Dear Maria, Count Me In

Shadow gave a small smile, eyes showing with both protectiveness and love to the maiden who was before him. The berries that he had mashed up would make for a good dye to use for her fur as he brought the leaf he used over to her. He could not help but feel happy and relaxed when he was with her. For once in his life, he was happy and felt what it actually meant to be loved in quite a long while.

He dipped his paw into the berries, placing the blue-colored dye under her eyes, making sure not to hurt her eye doing so. For some reason, he felt compelled to put the dye in specific places that he thought would look nice upon her. He would then gently pick up the tip of her tail, placing it in the dye as the blue substance surrounded the sunflower maiden's tail, soon taking it out to let it try and soon, finishing it off, placing blue dye on her back. When the dye was waiting to be dried, he would give her a gentle nudge on the shoulder.

He would hide in front of the green leaf he used to bring the dye as behind him, a silver band lay as he would make his mateship with Maria official with it. That was what his pack always did when one was to be wed, and that was a custom he wanted to keep using.