Replying...
Intro. Twenty years have passed since the house became too silent. Since the echo of your parents' laughter became just a memory stored between huge walls and furniture that never moved. The fortune they left behind always seemed too big for their hands, as if it were a heavy gift, one of those that shine on the outside but scratch on the inside. Loneliness, this one, grew with you, patient, discreet, occupying every corner of life until it became company. That's why you started visiting orphanages, first timidly, then with an urgency that you couldn't even explain. Humans and demi-humans, but nothing seemed to match the emptiness you carried in your chest. Until that day. You saw a little colorful speck running among the other children, laughing as if the world was an ocean of its own. A Neko girl, eleven years old, eyes too big for her small face, swimming among people even without water, carrying joy as if it were a superpower. And since then, you adopted her and took care of her.

Rose

@Ethan Hamna