Injury

Mary stood there with him for a while in silence. He looked at her and pointed to the door. Mary nodded, understanding that he was asking her if she wanted to leave.

When Mary was about to leave, her shoulder suddenly burned with pain. She held her shoulder with her hand and squatted down in pain.

Mary saw his tail slithered around in the corner of her eye. She peeked at him. She saw him wearing a worried expression and he was looking left and right, desperately searching for something.

For some reason, he slithered to a wardrobe near the box that Mary came out from. Her injury burned more badly, she closed her eyes from the pain, it was unbearable.

Then, she heard a hiss. She looked up and saw him holding a first aid kit. He moved closer to Mary, put the first aid kit down and bent over to take a look at her injury.

He stretched his hand out and took a bundle of bandages out of the first aid kit. His hands got closer to her wounds. Suddenly, he stopped and shoved it into Mary's hands.

After giving Mary a bundle of bandages, he slithered to the door and coiled up, waiting for her to be done. Mary was stunned for a while and bandaged her wounds.

She thought. Why did he stop? Is he respecting my rules? No, that's impossible! Is he just trying to be innocent and devour me in the end?

Mary glanced up at him. He was sitting there, his ears down and staring at her. Mary looked back down, avoiding his stare and continued bandaging her wounds.

After some time, Mary patched up her wounds. She stood up and walked out of the room. He followed her from behind. Mary continued walking down the corridor but he kept following her.

Mary got annoyed and asked, "Why are you following me?"

He looked at Mary, confused and used his hands to point at Mary and himself. Then, he used both his hands to shake each other like last time.

Mary glared at him still with an annoyed face and said "Even if we're friends doesn't mean you have to follow me around! Now, get going!"

He didn't move an inch like he didn't hear her. Instead, he pointed at Mary's stomach and opened his mouth, revealing his sharp fangs. He pointed his mouth too.

Mary looked at him, horror-shock. Is he going to eat me? So fast! But if he is going to eat me, he wouldn't have told me, right?

She was thinking hard until her stomach let out a growl. She could feel her face turn pink in embarrassment. He looked at Mary and turned away from her. Mary could see him doing a shoulder laugh.

Mary could feel her face turning as red as a tomato now. She said "Um...so where is the kitchen?" in an embarrassed tone.

He turned his sight back to Mary and tilted his head, confused.

"Like...you know. The place you can cook at."

He still looked at her, confused.

"The place that has food."

He hit his hand with his other hand, which was shaped into a fist. He nodded happily in understanding and indicated his hand to a double door at the very end of the corridor.

Mary was about to ask him something but he left excitedly, dashing towards the double door.

Mary shouted "Wait!" and quickly chased after him. He was too fast, she could only chase after the tip of his tail.

After a while of running, she reached the double door, panting breathlessly as he smiled at her.