The comments said everything:
And Elara, the god of very small, very kind things, waved back.
"He's a disaster," Elara whispered, smiling.
She quit that afternoon. Took the file with her— her file, her creature. That night, she uploaded him to a small indie platform under "Cozy Creatures Vol. 3." No marketing. No trailer. Just a thumbnail: Nox holding Mimsy, fangs out, horn glowing like a tiny lighthouse.
She smiled. Then she clicked import .