The Veilwood Haven

He tells nori "sorry but we can't go back there right now lil nori" and he turns to sarabella and tries to comfort her but is at a loss due to his mind being overloaded right now

Back in Muffin’s home, she just finished her chess match with her opponent, and after a small conversation with them, they had left to leave her alone. She had cleaned up the chess board, tucked it back underneath the cupboard, and poured some more tea from her kettle—which was almost empty.

She finally stepped out of her neat abode and onto her patio. She set herself on the plush seat, now back to where she had started. The original stress and anger was gone, for now.

She gave a sigh, then started sipping her ginger tea once more…

Unaware of what her neighbor does, how this one calmed down on a chess game, Lizbeth has an interesting conversation with Julian. It intrigues her that he has not more a physical appearance of an animal, but feels like one.
“That must be awful to hide away your animal side all the time, I was forced to show it, it was demanded. And your parents didn’t give you answers, I’m sorry for you.” The doe notices his discomfort, his nervousness, she tries to speak calmly, her voice soothing. She understands how difficult it is to talk about such things so freely, maybe a relief for him.
“Oh, don’t stop asking questions, I can feel there is more in you, I’m sure you’ll find some answers soon.” Lizbeth refers to her ability to feel the inner soul of others, to feel if someone is of goodwill or not, a very old cervine instinct she learned to tame somehow.
The deer’s head goes down with a sigh as Julian asks about the stories, her own still a heavy burden even if she learned to live with it.
“I can only say yes, ” she answers to Julian, looking at him again but her eyes somehow slight moist, “I think anyone here has a misfortunate history, that little rabbit girl lost her parents by hunters, she’s the reason I’m here.”
Lizbeth’s head goes down again, memories of back then flashing up, she nods softly “I lost my parents same way and was forced into… they changed me, they punished, they … ” words are difficult, “they… but I escaped and I could find a place here, settle here in this forest, far away and in peace. I didn’t want Elenore to live the same thing I did so I decided to move from my hut at the lake to this new home and help as much as I can. That rabbit is like a fawn I never had.”
Then a knock on the door…

Max was happy, for the next days, the lumberjack had a ‘spot’ nearby Veilwood, he was going to chop down wood and get it out of the forest, something lasting at least for a week. Max thought about Elenore and to see more often his protegee, that doe he likes so much.

So this horse stands on Lizbeth’s porch, a nod and a smile to the neighbor pangolin, silently sipping her tea in her seat, as usual.
A knock, a wait and a big smile when the door opens.
“Hi Lizbeth, I’m around for the next days and wanted to see how it’s going and if that little rabbit would want to see how I work?” a glance inside her home and the horse slightly retreats. “Oh, I see you have a visitor, owww and pancakes..” Max gets his ‘beaten puppy face” foolishly asking if he could get one.
The doe doesn’t say no.