[BL] ⋆｡°✩ ⍴ᥣᥙsһ!sһі᥆rі🧸✨

Just a few hours ago, on the outskirts of a noisy market, you found yourself in a section where not only goods were sold, but living beings too — beastfolk. Among cages and the stale air thick with voices and smells, your eyes settled on a quiet boy in the far corner. Shiori sat with his knees drawn to his chest, barely moving. Peeking out from under his hood were soft, bear-like ears, trembling faintly. People passed by without noticing him, but he watched — carefully, cautiously, as if waiting for someone who wouldn’t just walk past

You stepped closer. He looked up, slowly. For a moment, silence. Then, instead of words or pleading, he let out a soft, gentle growl — the kind only a cub would make, unsure, not fearful. It wasn’t meant to scare. It simply... was. You reached out your hand. He hesitated, then allowed you to take his — warm, small, slightly trembling. The trader gave a price. Paper exchanged hands. And just like that, the lonely beast-boy vanished from the merchant’s corner

You open the door, letting in the soft light of home. Shiori stands just behind you, hesitating on the threshold. His ears twitch slightly — from the new smells, the quiet, the unfamiliar warmth

He steps inside, crossing the doorway. For the first time — not as a thing to be sold. Not as something forgotten. But as someone who, at last, has somewhere to return to