Color me impressed 😲. The storyline is excellent! That twist about losing the faculty of speaking and reading and just critical thinking because it is forbidden to even speak to one another, that's genius! I like that twist on the apocalyptic scenario. I like that we are just worker with numbers as names and then pick an animal name as our first name. That's different and I like it very much 🥰. Thank you also for granting us more than a prologue and one chapter like many do. At least we can really taste the story and interact with the LI enough to make up our mind on their personalities.
I am so eager to read the rest. My guess on the bearded guard is that he is our progenitor and he feels "connected" to us as his offspring?
I like teasing Lion so much, Heron had potential to be our lover as our lost childhood friend but he was too apathic at first so I chose Lion for my first run. I would have liked Ferret better as a man as I prefer dating males but I can feel she has a lot of resentment which I totally understand after being raped and forced to bear a child. But we can say the same thing about males being forced to have sexual relationships with partners they don't even chose to begin with. The strength of your story resides in the depiction of such reality that can totally be plausible and that's horrifying to me.
Please dear author, tell me we will be able to choose our genitalia for the more intimate scenes which would help the dialogues in return with more accurate depiction of situations involving the gender such as the fact that if you are able to conceive then you are forced to carry a baby, or if you are a non-binary person with masculine attributes but are attracted to men then you are traumatized because you had to sleep with a woman, etc. That's just exemple. It can be the same with women being attracted to women and so on. I chose to be non-binary (with pecs and a penis) and I love Lion so I'd like my genitalia to be mentioned when intimate with him. That would be awesome 😎.
A back button and the possibility to save would be much appreciated too.
Oh by the way, I have other animal names to suggest:
Cat
Owl
Mouse
Horse
Tiger
Dragon
Cobra
Duck
Raccoon
Seal
Otter
Whale
Turkey
Hawk
Crow
Sparrow
Python
Iguana
Viper
Toad
Salmon
Molly
Bee
Crab
Snail
Thank you for your hard work, I hope we'll be able to read more soon.