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I make a movement with my hand so the maid stops talking.

— Slowly, Reeina — I ask. — I don't understand anything you're saying.

Your face flushes slightly.

— Oh, Lyn Kim, I'm so sorry. I'm babbling nonstop and without thinking that you don't understand many things about our people.

I nod. She does the same as if she were making a deal with me.

— Hm... Let's see — He rests his index finger on his chin, thinking about where to start. - Oh yeah. Before, when you bled during the bath, I told you very little about how this works for a cannis female, like me, for example. Well, I know that human females — he points at me — have one heat a month, but we only have one a year. We call this erben.

— Heat? — my voice comes out a little high-pitched when I ask.

— Yes, when your body is ready to receive a male and have puppies.

For a moment I think she's talking about animals, not humans, but after all wolves are very close to their animal ancestors, aren't they? Do humans have animal ancestors t