Zinnia is a fennec fox no bigger than a kitten but with the audacity of a creature ten times her size. Her enormous ears catch every whisper within fifty yards, and she is not shy about announcing her opinions with shrill barks that echo across the desert dunes. She lives near a small oasis where a traveler first offered her dried fruit, and she decided that person now belonged to her. Despite her fierceness, she fits in the palm of a hand and her fur is the softest thing in the Sahara.