183 A Discovery (2/2)

Laz went outside while still mostly naked and sat down while looking at nothing, his mind trying to lock down what he had seen.

After an unknown amount of time, Vivi came out of the camper and jumped on Laz while smacking him in the face a few times with her paws to get his attention, waking him up from his absentminded state.

*Don't you have stuff to do today?* She asked, seeing him come to?

”Yeah. I'm going out with the girls...”

*Are you now?*

”Yes. Why?”

*UGH, I don't even know... just don't forget something, ok?*

”What?” Laz asked, a bit confused.

*That there are people who care about you already.*

”Of course I know that,” Laz responded, wondering what she was getting at.

*Then don't just go and keep finding new girls to get your dick wet, ALRIGHT?*

Laz was struck dumb, for a number of reasons.

'Get my dick wet? Since when has she said stuff like this? And why is she angry about that? After all she... OOOOHHHHH'

”Ah... I see. I'm sorry,” Laz said with all honesty.

*It's good that you, HEY. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?*

”Obviously you're mad at me for not spending enough time with you. So come on and let me get you done up right to make up for time.”

*YOU STUPID, DENSE, MORONIC BROTHER. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE PROBLEM ACTUALLY IS, DO YOU?*

Despite Vivi's yells and protests, those stopped soon afterwards as Laz spent almost 3 hours of his morning, brushing her, doing her nails, rubbing her skin and spending time with her. Although this wasn't what the issue was and wasn't what Vivi was looking for, she didn't say anything and just enjoyed the time while it happened. After all, she did enjoy a good pamper and that was what this was.

By the time he was done, Vivi felt like a new little wolf pup who was puddy in her big bro's hands. Not all girls were lucky enough to get this kind of attention. As for Laz, he didn't mind. As far as he was concerned, Vivi was his sister and had been with him longer than anyone else, therefore she deserved his attention.

After this was done, Laz ended up going for a run up and down the mountain area. It was a rare thing for him to do this by himself as he normally would have someone else with him, but because he was by himself, he was able to go all out, going way faster than any other human could hope to match.

Before he knew it, he was already far away from where he had ever been before. It was an open spot clearing that looked like it had a dirt road that lead to it. Although the spot seemed peaceful, Laz caught the feel of something in the air that made him pause.

It wasn't a smell, but it had a sort of stench to it. At the same time it was kind of a feeling that spoke of foreboding mixed with a hint of death. Looking around though, Laz didn't discover anything. After taking a few laps around the area, Laz still couldn't put his finger on it. Instead of giving up though, he sat down in the middle of the clearing and tried to focus his senses while closing his eyes. The result was almost instantaneous.

There was the feeling of death here and a strong one at that.

Spreading out his spiritual senses farther, Laz started to find hits of things spread around that had been missed by his earlier search.

Animal tracks, demon beast tracks and even some small pieces of bone that had been discarded within the thick brush at leading out of the clearing. It was hard to make out what it was as it had been smashed into the ground so Laz ended up picking himself up and walking over to check for himself.

He quickly found what he had sensed.

It was a human skull.

Laz knew nothing about forensics, but from watching crime shows with his mom from back when they were still around, he was able to figure out that based on the color and the amount of bugs on it, that it hadn't been here for long. How long was anyone's guess, but he could only say it wasn't remains that were like years old. Looking around some more, he actually found other bones and even a couple more skulls spread around that patch of brush. Combined with the various tracks left from some sort of demon beast, Laz was able to come to one conclusion.

There was a demon beast that had been eating humans here.

The question that he really wanted an answer to was where was it getting the humans it was eating?

After thinking it over, he could only come up with one hypothesis; With only one dirt road leading here and no bits of human settlements in sight, Laz could only guess that someone was dropping bodies off here that would then be eaten by the beasts in the area.

'Well... this makes things a bit more interesting...'