Ch4:Black Panther village part 2

On our way I take in my surroundings, the other houses are primitive huts made of mud and with straw roofs.

Most of them are small, but I also see a few bigger huts along the way. Jason tells me that those belong to females and their family. Makes sense since they would need a lot of space for their mates and cubs. That's what they call they're children here. Also, male are born in their beast form and females in human form.

With usually females having more than one male cub per pregnancy and female cubs being rare. Being the mother of a female is a very pride worthy feat.

Most males that we have passed by turn their heads around after us with more courageous ones trying to come closer, but with a loud growl from Jason they step back in place. He seems annoyed.

Some try to grab my attention by calling me or fighting among themselves, but I'm not in the mood for any of them. So I lay my head on Jason's shoulder and ignore them. He seems happy about it.

We are soon standing before a hut. Jason calls out and an old male answers.

"Hello. Are you feeling sick, female?" He asks worriedly.

"My female is not sick. We came to check on her feet."

"Come in then."

He guides us to a pile of furs, where Jason gently lay me down.

The old healer is gathering several herbs and a bowl of water and comes to me.

"I need to touch your feet to see how it's healing." He looks at Jason that let out a displeased growl but let the healer do his job.

The healer carefully unwrap my leaf bandages and clean my feet with warm water and a soft fur. He is very gentle, so I feel no pain. Then he grinds his herbs and applies the paste on my feet.

It stings. But a clench my teeth and ignore it. Jason seems to observe it and growls threateningly at the healer. Who stops and appears scared.

"Jason." Is all I need to say, and he's back to his harmless self. The healer finish applying the paste and wraps my feet and ankle again in bandages.

I don't know what kind of plants are those, but I already fell better. They numb the pain after a bit of time.

"The medicine needs to be applied every day until it heals. Don't forget to come back tomorrow."

"Thank you." I say to the old healer.

For a moment, he is surprised, but soon he regains his cool. "No need to thank me female. It is my job to care for all the females of this village."

He is a nice old guy that gives me a grandpa vibes.

Jason picks me up and after talking about payment and agreeing to bring him some meat later, we return home.

He leave me by myself in the pile of furs to go hunting. I don't really have anything to do, so I just took a nap. I'm not tired, but sleep is good for healing. And I don't have problems falling asleep.

Later, Jason wakes me to eat dinner, and after I go back to sleep with him joining me in his beast form.

The next morning I am awoken by the sound of animals roaring and fighting.

What the hell is going on!

I trow the blanket off me and sit up. Jason is not inside.

"Ugh… how annoying."

I stand and make my way to the window. I pull the curtain and see a bunch of males making noise outside.

It looks like I have a lot of suitors. But I'm in no mood for them.

Some seems to have noticed me and starts calling me. I let the curtain down and go back to bed.

Great! Now it's even more noisy.

No way in hell am I getting out. That would only agitate them more. Hopefully, Jason gets back soon and chase them out.

I really need more mates.

Looks like my prayer was heard since a loud growl silence the other males.

Soon enough, Jason gets in and I welcome him with a smile."Good morning Jason."

He responds with an even bigger smile"Good morning my beautiful mate."

Damn he's hot. It's not fair. I can't possibly resist such temptation.

"Are you hungry?"

Oh, you have no idea.

"I am, what do we have for breakfast?"

"Deer."

" Sounds good. Do we have salt? The food we had yesterday was a bit bland."

"Yes."

He takes a skin pouch and shows me the salt inside.

"I want to go out."

"Wait to prepare a place for you to sit." He grabs a pile of furs from a corner and goes out. Then comes back and carry me to the furs under the warm morning sun.

It's a bit weird to be carried around like a child, but it's not bad. And anyway, my feet need a break to get better. So I am not going to complain.

Jason gives me some fruit to munch on and then goes to deal with our breakfast. Which is obviously roasted meat again. Seems like this is the only method of cooking around here.

I may need to have to figure out how to make a pot and pan if I want to diversify my diet. This is a problem for my male to figure out since I have no clue how to make one. Maybe a stone pot would work?

I can still see some males lingering in the distance. These guys are really insistent.

"Hay Jason, are there any two stripes among those males from earlier?" I don't know if it's appropriate to ask my male about other males. But he should know better than me which one are worth my time.

I really need to find a time to mate with him. I look at my feet and make a mental note that after I am back on my feet, I'll do it.

"There were four males with two stripes. Two panthers, a jaguar and a bear." He calmly responds while rotating the roasting meat.

Not bad. I should at least take a look at them. It must be hard for Jason to look after me by himself.

"I want to meet them later. And see if they are good for our family." I say after a bit of contemplation.

"After we come back from the healer, I will arrange for them to meet you." He says in a sad tone.

"Are you ok? It must be hard on you. I'm sorry."

Now I feel a bit guilty. He looks like a kicked puppy. Or kicked panther?

Jason grabs my hands in his and plant a soft kiss on each one of them.

"You don't need to feel sorry, Sera. I understand that you need more protection. I would never put you in danger because of my jealousy. You can take any male you want as your mate, but please don't forget about me."

That was so sweet. On the spur of the moment, I gave him a kiss on his lips. He seems surprised but more happy as he hugs me tight and tries to imitate me in tasting my lips.

Our innocent kiss soon becomes more intense as his tongue gently starts to give soft licks over my lips seeking to ask for permission to taste me further, which I give by parting them, and soon he curiously starts to explore my mouth. When I was starting to feel oxygen deprived I pulled back from him.

He appear a bit disappointed that we stopped. But this is too much. If we keep going, things would go too far. And I'm not ready for that yet.

Jason gives me a kiss on the top of my head and goes back to the fire to tend to our meal.

I'm a blushing mess trying to slow down my heartbeat. How can I be OK after our make out, but a soft kiss leaves me helpless? Damn! I need to gather myself already. It's not like I'm a clueless virgin anyway. It must be because all my exes were assholes that never cared about me.

After our meal and appointment to the healer, we meet with the village chief who welcomed me and tryed to introduce me to some of his sons but after refusing him a few times he gets the message and leave us alone.

Now I'm standing on my pile of furs in the shade of a tree and enjoy some weird fruit that looks like a dragon fruit and tastes like watermelon.

I don't get the fruits here.

A few curious females comes around to meet me, and we talk for a bit. Most of them were fine, but one was quite annoying with her loud voice and criticism about my skinny self.

But she didn't have bad intentions. In her odd way she was trying to convince me that I need to gain weight to survive winter and that I need more males.

I don't think we'll be friends, but I would rather not make an enemy out of her, so I just let her run her mouth until she felt pleased with herself and got her males to carry her home.

It appears that being carried around by your male is something normal around here.

I was too tired after all of that to meet my suitors. But it doesn't matter that much.

If they can't wait, they can get the hell out and go after another female.