NOVEL WEB Chapter 16
I wake up the next morning feeling better than I had in days, I guess that is what a good night of sleep digestion would do for you.
Mum provides me with a snack by nursing me before I move on to the main course, we move to a room near the master bedroom to see Anna waiting for us along with another baby in a pink onesie sucking her thumb.
This must be Emma, and she is as cute as a button with her floppy cow ears and swishing tail sticking out of her onesie.
When we came closer, Emma’s eyes locked onto me, paused for a few seconds, and then waved her left hand around excitedly while still sucking on her right thumb.
That is super cute, so I respond with my own baby waves which gets Emma more excited.
But as cute as you may be Emma, I am a hungry boy, and I got some drinking to do.
As Mum and Anna settle in for women's talk that I zone out, both me and Emma assume the position to be nursed by Anna.
After a while, Mum left me in the care of Anna and my personal maid, Alice. Both of whom hit it off immediately and started chatting.
While all that was happening, Emma was playfully tapping her still-soft hooves on my feet, and I replied in kind. I would wave at her but my hands are otherwise busy.
Due to my unnaturally large appetite, Emma finished feeding before me and started waving in my direction.
“Awhh… Emma is interested in young master Luke, so cute!!” Alice squealed.
Anna single-handedly wiped Emma’s mouth and burped her before transferring her to the same lap I was on.
The moment Emma was beside me, she started playfully patting me. At first, I ignored her, but she continued until I could not take it anymore and grabbed her hands to keep them still.
“They are now holding hands, so precious.” both women fawned over us.
After a while of shaking our hands back and forth, Emma let out a yawn, scooched in closer to me, and hugged me before closing her eyes.
Both women let out hushed chuckles and said things like, “Emma is catching young master Luke while he is young, so crafty.”
As for me, I just froze there, not knowing what to do. So after a few seconds of Emma not budging, I relented to my fate as a hug pillow and continued drinking.
It was then I realized that despite being born 6 months ahead of Emma, she is still slightly bigger than me. I sure hope this period of recovering from malnutrition does not set back my growth, I would hate to be a manlet.
After I was done feeding, I too was feeling drowsy, so with Emma still huggin me, we were put inside a cot to sleep.
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3 months passed before I looked anything like a healthy baby.
Grandpa did a check-up on me before giving me a clean bill of health. And I even grew a few centimeters taller, in fact, I am now the same height as Emma.
At the beginning of those 3 months, while my body was still recovering, my appetite was still manageable by Anna alone, but as I got closer to a healthy weight, I started teething. That was when my appetite increased again.
Now Mum and Anna had to tagteam to keep me fed, but it was not so bad for them because, when my teeth started to show, that was the first time I got to eat meat in this life.
It may be minced, a bit bland, and mixed in with porridge, but meat is meat. Oh meat, how I missed you, my reunion with meat even brought a tear to my eye which got my parents worried until I wolfed down the rest of the meat porridge.
Another thing that has been happening since around a month ago, was dad starting to spend more time with me turning his aura on and off repeatedly in the hopes that I can emulate him to deactivate my aura, all attempts to turn off the aura on my side has failed so far, but I will keep trying none the less.
In this period where I am regaining my strength, I spent my free time playing with my mana, having books read to me, and playing with my toys, but now all of these leisurely activities have one difference.
That difference is the presence of Emma. besides being my daytime sleeping buddy, or more accurately, her hug pillow, we now do most things together.
Being an only child in my past life, I wonder if this is what it feels like to have a little sister, I can honestly say it is quite nice. Every day when we were together, she would hug me and I would pet her head. And sometimes when she gets bored of sucking her own thumb, she would grab my hand and suck on my thumb. I do not get the logic, but she is just a baby and I humor her.
Now that I am back to full health, I think it is time to start practicing magic again, I have spent too long just recuperating. Hopefully, I will be able to find a way through magic to off my aura.