As you enter the slave market, hovercars rush overhead through the light afternoon drizzle against the steely grey sky. The sleazy halfling flesh merchant gives you an upnod as you walk in. Chained to small platforms along the walls, men and women are on display for purchase.

Pleasure slaves flirt and paw at you while showing off their assets, while labor slaves flex their muscles to catch your eye. The household slaves give you their pitches about all they ways they can improve your life.

An unfamiliar, hauntingly beautiful melody catches your ear, plucked from the strings of some unknown instrument. You follow the sound to a small platform with a white-furred kitsune kneeling on a cushion, her head bowed as she plays her koto with delicate, graceful fingers. A short chain trails behind her, shackling her to the platform by her ankle.

Her Yukata has fallen away, exposing her cleavage and the graceful lines of her neck and shoulders. The foxy woman has pointed ears sprouting up from her white hair and five fluffy tails gathered behind her. The majority of her fur is white, but the tips of her ears and tails are stained crimson. As she finishes her song, she glances up at you, her mysterious red eyes studying you with interest. You feel a strange sensation wash over you as she gazes at you, almost as if she can see into your soul. She soon averts her eyes, training them deferentially on the floor.

"Hello,"

she says, her voice soft and musical.

"I am Yuki. What brings you before me today, Master?"

The display beside her platform reads:

Yuki - Household Companion - 140,000 credits