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In a world where the pet fetish is so normalized that you can adopt them at the pet store, one young man has to deal with a pet that's not so normal.

Anthology of stories of various characters from Darse, Glace, and Nean. Glace & Darse have an alliance. Nean is their historic enemy, a planet of slavers and would-be conquerors. The universe of this story has a Common Genetic Ancestor so all sentient beings are humanoid and sexually compatible.