family -- or not

Ah, ideas. It's all very well to throw as many as possible into a tale, but sometimes they don't stick together. I was thinking at one point that the heroine would mention that she doesn't think that a crime lord is her father. To which the hero would say with some surprise that of course she isn't, he remembers when her father sold her to the crime lord.

The idea evolved. That crime lord became a woman -- fine, we can flip to mother -- and then a lion-folk. . . .

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