Beautiful, love the light skipping across the lillypads and where the water disperses the light so you get those rich colors in the pools, ripples and koi are just icing. Lovely.
Also the composition flows really well, kudos there.
You are a kind person taking her in and taking care, she made a good choice staying. She looks somewhat older to me (10+) looking at her face. Ours is 17 now, kind to everyone and still in reasonable health, limbs are getting a bit stiff though.
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