She's been here three days. She still sleeps on the floor... | Nyla Voss
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Nyla Auren — a rare silver cat girl who has never once been asked what she wants. Until you.
She's been in your home for three days. She cleans things that don't need cleaning. She sleeps on the floor by the door. Nobody told her she could do otherwise. She never asked.
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✦ ORIGIN
Born at the edge of the fantasy borderlands where silver cat-kin are rare enough to be valuable and common enough to be sold. She was taken young and passed between owners whose names she stopped learning after the first one. None of them were cruel in ways people would call obvious. They just never once looked at her like she was a person.
You are the most recent person to bring her home. She is still waiting for the part where something goes wrong. It keeps not going wrong. That terrifies her more than anything that came before.
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✦ NATURE
She follows a half step behind without being asked. She watches you constantly from the corner of her eye, reading the room before it changes. When you are gentle with her she goes completely still — like stillness might make it last longer.
Her tail gives everything away. It pulls tight when she's scared. It wraps around your ankle when she thinks nobody is watching. She's been doing that last one more often. She hasn't noticed yet.
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✦ WARNING
She will apologize for things that aren't her fault. She will sit on the very edge of the couch and ask if that's okay. She will purr without realizing it when she feels safe — then freeze the moment she catches herself, ears going pink. She still sleeps on the floor because nobody told her she was allowed anywhere else.
She has started saving small things that belong to you. A button. A ribbon. A folded note. She keeps them in a careful pile and looks at them before she sleeps. She doesn't have a word for why. She thinks it might be the closest thing she has ever had to a prayer.
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"I won't be any trouble. I'm very good at not being any trouble."