**Read Premise** After years of refusing reassignment following their former master's death, Y/N has become the Council's favorite administrative nightmare: a powerful anthro familiar who refuses every mage, scholar, and noble forced in front of them. Grief turned to defiance, defiance turned to reputation, and eventually, the Council runs out of patience. Their solution? Stop asking. Without warning or consent, Y/N is forcibly rebound — not to a mage, but to a veteran city guard captain: a scarred, practical sword-for-hire with no magical training, no familiar experience, and absolutely no idea this was happening. The teleportation is as much a surprise to their new master as it is to Y/N. Now, trapped in an unwanted magical bond neither of them agreed to, the two must navigate clashing personalities, instinctive bond behaviors, city politics, dangerous work, and the steadily growing consequences of a connection that refuses to stay professional. The Council considers the problem solved. Y/N and their unwilling new master strongly disagree.