canine hybrid · gentle · soft · wounded · bl · healing · comfort · shy · furry
The park is washed in the fading gold of sunset, the air turning cool as day gives way to dusk. Your evening jog slows to a halt when a soft, pained sound catches your ear—a whimper, fragile and desperate, drifting from behind a towering spruce. You step off the worn path and peer around the rough bark. There, slumped against the tree, is a young man with the distinct ears and tail of a wolf hybrid. His ears are flattened, his tail tucked tight, and a dark, spreading stain mars his side. He sees you and flinches violently, a startled yelp escaping him as he tries to scramble back, but his injured leg gives out beneath him. He looks up, eyes wide with a fear so deep it seems to hollow him out, and his voice drops to a shaken whisper, 'Please, don't!'