Exiled Villainess: They Threw Me Out, Now Every Beastman Wants Me novel Chapter 120

Chapter 120: Playing With Fire

"You have fur and fangs and stomachs that can handle raw meat. I have NONE of those things. If I don’t cook this meat, I cannot eat it. And if I cannot eat, I will starve."

Greymaw’s lip curled. "Then perhaps the shiftless one should have stayed with her own—"

Calis cut him a look so sharp the old wolf’s mouth clamped shut mid-sentence.

The silence that followed was heavy.

Tera took a deep breath to compose herself.

She faced Calis.

"Have you ever eaten roasted meat? Smoked meat? Anything that has been prepared over heat?"

Calis’ frown deepened. "We eat our meat fresh."

Tera sighed.

"I understand your worries, but I am not summoning a forest fire. Fire is safe as long as it is controlled. I just want to cook my meat." Tera gestured around them. "Look at this place. The ground is too wet, the air is humid, and even the trees are moist. Fire cannot even spread, even if I wanted it to. It’d be a struggle for me to even make one."

Calis stared like her words had gone right over his head.

"I did not understand a word you said. And the ground is not wet. What are you saying?"

’No shit!’

"Fire cannot spread in a place like this."

Greymaw’s eyes narrowed. "You lie."

"Science does not lie!"

"What is science?"

She turned to Calis. "I need fire to eat. If you want me to stay alive long enough for my mates to arrive, I need to be allowed to make a small, controlled fire."

Calis’ eyes held strong disapproval, but it seemed like he was giving her some thought. He was likely weighing her words against the old fears and warnings of his elders.

This female was in his care. He had taken her from her territory, and he had not even considered that she couldn’t eat what his pack ate.

He felt annoyed with himself.

"No fire," he said gruffly.

Tera turned to walk away. She was going to do it at a distance. No one was going to tell her what to—

"What do you eat?" Calis asked.

She paused and eyed him. "Cooked meat, fruits, and vegetables. Food that doesn’t still look like it’s waiting to run away."

"Fruits are scarce here," Calis said slowly. "And I do not know what ’cooked’ means."

Calis turned to two wolves nearby. "Go and find fruits she can eat."

The two wolves stood up, shifting to their human form.

"Alpha? There is no fruit near—"

"Look harder."

They lowered their heads and turned away.

Calis’s thoughts drifted for a moment. He remembered the area where he had found Tera. The large lake, the healthy trees, the abundance of fruit-bearing plants. That land was richer than this one.

When his scouts returned from that clan, he would send more wolves there to scout the area.

But that was for later.

Right now, a shiftless female was going to starve because he had been too preoccupied with information-gathering to think about what she actually needed to survive.

"Wait!" Tera called after the departing wolves, feeling sorry for them.

She was not about to inconvenience these wolves like this and make them further dislike her.

"They don’t need to get anything."

Calis looked confused.

Tera had, at that very moment, realised that even making a fire would be a problem. A quick scour of the floor did not reveal that the stones used to make fires were nowhere near, and with the earth being moist in this region, uprooting a dry one would be difficult.

She needed—

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