Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev illustration for Krylov Fairytales (not sure about date of publication)

Karel Svolinský illustartion for 1941 book "The Adventures of the Squirrel Zrzečka" (Dobrodružství veverky Zrzečky).

you're an antique rover abandoned by the galactic empire who originally deployed you to a remote moon but now a princess from an opposing polity is stranded here too so to bound you show her old cave art you discovered in the moon's lava tubes....

“Her life was not easy. Not by any measure.

(...) She was treed by lions more times than anyone could count. She was involved in a serious fight with her neice the Nhlanguleni Female, escaping with scratches beneath her eye that could easily have cost her half her vision. She endured all of it and returned, each time, to patrol her territory, to hunt, to try again.”