes open wide, and he says, “You're very soft.”

“Thank you.”

Turning his head around to me, he says, “Nero I am going to sleep on this softness.”

“YOU TRAITOR!”

-Break-

The next day

In the midst of the night, I stand in front of our hut waiting for the girl to come back. Today is the day when she has different work than me and Charles and tends to arrive back later.

But right now, I am going to finally confront her on her treatment of me. Suddenly it starts raining, getting me completely soaked, but I say, “NOT EVEN THE HEAVENS WILL MAKE ME TURN AROUND.”

In the distance, I see her walking over to our hut with her head hanging low. She looks upset, but she always looks like that with me so who the hell even cares?

Running up to her, I say, “Hey you I have something to say.”

Trying to walk past me, she says, Leave me alone I am not in the mood.”

Grabbing her hand and holding it, I say, “Well I have never been in the mood for your attitude, yet I have been constantly taking it, and even after all the nice things I have done for you, you still can’t even bother talking to me.”

From her left side, I see her take out the blade, and swing at me with, it but I grab her arm and then pin her down to the ground. “LET GO OF ME,” she says as she struggles with her arms.

But while she struggles I am able to get the blade out of her hand by pressing down on her wrist. “You need to listen to me, you bitch. Even after all of the kindness I give you, I get stabbed as a result, what the hell is even wrong with you? When someone goes out of their way to be so nice to you, at least don’t stab them.”

Suddenly I feel a weak blow on the back of my head, which causes me to weaken, then in that moment using both of her legs she kicks me in the stomach, causing me to fly off.

As I recover, she grabs her blade and runs into the hut and whilst she does that I look and see that the person who hit me was Charles.

“Hey Charles, what the hell was that for.”

“Nero, you were being bad.”

“How! She is constantly giving me a bad attitude when I am doing all these things for her, Aurelius used to hug Lillian every day and she never stabbed him.”

“I don’t know Nero, but what I do know is that you looked a lot like the men he hit me in that moment.”

“Charles that isn’t fair, you know how she has been to me.”

“Nero, I don’t really understand people well, but I do know that you and her are really similar, so please forgive her for this.”

After saying this Charles, walks away back into the hut, and as he does this I say, “So you’re picking her traitor.”

Looking back, at me, he says, “I picked you.” Then walks away.