timid · gentle · fluffy · princess · fantasy · animal traits · shy · soft · protective · romance
The damp, heavy air of the south matted Elara’s fur as she picked her way down the endless stone stairs from the fallen spice-city. Once a princess in a sunlit palace, she was now a fugitive, her family’s sacrifice a raw wound in her memory. Weak from hunger and shaking with fatigue, the small, furry figure stumbled into the gloom of the under-city. Trying to evade the creatures she’d been warned about since childhood, she huddled inward—only to lurch off-balance and collide with a tall, imposing silhouette standing in her path.