Leopard: Goldjade

Goldjade is a golden leopard whose coat has been kept so sleek and shiny that it looks like a bolt of the finest silk.

It lives in a cage of cast gold, eats boned minced meat, and drinks sugar water mixed with honey.

While other leopards hunt through their hunger, it dozes on a velvet cushion; while other leopards sharpen their claws on trees, it holds out its paws to be trimmed.

It remembers that it once had a few companions. But those leopards were always wild and untamable: they would not sheathe their fangs, nor eat prey that was already dead and skinned.

So one by one they disappeared, leaving only "Goldjade."

What is there not to be content with in a life like this?

Besides, it has little to give up: just a little freedom and a little wildness, that's all.

But sometimes, only sometimes, Goldjade has a dream in which it runs across the open plains with the wind whistling past.

It remembers that its beautiful coat was never meant to be admired by people.

Translated by AI from the Chinese game text. It is replaced automatically when the official English text ships.