{"id":172,"date":"2018-04-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betwixtedbutterfly.com\/translations\/2018\/04\/09\/gentle-beast-60\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:07:55","slug":"gb60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betwixtedbutterfly.com\/translations\/gb60\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle Beast 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The door slammed open, hitting the wall with a loud bang.<\/p>

. . .<\/p>

The other side was empty and quiet.<\/p>

Looking around at the houses across the street, the doors were all closed, like no one had come back at all.<\/p>

Ryan’s brow stretched, then he turned to Winter and eyes glinted coldly, “If you day saw those words again, you won’t live long.”<\/p>

<\/a>Winter touched the top of his head, “Your female is at the back of the mountain and won’t hear it anyway. . .”<\/p>

Ryan looked at him and his dark blue eyes seemed to carry a stormy sea.<\/p>

Winter immediately shut up and respectfully said, “Yes, Chief.”<\/p>

*<\/p>

On the other side, beyond the hill.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu was “thrown” out of her space and dropped onto her knees, palms pressed against the rough grass. Her thoughts were in disordered.<\/p>

All she could think about was Winter’s words.<\/p>

They were deceiving her?<\/p>

What did they mean, Pat wasn’t dead?<\/p>

Why did Ryan do this? Didn’t he promise to help her find Pat. . . were they fake?<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu tightened his fingers and raised his eyes to find that she had reappeared at the back of the mountain.<\/p>

Just as Ryan pushed the door, she hid in her space reflexively.<\/p>

\u2014\u2014Now that she had been “moved” by the space?<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu remembered the last time she had used the space’s teleportation that she had almost been killed by Laurence.<\/p>

Why did she do it this time? Every time her mind began to fluctuate wildly and wanted to escape something, her space would make the decision for her?<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu was utterly confused.<\/p>

“Hey, why are you still here?” a voice called out to J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu from overhead, suddenly interrupting her thoughts.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu looked up and saw Suzanna standing in front of her carrying a bamboo basket. There were two grey hares inside, and in her other hand, she dragged a few palm leaves. She looked in a rush to get home.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu hesitated, “. . . what’s wrong?”<\/p>

Suzanna pointed to the sky. Heavy dark clouds hung over the valley, looking as though rain could fall any moment. “Rainy season is coming. There will be torrential rain over the next few days. The terrain is low here. If you don’t hurry back, then heavy rain will come and you’ll drown.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu stood up, “But I haven’t spoken to Walker yet. . .”<\/p>

“They’ve already gone home long ago!” Suzanna said the truth. Once the sky darkened, Walker, Joel and Selwyn left. “Who else do you see here? You’re staggering on the floor. . . by the way, why are you lying here?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu tacitly didn’t tell the truth, “I went home to get a few things, accidentally fell over.”<\/p>

Suzanna’s mouth curled, undisguised disgust, “You really are useless, can’t even walk without falling.” She said so while reaching out a hand to lift her off the ground, “The rain hasn’t started yet, you’d better hurry and go back with me.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu slightly stalled. Going back meant facing Ryan, and she wasn’t ready to face him yet. . .<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu looked up at the distant peaks and the black clouds rolling over, the hazy fog a sign of the oncoming rainstorm.<\/p>

Suzanna urged her, “Hey, can you walk?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu have her hand to Suzanna and nodded, “En.”<\/p>

Suzanna walked quickly home, and J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu hurried to catch up with her, soon reaching her doorstep.<\/p>

Rain was already beginning to fall, and they hit the ground, like ink from above.<\/p>

Ryan’s house was at the end of the road and Suzanna told J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu goodbye, planning to go on home.<\/p>

“Wait a minute, Suzanna,” J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu suddenly stopped her, her dark eyes full of sincerity, “I have a question for you.”<\/p>

Suzanna raised the palm leaf over her head. Her kitchen roof was leaking and she wanted to use it for repairs. “What’s the problem.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu weighed carefully, “If. . . i mean, if Winter deceived you, would you be angry with him?”<\/p>

Suzanna immediately said, annoyed, “What? Did he deceive me of something?”<\/p>

“No, no. I mean, if.” J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu hurriedly waved her hand, fearing that Suzanna misunderstood, “He isn’t lying to you. It’s just an analogy.”<\/p>

Suzanna calmed down, the raindrops hitting the palm leaves over her head giving a crisp sound.<\/p>

“It depends on his reasons. If it’s for my sake, I won’t dispute about it. If he’s guilty and wanted to hide something, I’d certainly be angry.”<\/p>

“If he deliberately concealed news of your family? Like Scarlet. . .”<\/p>

“He dared to do that, and I’d immediately be looking for another spouse!”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu: “. . .”<\/p>

. . .<\/p>

Saying farewell to Suzanna, she stood at the gate in front of Ryan’s house. The rain was getting heavier and heavier.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu raised her hand to knock on the door and it was soon opened from inside.<\/p>

Ryan stood at the doorway, a thick circle of mud on the edge of his boots, as if he had been looking for her.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu raised her face but, before she could speak, she shivered and sneezed.<\/p>

“Where have you been?” Ryan immediately took her into his arms and covered her head with his hands, striding into the house.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu rubbed his nose and dropped his eyelashes, “I went to the hill to teach Walker and the others about gunpowder. . . “<\/p>

“I went down to the hill and Walker said you were coming back for something,” Ryan said.<\/p>

When he said that, Ryan stared at J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu to see all of her expressions.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu restrained her emotions and clamped her fingers on Ryan’s shoulders, “I met Suzanna on the way. Suzanna said the rainy season was coming soon. I didn’t come back to get something, instead walking with her. Her roof is leaking and she needed to pick up some palm leaves to fix it.”<\/p>

Those were what J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu guessed after seeing the leaves in her hands. She hadn’t actually told her those details.<\/p>

Ryan’s face eased slightly and walked into the house, taking J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu’s blanket from the side cabinet and wrapped her in it. “As Suzanna said. It’s going to rain for the next few days. Don’t teach them for the time being. It’s best to stay at home.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu looked at him, “What about you?”<\/p>

Ryan: “I’m going to lead the tribe on a hunt tomorrow.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu’s hands under the blanket were cold and she couldn’t find the words, “You aren’t afraid of the rain?”<\/p>

“The rainy season has little effect on animals.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu nodded and stopped talking.<\/p>

Ryan stretched out his hands to rub the rain off her lashes and found her face was cold. He went to rekindle the fire and took her into his arms, sitting in front of the fire. He wrapped up her little hands. “Cold?” Her body trembled slightly.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu buried her head and she subconsciously moved closer to him, nasally voicing, “En.”<\/p>

Ryan heard that and simply turned into his animal form, wrapping up her entire body.<\/p>

The body temperature of leopards were high, running even forty degrees or higher.<\/p>

Soon afterwards, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu forced her head up from under him, “Enough Ryan. . . I’m getting hot.”<\/p>

Ran touched her hands and it wasn’t as cold, so he let her go.<\/p>

Switching back to his humanoid shape, Ryan asked her, “What do you want to eat tonight.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu sat up and thought hard, “Braised eel.”<\/p>

She had watched her mother cooking and it left a bit of an impression. She told Ryan how to do it and finally, asked expectantly, “Will you?”<\/p>

The words in Ryan’s mouth “won’t” were quickly taken back and he said instead, “I’ll try.” Then he added, “No eel, catfish will do?”<\/p>

Eel only lived in eastern Bornia, thousands of miles from here.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu paused and said with regret, “Okay.”<\/p>

Ryan turned and walked out the door.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu sat cross-legged next to the fireplace and soon heard the sounds of cooking in the kitchen.<\/p>

Ryan had no experience with human food and was very unskilled. The only thing he could cook was the stewed catfish soup from when J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu was sick.<\/p>

. . .<\/p>

Sure enough, she soon saw the kitchen chimney billowing out smoke.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu did not go back to help and went to the bedside cabinet, taking out the stone Winter had brought back.<\/p>

The stone was still engraved with lines that J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu couldn’t understand. At the beginning, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu had been thinking hard about it for a long time. What did it mean? Now that she knew, perhaps there was no “meaning.”<\/p>

\u2014\u2014This was just the cover they used to lie to her.<\/p>

*<\/p>

Ryan came out of the kitchen and walked into the bedroom to see her standing in front of the cabinet, motionless.<\/p>

When Ryan saw what she was holding in her hand, his face slightly changed and his voice was low, “What are you looking at?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu turned her head and pursed her lips, shaking her head, “Nothing, just looking at it.”<\/p>

Ryan saw there was nothing abnormal in her expression and his mood sank, putting the bowl on the table. Just before he could speak, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu scuttled behind him without warning, “Ryan, my map. Did you throw it away?”<\/p>

Ryan’s actions stilled.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu looked at him, clearly, “When my compass was broken, was it you?”<\/p>

When the compass was bad, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu felt it was strange. Why couldn’t she use it?<\/p>

The map that was later drawn was placed in her backpack, no one had moved it, but it could not be found.<\/p>

She wasn’t dull, but she had been unwilling to speculate about it.<\/p>

She had always believed in Ryan, and even when Winter told her Pat was dead, she never doubted him.<\/p>

Today, however, she heard him and Winter talking about Pat and how they were deceiving her.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu didn’t get Ryan’s response and stubbornly asked again, “Is it not?”<\/p>

After a long time, Ryan’s voice was heavy, “Yes.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu swayed and raised her face, throat choking, “Pat isn’t dead, is he?”<\/p>

“Right,” Ryan said.<\/p>

“So why did you lie to me?”<\/p>

Ryan bent over and slowly raised his eyes, “I wanted you to stay here with me and be my spouse forever.”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu shook her head, her emotions a bit out of control, “I can stay beside you. . . but it cannot be this way. You can’t lie to me. Pat’s obviously not dead, why’d you lie to me that he was dead. . .”<\/p>

When she learned that Pat was dead, that feeling of helplessness and desperation, she still remembered.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu could not accept that Ryan apparently knew what she cared about most but still cruelly deceived her.<\/p>

How could he be so selfish if he just wanted her to stay?<\/p>

Ryan clasped her shoulders, blue eyes staring at her, “If I didn’t say that, would you willingly stay?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu’s silence was answer enough.<\/p>

Ryan lifted the side of his mouth, cold and cruel, “That is also my answer.”<\/p>

Perhaps this sentence triggered her, perhaps Ryan’s attitude was too strong. J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu suddenly broke free from Ryan and ran outside.<\/p>

Outside it was pouring rain and just the short distance from the bedroom to the door, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu was drenched.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu had her hand on the door, but she didn’t have the time to open it. She was caught from behind by the shoulder and Ryan pulled her back into the room.<\/p>

“Let me go, you let me go!” J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu desperately struggled, her voice whimpering with tears, “Ryan, I hate you!”<\/p>

Ryan paced and asked, “This is why you didn’t want to mate with me?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu said, “Yes. I don’t want to mate with a leopard!”<\/p>

Ryan suddenly stopped, his face separated by the rain, and was dark and difficult to distinguish.<\/p>

. . .<\/p>

*<\/p>

That evening J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu had trouble going to sleep, and Ryan felt helpless. He simply lifted a hand to her neck and knocked her out.<\/p>

The next day, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu woke up and Ryan was no longer at home.<\/p>

The heavy rain was still falling outside and was even heavier than the night before, falling from the sky like pillars.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu dressed and wanted to go out and take a look.<\/p>

However, when she placed her hand on the door and pulled gently\u2014\u2014<\/p>

The wooden door didn’t move.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu tried again but it still didn’t open.<\/p>

She quickly realized that the door was locked from outside.<\/p>

Ryan locked her up at home?<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu was shocked and frustrated. Originally, after a night of thinking, she had calmed down a lot. But now, looking at the closed wooden door, there was a certain kind of panic.<\/p>

Why did he lock the door? Afraid she would escape?<\/p>

She had thought about it last night. It was rainy season, and she couldn’t have gotten far even if she fled.<\/p>

If they could, they should try to communicate with each other. No matter what, it was wrong of him to deceive her.<\/p>

But now. . .<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu staggered over to sit in a chair and inadvertently touched the backpack next to her. The contents were all spilled out.<\/p>

Flashlight, selfie-stick, taser, mobile phone. . .<\/p>

The phone was knocked onto the floor, and had just powered back on, the screen lighting up.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu picked up everything and put them back into her backpack. She planned to wait for Ryan to come back and try to talk to him.<\/p>

However, J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu waited until six that afternoon from six that morning and Ryan did not return.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu looked at the minute hand on her watch and her mood sank bit by bit.<\/p>

Did he deliberately not come back, or was there something wrong?<\/p>

At 5:59pm, the second hand passed through the final frame and the sky outside darkened, becoming night.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu stood up and walked to the window to prepare to close the window.<\/p>

Suddenly, there seemed to be a familiar sound.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu motions stiffened, and she waited. But the sound continued.<\/p>

The ringing bell was the most common melody.<\/p>

\u2014\u2014From her backpack.<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu quickly left the window and took her phone out of the backpack. Even if she couldn’t see the “Caller ID”, she clicked the answer button and put it to her ear.<\/p>

She was afraid the phone would suddenly hang up.<\/p>

The person on the other side didn’t seem to think that they would get connected. They froze, and a soft voice asked with excitement, “\u014cu, is that you?”<\/p>

J\u01d0 Xi\u01ceo \u014cu’s hands holding the phone trembled, and, very slowly, she asked inconceivably, “Mo, Mom?”<\/p>

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