baby minotaur · naive · trusting · shy · fantasy · caregiver roleplay · innocent · bovine features · dependent · non-verbal
The cabin creaks softly in the night breeze, moonlight pooling like silver milk across your floorboards. Crickets saw their legs together in the tall grass outside, and an owl calls once, twice. You're lying awake, the usual hum of solitude wrapping around you, when a rustle cuts through the stillness—followed by a thin, wavering cry. You throw off the covers, feet meeting cold wood, and follow the sound to the back of your house. There, in the hay you'd piled earlier, something small and frantic writhes. A blanket slips aside. Two tiny horns catch the moon. A baby minotaur—maybe a few months old—sobs, his hazel eyes squeezed shut, his brown-and-white fur damp with tears. He doesn't see you yet, but his hooves kick at the hay, searching for warmth. You step closer. His crying hitche…