“I love how instead of asking if everyone else is okay you two immediately go straight to flirting.” Mai whispered specifically to Yue with telepathy. Yue immediately turned red and backed away a bit, sending a glare at the bell tower. Mai only giggled in response.

“I-Is everyone okay? We won’t be moving until sunrise but if you're heavily injured you should get help immediately.” Yue said telepathically with bright red cheeks.

“Not many of them came here, I think most of them stayed with you guys.” Alexius said telepathically.

“That’s good...We’ll meet at sunrise then..” Yue murmured.

It was a bit awkward now that Yue was very embarrassed. But they mostly stood while keeping guard as the time passed. Yue’s back started to feel worse and worse as time passed and his pain-relieving spell wore off. He had yet to even attempt to heal it because his own open wound was actually the best source of material to analyze the fog with. He also wouldn't have the time to finish healing it if the werewolves decided to have their second wave. He would have been bleeding out if Viktor didn’t tightly tie his blazer around him so the long gash would be tightly covered.

When the sun finally started to rise Yue felt his legs almost give out. Viktor quickly caught him and told everyone to gather back at the inn. He held Yue by his waist as he helped walk him there. They made it to the lobby of the inn and the innkeeper who had gotten up early to help make food for them was shocked as she saw Yue’s injury. She calmed down a bit when she noticed that everyone else was unscathed but she still looked on, worried. Mai was even more shocked, she didn’t realize that the blood actually came from Yue and not from the werewolves until she looked up close. She forced Yue to sit down with his back facing her and removed both jackets to see the large gash. She didn’t remove any more of Yue's clothes because there were boys around.

“Oh my god, I didn’t realize you were that injured!” Mai exclaimed and immediately tried to heal Yue. Yue was going to protest about how he was going to use his blood to test what the fog was made out of but Viktor seemed to have predicted that.

“It’s fine, your precious sample is on my jacket anyway.” Viktor said and rolled his eyes, beginning to heal him with Mai.

“Were they really that bad? They’re just werewolves..” Elizabeth said and scoffed. She had been lucky and was guarding an area that the fog didn’t even reach.

“Unlike you guys, Yue and I got a continuous flow of them for an entire hour..” Viktor snapped, annoyed that someone who didn’t even experience the wave of werewolves was trying to make belittle Yue's effort. Elizabeth flinched and looked as if she had been wronged, she quickly left the scene, shame was all that she could feel as everyone looked at her with judging looks.

After a while of being healed, Yue was feeling better but he could just feel that the wound wasn’t healing how Viktor and Mai wanted it to. He raised his hand and shooed them away.

“Don’t waste your energy, this is probably as much as it’s going to heal…” Yue murmured, he was feeling much better but he was still very tired. There was definitely something up with that fog that made his wound like this. He decided that it was fine to see if the wound would heal by itself from there, he could feel that his magical energy was refilled though so he didn’t have to worry about his transformation spell.

“Ma’am, Do you have a first aid kit?” Viktor asked the Innkeeper in German. The lady quickly nodded and went to get it. She handed it to Viktor but Mai quickly stole it from him and helped walk Yue to his room to help dress his wound.

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“You’ve become so affectionate lately~” Mai teased, trying to ease her worry for Yue as she dressed his wound.

“It’s not like that...I think..” Yue murmured and looked down at the ground. He was failing to convince himself that he felt nothing for Viktor. He snapped out of his thoughts when he realized Mai had frozen and been silent for a while, he looked back at her and noticed her shocked look.

“I will deflect anyone trying to steal your man, don’t worry!” Mai said excitedly and almost went to squeeze Yue tightly before she remembered his injury.

“H-He’s not my man..” Yue murmured and blushed as he went to his trunk and opened it to get his spare shirt.

“Yeah sure he isn’t, I'll get you breakfast so just rest for now.” Mai said and smiled before leaving the room.

After putting on his shirt, Yue squeezed the blood off the two jackets he had been wearing over his wound and poured it into a glass bottle to examine it when he felt a bit better. He used magic to clean and repair his own jacket and Viktor’s jacket. He felt weird keeping it in his room and even weirder keeping it in his hands. He folded it and placed it on the desk in the room, distracting himself from his burning cheeks by fixing and cleaning his shirt as well.

Mai soon returned with some food and made Yue promise to eat and then sleep before she left to get her own food. Yue actually kept his promise, he felt physically and mentally tired after the eventful night and wanted to just relax for a bit. He laid down on his stomach to avoid agitating his wound and fell asleep.