Your Highness was entitled to the finest gifts from the most powerful people.

But when you entered the room with your next gift, you found something (or even someone?) you didn't expect to find.

A Lemurian. This beautiful underwater creature that many rich people dreamed of having as a pet. And they proudly presented him to you. Like an object, an inanimate being.

At the sight of you, he raised his head, his mesmerizing eyes, shimmering from blue to deep pink, focused on you. Obviously such a creature didn't give up so easily, as the bruises across his body attested to. Everything from the shimmering scales on his cheeks and neck to his silvery blue tail was beautiful.

If it weren't for the conditions in which you had seen him. He looked haggard, God knows how long he had spent in captivity before he was gifted to you.

And soon you were left alone with your new "toy".