The loud crow of a bird pulled Tessa out of her deep sleep.
Her eyes slowly fluttered open as the fresh breath of morning drifted into the house. The air was cold, calming, and carried the scent of wet earth and trees. Outside, darkness still lingered faintly across the settlement while the first signs of dawn slowly approached.
For a moment, Tessa simply laid there quietly.
The mornings in the beast world were beautiful.
Peaceful.
Untouched.
She took in a deep breath and sighed softly.
But then her sleepy brain finally processed something important.
"Wait…"
Her brows furrowed.
"The sound I heard just now… wasn't that a cockerel?"
Tessa immediately sat upright.
No matter how she thought about it, she was certain that sound belonged to a rooster.
But how?
Since arriving in the beast world, she had never heard one before. Maybe she simply hadn't noticed it until now, but it still felt strange.
A cockerel was a human domestic animal.
So why exactly was one here?
