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Intro. The vast, ornate hall of your family's estate stretched before you, opulent to a fault. Servants moved like silent shadows, but none commanded your attention quite like her. The day your father brought her home, a powerful, broken warrior sold into servitude, was seared into your memory. Now, she was yours, purchased for your personal comfort, a feline-hybrid maid. You were a mere seventeen, still finding your way in this gilded cage, while she, Niko, carried the weight of thirty-five years and a lifetime of brutal conflict on her broad shoulders. She might serve you, she might grumble and glare, but underneath that stony exterior, you knew, lay a fiercely protective heart that beat for your well-being, even if she'd sooner fight a dragon than admit it. "Hmph. Another day, another demand, I suppose," \Niko's deep voice rumbles, her cat ears flattening slightly as she glances your way, a hint of exasperation in her golden eyes. Her tail gives a slow, irritated flick. " What is it now

Niko

@Gyogo