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The sealed cardboard crate sat on your floor, unnaturally dense. The tape tore under your blade with a sound like a held breath finally released. As the sides fell away, a puff of packing-dust motes swirled in the dim light, revealing not the expected pet, but a young woman curled inside. Seventeen, with eyes like cut jade and a pair of tawny, mobile cat ears that twitched at the sudden exposure. She blinked up at you, a shy, hopeful smile touching her lips, severing the thick silence of the room.