animal ears

?When you open your eyes, the first thing you see is the gentle and deep golden pupils.

Also, the shadow of oneself reflected in it.

The other party seemed to have woken up a long time ago, and had been staring at him carefully, which made Cole a little startled when he just woke up, but what surprised him even more was that Ley would lie beside him without him noticing.

Seeing that Cole woke up, Ley sat up slowly, turned his head, nodded, gently stretched out his hand to stroke the hair on Cole's forehead, and said with a soft smile, "It's already afternoon, are you hungry?"

Gentle tone.

Already in the afternoon?

Startled.

How could he have slept for so long?

Lifting his chin, Cole shook his head in a daze, while Ley smiled, walked out of the door without saying a word, took back the dried herbs outside the door, and then went to do his own thing.After a while, he also got up, but because he had nothing to do and nowhere to go, Cole walked slowly to Ley's side.

"Are these going to be exchanged?" Standing behind him, Cole asked, looking at the dried herbs in Ley's hands.

Because I remembered that Ley told himself that he grew up in a village, so Cole thought they were still in the tribe, of course, they just lived in a relatively remote place.

Because the scenery outside the house is so lacking in popularity and desolate.

Seeing what Cole meant, he shook his head helplessly. Ley closed his eyes and smiled, and said, "Of course not." Then he continued to fiddle with the herbs in his hand, "Only in the tribe can there be exchanges. We... don't belong to anyone. Tribe," then lowered his head and smiled, "These herbs were used for your healing before."

"Healing?"

Are you talking about your coma?

"But I don't need it now, so I dried it and ground it into a powder. If I leave here in the future, I can take it away conveniently." Lai explained in a low voice, skillfully operating with focused eyes.

"Haven't we always lived here?" Cole took two steps forward, stood beside Ley, sorted the herbs for him, and asked curiously.

Ley smiled, turned his head, looked at Cole's red eyes, shrugged helplessly and said: "Of course not, we are traveling around now, Cole has been in a coma before so I don't know, we are only here Stayed for less than half a month."

"Ley took me to travel?" The voice was small and unbelievable.

"Because..." Ley hesitated a bit, "There are some things, so I have to go around."

"some things?"

Smiling calmly, Ley shook his head.

Knowing that the other party didn't want to talk about it, Cole looked around for a while, changed the subject and asked, "Is this house built temporarily?"

"It's an abandoned hut. I tidied it up a little bit before." Ley replied.

Such a simple and exquisite hut, is it all organized by Ley?

Cole couldn't help being surprised, then looked at Ley shyly, and said, "I thought we had lived here all this time, because Ley said I was in a coma for seven years—" Then he looked around the house by himself , Cole pursed his lips, and said with some regret, "This house is very nice."

"Cole likes it here?" Rye asked back.

Nodding, Cole didn't know what to answer, so he said, "Because it feels very quiet, and the air outside is also good."

Although desolate, but here, the heart is very peaceful.

"Let's take some more time." Turning back, he showed a gentle smile, "If there is a chance, I will take you around."

"Thank you, Ley," Cole said, "for everything."

Faintly, Lai looked over, his golden eyes flashed, then he lowered his head, continued to pack the herbs, and said softly, "You're welcome."

He seems to be laughing.

Ley's smile was reassuring, Cole thought.It was because of Ley's care that even if he had no memory, he would not panic. He was really grateful to Ley, and at the same time, he wanted to know more about the relationship between Ley and himself.

Closer than a friend, but less like a partner, much less a lover.

Ley never mentioned the reason, and he never said why the two got along like this, because if he didn't say it, he couldn't ask.So Cole stopped thinking about it, and after packing up the herbs, he volunteered to hunt in a nearby place.

"Just stay nearby, don't go to the forest." Before leaving, Ley seriously warned.

In fact, Ley didn't want Cole to leave.

Maybe it's about caring about yourself?

"I know." Cole nodded, agreeing.

I am an orc, so hunting is of course not a problem, but there is really no prey in the nearby plains. After looking around, I didn't find anything better. Cole sighed helplessly, shaking his head and thinking, it's already troublesome. With so many lyes, he always felt sorry for not hunting something. Although he had promised lye, he still quickly stepped into the dense jungle nearby.

The jungle seems to be full of magical power, constantly attracting myself.

He followed the traces of the prey he was instinctively looking for, but for no reason, a strange and strange feeling welled up in his chest, and the slightest bit of sweetness and pain surged up from the bottom of his heart, but Cole didn't think much of it, because he found the deer's footprint.

The footprints were still fresh, and Cole was unwilling to give up just like that, so he followed closely.

Stepping into the dense forest with both feet is a familiar feeling.

The familiar light covered by the branches and leaves, the familiar forest smell, and the familiar touch on the soles of the feet, as if I have lived in the forest for a long time before. Everything in the forest makes me feel familiar, but I can’t remember what it is. Where is the forest.

And...that vague, strange shadow.

It's not a real shadow, but a fingertip buried in my mind and disappearing.

Is it because I care too much?

Cole held his slightly throbbing heart, but still couldn't remember anything, as if he lost something in an instant, and his whole body was empty.

He couldn't help raising his head, staring at the light falling from the treetops, and was stunned for no reason.

── Cole.

Turning back suddenly, there was no one behind him, only the dense jungle.

That...whose voice is that?

Why do I feel so lonely.

After thinking about it for a while, Cole finally turned his head, lowered his eyes, and stared at the swaying and beating spots on the ground. He was stunned for a while, and then he said to himself: "Maybe I'm just being superstitious." ...there's no one here at all."

Because there is no memory, the heart is empty.

He dismissed himself with this excuse.

He couldn't figure out what this feeling of sadness and nostalgia was in his heart. It was a little painful, but also a little warm, but it was very far away from him, so far away that he couldn't touch it.

At this time, the sound of a deer passing through the woods was heard in his ear, and Cole immediately withdrew his wild thoughts and walked towards the place where the sound came from. However, because of the distraction just now, Cole accidentally exposed his existence, and the frightened deer Hastily fled deeper into the forest.

However, it wasn't long before Cole caught it by a lake in the middle of the forest.

It's an adult stag.

After cutting the deer's throat swiftly, Cole collected the deer's blood with a water bag, and when he was about to carry it back, he suddenly smelled someone else's scent on the other side of the lake, so he turned around vigilantly, his red eyes fixed on the other side, Decided to look at the young orc on his side.

With long silver hair, Cole thought it was Ley at first glance, but the orc on the opposite side was much younger than Ley, and his eyes were rare silver, like ice and snow, with unexpectedly calm eyes, just like Like this quiet lake.

Cold and lifeless.

However, the young orc just glanced at Cole, turned and left without saying anything.

Cole was a little puzzled.

After looking at the other side for a few times, he thought maybe it was just a chance encounter, so he didn't care, and the other party didn't show any malice, so Cole went back the same way with the deer he had hunted on his back.

When he first came home, Ley was a little upset when he saw the deer.

"You went to the forest?" Ley's tone contained anger.

Not wanting to hide it, Cole nodded.

"Didn't you say they only hunt nearby?" His face gradually turned ugly, "I remember I told you."

"Ley, I'm fine. My injury is healed, and the animals in the forest can't hurt me." Feeling that Ley was worried about himself, Cole put down the deer and stepped forward to explain.

However, Ley's face became even more gloomy. He grabbed Cole's wrist, closed his eyes tightly, and even trembled a little, then opened them, and said firmly, "I... didn't mean that." The corners of his mouth moved , Ley took a deep look at Cole, and continued, "In short, you must not go to the forest next time."

"why?"

"No reason." Ley replied, then let go of Cole's hand, and turned around angrily.

Clutching Ley's arm, the confused Cole narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked, "Rye, is there something you're hiding from me?"

Calling back quickly, Ley said, "No."

But his face did not say so.

However, Cole didn't know how to speak, because Ley looked like he didn't want to speak.

Always... this look.

But he could only keep silent.

Why, why didn't Ley tell herself anything?

At this time, Ley, whose back was turned, suddenly approached the silent Cole, wrapped his arms around his neck, leaned towards him face to face, pressed his forehead, sighed, and smiled wryly, "I'm just worried about you, nothing else. Don't show such a sad expression, your body is just right, I don't want you to take risks, that's all."

Warm breath spit on the face.

Raising his eyes, he saw eyes with hidden sadness on the opposite side.

"Ley..."

Suddenly closing his eyes, Ley opened his hands lightly, then left slightly, and said to Cole, "Go eat, I am a little confident in my craft." Just like that, he changed the subject, and the sadness in his eyes also disappeared. It disappeared, replaced by a faint smile.

Smiling, forbearing, painful, eyes that I can't understand.

Seeing this look, Cole hesitated, until he was brought into the room by Ley, still looking at his back.

Weird guy.

After dinner, Ley took out the moonlight leaves and put them in the water. The quiet colors sprinkled in the cabin and reflected on the faces of the two of them.

He didn't intend to go out at night, and he didn't know what to say to Ley, so Cole stared blankly at Ley who had been busy all the time.

Ley has been fiddling with his medicine.

The back is simple, lonely, and a little bleak.

After a long time, I finally couldn't help but ask, "Have you always been like this for so many years?"

Unexpectedly, Ley sighed and laughed, and while continuing to get the medicine, he replied: "Yeah."

Cole turned his head, looked quietly at the cold light from the moonlight leaves beside him, and asked with a sigh, "Aren't you lonely?"

His figure shook, and after a while, Ley turned around quietly, and said with a smile, "Isn't there still you?"

"Why are you guarding me like that?" Cole finally asked, and then looked directly at Ley, who was still moving.

Time seemed to stand still, and the sound of each other's breathing could almost be heard.

After a long time, Ley finally replied softly: "Because I swore to him to always be by your side."

……he?

I wanted to continue asking, but my eyelids slowly became heavy, and a sudden sleepiness swept over my whole body.

Then, fell asleep like this.

In the haze, I felt a warm and soft object lightly falling on my forehead, and then someone held my hands and said something.It was like a dream, but he knew it was real, like a whisper that kept repeating in his mind, sad and happy, but ecstatic to despair.

However, he couldn't hear clearly. ?