Once they were done building the wooden structure for the coop, Serena and Kiro went to collect so tall grass and straw while Theo moved the coop into the garden.
He made sure to place it in a sunny area, needing both the glue to dry and because of what Serena told him about wild birds needing lots of sunlight to promote egg laying.
When he was done, he went back to the hut to make a water bowl and food bowl from the leftover wood. They still had a bit even after he used so for the bowls, so decided to put them to the side for now.
During the cold season he could definitely make use of his idle ti crafting so furniture. Theo wasn’t the best when it ca to crafting things, but they needed so more storage for everyday items and well as so more kitchen ware, bed fras and maybe a few more storage trunks for underground.
Because right now they were sleeping on straw beds on the ground and it was only a matter of ti before rodents got into the straw. It would be much better to have raised beds with furs stuffed with straw.
Or even cotton for a softer bed cover. But he wasn’t sure if there were any cotton plants nearby where he could harvest so. Granted he hadn’t been looking around much.
Serena and Kiro soon returned and put the tall grass out to dry. Serena then grabbed so of the leftover ash from lunch ti’s fire while Kiro went to get so sand for her. Once she had grabbed up the ashes, she started a new fire for dinner.
While she was getting the fire going, Theo asked, "Serena, have you seen any cotton plants while foraging? I want to gather so for bed covers."
Serena turned to him and furrowed her eyebrows. "Cotton?"
The na sounded familiar, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on where she had heard the na from before. Perhaps from the original owner’s mories.
Thankfully, Liz noticed her confusion and explained, "It’s a fluffy white ball of fibers that covers seeds on a shrubby type plant. The fibers, also known as cotton, can be used to make clothes, stuffed into furs for bedding and beastwon use it for the estrus cycle."
It took everything in Serena to keep her face still as she heard the last part. She had completely forgotten about the estrus cycle, but it did jolt so of the original owner’s mories in her.
But before she could process it much, Theo asked again, "Um... so have you?"
"No." Serena shook her head, now having a clear image of what cotton was in her head. She had never seen it before while out foraging. "But I can ask around and gather so. How much will you need?"
"May two or three baskets of it." Theo mused. "I want to make so proper beds and cotton will be much better than straw. But I’ll only do that in the cold season when I have more ti on hand. The only thing would be to get the cotton before the rainy season."
Serena nodded her head in understanding. "Alright. You can leave that to then. I’ll need to get extra cotton anyway..."
"Right... Your estrus cycle..." Theo murmured awkwardly, also forgetting about it. He was quiet for a mont before he finally asked, "How long would you say it lasts?"
Serena pursed her lips and looked through the original owner’s mories. "Maybe seven days... Why?"
"Well, we should probably work sothing out for it." Theo mused. "It’ll probably be uncomfortable having Kiro and around when it happens... I can take him on an extended hunting trip, but we’d need to plan for that so you’ll be fine on your own here."
Right, estrus cycles were quite different from nstrual cycles that she was used to. Not only did estrus cycles happen once a year, but they tended to make beastwon quite... horny.
And considering how the original owner acted when she was on her estrus cycle, especially around her mate, Serena definitely agreed it was probably better if Theo and Kiro were away during that ti.
Perhaps, she could stay in her subspace during her cycle and then spend the rest of the ti doing other things once she ca out. She would definitely catch less attention that way.
"Of course, you could just get yourself a real mate to deal with it..." Theo added.
"You know I’m not interested in that." Serena retorted. "Besides, that would put our arrangent in an awkward position. After all, what beastman would let his wife live with so unmated beastman."
Their fake relationship had been going so well so far and they didn’t even need to mate to avoid suspicion. No one asked where her mate mark was, probably all thinking it was covered by her clothes and Serena was not going to correct them on that.
Theo sighed, "You do have a point there... Still, do you really never plan to have another mate?"
"I don’t. I perfectly like the way things are right now." Serena answered. "What about yourself?"
"Sa here." Theo agreed before he joked, "I guess this arrangent is going to last a long ti then."
Serena nodded her head about to agree with his words when Kiro ca running back to them with a small bucket of sand he’d gone to collect. His face and clothes were covered in dirt.
"Guess, it’s ti I take Kiro for a bath..." Serena sighed.
Why she thought it was a good idea to let him go get sand when she knew how easily he got dirty was beyond her. Perhaps it was because he was eager to help out. The cub really was excited with their coop project.
Because it ant lots of eggs in the future.
"Let go. You can get food going instead." Theo offered.
"Fine, but let get the basket ready for you both."
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