Chapter 6

The Priestess's status in the tribe was actually higher than the Chief's.

Because the Priestess was not only responsible for rituals and divination, and the tribe's secret knowledge, but also for healing injured shifters.

After all, medical systems in primitive societies were extremely scarce; whether a shifter survived an injury depended entirely on the Priestess, the sole inheritor of medicinal knowledge in the tribe.

Anya carried me back to her stone dwelling, then carefully placed my body on the stone bed covered with animal hides.

Her brilliant golden eyes watched me intently. "You sit for a bit, I'll get you a blanket."

I nodded at her.

Soon, she returned from a wooden chest with a large animal hide blanket.

But to my surprise, she wasn't getting the blanket to cover me; instead, she spread it over the stone bed again.

After neatly laying out the blanket, she gazed directly at my exposed skin. "Your skin looks very delicate. I'll put an extra layer of blanket for you, so the stone bed won't be rough."

It wasn't that no males in the tribe had shown her affection or made advances.

But she had always shown little interest in the tribe's males.

Today, meeting me, she realized that she actually liked strong and resolute males like me.

Moreover, my scent was truly wonderful, intoxicating her to the point where she couldn't bear to be far from me.