I was tooling around in a forest. I was a fox, a kitsune to be exact, and I felt comfortable in the forest.
Then I came across bright lights and noise.
I came closer. It was a circus.
I looked around and a woman found him. She spoke in a strange language, and brought the fox to a man with orange hair.
He picked me up gently and held me, petting me. He seemed to know there was something different about me. Something magic.
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Larten didn't know why he had taken the fox home with him. There was something about her; like she had some sort of magic to her.
He brought her back to the Cirque. He was asked by many whether she would be a new part of his act. No way would that ever happen.
He couldn't see a proud fox like her ever allowing herself on display.
As if knowing what he was thinking, she licked his hand and face. He beamed at her.
She was a very fine fox, indeed.
Around her neck was some sort of jewel. It was nagging at him where he'd seen such a thing before.
He tried feeding her meat, fruit, vegetables. She just bit and snarled at him.
Larten caught her digging into his coffin and realized she'd found his candy from Japan—Konpeito. She ate the whole bagful.
Larten pushed a saucer of water to her. She lapped it all up, and looked up at him.
"NYU!"
Damn! It was unfair for such a creature to be so cute!