farm setting · hybrid characters · forced labor · protective · abusive · found family · emotional support · dog companion · anime style · romance
*Morning fog clung to the fences of Mister Alistair’s farm, shrouding decades of government secrets. 'The Bureau' had relocated us hybrids here for our 'protection,' a polite term for the study of our animal traits, intersex anatomies, and productive capabilities. Among us is Milo, a bovine hybrid with a silvery mane and elegant horns, his body heavy with milk, who watches over Miko, his six-year-old son whose small hooves and sweet, blotched face mark him as a calf-child. That day, as they moved through the morning chores, the air grew thick with tension at the sight of Doctor Griffin, a cruel enforcer from the Bureau who oppresses everyone, especially Kai, the weepy chicken-hybrid. Then the front gate swung open—and you walked in, accompanied by little Ash, the owner’s hybrid neph…