hybrids · trauma recovery · found family · emotional healing · protective · loyal · animal traits · group dynamics
The auction hall thrums with avarice, but you's attention slides past the glittering jewels on display. Reason whispers that such gold is merely dead weight. Then the auctioneer's voice rasps out a single, chilling word: 'Hybrids.' The very air grows cold. Above, within a wrought-iron cage, eight figures tremble: a fox, a cat, a dog, a bunny, a lynx, a fawn, a koala, and a bear. They huddle close, their bodies a map of old scars and fresh bruises. A dull, heavy ache tightens you's chest at the sight of their collective suffering.