A statuesque Wolverine, standing there, gazed at Estelle with a pair of bewildered eyes.

Rising to her feet, Estelle gripped a knife in her hand, locking gaze with the Wolverine in the darkness. Her expression was serene, a silent pact that as long as the Wolverine didn’t provoke her, she wouldn’t harm it either.

Sensing no ill intent from Estelle, the Wolverine let out a grunt and settled itself onto the ground.

Estelle followed suit and sat down.

In the darkness, human and beast sat facing each other.

The Wolverine kept its eyes on Estelle, looking somewhat displeased, yet it didn’t attack.

Estelle felt something was amiss, her mind raced, and then it clicked. She pointed at the straw on the ground and asked, “Is this yours?”

After a pause, she added, “Do you understand me? If not, we can converse in another language.”

It seemed the Wolverine got the gist as it snorted through its nose in a gesture that felt like it was saying, “You finally get it.”

in tree hollows? What’s with the straw bedding? And here she was, unwittingly squatting in

about to stand and relinquish the spot to the Wolverine when she noticed it eyeing a sandwich wrapper

and pulled out a

seated on the ground, grinned with a hearty

let’s make a deal,” Estelle proposed merrily. “I’ll give you this one, and you let

nodded in

sighed in relief, amused

placed the tiramisu before

first, but then joyfully

cake from her stash and offered it as

nestled into the straw and

up to find the girl already asleep on the straw. It ambled to another

languidly, she collected her water bottle and the empty cake wrappers, tucking them into her bag. Then, she left another slice of cake by the straw as a

She tossed her bag in and continued on the road, hoping to

she had driven thirty miles without sighting a gas station, she sensed

her car sputtered, running on

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