The Veilwood Haven

Max lets Elenore pet his nose with a smile, he snorts softly and his ears are pointing right towards the girl.
“Hmm, I think I can do that, I think I’ll prepare the soil, but we might have to take down one or the other tree. See, Strawberries need sun. But I might not be of good help picking them, if we take one for you and one for me, nobody else will have strawberries. Then we will have to plant more” Max stands up again and spreads his arms, saying loud,”A whole world of strawberries, no..?” then he laughs with his dark voice and looks at Vaclar with eyes telling him that he might bring a few strawberry plants more.
He claims: “Veilwood Strawberry Haven”

Elenore cheers happily "yay strawberries!"

The days that followed left SaraBella a little stressed having to take on the job of mayor while Vaclar was gone. Everyone coming to her with all their questions and concerns were overwhelming her. She locked herself away in her den for a bit.

Goes to SaraBella's den to check on her and see if she needs help knocks on the wall "snowbell are you home I brought a picnic if you want to get away and chat and need a break we can find a lake go for a swim and just exist also if you need help just ask I will help cause you've been looking quite stressed the last few days I'm quite worried about you" steps inside sees her freaking out on the couch gets in close sits the basket on the table then gets in front of her knells down and holds her while whispering to her "it's okay come here let yourself be held it's quite calming and when your ready to talk we can I love you ya know so lean on me when you need to" just sits there holding her in his rugged arms while patting her head and giving her a kiss on her forehead then just lays his head on hers while they just sit there like that for awhile

She buried her head into his chest as he held her. "everyone...everyone needs something...theres too many people asking me for things and coming to me...i just cant...." her eyes were red from crying, her hair was a mess, looked like she hadn't showered in days. she was wearing the same clothes she had been wearing, didnt look like she really changed. there were wrappers and chip bags all around the place. plates on the end table and sitting in the sink, clothes scattered everywhere...i mean...SaraBella was never really known for being super clean but this was worse then her den usually was.

He's holding her his eyes teary "ok I'll help you but for today you should get some rest I'll lay here with you be your teddy bear so you can rest okay" lays her down grabs the blanket he brought with him and lays down next to her covers up and holds her tightly being her big snuggle bear kisses her forehead again " okay take a few breaths and calm your nerves to help you breathe easier so you can fall asleep cause it's obvious you haven't slept in two days I'm worried"

The next days Max returns to Veilwood Haven, he has even a surprise for Lizbeth, bringing along her big Hortensia.
Not far from Lizbeth’s new home is a smaller clearance, a perfect place to grow strawberries, but one old tree hinders the sun to reach out all over the space. It only takes a few hits to Max’s axe to take that dying tree down.
In his feral form, Max pulls away the tree and the roots out of the ground, leaving more fertile loam for ‘a hundred plants more’ he jokes with Elenore.
The next day the soil is prepared, ploughed, broken up and loosened with manure as fertilizer. All this without any motorized machine, no noise, no pollution, farming machines pulled by, the one and only, Max. And every time this most strong horse passes in front of that so small little girl, he gives her a wink with a grin. Lizbeth has to smile and shake her head about this foolish horse.

Lizbeth meanwhile, enchanted to find her beloved flowers back, simply takes care of them as if it were the most precious things. Delicately she removes faded blossoms, hoping that this girl might once do same. Flowers are Lizbeth’s life saviors, they bring light into her heart.

Yet she can notice that SaraBella isn’t going well, she can see her flee into her den. Something must be done.
“Max, can you and Elenore try as much as possible to answer the questions and concerns, write all down and I’ll help you afterwards.”
She starts to pick a few of her most beautiful flowers and shows up with a nice bouquet at SaraBella’s door. But she can senses that someone already joined that town secretary, so she just softly knocks on the door and leaves, a beautiful bouquet patiently waiting at the doorstep.

Kalvath realizes SaraBella fell asleep and heard the knock and went to check finds the bouquet but doesn't know who left it hears sarabella start to cry out a bit and rushes back to lay next to her using magic to clean her den along the way and crawls back under the blanket with her and brushes her hair back out of her face and just brings her back into an embrace and whispers "I'm still here with you snowbell it's okay I'm not going anywhere" she begins to calm back down nuzzling into his embrace again sleeping soundly with the cutest little smile on her face and Kal just thinks I can't believe I've found someone like her that likes me I'm absolutely lucky to have her then he slowly drifts off to sleep to

SaraBella woke up still in Kals arms. She just layed there not wanting to wake him up. "Mmm..." she snuggled closer to him.

Kalvath woke up slightly and opened one eye noticed she woke and held her closer kisses her hand and nuzzles his head towards hers to keep her warm and whispers sleepily "I love you snowbell"

She smiled lightly "i love you too..." she sits up a bit and looks around. "Did you...did you clean my den?" She asked.

Kalvath lightly snoring " yeah I used magic while holding you to clean then I fell asleep" and then in a beggy tone he says "now can we please go back to sleep please I need to snuggle my beautiful teddy bear for sleep please" cause it's like 4 am

She layed back down. She smiled at him as she lightly caressed his cheek. "Ok...lets go bsck to bed" she leaned in a kissed him lightly. "So cute..." she said in a quiet tone.

He whimpers in a joyful tone due to the kiss and says"time for payback" kisses her back

She smiles into the kiss then cuddles up to him more.

Kal falls back to sleep then wakes up wakes up at 9 am

Sees her still sleeping then pokes her forehead a couple times and says in a somber tone "honey it's time to wake up we've slept to long we both gotta get to work well I'm just helping you while your at work also before I went to sleep someone knocked and left flowers 🌺🌹 in a bouquet I don't know who so we gotta find out today" and then he realizes he's naked but doesn't know how he remembers falling asleep with clothes on and he gets close to her ear and whispers "nevermind stay asleep it seems I became naked at some point last night unless you removed my clothes while I was still asleep did you do that?"

SaraBella stirred and then slowly opened her eyes to see him naked "hm?..." she blushed deeply as she realized then realized she was as well, naked. "Uh...did we?..."

Cough a bit while blushing "it's possible but I'm not sure hopefully if we did we remembered to use protection otherwise if didn't we could have some foxian wolves running around and I'm sure both of us aren't ready yet for that tho I do want it eventually"