514 DXVI. The Restless Nigh

"I need to sleep now, I'm so tired. Take that girl off the table, she can't stay there all night" she replied, clarifying that her task was completed and that tiredness had taken over.

"All right, go to bed... I'll catch up with you in a minute… I need to place Claire somewhere else by now" he answered, who was still thinking that after all, his answer had slightly riled Freydis, who rarely treated him with that coldness.

He stopped in front of Claire's naked and warm body, looking at it one last time before covering it and noting that all her wounds, even the smallest, had been treated accurately.

"I can't leave her naked in front of the fire, I have to cover her in somehow" he thought, looking around and noting that Freydis' nightdress was still hanging on the wall and that his girlfriend was already sleeping completely naked under thick fur blankets.

He took the long white dress Freydis had used the previous night and was careful not to hurt Claire, who had deep cuts even behind her back, slowly lifting her by the neck, making her sit on the table.

Continuing to hold her as if she was an inanimate doll, he slipped the nightdress on her upper body and made her lie down again to cover her intimate parts, which remained uncovered until then.

"When she'll be back to health and will get up again on her feet, she will take a nice bath and this stink that surrounds her will disappear" he thought, while the stench of the blood in which her body had been immersed for a long time continued to enter his nose, which by now had become accustomed to that bad smell.

Before laying down the girl's unconscious body, he approached the bed on which Freydis was sleeping and took one of the furs resting on it, placing it on the floor about a meter from the fireplace, exactly where Thalos was sleeping, knowing that he could not help his master in any way.

He then lifted Claire off the table, feeling under his hands the softness of her body, which was wrapped only in a thin layer of fabric. 

Turning his gaze slightly towards Freydis, to make sure she was sleeping soundly, he moved one of his hands under the unconscious girl's butt, to lift her more easily and at the same time take advantage of the fact that she had lost her senses to palpate her lower back, also soft and warm, after sitting on the fur on the table all the surgery long.

Dag knelt by the fireplace and placed Claire on the fur carpet, with extreme delicacy, as if handling an incredibly fragile object.

Thalos, when he realized that the girl with whom he had spent several days of his life was reduced to those conditions, sat down, waiting for his master to rest in front of him.

*scratch*

"Grr?!" 

"Uhm? What is it?" 

Suddenly, while Dag was talking to his four-legged friend, they both heard a sudden noise coming from the window and turned in that direction at the same time.

Dag, thanks to his sight, was able to distinguish a blurry shadow, which as soon as realized he had been discovered, quickly exited the field of view, emitting a quick noise of footsteps.

"Fuck, they're spying on us! It must be some Lies Of Loki! We must capture him, Thalos!" he exclaimed, who immediately rose from the ground and snapped towards the door, quickly grabbing his the with his weapons, followed by Thalos, who had already writhed the hair of his neck sensing an enemy presence.

The two dashed out the door, being careful to lock it up.

Dag slammed it forcefully on purpose, to wake Freydis, who would otherwise have been helpless in case that shadow from the window was just a bait to lure him and his wolf out of the house.

As calculated, in fact, a moment after the door made a loud noise, the young girl awoke with a start, raising her head toward the main room and noting that Dag and Thalos were no longer there.

...

"Where the fuck did you go, son of a bitch?!" Dag exclaimed, running in the direction in which the shadow had shifted a moment earlier, along the only possible path.

"Grrr... argh! Argh! Argh!" Thalos growled, running faster than him and turning slightly to the right, behind a small palace.

"Go, chase him! Tell me where he is, we can't let him escape!" Dag yelled again, inciting his wolf, who was following his sense of smell.

After a hundred meters traveled almost into the darkness, while most of Tungvek's citizens were in their homes having dinner or sleeping, the noise of footsteps grew louder and a running figure became visible before their eyes.

"Hey! Stop, don't force me to hurt you!" Dag yelled, trying to peacefully block the spy's advance, which for obvious reasons continued to run away, changing direction several times, hoping to evade Thalos, who was getting closer and closer to his prey, growling and breathing deeply.

"Stop!" Dag screamed again, who when he noticed that the fleeing person would try to escape from them to the exhaust of his strength, activated his power, creating a bundle of dark matter from his back.

The large tentacle grew progressively during the run and when Dag suddenly blocked his advance, stopping his feet on the ground, it was shot at great speed forward, stretching about ten meters and grabbing one of the ankles of the unfortunate man, who stumbled and fell with his face to the ground, writhing in pain.