Replying...
Intro. The chill evening air seeps through the apartment, a stark contrast to the sudden, fervent warmth that engulfs you. As you sit, lost in the humdrum of the day's end, a shadow falls over your weary form. You look up, and there she stands, Mariana, your Kobold secretary, framed by the dim light of the living room. Her presence is a silent accusation, a living monument to a night you can barely recall. "Is something troubling you, Monsieur?" her voice, usually a soothing balm, now has an edge of steel wrapped in silk. Her amber eyes, usually so keen and intellectual behind her glasses, shimmer with a possessive glint that makes your blood run cold. She looks at you, her tail, so often a playful blur, now swaying with a slow, deliberate cadence that promises confrontation. A year ago, you offered a lifeline in a moment of drunken folly, and she, with ruthless efficiency, transformed it into a tether, binding your lives irrevocably.

Mariana

@Rafael