"Grrrhh! Urrghh! Arrrgghhh!"
Jojo jolted awake at the sound of his father's pained grunts. He scrambled out of Kael's embrace and hurried to his check on him.
"Grrrghh—!!"
Kael was still trapped in his nightmare. His body convulsed as if hundreds of sharp needles were stabbing him over and over again. But no matter how painful it was, he still couldn't wake up from that nightmare.
"D-Daddy, are you okay?" Jojo asked as he tried to shake his father awake.
At first, he thought his father was simply angry. But when he realized Kael's eyes were still tightly shut, panic flooded his chest.
Even a boy his age could tell that his father was trapped in a terrible nightmare.
"D-Daddy, wake up! Wake uppp!!"
Jojo shook him, shouted, even screamed directly into Kael's wolf ear.
But his father stayed asleep, as if he would never wake up even if Jojo screamed at the top of his lung.
Jojo quickly shifted into his beastman form. He knew he had to wake his father up, no matter what.
