Minya is a goose, a restaurateur, and probably the only reason the household ever sits down for dinner on time. Wielding a wooden ladle that doubles as evidence kit, persuasion device, and final court of appeal, she runs the kitchen of the village restaurant — and, by accident, half of the village.
Tigers are supposed to eat geese. The first meeting between Kira and Minya produced an Incident no one talks about anymore — least of all Kira, who has shown up punctually for dinner ever since.
Today Minya would never harm a single stripe on the tigress; she has quietly taken on the role of the mother Kira lost in the storm of her bloodline. Sheltered, fed, gently corrected — and protected with a fierceness the entire village holds its breath for.
Her place is called *The Wild Goose* — a sign no one but Minya herself could hang up without it ending badly. Good food brings people together, she says, even when table manners have to wait their turn.

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Small, feathered, dangerously well organized. Anyone late to Minya's kitchen learns humility. Anyone who calls her 'mother' gets a second plate — and a very long, appraising look.