“Ah, I’ve never seen a beach before…” Miyuki said thoughtfully. “I mean, I’ve seen pictures of them, but living in the city my entire life…The closest I’ve gotten to water is a pool. I’m hoping we get to go to beaches when we start travelling around and doing photoshoots!”
She led Seika to a large window covered by curtains, and swept the curtains open to reveal a large backyard with apparently nothing in it…Before three blurs flashed up towards the two girls and tackled Miyuki to the ground. A fully grown white tiger stood over Miyuki, licking her face as she giggled and tried to get him off, completely ignoring the razor sharp teeth inches from her head. Two, much smaller black jaguars nibbled playfully at her feet. She rolled around on the ground, wrestling with the tiger, then eventually got up, grinning and her hair completely messed up, holding one of the jaguars in each hand while they scratched and pawed at her. “The white tiger is Snow, and the two little girls are twins, Yui and Yuki! You can go ahead and touch Snow, he doesn’t bite! These two, on the other hand…” She put them down, and they immediately went to work on attacking her feet again, like how Spotty had done with Seika before.
Seika watched, horrified as Miyuki was tackled. Listening to her, she put her hand out for Snow to sniff, trying not to provoke it. She didn’t want to be rude and ignore it, but she thought her heart was going to come out of her throat with how scared she was.
Eventually, she ended up patting it and sighed with relief when her hand wasn’t bitten off. “You have kind of a crazy life, y’know?”
“Really?” Miyuki replied absentmindedly, while flicking at Yui and Yuki with her finger to try and keep them away from her feet. They dodged around her hands and made a beeline for her legs, but somehow managed to run into each other head-on and wandered around for a bit, dazed. They eventually came to, and apparently having forgotten their original objective, turned to playing around with Snow’s tail instead.
“This is kinda normal for me. I’ve been around these guys all my life, after all…Snow was actually born in the same year as me! My parents were zookeepers at the Akibastar zoo, and they tended after the big cats…After my parents-” She stopped, and changed course. “After I began living alone, they started coming to look for me. I don’t know how they escape the zoo, but I like the company so I don’t really worry about it.” She scratched Snow behind his ears, earning a playful swipe at her hand by him - it almost seemed like an exchange between siblings who had been raised together their entire lives, just messing with each other.
