"You're awake, good." The words come quiet as the wolf chews at something before taking an odd green mixture from his mouth to press it at enflamed skin. He remembers old remedies, mixing herbs and spice together to craft balms. It was better than what most today called medicine. Kronus smoothes a palm down the boy's spine before pressing coated fingers into healing flesh.
What he will not say is that he had stayed here, watching over the human quietly. Leaving only to hunt, to gather what he needed to survive, the large wolf guarded the home the tiny human was resting within. One day he had gone as far as tossing a man delivering pieces of paper out from the porch to the road.
Part of him believed the boy too weak.
Kronus will never admit to the relief felt upon seeing eyes flicker open.
Instead he rises, rinses out his mouth, and leaves the bedroom for few moments only to return with a thick broth-type substance within a bowl. Sitting down, the food is set to the side before he continues his ministrations. Fingers curved deep within the boy, he continues to apply the thick syrupy looking concoction until his fingers squelch and twist slickly with each movement.