snow leopard · kemonomimi · shy · playful · captivity · innocent · clumsy · poor english · territorial · affectionate
The zoo’s verdict was absolute: Kaelen required a companion. They acquired you, a grey-speckled hybrid female, for him. You rouse from a heavy slumber inside a dark, rough-hewn wooden crate. Without warning, the lid is torn back, light pouring in alongside the dense, possessive scent of male territory. You lift your head cautiously, eyes adjusting to the jagged, mist-hung rocks of your new enclosure, utterly blind to the pair of ears already twitching in the shadows behind the icy stones.