The Snow Leopard Baby of the Black Leopard Family

“Gasp!”

At that moment, Tiel woke up. Her back was drenched in cold sweat. Her white, curly hair was wet and stuck to her forehead.

“Miss?”

Ria, who had been dozing by the bed, was startled by Tiel’s presence and woke up. She placed her hand gently on Tiel's forehead, her face full of concern.

“Miss, are you alright?”

“Huh? Mmm, I’m fine... But why are you here, Ria?”

Tiel didn’t resist Ria’s soft touch and answered. Ria gently wiped the cold sweat from Tiel’s forehead with careful hands.

“You had been ill all night, so I stayed by your side, watching over you and taking care of you.”

Tiel thought back, trying to recall what she had been doing just before falling asleep.

‘Iain-nim took me to the spatial dimension.’

And then?

Iain Dross had comforted her there, and Tiel remembered lying down next to him and falling asleep. She also remembered that Iain had shown her his ‘animal form’ to comfort her...

But after that, she couldn’t remember anything. It seemed that after she fell asleep, Iain must have carried her while she was asleep and returned to the Everard Estate.

“Did you have a bad dream?”

Ria asked with a worried look, her eyebrows drooping.

Tiel nodded.