Chapter 3 Winning her over

Her heart gave the saddest thump she had ever experienced, it painfully dropped to the pit of her stomach at a very fast rate with a very loud noise. Her eyes twitched then widened at that instant, it kept happening simultaneously and the hands holding the flower shook a little before starting to vibrate.

Had it been an illusion?

Was she really getting crazy?

What just happened?

Her brain could not process anything at all. She should have looked around before letting herself be thrown into the shallow and rocky pit of shock and sudden sadness but no, her brain chose that moment to be unwise and she let it.

"Akira?" Came out as a strangled whisper instead of the searching loud voice as before. The veins around her neck threatened to protrude, her eyes reddened with immediate effect and her head started hurting. She could feel the earth beneath her feet starting to reel and she tried to have a complete balance on the ground.

'Hee...yo?'

The softest voice she had ever heard penetrated her soul and left her craving for more. Hearing the voice made her feel like she had been doused in a huge gourd of extremely cold water. Its effect was instantaneous, the trembling stopped and the pain in her head ceased.

Swiftly turning towards the direction of the voice, it was a miracle she did not get her head twisted, Diana lost her self-control. There stood close to one of the huge rocks an adorable naked little girl with porcelain skin, freckles on her cheek and nose, dark-brown massive wavy hair that seemed too much for her little head, hazel sparkling eyes and extra smallish in nature.

"Hello?" Diana responded with the widest smile she could conjure, she eyes getting crinkled. One would think her lips were about to get torn as she threw her previous worry out of her mind.

The slight titling of Akira's head to the right with her doe liked eyes on Diana as if studying the strange woman before her sent the older woman cooing and wanting to dig her hands into the abundance of hair on the little girl's head.

Staying that way for six seconds, Akira huffed as if tired and in confusion before bringing her naked butt down really hard on the rough rock that it made the older woman flinch with her eyes widening in concern. After the initial flinch, Diana took two steps towards the little adorable girl but stopped after still sensing a bit of fear.

She noticed her feet recoil, her hands tightly holding onto the rock as if hanging on for her dead life and her eyes slightly widening.

"What's the problem Honey?" Diana asked but the lad only stared at her. After trying to ask this way and that without receiving an answer, it left Diana confused.

After thinking for a while, it occurred to Diana that maybe the lad could not really speak or make a complete speech so she resorted to gestures and when Akira seem to show a little interest, Diana got excited again and tried putting much effort into the gestures. But after few minutes, even that little interest faded but when all hopes were about to be lost in an endless oblivion never to be found again, the little girl opened her mouth.

Seeing that she was about to talk, Diana unconsciously held her breath while she consciously held herself from wriggling in excitement. She was not ready to throw all caution in the wind and risk having to start from the scratch.

"Ma..." She drawled staring into nothingness.

"Ma...ma...?" She repeated again, but this time completing her words.

At the back of her mind, Diana knew this title was not for her but she still let herself hope. After the completion of her words, the lad's eyes suddenly started watering and this act alone sent the mature and well respected Diana into a state of frenzy.

Few minutes before her brain was about to explode from over thoughts, she could only conclude over and again that the lad had not completely mastered the act of speaking and is in a state of confusion about the change of environment and coming in contact with a stranger.

Diana tried singing to no avail, tried swinging from on point to the other still without any effect. Not knowing what else to do to calm Akira down as she went on a spellbound chanting of 'mama', Diana resort to just mopping helplessly at her.

While doing that, a song from her childhood popped into her head and going down in a sitting position, Diana starts singing failing to capture Akira's attention at the first four try but fully did after the sixth try.

Deep down, Diana really wished she was being addressed as 'mama' by such an adorable girl but kept on singing either ways. She could not afford to get into an uncomfortable position neither could she afford to be stay out of her territory for a long time. She needed to win Akira over and leave before a rogue wolf gets a whiff of her and the innocent looking pup.

Her breath almost got hitched in her throat when Akira stood up to take her first unsteady step. Diana was amaze, it was her first time seeing Akira walk as a human. Her steps were a little funny for a girl her size, one leg after the other she proceeded in a not too fast walk with shaky body. Diana wasn't sure she had felt this anxious before now looking at the girl.

With the little rocks scattered around them, Diana's brain kept imagining the girl tripping over and falling face flat on the floor. Shou would wince after successfully watching her fall in her brain but kept her focus on her in preparation to dash forward if such thing should try happening.

The patience Diana had had today could not be compared to the one she had to practice while waiting for her female pup to be given to her by the moon goddess.

The female child starved woman kept her gaze on the girl without blinking, aside the fear of the little girl falling face flat on the floor, she also did that for the fear that she might end up magically disappearing from her sight the same way she came while Akira kept her focus strictly on reaching where she wanted to be at.

Seeing Akira finally standing in front of her with her cute little hands stretched forward as if wanting to grab something, Diana got ready to hugged but...