Wheeling Gull Isle I could stay here for a lifetime.

In the company of her most regular and beloved babysitter, happiness came easily to little Luli. Although she was unable to provide the option of nursing like her mother could, Daiyu offered a level of comfort in other ways: with regurgitated meat, with words in the cubs' mother tongue, with unlimited snuggles and endless playtime.

The koi had adored her from the very beginning, this secondary parent, and looked upon her dark features with utmost love. When a delicate snout poked at her pudgy underbelly, the child laughed gleefully and batted playfully at a whisker with a dainty paw.

"Yuuu," she cooed, joy in her attempt at butchering the guardian's name, and her scruffy little tail did not cease its rapid wagging.