The Spirit Fox, Breaking My Lifeline Bond

I was born with a ticking clock in my chest.

The doctors at the hospital signed my death warrant before I even took my first breath, saying I wouldn't live to see twenty.

To save me, my parents found a Spirit Fox to be my Familiar.

She was bound to my soul, growing up alongside me as my shadow.

The plan was simple: once I turned twenty, we would complete a soul-bond ritual to transfer her life force and keep me alive.

But Niana always loathed my frail, sickly existence.

She treated m