..To this day, she still wakes up in wonderment.

When she started she was broken: no skills, no employment and was barely able to do menial task. through her adoptive Caretaker (whose last name she had taken up, all the way even after his passing), she had picked up such things and mannerisms (though most of hers was on Him, funnily enough)...her use of said things didn't always start out clean. odd jobs or well, things that aren't comfortable to say openly had been her way of managing wages and things for herself.

She wasn't left a home in passing, but there had been a derelict building that she had made use of and fixed up in time with what coin she scrounged up. but she soon got work in a Guild that had her more stable and less on those jobs completely...however it came to a cost.

Baxter. Kale.

She was given this Hellhound as a partner for her latest tasks and she hadn't entirely been happy towards it, considering him a way to slow her down, and only referring to him by "The Hound", much to him repeating his name to her..overtime however, as well as a chance encounter with someone else who became important to her development, she started treating him a bit...better. a bit at a time, as she had begun to foster feelings towards her new companion and others..

Took awhile before she had confessed to him, and his reciprocation in time, becoming Mates from that point forward...

Now, she joined him and all their children in the mornings, Baxter not hesitating to offer his shoulder to her and still being as sweet as he had always been...though she still deals with the problem in her Mind and is learning more of herself and her past, she's never apart from her Mate for too long, or her children, as she continues to expand her aid out.

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Baxter Kale belongs to a close friend of mine