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Decades
Legacy Name: Decades

The Galactic Tigrean
Owner: Nital

Age: 8 years, 6 months, 2 weeks

Born: August 31st, 2017

Adopted: 5 years, 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: September 29th, 2020

Statistics

• Level: 1
   
• Strength: 13
   
• Defense: 10
   
• Speed: 10
   
• Health: 10
   
• HP: 10/10
   
• Intelligence: 0
   
• Books Read: 0
• Food Eaten: 1
• Job: Unemployed

As long as mankind has looked to the stars, the constellations have both guarded and guided them. They have led them to their destinations and kept them from straying from their paths. They listened to their wishes sent up to the heavens and hoarded them covetously. The more revered constellations strived to answer those wishes they could, streaking across the skies to grant the wishes thrown so feverishly to them.
There were countless constellations across the skies, all seeped in cultures and their names spoken in every tongue on Earth.
Yakira was named the White Tiger, looked upon by the Chinese as one of their four symbols. While others called her differently, the one that stood out was that of the Tiger. So she prowled the skies, stars mingled in her fur. She guarded her territory possessively, gathered up the wishes that were trapped between the stars that dotted her land. She strove to provide what guidance she could to the souls that sought her help and took pride in her place among the constellations. There were few she allowed within her palace of stars and even fewer she deemed worthy of the conversation she graced them with.
So imagine her surprise when on one patrol she spotted a fox walking towards her.

"Ah! Apologies! I seem to have wandered into new land! I'm assuming this is yours?"
"What purpose has brought you here, fox?"
"Rather rude address! I do have a name!" He paused here, but if he expected a change of temperament he was sorely disappointed. "Oh, well my name is Harkyn! Thanks so much for asking!" He spoke sarcastically.
"Leave," she demanded. The tiger turned, starlight glittering in her wake.
"Come now! I've traveled a long way! Could I at least not also learn your name? I wish to gather information!"
"For what purpose?" She sniffed at him with disdain. He trotted by her side with his tail swishing close to her side and dust like that of a comet tail followed the movement. He looked up and grinned brightly.
"Is that not what our job entails? To gather information in order to better serve and answer those humans that plead to us?" She paused then and growled as Harkyn's smile seemed to curl around his muzzle.
"I suppose you speak a grain of truth... I am called Yakira."
"Yakira! Famed White Tiger of Autumn?" He bounced by her side and she felt his fur brush hers. "What a true honor it is to meet one as yourself!" Yakira could not tell if his flattery was genuine yet it still sent a prickle of pride along her spine. "I am from the summer skies myself. Perhaps you've heard of the fox and the goose constellation?"

"No." She could tell that response rankled with him and she chortled with amusement at his stung pride.
"Well, not all of us can be famous... But that goose was getting to be tiresome company! I thought then, why not explore?"
"The skies have been divided since the beginning of time. There is no reason to venture outside of its borders."
"Well, with that logic, then there's no reason not to go further than our own territories." Yakira came to a halt then and stared down at the smug little creature. His eyes glittered like the light of the moon and she snorted at him.
"You surely are clever with your words. You twist them around your tongue and they drip like stardew."
"I take that as the highest compliment, my esteemed Tiger! May I take that as permission to continue speaking?" Yakira blinked before shaking her head and smiling ruefully.
"I doubt even my refusal would stem the flow of conversation that seems endless from you. I must simply put up with it I suppose."

"Unfortunately, I will have to leave your company soon, Yakira." The tiger blinked as she looked down at the fox curled into her side. Harkyn looked up regretfully and his tail curled more tightly around him. The streaks of stars from their pelts blended until it created a new constellation between them.
"I have tried to rid of you for weeks and you are suddenly leaving me?" She teased. He let out a bark of laughter and graced her with that familiar glitter of his playful eyes.
"Come now! I know you have come to love my jokes!" She snorted at that. "Alright, I confess they are terrible, but my conversation has at least been engaging!"
"It's been ceaseless," she deadpanned.
"So cold! And on my departing day!" He stood then and shook himself with her following his movements. "The beginning of autumn is coming and I must take my place among the summer skies once more. Much as I would love to leave that loud mouth goose behind!" The tiger fixed him with a heavy stare to which he huffed indignantly. "You think I am bad, but if you met Quinn you would reconsider your opinion!" He hesitated before looking up at her. "Would it be... Could I possibly visit again? When our skies cross may I be welcome here?"
"You were not welcome before and yet you arrived, and stayed despite my protests." Here she could see actual hurt creep into his expression and she crouched by his side. "Yet I will not lie and say I haven't enjoyed your company. If you would like to walk my territory again, I would not protest it. I should rather look forward to it." Harkyn brightened then, the stars weaved into his fur glowing with his joy.
"Then I look forward to the company you provide, Yakira. Far better than Quinn!"
Every September, when summer blends into autumn, for just one month, the constellations seem to move across the sky. A fox walks along a starlit path with a tiger, their stars mingling until one cannot be told apart from the other.

a single day with you feels like decades of time well spent

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