Abigail woke up in her comfortable bed… again. She smiled. She could not believe it had been three months already. She hardly stared at the floor anymore and she was beginning to believe that life was actually livable. She could not believe it and some times she even felt like she was going to awaken from some sort of dream, or reality would kick in and her master would tell her it had all be a huge prank and it was time for her to prepare herself for his next dinner.
She sobered quickly and got started with her day.
After his second breakfast Michele was enjoying a new routine where Abigail spread a cream she created to give his scales a luster that he had forgotten they were capable of. She had him looking like he was a youth of only one hundred and fifty years. And she found a tea his mother used to make for him that strengthened his magical fires and acid and the organs that both carried and produced them.
He had yelled at her when she brought it to her thinking there was no way she would know how to create it properly. Then he tasted it and just stared at her for a long time. He was truly impressed and since he knew he should nor apologize he built the buildings that she needed in her garden along with a tea house for them have tea there between first and second lunch everyday.
She was making quite a bit of things, she found plants similar to cotton and began making clothes. She made him clothes for when he was in his serpent human form that gave him pause once again. He had originally felt that clothes while he was in that state was a bit nonsensical so it took him days to actually try them on.
She didn't say a thing she merely continued making them and waiting. She had been so quiet about it that he had forgotten about them. Then one day he looked at them with a frown trying to figure out what they were. He tried them on in exasperation and could do nothing but stare at himself. They were incredible and comfortable and they actually matched his scales… somehow.
He went to her dressed in them and demanded more. She opened a her the door to the area where she made clothes and processed the materials to make them and showed him two racks of filled with ones of the same style and varying styles and they were all beautiful. She then pointed out that she also made some doe him when he was in his human form but only half a rack.
He looked at this perplexed then looked back at her. He said it calmly but he could tell he still scared her. He had asked her why so few for his human form and that she needed more. She had looked down and apologized. And he admonished her for it. Then he proceeded to levitate three racks of clothes and tale them with him from the room.
Her farm was flourishing and she did not need to find much of anything outside the den. She now had her tea room, a large greenhouse, a large pagoda, and different levels of raised beds on the lower tiers of the gardens.
All structures had been built at night or when Abigail was busy with other things. She wanted to ask if the workers wanted food or anything but she was still very afraid of Michele. He sensed her pondering over this and her intense fear of him and he had found himself feeling sad that she felt that way. Both because he did not want her to always want to help others so and because he did not want her to be mad at him.
Both were odd to him but he also knew that they were very real concerns of his. He ended up convincing himself that he felt like this because he understood how smart she was and he did not like her making so many assumptions in her life.
Finally both the library and her bedroom both made very drastic transformations in those first three months. Her bedroom was filled with unique and exquisite furniture. Every time she had imagined something more exquisite he created it for her. Then she had the large space sectioned off into different areas for her creations. She had an area to make clothing, a lab to experiment with and mix her skincare, scalecare, and general Healthcare products. She even had an area where she wanted to study and read outside the library. Her room had become a haven for her. A haven that she enjoyed and cherished.
The library had been thoroughly cleaned and she kept it that way. She now knew every section of it and it had become her second favorite place.
She smiled to herself as she prepped what she needed for tomorrow's meals and cleaned the kitchen. She was always so afraid of making a mistake that she always had back plans for her back up plans. She always asked Michel to approve the week's menu and he never complained but there would be times that he would say things like:
"I really wish I could have had some of you wonderful lasagna today" or "Oh this is chicken soup. I was hoping it would have some of that other meat in it. What is it called again?"
Moments like these had given her so much stress that she had started preparing his favorite meals and freezing them so that she could just warm them up him in times like those.
She thought about it and her smile fell as she made a mental note to make more banana bread in the morning.
Then she actually jumped when she remembered that she had to sleep with him tonight. She hurried and finished up in the kitchen and then rushed to take a bath. When she slept with him she bathed with petals of a very sweet flower similar to hibiscus and she used light lotions and body sprays that she knew he liked. She kept experimenting with different fragrances to give him variety. And she only used these things when she needed to share his sleeping space.
Every time she had been nervous and every time they did not have sex she was both relieved and worried with this but she was ready. She had studied human intercourse and serpent. She was not sure she would be able to satisfy him in his serpent form but she knew what he needed.
She stood waiting for him to invite her into his rooms and she jumped when he final did say "come in". As per usual she was very naked and she no longer felt shame when he saw her in thus way. But when she looked up her face went red and her eyes immediately returned to the floor.
She suddenly felt she may not be ready for this. The image of his nude human form was burned into her eyes and she could still see it as her eyes scanned the floor.
What exactly did this mean? They had never shared a bed together while he was in this form. She forced her feet to move and she forced her head to lift and look at his chin, not his eyes.
She could tell he was smiling and her steps slowed even more.
"Do not worry. Today I thought about how we only laid with each other while I was in my two favorite forms and I wanted to see if you liked this form at all. I think your reaction has told me all that I need to know."
She blushed and he laughed.
"Come my little servant let us see what may happen tonight."