Ari (Child of the Beastman Goddess)

The next morning, I woke up quite late, so Gurion was probably playing with my brother already since he is not around when I opened my eyes.

“Awake? Lowell said you had another nightmare last night. Are you uncomfortable anywhere?” Dillon asked as he sat down beside me and helped me to sit down.

The dream I had are similar to all my dreams and nightmares every full moon. Sometimes, the dreams repeat a few times, but still leaves a great impression on me. I felt like the dreams are bits of memories of the life of Arie, Ayla and the Queen Goddess Hera. The only thing baffled me was that last night, I dreamed of a winged lion beastman who looked similar to father Lev. His voice is also the same.

However, as always, I can only have all my questions answered when we arrive to our destination.

“I’m fine… I’m just feeling hungry and light headed.” I mumbled as I rest my head on his shoulder.

“We’ve prepared some mushroom soup and steamed potatoes. I’ll heat the soup in a bit.” Dillon said while fixing more pillows on my back for me to lean on.

He kissed me on my forehead before leaving. I felt lonely after Dillon left. I was wondering if only we have phones where we can just ring one another, so that it will be easier to ask another person to do the task without running back and forth.

Lowell entered the room after Dillon left for a while. He looked tired and sleepless.

“Are you okay now, Ari?” Lowell asked while checking my pulse and my temperature.

I nodded quietly and traced the dark circles on his eyes.

“You’re not a wolf. You’re a panda.” I said, teasing him despite his pitiful look.

He was confused with my words, but I laughed lightly while imagining the panda version of Lowell.

“What’s a panda?” He curiously asked.

Pandas don’t exist in this world so I had to explain him what it was and what it looks like. He was stunned after hearing my explanation.

“Do I look ugly now?” He asked with pitiful eyes while asking for confirmation.

“Haha! No… I was just joking… But… You need to sleep too. Look at those dark circles. It doesn’t suit your handsome face.” I said while pointing to his eyes.

He grabbed my hand and gently placed it on his cheek before kissing my wrist as he close his eyes briefly.

I flushed, but I didn’t say a word.

“Let’s try making a cake… Since we don’t have any scheduled activity for today.” He said while smiling at me sweetly.

I smiled back upon hearing his words and nodded excitedly in response.

Dillon entered the room with my breakfast and fixed the table for me while Lowell helped me walk to the table since I was a little dizzy.

After I ate my breakfast, we started to talk about the plan for the cake. The two of them called in my brother, Blake and Gurion, who were chopping woods outside to help us with the plan.

We have already prepared the ingredients that have a long shelf life during our journey such as flour, yeast, sugar and salt. However, we still need eggs and milk so my brother and Blake were assigned to the task.

Blake was naturally talented on hunting for eggs because snakes feed on eggs when they can’t hunt for preys, especially when they are injured. Milk was the only problem we had because most of the animals were hibernating during winter. It was already late when they came back. As expected, they didn’t find milk.

They were devastated when they came back, so I decided to make a vegan vanilla cake instead, since milk was not available. I had once tried making one because a friend of mine is a vegan in my previous life, but she wanted to eat a cake at least once, without breaking her advocacy.

I didn’t use eggs, milk and butter, but it still turned out well. Though it didn’t taste like a standard cake, it still taste good and light. It also has a little difference in texture since milk and butter were not used.

Everyone was so excited with the cake, but it took us a few trials and errors before we could make a perfect one since we were using an earth oven that Dillon built according to my instruction and description.

Lowell and Gurion were helping me make the cake. Piles of burned cakes were filling up the stone table because the fire was too hard to manage.

“Oh no! Mommy! Paya (fire)…!” Gurion shouted upon seeing the burning bread of the cake.

“Careful, Gurion! Don’t go near. It’s hot.” I screamed in fear that he would accidentally touch the burning bread.

Lowell and I were panicking while Dillon and my brother threw a thick leather pelt on top of the burning bread to prevent the fire from spreading while Blake pulled Gurion and me at a distance.

Dawon heard the loud noises we made and sensed the smoke from our house so he went to check on us, worrying if something was wrong had happened. He eventually found us under the smoke from the burned bread of the cakes. All of us looked as if we cleaned up the chimney because of how messy it was during the process of trials and errors of making a cake.

He tried to hold his laughter, but he couldn’t. He literally rolled on the ground laughing at us. He couldn’t even utter a word because of laughing.

My brother, Dillon and Lowell grabbed him suddenly while he was laughing on the ground, then threw him outside on the thick snowy ground.

“Haha! I’m sorry! Wait!!!” He shouted as he flew at a distance.

We continued to try making a cake.

Dawon went back to us after a few minutes and observed us quietly and curiously on the side.

Thankfully, we finally made a perfect one with the last set of ingredients we had with the help of others despite our disastrous appearances.

“Woah!” Screamed Gurion after I decorated the cake with frosting made from coconut oil and sugar.

“So… You were just cooking this strange looking thing?” Dawon uttered upon seeing the final product.

I was offended because we made a lot of effort in cooking one using a prehistoric oven.

Seeing me frown a little, the males started to growl in irritation, then threw him again outside.

“W-why?!!!” He shouted as he once again flew at a distance.

“Don’t mind him little sis. Clean up yourself first, we’ll start to prepare our dinner for tonight so we can all eat together.” My brother said as he strokes my hair to comfort me.

I nodded quietly and smiled to him. I took Gurion to bathe and change of clothes while the others are cleaning up and preparing for dinner.

We all shared the cake that we made later that day. They were all thrilled because of the unique and sweet taste.