Being In Heat

Once the rain had cleared up Zara and Ayan walked back home in silence, but both quiet for different reasons.

Thinking to herself Zara was having an internal panic attack "How could my period come at such a crucial time! I mean I have been wondering why I hadn't gotten yet but it couldn't have waited one more day! What was another day late going to do! Ayan must have been horrified to have all that going on down there! Ack! He's probably thinking about how disgusting it was!" Zara thought with such an exasperated look on her face.

Ayan on the other hand was quite pleased with himself, perhaps he hadn't gotten to complete the contract with Zara but he had taken such a huge leap toward it that it had almost happened. Ayan was also happy about the fact that Zara had gotten her period, for the females and Beastmen here, that meant a chance at offspring.

As soon as Zara entered the small stone house she could see Reiner sitting in the corner skinning an animal that he had just caught.

He stopped what he was doing and with a straight face asked Zara, "Zara, are you in heat?"

"Eeeek! Why are all the men around me bringing this up!" She thought.

"Erm, I'm just on my period is all Reiner, in fact I'm quite surprised you could even tell...."

"Of course I can, I could smell you before you even entered the room."

Hearing that Zara knelt to the ground and put her hands over her head, "Ack! I just want to disappear right now!"

"What wrong? It's a perfectly natural thing for females to go through once a year." Ayan said happily.

"Once a year!" Zara exclaimed, "the females of this world have truly been blessed with such handsome men around them all the time and now this! Why must I be cursed?!"

Reiner and Ayan looked at each other in confusion having no idea what Zara was going on about.

Zara sat up, "More importantly why are you so happy about this Ayan?"

"Why? Because that means there's an opportunity to produce offspring of course! Plus, being that I'm going to be your first male, of course I would be happy."

Zara sat stunned with a frown on her face, and at the same time Reiner threw a bloody piece of meat at Ayans face.

"Why don't you have your fun with that instead." Reiner said with such a scary expression on his face.

"Ack! You're just jealous that I'm going to be the first to make a contract with Zara as well as father her first litter of offspring!" Ayan declared.

Reiner now with what seemed murderous intent picked up the knife he was holding and threw it at Ayans head barely missing and hitting the back wall instead.

"Zara! Reiners trying to kill me!"

"It should take a lot of than that to kill you mutt."

Zara could hear Reiner and Ayan bickering in the background as always, but she was lost in thought while all of that was going on.

"What's going to happen now? I was finally willing to accept Ayan but now they're talking about children, can I really still do this?"

While Ayan and Reiner were still fighting Zara lifted her head up and asked, "Can someone bring me some cotton?"

"Cotton?" Both Ayan and Reiner asked at the same time.